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BraveUlysses posted:
quote:The only cars to go faster all weekend were the new electric-powered VW IDR Pikes Peak and the NIO EP9, a 1,360bhp electric supercar, both vehicles with tens of millions of pounds of development work spent on them. 3rd overall, Plasa’s BMW E36 was the fastest petrol-powered car up the hill, which, any way you chose to look at it, is an absolutely incredible achievement. In a 20 year old car without the ABS or ESP hooked up 
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I want it...    so much turquoise.
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Sep 30, 2018 05:45
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Boy you better hope you don't get in a rollover accident and land on the passenger side of that thing.
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Imagined posted:Boy you better hope you don't get in a rollover accident and land on the passenger side of that thing. I doubt it has seat belts, so you'll be thrown free to safety.
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Sep 30, 2018 16:32
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Powershift posted:I doubt it has seat belts, so you'll be thrown free to safety. "Safety" in this context is a fancy word for "a sharp rock, head first."
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Sep 30, 2018 21:44
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Whats going on behind your differential cover: https://youtu.be/9-yG3D3JBRs
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Sep 30, 2018 23:42
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KillHour posted:"Safety" in this context is a fancy word for "a sharp rock, head first." If he dies, he dies.
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Oct 1, 2018 01:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xS5pIYuoCM
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Oct 1, 2018 02:39
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Man, I have really got to get over there and check their collection out.
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Oct 1, 2018 02:58
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Project Binkey time again, bitches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBXT1sHP92w
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Oct 1, 2018 20:06
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Nuevo posted:Man, I have really got to get over there and check their collection out. You absolutely do. I was going back in December to do a piece on the Renault Sport Spider and S1 Elise but now it will have to wait until spring.
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BlackMK4 posted:Project Binkey time again, bitches auto wiring is the devil
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Oct 1, 2018 20:26
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I have no context for what's going on here, but I'm pretty sure it's awesome.
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Oct 2, 2018 18:19
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That's cool. I don't recognize the supercharger engine though. Water sleeved VW boxer four? A Jowett?
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Oct 2, 2018 18:31
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Humbug posted:That's cool. I don't recognize the supercharger engine though. Water sleeved VW boxer four? A Jowett? Mopar Hemi
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Mr-Spain posted:Mopar Hemi He means the engine driving the supercharger. The big engine is an original Hemi, yeah, but there's a second boxer 4 in front of it whose sole purpose seems to be driving the supercharger. The heads look wrong to be any car engine I'd recognize, and airplane engines are usually aircooled too. Might be some old stationary power thing. I don't see any intake runners, maybe it's got sleeve valves or is a 2 stroke or something?
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Oct 2, 2018 19:06
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I think you might be right on it being 2 stroke yeah. Some random stationary engine sounds right. The more I look at it the weirder it gets though. Is the boxer driving the water pump for the hemi while the fuel pump is driven by the hemi? I guess the hemi is fuel injected as well. Early drag racing was wild. Edit: Those look like AN fittings on the hp fuel line too. Didn't know they where used in cars in the 50's Humbug fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 19:35
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Humbug posted:I think you might be right on it being 2 stroke yeah. Some random stationary engine sounds right. The more I look at it the weirder it gets though. Is the boxer driving the water pump for the hemi while the fuel pump is driven by the hemi? I guess the hemi is fuel injected as well. Early drag racing was wild. A great deal of the hot rodding movement was based on surplus aircraft bits after the war. Like you, I assume that the Hemi is injected, but where the hell are the injectors and throttle body? Between the blower and the engine? Guess that makes sense if the blower is driven independently.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:54
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I'd guess it's carburated and the carb is between the supercharger and manifold out of sight. Looks to be a mechanical fuel pump driven off the water pump on the main engine there, with the pump on that pulley up there for air-water charge cooling.
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Oct 2, 2018 22:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DlJWl7IOwg
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Oct 2, 2018 22:17
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Darchangel posted:A great deal of the hot rodding movement was based on surplus aircraft bits after the war. I wouldn't be hugely suprised if there wasn't a throttle body on the hemi, you just blipped the throttle on the blower motor. It's a drag car, so it only needs two settings "more or less able to move slowly under its own power" and "full throttle".
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Oct 2, 2018 22:58
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InitialDave posted:Now there's a man who pays his own tranny rebuilds.
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Oct 2, 2018 23:03
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Darchangel posted:A great deal of the hot rodding movement was based on surplus aircraft bits after the war. Hilborn constant flow injection was commonly used at the time. I'm guessing it has something similar to this http://hilborninjection.com/product/short-4-port-scoop-style-injector-for-6-71-and-8-71-blowers-3-bore/ Pretty cool that you can still buy that new.
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Oct 2, 2018 23:52
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That's so cool that it is running a separate engine for its supercharger
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Oct 3, 2018 02:10
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Sounds like it's Manic Beattie time again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EMleegZQLw Helicopter engine acting as a gas generator to run the turbo at full spool all the time to boost the piston engine.
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Oct 3, 2018 02:15
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boxen posted:I have no context for what's going on here, but I'm pretty sure it's awesome. Aside from the mechanical awesomeness, I just adore the way ~1950s B&W photos look, it's so distinctive.
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Humbug posted:Hilborn constant flow injection was commonly used at the time. I'm guessing it has something similar to this http://hilborninjection.com/product/short-4-port-scoop-style-injector-for-6-71-and-8-71-blowers-3-bore/ Probably. It's just that is usually on *top* of the blower.
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Oct 3, 2018 18:19
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KozmoNaut posted:Aside from the mechanical awesomeness, I just adore the way ~1950s B&W photos look, it's so distinctive. 
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Oct 3, 2018 20:03
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Fender Anarchist posted:Sounds like it's Manic Beattie time again. I had to go hunt this one down: https://raceenginedesign.co.uk/the-manic-beattie/ 4-wheel drive 1700 cc Cosworth BDT. 400 bhp 650 kg 25 psi gauge boost with a turbine driven turbo. Tyre burnouts are conducted at 13 psi boost in first gear but timed runs, for 2005 at least, used the higher 25 psi boost limit, manually selected from the dashboard. Holy poo poo.
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Poisonlizard posted:I had to go hunt this one down: If I’m reading that right, there is no turbocharger, they’re feeding compressor bleed air from the jet starter directly into the engine (or intercooler?) The writing is a bit contradictory and unclear.
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Oct 4, 2018 05:30
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boxen posted:I don't see any intake runners, maybe it's got sleeve valves or is a 2 stroke or something? It looks to be an old piston-port 2-stroke with a giant magneto, probably 350-700cc. I'm guessing it's a small marine engine like you'd find in an outboard motor.
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This boy rolls up to Motofest every year and obliterates an awful lot of far more expensive equipment and looks lairy as gently caress doing so. It's one of my favourite cars... 550 brake, 900kg, absolutely no driving aids or anything approaching aero.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UCpEQkXBEA
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This boy rolls up to Motofest every year and obliterates an awful lot of far more expensive equipment and looks lairy as gently caress doing so. It's one of my favourite cars... 550 brake, 900kg, absolutely no driving aids or anything approaching aero. It's one of the very few race cars that I can say with 100% assurance would be faster with LESS power. Hooooooly poo poo thats wild Does he have seat cutouts for his huge balls?
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Oct 4, 2018 11:13
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Are these guys trying to Eiffel Tower a nuclear explosion?
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Oct 4, 2018 13:32
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Fender Anarchist posted:Sounds like it's Manic Beattie time again. and it looks like the turbine exhaust is blowing the rear diffuser
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Oct 4, 2018 15:04
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Are these guys trying to Eiffel Tower a nuclear explosion? Search your heart. You already know the answer.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This boy rolls up to Motofest every year and obliterates an awful lot of far more expensive equipment and looks lairy as gently caress doing so. It's one of my favourite cars... 550 brake, 900kg, absolutely no driving aids or anything approaching aero. This popped up in suggested videos after that one played. Mad bastard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWZcMlLdfpI
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Oct 4, 2018 17:41
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boxen posted:This popped up in suggested videos after that one played. Mad bastard. Lower and wider is never a bad thing on a Reliant 3-wheeler. I didn't read the title, and it took me a minute to figure out what the hand lever on the gear stick was. Are those training wheels I see under the front end, to either side of the front wheel? edit: may just be part of the suspension Also, drat that thing is loud in the inside. These two beauties showed up in the parking garage at work this week:  
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Oct 5, 2018 20:14
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Darchangel posted:Lower and wider is never a bad thing on a Reliant 3-wheeler. What is it? Reverse lockout?
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MetaJew posted:What is it? Reverse lockout? Clutch is my guess since it has a motorcycle engine.
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