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14 hours ago, fas42 said:

Another bit of drivin' ...

 

Hmm... That doesn't look like a very serious run. In any case, I'm quite partial to the gravel stages of Turkey myself:

 

 

And looks like the road version 2021 Yaris GR is all the rage now. But apparently like the previous Yaris 4WD, it won't be coming to North America. Too bad!

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5 hours ago, accwai said:

 

Hmm... That doesn't look like a very serious run. In any case, I'm quite partial to the gravel stages of Turkey myself:

 

 

And looks like the road version 2021 Yaris GR is all the rage now. But apparently like the previous Yaris 4WD, it won't be coming to North America. Too bad!

 

It was testing of the car run - what I liked was the ability of the driver to handle such borderline adhesion conditions, where there is close to zero chance of being able to recover from the slightest error ...

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The less serious side of F1.....

 

 

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16 hours ago, fas42 said:

There are people who fiddle with motors to make them go better ... and then there's,

 

 

 

This:

 

 

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and part 2, if anyone is interested:

 

 

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To me, just stuffing an enormous engine pulled out of a vehicle into the frame of a motorcycle is not very interesting ... it's just a variation of what's been done forever - my father had one of these,

 

Aussie Original: The First Ute

 

and he built a very large caravan to live in, while working on properties in country NSW. The 4 cylinder engine didn't have the grunt to pull it, so he dropped a V8 in, which did the job nicely. The big downside was that the cooling system was not up to it, and there was an  ongoing need to give the vehicle a rest over hilly terrain; otherwise the radiator would boil over.

 

I posted the video because of the incredible job of building a completely different engine from the bits of a standard engine - with no "here's how to do this", paint by numbers guide to help him.

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4 hours ago, fas42 said:

To me, just stuffing an enormous engine pulled out of a vehicle into the frame of a motorcycle is not very interesting ... it's just a variation of what's been done forever - my father had one of these,

 

Aussie Original: The First Ute

 

and he built a very large caravan to live in, while working on properties in country NSW. The 4 cylinder engine didn't have the grunt to pull it, so he dropped a V8 in, which did the job nicely. The big downside was that the cooling system was not up to it, and there was an  ongoing need to give the vehicle a rest over hilly terrain; otherwise the radiator would boil over.

The owner of the tree service we used for decades was an old hot rodder (not old like me - old like Methuselah).  His biggest project was to stuff a rat motor into the back seat of a Renault R8, which he did "because I could".  He welded up a perimeter frame from 2x4 box tubing and fabricated an entire 4 corner independent suspension.  When his oldest child was approaching legal driving age, he cut it up into tiny pieces and never did it again.

 

My first hot rod project was stuffing a Volvo B18 drivetrain in an MG-TD when Iwas in high school (1962).  A good friend's older brother fancied himself an auto guru and started a few very nice projects, none of which he could complete.  He got the TD with a very crudely done Ford 60 flatty in it.  Whoever did it couldn't mate the TD radiator to the Ford, so he "secured" a bare Ford core in front of the stock radiator with clothes hangars.  When he pushed it into the backyard and moved on, I talked Billy's brother into giving it to us when we were 16 (a year before legal driving age in New Jersey).  We bought an old Volvo (444 or 544 - I don't remember which) for $100 from Stucker's junkyard on Staten Island. Billy's dad towed it back for us, and we managed to transplant the drive train and make it work. Neither of us had the equipment or experience to narrow the Volvo rear, so the back wheels protruded a bit.  So it looked a little funny, but it passed NJ inspection and ran great!  We sold it for enough to buy the parts we needed to make his brother's next abandoned project (an XK-120MC coupe) roadworthy enough to get him through 5 years of architecture school at MIT.

 

My biggest project to date has been a '48 Ford F1 street rod with a small block Chevy, an aluminum Powerglide, and a Jag XJ-S rear (for which I welded up a tube cage mounting system).   I wanted to rod the flathead that came with it, but it turned out to have a crack in the block.  I'd gotten a pair of 283 blocks and the P'glide for $100 from the local "recycling center" where I obtained most of my used parts.  I'd planned to stuff one into the MG-TD I eventually turned into a vintage racer (not the same one that got the B18), so I decided to use it in the F1 rather than spend thousands building up a flattie.

 

For me, the challenge in mating disparate assemblies like a V8 and a vintage car or bike are both exciting and stimulating.  I never would have figured out a lot of the engineering and fabrication techiniques I've developed over the years without those challenges.  For interest, here's the TD racer referred to above:

 

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3 hours ago, bluesman said:

The owner of the tree service we used for decades was an old hot rodder (not old like me - old like Methuselah).  His biggest project was to stuff a rat motor into the back seat of a Renault R8, which he did "because I could".  He welded up a perimeter frame from 2x4 box tubing and fabricated an entire 4 corner independent suspension.  When his oldest child was approaching legal driving age, he cut it up into tiny pieces and never did it again.

 

Note, what my dad did was not in the era of hot-rodding! That Ford was just a work vehicle, of the time, and he did the exercise just after WWII, I believe - there was a need, and he was a practical man; and got the job done.

 

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My first hot rod project was stuffing a Volvo B18 drivetrain in an MG-TD when Iwas in high school (1962).  A good friend's older brother fancied himself an auto guru and started a few very nice projects, none of which he could complete.  He got the TD with a very crudely done Ford 60 flatty in it.  Whoever did it couldn't mate the TD radiator to the Ford, so he "secured" a bare Ford core in front of the stock radiator with clothes hangars.  When he pushed it into the backyard and moved on, I talked Billy's brother into giving it to us when we were 16 (a year before legal driving age in New Jersey).  We bought an old Volvo (444 or 544 - I don't remember which) for $100 from Stucker's junkyard on Staten Island. Billy's dad towed it back for us, and we managed to transplant the drive train and make it work. Neither of us had the equipment or experience to narrow the Volvo rear, so the back wheels protruded a bit.  So it looked a little funny, but it passed NJ inspection and ran great!  We sold it for enough to buy the parts we needed to make his brother's next abandoned project (an XK-120MC coupe) roadworthy enough to get him through 5 years of architecture school at MIT.

 

My biggest project to date has been a '48 Ford F1 street rod with a small block Chevy, an aluminum Powerglide, and a Jag XJ-S rear (for which I welded up a tube cage mounting system).   I wanted to rod the flathead that came with it, but it turned out to have a crack in the block.  I'd gotten a pair of 283 blocks and the P'glide for $100 from the local "recycling center" where I obtained most of my used parts.  I'd planned to stuff one into the MG-TD I eventually turned into a vintage racer (not the same one that got the B18), so I decided to use it in the F1 rather than spend thousands building up a flattie.

 

For me, the challenge in mating disparate assemblies like a V8 and a vintage car or bike are both exciting and stimulating.  I never would have figured out a lot of the engineering and fabrication techiniques I've developed over the years without those challenges.  For interest, here's the TD racer referred to above:

 

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Very impressive... but I'm afraid I never tuned into the whole fiddling with cars thing - I just did, still do, what's necessary to keep them going. The most ambitious job I tackled was just dropping the engine out of a Beetle, my first car, in the backyard, and replacing the piston rings - as a teenager.

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1 hour ago, botrytis said:

Curtiss was in the saddle of the motorcycles which set land speed records in 1903 and 1907

 

Wusses 😁 how about a 1907 Curtiss V8 motorcycle that set a land speed record - 136.36 MPH!!!!

 

One could say - a minimalist suspension, definitely not for bumpy roads, an interesting brake and handlebar design..

I happened to reach 80km/h on my MTB (you've guessed it right - downhill..) but I guess I'd have a heart attack on this at 40..x-D 

 

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1 hour ago, sphinxsix said:

 

One could say - a minimalist suspension, definitely not for bumpy roads, an interesting brake and handlebar design..

I happened to reach 80km/h on my MTB (you've guessed it right - downhill..) but I guess I'd have a heart attack on this at 40..x-D 

 

 

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I could be negative here and state that boats are not my thing (which they are not), but that drag boat is sensational.  I can hardly comprehend that 0 to 261 MPH in 3.5 seconds in a boat is even physically possible.

 

In terms of brown underwear, rather than red, I think I would happily try the Curtiss V8, maybe not to attempt 136mph on the thing, but I would try it.  The drag boat, no chance, it looks terrifying.  I also have a rule for boats, in that I will avoid getting into any boat that is not large enough to feature both a bar and a casino.

 

This clip does noting to alleviate this fear:

 

 

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I am not sure that the drag boat is actually bonkers as such (although you would just need to be slightly deranged to sail it), from a technical perspective it is incredibly impressive.

 

This is bonkers:

(although it might be useful for audiophiles with very large rooms, you could adjust the listening position "on the fly" without putting your drink down)

 

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