renualt 5z....

[Len]

Ummm gaz aint that kinda what Big Bang is about? I know thats maily air-colled bugs thrashing V8's but maybe we could add on to that?

[DazVR6]

Honestly knightrider he wasnt given it full beans coz if he was i wouldnt have caught him for dust let alone pass him. Hope when i get my vr that will make it abit more even but i aint holding my breath .

[kniterider]

i wouldnt wanna race on ein me vr to 70mph (not if it had a good driver...) lol... very quick underrated cars... but also costly, very un reliable and well... if left alone there ok, but when people start doing things to em exterior wise there just 

each car has its own cult following, the same as we are all here now 

[EvilScotsman]

I had a shot (in 1983) of a mini cooper 1375 GT hillclimb sprint car. Damn  - it was a hairy arsed monster running twin del'orto 45 sidedraft's wi foam filters (rich mans DCOE 40's)  - and it could suck yer eyeballs into the back of yer head and rip the tyres off the 12" rims!

(kids under 25 wont even know what a del'orto 45 sidedraught is.....)

With carbs and no turbo (turbo's werent fitted to production cars except the 911 porker in '83 and some other exotic machinery) and it made about 130bhp and weighed in at 800 kilos. My RS2000 in 1984 (nearly new) only put out 109bhp standard. Then I got a Supermirafiori 131. That sounded awesome and left rubber for 100 yards from the pub car park (lol) Anyone on here even know what that is? (the 131 not the pub car park)....first twincam I ever owned and 2L of the best italian car a poor man could afford.
Ah the good / bad old days lol.

[Neaty]

(kids under 25 wont even know what a del'orto 45 sidedraught is.....)

are you joking?!

I had a set of twin 40 weber, DCOE's for my driver.

I spend alot of time around Mark 2 escort rally cars, dont talk to me about side draft carbs! besides slide injection is were its at!

[EvilScotsman]

lol ok you got me there 

[boneybradley]

Good old school motors....I had a mk1 escort with a 1760 x-flow on a capri 3.0 carb and then a mk2 mexico with twin 40's
both fun and drank fuel like no tommorrow

and my brother had a fiat supermirafiori 131 tc

[patch900]

I grew up around bikes and old Mk1 and Mk2 escorts, not old enough to drive them though 

Nuttiest car my eldest brother has was an RS turbo escort. He had it chipped, dropped etc. It would wheel spin in 3rd gear. Had it off the clock (needle buried) on the M1.