Wonder if Z Cars have seen this yet
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, Mar 29 2006 09:36 PM
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 09:36 PM
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 09:38 PM
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 09:40 PM
never mind that, have Pete and Ade seen it yet??!!! 
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 09:43 PM
I've definitely got some info about one of those (dunno if its that one or another one) in a Which Kit Car magazine from maybe a year ago? It's in the article about the Quantum (that bloated seven lookalike).
Come to think of it that one was 2 R1 engines put together. Yep deifnitely R1 engines, was a 2 litre V8 with 400 horses.
So beats this one in the bhp/litre stakes!
Come to think of it that one was 2 R1 engines put together. Yep deifnitely R1 engines, was a 2 litre V8 with 400 horses.
So beats this one in the bhp/litre stakes!
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 09:48 PM
do two R1 engines joined together make a R2 engine ? 
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 09:53 PM
either that or a 2R1. I don't think they have babies though.
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 09:54 PM
Yeh but Z cars have a 400bhp Hyabusa turbo, and believe me the turbo is BIG
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 10:03 PM
And it would take only 18 years to spool up 
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 10:08 PM
Yeh but Z cars have a 400bhp Hyabusa turbo, and believe me the turbo is BIG
One could do the same with to turbo-engines....
800BHP vs. 650kg, reardrive, .... Mini ...
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 10:11 PM
Really sorry to hi-jack this thread... But is it true that Mini's with motorbike engines can go as fast in reverse as they can going forward?
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 10:13 PM
Really sorry to hi-jack this thread... But is it true that Mini's with motorbike engines can go as fast in reverse as they can going forward?
You would be brave and foolish to try but the theory may work??
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 11:00 PM
Really sorry to hi-jack this thread... But is it true that Mini's with motorbike engines can go as fast in reverse as they can going forward?
Man thet would have to be some kind os starter motor
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 11:02 PM
Sprocket.... in your avatar, the guy on the right goes to slap with his right hand, but the left guy gets slapped by a left hand... A mystery.
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 11:03 PM
Yeh well
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 11:05 PM
Really sorry to hi-jack this thread... But is it true that Mini's with motorbike engines can go as fast in reverse as they can going forward?
Well I guess it would be possible if you designed and built some sort of transfer box with switchable forward and reverse, then - in the words of Oddball from Kelly's Heroes - you could get out of trouble quicker than you got into it!
Lol, seriously though, as Mini Sprocket says, most motorbike engine powered Mini's have a starter motor for reversing, which meshes to a big gear bolted to the rear axle...
(or they use the old "get-out-and-push-it" method of going backwards!
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