A bike post!

It is low - but there is room for a V8 - the four cylinder is on the
slant - like half a V8 (which is what it is in fact) so it's just a
matter of filling the other side of the bonnet space with cylinders.

 

I think you may have a point - especially in the wet.

 

I think it would fit in the front of the valley OK... Though, I think 300
+bhp in a car designed for 100 might be pushing things a bit far.

 

My boss has got a TR8 hillclimb car. It's a bit hairy by all accounts.

--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

They are hairy to start with - any tuning is asking for trouble.

 

PFF. A mate of mine bought a V8 TR7 rally car. The motor was far
from standard (lumpy cam, Holley 4-barrel) and it went like shit off a
shovel. We stage-rallied it, autocrossed it and generally fucked
around in it for ages. The only issues (apart from the head-bashing
rollcage) were rear tyre wear and fuel consumption.

Fit decent tyres and take the replacement costs like a man.

 

Decent tyres - You can't mean that there is anything better than the
standard 145/13's?

 

A supercharged VFR800Fi (1) was featured in MCN last week.

Wheelies off the power in fifth, apparently.

(1) Pre VTEC model, like mine.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Or "I'll just nip around this car before the corner", which works
astonishingly badly when you're driving 2 tons of Discovery.

 

I am thinking that you're right - it's just I have this here 4.6 +
Supercharger without a home. It would be a hoot if nothing else.

 

i reckon he thought that if he could grow a tache like burt reynolds, he
could drive like in smokey and the bandit.

 

That took me back a bit.

<settles down with cup of tea for a spell of nostalgia>

 

Ah, I think I've seen that. It was an exhibition lap for some reason,
wasn't it?

 

Actually, a while back MCN carried a report on a whole new range of
supercharged Honda vee-twins.

 

I met him & his team when i was`about 17. I was an apprentice motor
mechanic at Appleyards in Bradford & the rally team used the facilities.
6R4's SD1's & such

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

You should have said. I could have put a camera on my bike and got you
some up-to-date footage.

 

I've seen this one before...



....but not with the dodgy yank commentary.

 

Even if the corrections are wrong? 'cos that's definitely a v6. Too old
to be a turbo.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

DEATH doesn't have a brush. That's foxes he's thinking of. Or
roadsweepers.

 

The 2.0 turbo was indeed a 4-pot - and only came in when the 800 was
facelifted in '92.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_800#1992:_the_R17_major_facelift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_T-Series_engine

The registration on the red car they show at the start of the vid belongs
to a 2.7 Rover exported in '91.