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like it?

as is or different livery etc this is true to nypd crown vic patrol car
- 2 (66.7%)
should we have stuck with vaux engine?
- 0 (0%)
gone american power
- 1 (33.3%)

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Voting closed: 31 August 2018, 13:04:50


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« Reply #15 on: 25 August 2018, 17:11:51 »

Presumably you left with a gearbox ?  :)
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« Reply #16 on: 25 August 2018, 17:19:28 »

met Terry today,
what a lovely helpful fella, and he has a great workshop,
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many thanks agsain Terry!!
Great to meet you both, and see your NYPD special.   :y
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« Reply #17 on: 25 August 2018, 19:01:07 »

met Terry today,
what a lovely helpful fella, and he has a great workshop,
top man,
many thanks agsain Terry!!
Great to meet you both, and see your NYPD special.   :y
feel free to post some of them Terry,hard to believe its running an omega gearbox isnt it!! :y

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« Reply #18 on: 25 August 2018, 19:02:00 »

Presumably you left with a gearbox ?  :)
certainly did!! little slow getting it out, took just over 45 mins,! :y

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« Reply #19 on: 25 August 2018, 20:14:44 »

Good effort.  :y
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« Reply #20 on: 25 August 2018, 20:24:51 »

Presumably you left with a gearbox ?  :)
certainly did!! little slow getting it out, took just over 45 mins,! :y

Result. :y :y :y
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« Reply #21 on: 25 August 2018, 20:34:08 »

met Terry today,
what a lovely helpful fella, and he has a great workshop,
top man,
many thanks agsain Terry!!
Great to meet you both, and see your NYPD special.   :y
feel free to post some of them Terry,hard to believe its running an omega gearbox isnt it!! :y





This car is presumably road legal, as it looks nothing like a British police car. It came down from Bicester today. The gearbox is apparently Omega, and the car underneath is Carlton. The V8 power unit I cannot identify, but it is LPG converted, and the boot is entirely free of fuel tanks.
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« Reply #22 on: 25 August 2018, 21:20:50 »

Lexus v8?
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« Reply #23 on: 25 August 2018, 21:22:13 »

Yep. The L on top on the engine gives it away.  :) I bet it can shift.  8)
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« Reply #24 on: 25 August 2018, 22:06:58 »

Gixer, eat your heart out. ::)
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« Reply #25 on: 26 August 2018, 10:32:09 »

Did the MV8 ever get finished ?  :-\
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« Reply #26 on: 26 August 2018, 11:03:51 »

yup tis lexus,runs 320,but is to have a supercharger , ;D
car is a carlton 1.8 carb model,wind up windows no sunroof, spent most of its life sat in a barn,and had zero rust! which is why it was chosen,senator bonnet and headlights, coilovers 330mm hi spec brakes on front ,holden diff with lsd,which incidently is a direct swap,and 24v driveshafts, Omega gearbox,holden prop and donuts,steering is corsa c rack with same car supply electric steering,snap off steering wheel and an alarm which is both passive and live,unless you know how to use it there is no way you can start the car even by jumping wires under the dash/column, you would have to strip the dashboard out to find the controller where it feeds nto the original wiring system and then you have just an inch of wire to play with,
no tank in boot for lpg,normal petrol tank cut down to a third of its size and welded back up,
fuel tank for lpg is then mounted where petrol tank was, had to weld a frame into the boot floor,to mount it all
lpg filler is hidden in boot frame, on rear wing,
petrol tank uses normal filler,front push bar is handmade, and you can stand on it !
exhaust is twin pipes feeding from tubular headers all the way to the rear where currently it runs just 2 cherry bombs,there is no cross over Terry can testify to the fact its very quiet till you hit the loud pedal,it passes a noise test at castle coombe at 3k,but after that,its ahem,attention grabbing shall we say?and driving through bath streets, it sounds superb,pedeStrians al turn to look lol its just a humoungous car to drive,no matter where you are in the ev range it just pulls like a raped ape,biggest problem you get is people in m,way braking hard to take pictures,wave or make slly faces lol, 

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« Reply #27 on: 26 August 2018, 12:54:55 »

oops,how did it end up with an omega dearbox?

lol it was in the workshop doing nothing,so upon measuring it was the perfect size for the car without cutting the tunnel,custom made adaptor to bolt to v8,lightweight custom flywheel with lexus crank pcd,
an vaux clutch cover spacing,240mm clutch originally which handled the power,but was fec king heavy to use,
flywheel adaptor to allow 1st motion shaft spigot bearing,lexus crank has a huge 1inch hole, for spigot,(we needed to get it down to vaux size)which actually somehow slid out of the back of the flywheel and lunched the 1st motion shaft bearing in the current box, hence the need for another one,it now has lugs welded to it to prevent it happening again,however we will get another box as a backup for the future, we only found out what had happened cos it was making a weird noise on tickover,which was the shaft slapping around, while we had it off,changed the clutch plate to a paddle one side and a normal on other side,so we had best of both worlds with a grippy but lighter clutch!

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« Reply #28 on: 26 August 2018, 13:12:32 »

Very nice project. :y
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« Reply #29 on: 26 August 2018, 13:19:47 »

Superb project indeed. A worthy successor to the Lotus Omega ?
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