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[serek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_g79TyeQL8 :-?

[Marie]

surely that cant be goo for the tyres

i thought i read somewhere you couldnt go bigger then an 18" cos it starts to effect the ride comfort/smoothness. :-?

[markey mark]

i have 19"s on mine marie still rides spot on and handles ace  

[Marie]

i have 19"s on mine marie still rides spot on and handles ace  

oh ok id like to change my wheels but i think its going to have to wait till next year now.

but it give me time to save up and find a set i like, well we both like.

[Vamps]

Please forgive if this is a daft Q, but how do you do that?
I can understand pressing the brake and theengine will still turn the rear wheels but this must wreck the back brakes.
And or do those that do this a lot have a spererate front wheel only brake??

[Kevin Wood]

You can fit a device called a line-lock to the front brakes. Effectively just a valve that allows you to hold the fluid pressure in front brakes only. Not that I'm into such activities but I did witness an amusing burn-out competition at Le Mans where various exotica (with clueless drivers) attempted to do the same and failed due to too much grip or even just a failure to turn off the TC.

Then.. along came some likely lads in a beaten up "B" reg Fraud Sierra with the rear window fabricated from some attractive polythene.

Anyway, they had made 3 modifications to this vehicle from what I could see:

Fit the cheapest, hardest tyres they could find.
Fit a line lock
Fit a V8.

Needless to say, once the laughter had died down they left rubber for about 1/2 the length of the Mulsanne straight and left egg on a few faces too.

Kevin

[Vamps]

You can fit a device called a line-lock to the front brakes. Effectively just a valve that allows you to hold the fluid pressure in front brakes only. Not that I'm into such activities but I did witness an amusing burn-out competition at Le Mans where various exotica (with clueless drivers) attempted to do the same and failed due to too much grip or even just a failure to turn off the TC.

Then.. along came some likely lads in a beaten up "B" reg Fraud Sierra with the rear window fabricated from some attractive polythene.

Anyway, they had made 3 modifications to this vehicle from what I could see:

Fit the cheapest, hardest tyres they could find.
Fit a line lock
Fit a V8.

Needless to say, once the laughter had died down they left rubber for about 1/2 the length of the Mulsanne straight and left egg on a few faces too.

Kevin

Thanks for that Kevin, story about the Ford, make sense, I like the idea of 'sleepers' always have, even from young. Best I ever did was a V6 into a Cortina Mk2, standard back axle and gear box, that could leave rubber. One day will do something.  

[dbug]

You can fit a device called a line-lock to the front brakes. Effectively just a valve that allows you to hold the fluid pressure in front brakes only. Not that I'm into such activities but I did witness an amusing burn-out competition at Le Mans where various exotica (with clueless drivers) attempted to do the same and failed due to too much grip or even just a failure to turn off the TC.

Then.. along came some likely lads in a beaten up "B" reg Fraud Sierra with the rear window fabricated from some attractive polythene.

Anyway, they had made 3 modifications to this vehicle from what I could see:

Fit the cheapest, hardest tyres they could find.
Fit a line lock
Fit a V8.

Needless to say, once the laughter had died down they left rubber for about 1/2 the length of the Mulsanne straight and left egg on a few faces too.

Kevin

Thanks for that Kevin, story about the Ford, make sense, I like the idea of 'sleepers' always have, even from young. Best I ever did was a V6 into a Cortina Mk2, standard back axle and gear box, that could leave rubber. One day will do something.  

Back in the 60s stuffed a 3.8s Jag engine & box into a 105e Anglia - had to fit lotus cortina ˝ shafts as it bust the std ones first try out.  Top speed around ton due to anglia back axle but bl**dy fast getting there!  Wonder where it is now!!

[Vamps]

You can fit a device called a line-lock to the front brakes. Effectively just a valve that allows you to hold the fluid pressure in front brakes only. Not that I'm into such activities but I did witness an amusing burn-out competition at Le Mans where various exotica (with clueless drivers) attempted to do the same and failed due to too much grip or even just a failure to turn off the TC.

Then.. along came some likely lads in a beaten up "B" reg Fraud Sierra with the rear window fabricated from some attractive polythene.

Anyway, they had made 3 modifications to this vehicle from what I could see:

Fit the cheapest, hardest tyres they could find.
Fit a line lock
Fit a V8.

Needless to say, once the laughter had died down they left rubber for about 1/2 the length of the Mulsanne straight and left egg on a few faces too.

Kevin

Thanks for that Kevin, story about the Ford, make sense, I like the idea of 'sleepers' always have, even from young. Best I ever did was a V6 into a Cortina Mk2, standard back axle and gear box, that could leave rubber. One day will do something.  

Back in the 60s stuffed a 3.8s Jag engine & box into a 105e Anglia - had to fit lotus cortina ˝ shafts as it bust the std ones first try out.  Top speed around ton due to anglia back axle but bl**dy fast getting there!  Wonder where it is now!!

That's a conversion.

[dbug]

You can fit a device called a line-lock to the front brakes. Effectively just a valve that allows you to hold the fluid pressure in front brakes only. Not that I'm into such activities but I did witness an amusing burn-out competition at Le Mans where various exotica (with clueless drivers) attempted to do the same and failed due to too much grip or even just a failure to turn off the TC.

Then.. along came some likely lads in a beaten up "B" reg Fraud Sierra with the rear window fabricated from some attractive polythene.

Anyway, they had made 3 modifications to this vehicle from what I could see:

Fit the cheapest, hardest tyres they could find.
Fit a line lock
Fit a V8.

Needless to say, once the laughter had died down they left rubber for about 1/2 the length of the Mulsanne straight and left egg on a few faces too.

Kevin

Thanks for that Kevin, story about the Ford, make sense, I like the idea of 'sleepers' always have, even from young. Best I ever did was a V6 into a Cortina Mk2, standard back axle and gear box, that could leave rubber. One day will do something.  

Back in the 60s stuffed a 3.8s Jag engine & box into a 105e Anglia - had to fit lotus cortina ˝ shafts as it bust the std ones first try out.  Top speed around ton due to anglia back axle but bl**dy fast getting there!  Wonder where it is now!!

That's a conversion.

Fun to drive - steer it on the throttle.  Could do a set of rear tyres in 250 miles!

[MaxV6]

Once had an old ford corsair 2.0 V4, swapped it out for the 3.0 Essex V6.

looked like a piece of lime green snot....   but was bastard quick....   ate clutches though.,...  

[Kevin Wood]

Speaking of crazy conversions I was thumbing through Practical Performance Car in the newsagents this lunch time and saw an article where someone had put a BMW Tractor lump from an Omega into a Reliant Scimitar. :-/

Kevin

[davlad22]

Been posted up before, one of our european friends I think?

[Kevin Wood]

He clearly didn't speak to TheBoy first.

Bit of a shame has he had the carve the car up a bit to get it in there. Why, oh, why didn't he put a 3.2 V6 into it?  :-/

Kevin

[Paulus]

Why can't I do that with my car?

(the wheelspin, not the alloys).