The thing with Colin Chapman and engines, is that nothing was ever finished, if an improvement could be made then it was.

The standard Lotus engine (at the time) was the 2 litre Talbot Sunbeam derivative, which had the usuall Chapman treatment, i.e twincam head and twin 40’s (sidedraught carbs), this engine had 2 further incarnations, as a turbo, and a dry sump turbo (later engines were also charge cooled)

Turbo’s were in their infancy as road car fitment in the early 80’s, and you could reasonably argue that this was a development.

Can’t remember what engine was in the Delorean, (thought it was a Frenchy) or whether it was turbo charged , but if something was planned, then I would think that it wolud have put it within the realms of developmental.

I always fancied a Rover SD1
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/projectcardetail.asp?id=4

Looking forward to achieving 200mph, without a front windscreen, but wearing sunglasses; get me the name of the manufacturer someone, as mine wouldn’t stay on at 50mph!

Nice work though shoe horning that into the SDI, it intrudes into the cabin a bit, but the Rover dashes were a bit on the naff side , so nothing lost there.

After looking at the Dodd’s car, (at Southend in about 80-81), I went home and designed (alright scribbled) a mid engined car, with the the engine linked to a formular one type of transaxle.

Thinking about it now although the theoretical power output of a Meteor, should be within the capabilities of such a transmission, I think the huge torque of the thing, might be a little too much , but of course it should be possible to custom build something nowadays, alas I no longer have the same enthusiasm to build one now….

Mike

This already has debated see previous threads, its not perfect but its pretty close. would cost a small fortune to build from scratch, just had a quote from B&Q for a new kitchen they want 6.8K for as load of veneered chipboard, sort of puts the price/value of this replica in proportion. 😮

Didn’t realise you’d made a start on the wings….

Tank engines don’t have superchargers; this one is missing the carb.

Pete, I thought that it was the Germans that were hated,the “Yanks” were just envied!

In the AAM at DX, there is a list of things that the Americans should avoid during conversation with the “locals”; one is not to mention to the British servicemen how much you are getting paid, and another is Ireland, and everything associated with it !!

Perhaps this list (or an updated version) should be given to every imigrant, prior to their entry into this “Green and pleasant land”.

I’m gonna set myself up for a flaming here:diablo: , but I was singularly underwhelmed when I recently saw BoB. I recorded it from Xmass and was really looking forward to seeing it again – last time was yonks ago.

OK – the flying/organisation/restoration/logistics etc. of putting this together was great…….but……the dialogue was terrible, the plot cliched, repetetive shots of planes taking off (sometimes mirror images)/gunners shooting, things exploding or falling out of the sky got quite irritating. The very weak plot was not helped by the wooden acting.

(The Spitfires were lovely though.):D

When PJ finishes remaking The Dambusters……….

DS

“the very weak plot”

Sadly thats what you get when you try and stay historically accurate, you’d be better off with a copy of “Pearl Harbour”, they seem to have managed to condense about a year or so of events, into a couple of weeks, making it very exiting…sorry exciting.

“I reserve the right to sell the item elsewhere”

Is it just me who is frustrated with sellers who end listings early, because they are “no longer available” i.e they’ve flogged said item for cash, thus breaking ebay rules, (without which, society will fall headlong into depravity).