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General Car Chat / Re: Lotus Carlton today

« on: 25 April 2011, 11:55:30 »

Always had the impression that there wasnt much point tuning the v6, as it was difficult to get much more power from it. :-/

done properly like the senator straight 6 anything is do able if you free the breathing side air and exhaust,port and polish the heads sort the cams  etc alot of money for maybe 50bhp

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General Car Chat / Re: Lotus Carlton today

« on: 24 April 2011, 19:20:55 »

What do they put out? 350? Considerably more than mine for sure.   

...and offense? What did he say? Anyone see?

377 bhp and 420 lbs/ft

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General Car Chat / Re: 6 speed box ?

« on: 30 April 2011, 21:42:18 »

Isn't the F28 for FWD ?

 :-/ yea it is.

  if for fwd wont fit a rwd. best bet is a ford mtx75 5 speeder from a seirra cossie

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General Car Chat / Re: Team Lotus buy out Caterham

« on: 28 April 2011, 18:44:17 »

Quite a logical step I guess. :-/

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90955
Weren't the Lotus 7 and Caterham 7 serious rivals years ago?[/quote]


No years ago lotus took caterham to court over the name lotus 7s stopped being made by lotus in the late 60s early 70s and caterham started making them in the mid 80s and selling them as lotus 7

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General Car Chat / Re: Porsche, anyone in the know?

« on: 28 April 2011, 18:35:15 »

As soon as I get the log book back, it'll be up for sale. Can't get a boxster, they've got a stigma attached to them 

Well they're a better drive than a 996 cab and a 987 is a much newer car.

Stigma would just be 'poor mans 13 year old 911' rather than just 'poor mans 911'.   Neither are of course a poor mans car so I don't see why you should be bothered.

stigma attached to the boxster is that its a entry level car for the porsche brand think 924 and you will understand what that means.

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General Car Chat / Re: Porsche, anyone in the know?

« on: 28 April 2011, 18:31:04 »

Looking at a 1998 'R' Porsche 911 Carrera 3.4 6 speed manual cabriolet to scratch that Porsche itch, anyway. Anyone in the know on these? Anything I should look out for etc.

Yes I know mid life crisis 

service histroy a must hpi report also a must buy from specialist porsche garages  and use them to service it.
If driven hard it will eat rear tyres in 8,000 miles
check for badly repaired front ends and stone chip damage
if looked after the are bombproof though running costs are a bit higher than your omega

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General Car Chat / Re: Got afew questions

« on: 28 April 2011, 18:04:39 »

Hello eveyone, iv got a lotus Carlton and trying to find out what it's worth as I can't get insured on it

your only real bet is to get an agreed value by a reputable garage and then look at the classic/performace insurance brokers. that way you wont get any nasty surprises if anything happens.

I struggled to get insurance on my lotus carlton some years back and i needed agreed valuation proof of secure premisis for overnites at home plus a tracking device and thatam catorgoy 1 alarm/immobliser and even then it wasnt cheap.

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega vs Subaru

« on: 24 April 2011, 19:54:42 »

A friend of mine bought an chipped Impreza a few years back eagerly took me for a spin in it, then asked me the question?, yea its ok I replied, but not as quick as my Sierra Sapphire, rubbish was he's response.

So next were bashing arround in my RWD Sapphire Cosworth, mildly tunned to 310bhp.

He's response yea, my Impreza quick, but this is mental, think Ive bought the wrong car.
 
   

I had a impreza 22b st1 when they came out and it was the full rally tune with anti-lag sequential box etc 0-120 was 8.5 seconds topped out at 135 weighed 1000kgs yet had 380 bhp and 445 torque
also had a mitsu evo 6 ayc tuned to and that was quick.

However i grew up and got a caterham 4.2 v8, 766 kilos 380 bhp 390 torque 0-60 3.4 seconds 0-100 10.8 seconds top speed 155 limited dont know the power to weight ratio but i do know the only car to beat it off the line costs 22 times more than mine did

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General Car Chat / Re: what will it pull

« on: 24 April 2011, 19:27:02 »

yes it is huge 27ft and close on three tonne with the equipment in it

for this size and weight i would get a landrover discovery 3 2.7 d

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General Car Chat / Re: Cavalier.

« on: 12 April 2011, 23:11:36 »

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1984-MRK-2-VAUXHALL-CAVALIER-CD-1-8E-AUTO-22-000-MILES-/180651191282?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a0fa66bf2

I would'nt throw a bag of sand at myself but if i could'nt afford to run two cars but wanted something a little different then why not? I know the brakes were spongey on mk2's & the front end went straight on if you dared turn the wheel but Veccies are still doing that today.

   It's worth what some one will pay i guess, where do you find another to compare it to? 8-)

   I like it.

i would pay a grand for that no problems,old skool cav at least no-one would try and nick it

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General Car Chat / Re: Painted Brake Calipers?

« on: 12 April 2011, 22:50:24 »

the caliper colour would depend on the colour of your car really some colours wont mix and will just look guady red brakes on ablack car ok red on a red car dodgy

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General Car Chat / Re: car for 7-8 grand

« on: 09 April 2011, 17:26:54 »

only 1 to go for really Jag S-type 2.7 twin turbo diesel better than the germans and head and shoulders over the japanese. May be bias as ive just got 1 myself

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General Car Chat / Re: Project

« on: 10 April 2011, 19:16:28 »

as stated already a chevvy small block will fit if the rover v8 will bear in mind rover v8 is 50 years old if not more,and push rod not ohc.

Ls1 will fit need to switch to rack stearing, and the 357 chevvy fits as does the 426 hemi headed unit

i have fitted a ls1 5.7 v8 to an omega and came across alsorts of challengers to put right,its up and running with a supercharger puts out 425 bhp and 485 lbs/ft toqure running through a lotus carlton tremec 6 speed box wheel spins all the way to 4 if your not careful moted it start of april ready for the blast to cypres in may driving all the way

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General Car Chat / Re: Owned the longest?

« on: 30 August 2010, 23:15:54 »

just omegas or any car,cos i still own the first car i brought back in 1983 it is a talbot lotus sunbeam tti now fitted with a esprit turbo engine and great fun in the wet

Can you tell us about this?

I used to own a tuned 1.6 with forest springs

yes it started life as a talbot lotus sunbeam with the 2.0 litre lotus engine and stiffer suspension close ratio 5 speed box set up for road ralling,t took delivery in june 1983 and spent my weekends trying to be stig blomqist  in 1987 i broke the engine and rather than sell the car i put it in the back of a garage afterall i then had a sierra cosworth to play with. in 1994 i was going to sell her to a lotus club member when i was offered a esprit turbo engine gearbox and complete running gear for peanuts then i spent 5 years putting the car and esprit engine to concours condition and now do the summer vintage rally meets i shall get some pics up and post a link to our rally club website

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General Car Chat / Re: Owned the longest?

« on: 28 August 2010, 15:04:50 »

just omegas or any car,cos i still own the first car i brought back in 1983 it is a talbot lotus sunbeam tti now fitted with a esprit turbo engine and great fun in the wet