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Sept 2, 2008 15:50:36 GMT
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is it me, or does the cavalier gain more respect than any other touring car ever? strange when a lot of people ignore them in the streets. the tourers look sooo good. getting an sri for a daily once i finish uni ;D
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Sept 2, 2008 16:02:36 GMT
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Do it Kee but make it the 8 valve 130. Don't get me wrong the red tops are brilliant but there's just something about the 8V.
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Corsa Apology Champion 2014.
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Sept 2, 2008 17:18:43 GMT
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I dunno, NASCAR has limited downforce and relatively skinny tires, and there's plenty of ad hoarding going on. As for unstable aero, I hadn't realized the flipper M-Bs at LeMans were US racing. But your overall thesis I concur with heartily, Dom. Yeah but Nascar is more silhouette than Production based, with different windsreen/rearscreen profiles for different circuits..... relatively cheap racing though as far as Top line motorsport goes though and still possible to compete with the big boys as a Privateer..... The Flipper Mb`s were unstable in their own right with a moving CoP at speed........ they didnt need another car around to get all jigeddy ;D CART/IRL on the other hand do some real interesting things in close formation
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Sept 2, 2008 19:22:07 GMT
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Oh my God that Primera is the SEX!! I still love the BTCC today but IMO the nineties saw the best racing and the coolest cars.
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Colonelk
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Sept 2, 2008 19:38:02 GMT
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I'm pretty sure if you've got the wonga swindon still do reverse head bits but I could be wrong.
Also remember reading that it was for the last 5-6 bhp that they went reverse head for. Madness really, but awesome racing.
Aaaaah favourites..... Oh yes. I love how fudged Sopers BMW is in this video and yet hes still racing.
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Last Edit: Sept 2, 2008 19:42:40 GMT by Colonelk
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Sept 2, 2008 19:39:44 GMT
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So Ford shrunk their V6 and then mounted it so low, far back and canted over that one of the driveshafts ran between the banks of the V! *n When I went to Prodrive earlier this year with the College I learnt an interesting fact about the V6 that Ford used in the Mondeo BTCC car. It wasn't actually a shrunk Duratec or Ford engine at all. It was a Renault engine, Ford got round it because in South Africa Ford offered the Mondeo with a 2.0 24v V6, the engine is sourced from Renault. The BTCC rules didn't state the model had to be offered with the engine in the UK, it just said that the engine had to be offered as a choice and in South Africa it was. The reason according to a technican at college (who used to work for prodrive) is the zetec could not be made to be reliable or powerful enough, and the rules would not allow a destroked Duratec. The Renault engine was very strong and tunable, so Ford bent the rules as far as they could to use it.
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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Sept 2, 2008 19:45:28 GMT
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Yeah, and Andy Rouse didn't use the Cosworth YB in his Cosworth Sierra. He used the US-sourced Lima 2.3L, as used in the SVO Mustang, Turbo Bird, and XR4Ti.
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gearoil
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Sept 2, 2008 19:47:36 GMT
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So Ford shrunk their V6 and then mounted it so low, far back and canted over that one of the driveshafts ran between the banks of the V! *n When I went to Prodrive earlier this year with the College I learnt an interesting fact about the V6 that Ford used in the Mondeo BTCC car. It wasn't actually a shrunk Duratec or Ford engine at all. It was a Renault engine, Ford got round it because in South Africa Ford offered the Mondeo with a 2.0 24v V6, the engine is sourced from Renault. The BTCC rules didn't state the model had to be offered with the engine in the UK, it just said that the engine had to be offered as a choice and in South Africa it was. Crikey. I thought the Ford lump was actually the Mazda V6 as used in the Ford Probe. But, perhaps it was when Rouse was building the cars...?
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gearoil
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Sept 2, 2008 19:51:23 GMT
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Yeah, and Andy Rouse didn't use the Cosworth YB in his Cosworth Sierra. He used the US-sourced Lima 2.3L, as used in the SVO Mustang, Turbo Bird, and XR4Ti. Stopgap until the YB powered car got homologation IIRC... Then a couple of years of Sierra Cosworths doing the outright winning, then a quick change of rules and viola - supertouring!
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SteB
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Sept 2, 2008 20:10:48 GMT
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This thread is a really good read. Learning a lot. Reduce the Aero grip and you get cleaner closer racing...... the downside is you lose a lot of Valuable advertising hoarding which is why they wont do it F1 if going back to slicks, and the rear wing is getting smaller, plus those 'winglets' are going as well. Sounds like fun.
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Sept 2, 2008 20:33:40 GMT
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If you look at hte pictures of the swindon reverse flow engine, vaxhaul is upside down, this would make more sence as the waterways around the exhausts are much more improtant than round the inlets. If the flow was reversed then I would have thought there would be mega problems with valves etc?
J
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