Noodle
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| posted on 26/9/03 at 10:49 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Stu16vMinors have (a little bit of) cred.....   
[Edited on 24/9/03 by Stu16v]
I hope not. I've got two of them. I don't do cred.
Neil.
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Dick Axtell
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| posted on 26/9/03 at 05:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
The MGB actually used the running gear from the Morris Oxford, engine and all.
Including that bl**dy great front cross-member/suspension beam & those dodgy lever-arm dampers.
Also used on the J4 f/c van, with consequent increased tyre scrub.
BTW - MGB introduced 1962. Shame they'd already dropped the twin-cam unit!
Work-in-Progress: Changed to Zetec + T9. Still trying!!
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andyps
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| posted on 26/9/03 at 08:22 PM |
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quote:
I delight in telling 911 owners that what they have is a super developed Beetle!
Chris - this is presumably after telling 924 owners that they have a VW LT van in drag.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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andyps
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| posted on 26/9/03 at 08:28 PM |
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The Rover 75 / MG ZT is a great car which is worthy of respect.
The others in the range are getting old and past their sell by dates but we should blame BMW for this - they needed replacement before they left and
this had not been done, plus BMW took the in development replacement for the 45 with them.
I was a the Rover dealers the other day and thought the Streetwise looks good - better than the pictures. It is designed for younger people (Peter
Stevens asked the designers to come up with a car they would drive after finding out none of them drove Rovers) so maybe those who don't like it
are too old
Rover are lacking development budget and time, but they seem to be doing a lot with very little.
Wish I had £28k for the ZT260.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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chrisg
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| posted on 26/9/03 at 09:42 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by andyps
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I delight in telling 911 owners that what they have is a super developed Beetle!
Chris - this is presumably after telling 924 owners that they have a VW LT van in drag.
Erm..........Not usually as I've got a 924!
Only the block is similar to the LT block the head is a Porsche designed ali job. It's amongst the things the 924 has in common with the
Dodge Viper
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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pbura
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| posted on 27/9/03 at 12:09 AM |
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Slightly OT - old Mazda rotaries:
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Originally posted by thekafer
They are turbine smooth and oh so small,it's a shame they are so loud.
I've got a rebuilt 12a,but I'm starting to rethink my whole drive train for noise and emissions.
Fletch,
I hear ya, pal. Before I bought the RX-7 (13b), I did some hasty research and found some 4" OD cats and mufflers that I thought would do the
job inexpensively. Wrong! They wouldn't last, or quiet the car enough with a short side exhaust.
For a while, I was considering raising the car enough to use a standard dual exhaust underneath. Latest thinking is to have the cat on the side in a
box, tailpipe (and maybe a presilencer) down the side to the rear fender, then duck under the side and over the axle to have a muffler across the
bottom of the rear end, where it tips up.
Here's a place that sells custom mufflers packed with SS wool, fairly skinny and reasonably priced:
http://www.stainlessworks.net/
They are only about 30 miles from me, so I can haul the car over and plan the exhaust with them.
Exhaust will not be locost for this car
If you've got a problem, throw money at it 
Pete
Pete
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Noodle
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| posted on 27/9/03 at 08:00 AM |
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For those interested in the wankel sound (ho ho etc), I've put an mp3 on my website you can download. It's taken from a 3 rotor (20b)
F3CS.
Right click and save as etc on this link http://www.throttlesteer.com/rotary/3rotor.mp3
Send shivers up my spine!
Cheers,
Neil.
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pbura
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| posted on 27/9/03 at 02:12 PM |
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Cool link, Neil, thanks!
Long ago, I found a site with a bunch of rotary audio clips: 0-60 run, passing by at 130 mph, etc., but I can't find it now.
Rotaries sound fantastic howling when pushed hard at high revs, but usually sound about as exotic as my leaf blower
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thekafer
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| posted on 27/9/03 at 02:20 PM |
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Hey! Dont give these guys any ideas!
As much as they like small high revving engines they might start fitting leaf blower motors!!(just kidding)
Fletch
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy...
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eddie
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| posted on 27/9/03 at 02:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by andyps
The Rover 75 / MG ZT is a great car which is worthy of respect.
The others in the range are getting old and past their sell by dates but we should blame BMW for this - they needed replacement before they left and
this had not been done, plus BMW took the in development replacement for the 45 with them.
Firstly the mondeo gets more respect than the 75, its newer all over and has much more appeal to the various markets both cars are trying to vie for.
I know i'd rather own a mondeo.
Secondly its all too easy to blame BMW for Rovers failures. BMW owned rover for only a few of years, whilst rover had been a failing company for
years. If anything Rover should be thankful to BMW for dragging it from its knees. Rover needs an image overhaul, gone are the days when national
loyalty kept kept the company afloat. If Rover truley want to survive they will have to do somthing special (remember the turn around in image for
volvo when they first made the T5, and went racing?)
Middle england is now just as ready to buy German or Italian cars, as British ones.
Please feel free in advance to: correct, update, ridicule or laugh and point at any comments made by myself in this post....
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Noodle
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| posted on 27/9/03 at 05:06 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by pbura
Cool link, Neil, thanks!
Long ago, I found a site with a bunch of rotary audio clips: 0-60 run, passing by at 130 mph, etc., but I can't find it now.
Rotaries sound fantastic howling when pushed hard at high revs, but usually sound about as exotic as my leaf blower
Try http://www.vosko.net/media/rotary/. It's got some cracking files on there.
Cheers,
Neil.
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kiwirex
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| posted on 30/9/03 at 08:51 AM |
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> For those interested in the wankel sound
> (ho ho etc), I've put an mp3 on my
> website you can download. It's taken
> from a 3 rotor (20b) F3CS.
Was in a gas station years back and this boy racer comes in with his rx7.
Well hot it was.
Left it idling out in the forecourt (making that little fart fart fart sound that the hot ones do) and came in to buy some oil.
I remarked to my mate, just loud enough for the boy to hear: "it *IS* a two stroke"
man, did he get dark.
:-)
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pbura
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| posted on 30/9/03 at 11:51 AM |
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Good one, Kiwi
Getting back on topic, this 'Future Donors' thread is pretty sad. I think the future of Locosting is in mid-engine cars. Maybe an idea
for a Book 4 from Uncle Ron?
Pete
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ned
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| posted on 30/9/03 at 12:20 PM |
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pbura,
I presume you mean a fwd drivetrain in the back?
otherwise beemers which are big and heavy are the only proper front engine rwd cars about that might be cheap enough/suitable/plentiful in years to
come...?
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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JoelP
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| posted on 30/9/03 at 12:53 PM |
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i think in future people will just get better at adapting FWD drivetrains to RWD wiith a new box.
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pbura
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| posted on 30/9/03 at 01:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ned
I presume you mean a fwd drivetrain in the back?
otherwise beemers which are big and heavy are the only proper front engine rwd cars about that might be cheap enough/suitable/plentiful in years to
come...?
Yeah, I was thinking of all the nice FWD fours and V6's that have no RWD tranny matches, although business does seem to be picking up in custom
bellhousings for RWD conversions. At least one US builder is using a Quad 4 engine made by GM for FWD vehicles only, using a custom bellhousing.
Cost of the bellhousing is $450, about UKP280.
IMO, if a kit company came out with plans for a 7 built with traditional methods, only mid-engine, and offered fenders, scuttles, and engine covers in
GRP and some shifter and suspension parts, they could do very well.
The beemer did not spring to mind (BMWs are expensive in the US), but following the Locost concept (cheap and fun), why not? A car that weighs, for
example, 1600 lbs. is still very light and doubtless would be a blast to drive. I would enjoy just sitting in it with the 6 ticking over
Pete
Pete
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Metal Hippy
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| posted on 30/9/03 at 01:26 PM |
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If ours ever gets done you can come over and do that very thing...
Cock off or cock on. You choose.
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pbura
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| posted on 30/9/03 at 02:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Metal Hippy
If ours ever gets done you can come over and do that very thing...
If I were to hit the Lotto, there'd be no better way to while away my idle days as touring around the world with the Locost, and free-loading
off those foolish enough to invite me for a visit
Hey, wait a minute, I could do that without the car...or money!
Pete
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