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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Wasn't there a goon who posted about the AC Cobra replica they won from a work contest? Everyone warned him about it being a suicide machine and he never posted again? I think about that every time a Cobra comes up.
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Bulk Vanderhuge posted:Wasn't there a goon who posted about the AC Cobra replica they won from a work contest? Everyone warned him about it being a suicide machine and he never posted again? Instantly where my mind went with the Cobra talk.
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Jul 15, 2021 20:16
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Speaking of AC Cobras, I've always been a fan of Bill Thomas' Cheetah. Similar vibe to the Cobra but smaller and lighter. 327 Chevy V8 small block, Rochester mechanical fuel injection, double venturi on top, tube frame chassis, engine behind the front wheels with crazy long straight headers which wrap around where you put your feet basically turning it into a foot oven. 4 speed, Corvette rear diff for IRS which sat so close to the transmission there's no driveshaft, just a coupler. It's an odd looking thing but awesome as gently caress because 'merica. Did they say what motor was in it in the video? Because I'm pretty sure they all had big block motors, though the wiki says the prototype had a 327. In any case that specific car has weber side draft carbs on it and not mechanical fuel injection. It might have had a some kind of crazy fuel pump though. The one that ran up the hill at goodwood was definitely a big block car. Though they were probably all kinds of different motors in those cars. Here is the goodwood run from this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1LqKzZjf7w&t=722s
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I'm surprised that body doesn't have lift issues at speed. It looks like it came from the era when engineers were beginning to understand what an aerodynamic car might look like, but not how to actually design and test one.
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Valt posted:Did they say what motor was in it in the video? Because I'm pretty sure they all had big block motors, though the wiki says the prototype had a 327. In any case that specific car has weber side draft carbs on it and not mechanical fuel injection. It might have had a some kind of crazy fuel pump though. The one that ran up the hill at goodwood was definitely a big block car. Though they were probably all kinds of different motors in those cars. Don't sleep on the rest of that video either, some fantastic runs from a whole bunch of stuff. Goodwood events are always such a treat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1LqKzZjf7w&t=1349s This run and the following one are stand outs IMO if you don't have time to watch the whole thing.
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Jul 16, 2021 00:17
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Valt posted:Here is the goodwood run from this year: Nick Swift thrashing that mini is the best minute of this video 
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Jul 16, 2021 00:18
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Speaking of the Shelby Daytona and "interesting" handling, I always assumed they had a double a-arm front suspension but what I saw one the one at Shelby in Las Vegas had a lower a-arm with a transverse leaf acting as both upper arms. I couldn't imagine what that must have been like to drive with the forces transferring over the leaf spring from side to side and the odd camber curve caused by the leaf spring flattening out as the wheel went up and curling down as the wheel went down. I think I'd much rather drive a Factory Five or Superformance.
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Joe Mama posted:Speaking of the Shelby Daytona and "interesting" handling, I always assumed they had a double a-arm front suspension but what I saw one the one at Shelby in Las Vegas had a lower a-arm with a transverse leaf acting as both upper arms. I couldn't imagine what that must have been like to drive with the forces transferring over the leaf spring from side to side and the odd camber curve caused by the leaf spring flattening out as the wheel went up and curling down as the wheel went down. I think I'd much rather drive a Factory Five or Superformance. All the recreations seem to have changed to more conventional double a-arm but I was able to find a couple shots of the original and  that must have been interesting. They did it in the back too.  
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Motronic posted:I think about that every time a Cobra comes up. Oh God that was real?
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Jul 16, 2021 10:52
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Came across this old post in a search:
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Valt posted:Did they say what motor was in it in the video? Because I'm pretty sure they all had big block motors, though the wiki says the prototype had a 327. In any case that specific car has weber side draft carbs on it and not mechanical fuel injection. It might have had a some kind of crazy fuel pump though. The one that ran up the hill at goodwood was definitely a big block car. Though they were probably all kinds of different motors in those cars. Casey Putsch made a video of his personal experiences owning one. He says 327 small block. I'm assuming people wedged big blocks in them because 'merica. It's a good video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POTQFLXVKTI *edit: No mention of the engine in the blue one that I posted video of but CCK Historic built it and they said it had to be period correct for Goodwood so I clicked through 65 pages of news on their website to find this:  Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Jul 16, 2021 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Casey Putsch made a video of his personal experiences owning one. He says 327 small block. I'm assuming people wedged big blocks in them because 'merica. It's a good video, Holy poo poo that cross-ram Hilborn injection is pure pornography.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:13
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MrYenko posted:Holy poo poo that cross-ram Hilborn injection is pure pornography. Those aren't Hilborns, or fuel injection, sorry. edit: they still look like pure awesome, of course. edit2: it also says they're Weber 48 DCO carb in the text. 
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Jul 16, 2021 19:59
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Darchangel posted:Those aren't Hilborns, or fuel injection, sorry. Now that I’ve zoomed in on the 200x100 photos, you’re absolutely right. Still pornography. 
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Jul 16, 2021 20:02
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NitroSpazzz posted:All the recreations seem to have changed to more conventional double a-arm but I was able to find a couple shots of the original and That happens when you base your design on a British sports car from the '60s.
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MrYenko posted:Now that I’ve zoomed in on the 200x100 photos, you’re absolutely right. It also says they're Weber 48 DCO carb in the text. (Sorry, I'm not trying to bust your bollocks)
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Jul 16, 2021 20:08
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Darchangel posted:It also says they're Weber 48 DCO carb in the text. This is the third or fourth thread I’ve shown my rear end to just today. I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me today. 
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Jul 16, 2021 20:11
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Hey, it's Friday. My brain barely turned on this morning. Still only sort of ticking over.
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Darchangel posted:Hey, it's Friday. I'm just trying to not throw a rod before the weekend.
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Jul 16, 2021 23:17
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Darchangel posted:Hey, it's Friday. Many mornings my alarm goes off and it's just crank no start.
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Jul 16, 2021 23:34
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honda whisperer posted:Many mornings my alarm goes off and it's just crank no start. Be glad you don't have to start a fire under the fucker to warm the block enough to get it to start.
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Jul 17, 2021 00:01
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The sound of an engine cranking and sometimes catching and failing would make a great alarm tbh.
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Jul 17, 2021 03:59
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Ah, a good old 'small heart attack' kind of alarm
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Jul 17, 2021 08:47
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Darchangel posted:That happens when you base your design on a British sports car from the '60s. That explains why I looked at it and thought "that wouldn't be too bad in something sub-1500lbs and 100hp" I've really got to get myself a spitfire or mx5
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Darchangel posted:That happens when you base your design on a British sports car from the '60s. You can go back even further, the AC Ace was from 1952 and the design ideas in that mostly predates WWII
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Local transport festival today and I just fell in love with this little Morris pickup
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freelop posted:Local transport festival today and I just fell in love with this little Morris pickup That is a drat delight! Got any more photos so I can send to my granddad? He builds 50s Morris Utes. I love the cream guards. Only works on certain vehicles, as does whitewall tyres on other vehicles.
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Humphreys posted:That is a drat delight! Got any more photos so I can send to my granddad? He builds 50s Morris Utes. Sadly that's the only one I took, for some reason I decided not to take many photos today but here's another I did take that has a much larger pickup 
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freelop posted:Local transport festival today and I just fell in love with this little Morris pickup That's absolutely gorgeous.
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it sounds like you guys have already figured this out, but this is obviously a SBC. look at the siamesed exhaust ports. also the one in the goodwood video the announcer calls out as being a "6.9 liter" engine (nice), which is about 420 cubic inches (lol), which is definitely achievable with a stroked smallblock
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Jul 18, 2021 06:55
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Follow me for more top tips
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Humphreys posted:Follow me for more top tips I feel the sense of frustration leading to this.
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tuna posted:I feel the sense of frustration leading to this. And the elation of the first successful turn of a bolt into a nut.
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Mcqueen posted:And the elation of the first successful turn of a bolt into a nut. I replaced the valve cover gasket on my F10 535 a few weeks ago and it took around 4 hours. More than half of that was a single bolt that had to be removed and replaced using a slim ratchet (think 3-4 mm thick) that I could only move a single click at a time. I'm sure I could have gone to a hardware store and found some combination of attachments that worked, but as my car was obviously inoperative I suffered through it a single click at a time taking it out and putting it in. Getting it started was the absolute worst.
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tuna posted:I feel the sense of frustration leading to this. and I can hear all the previous, un-taped-to-finger nuts rattling around in some unreachable pocket of the chassis
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Local Porsche shop Air Cooled Classics finished their Patina project and had it at cars and coffee this morning. Car had been sitting in a field for 40+ years. New floors, mechanicals and interior while leaving the paint alone.       FB post with a bunch more pictures https://www.facebook.com/AirCooledClassicsPorsche/posts/5725231184215305
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Jul 18, 2021 20:27
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Yeah that's a beauty alright, dang.
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Jul 18, 2021 21:47
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Incredibly tasteful. Would love to see more like it
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The way the roof rack keeps the curvature of the roof is really appealing to look at.
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