Pictures of decently Modified cars [Vol. 2]

[slinky]

skinny said:

can someone explain what's going on with this turbo / exhaust arrangement here!?

Edited by skinny on Friday 26th April 22:20

External wastegate. The upper, more slender, pipe is the outlet from that.

[slinky]

And on the subject of the Ferrari, I posted an image of it on my hit, miss or maybe Facebook page a while back and had this comment...

Nicholas D'Alessandro The original car was killed by Frank Beard of ZZ Top to make his GTO replica. We simply saved the shell from the scrapyard and restored and mounted it on the Pro Street chassis.
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[storminnorman]

braddo said:

405dogvan said:

So that's what the LotusTroll Porschehater did next?

I LIKE it - back is a bit dodgy but hey!

His last car wasn't bad either

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmscSzFurwg

If that's the same nutter?

Yep, it's the same guy and the same car (rebodied and rebuilt after another car - a Porsche - ran into him).

his youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/roninLotus211/videos

pretty sure he's on PH, not the friendliest poster mind you

[randomwalk]

[Don1]

405dogvan said:

Silver Smudger said:

braddo said:

The 4 wheels, two seats and scrap of bodywork (that may be selling the car very considerably short ) that envelopes the monster engine posted above.

That is an amazing looking machine!

So that's what the LotusTroll Porschehater did next?

I LIKE it - back is a bit dodgy but hey!

His last car wasn't bad either

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmscSzFurwg

If that's the same nutter?

They guy might be a bell end, but he really commissions amazing cars.

[slinky]

This thread morphs into the build thread if Frank's latest creation..
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

There's a lot of crud to wade through I'm afraid..

[The Game]

[k-ink]

^
That looks nippy

[Du1point8]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-Bay-Type-2-Porsche-Fl...

says it has a porsche flat 6 hidden inside.

[EDLT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfnv2AIYRHE

Winner of Best Thing Ever 2007.

[VEA]

^^^^

THUD!

[Bear Phils]

I think I'm in love

[braddo]

rohrl said:

skinny said:

can someone explain what's going on with this turbo / exhaust arrangement here!?

Edited by skinny on Friday 26th April 22:20

I'll have a bash. The 4-branch equal-length manifold (light silver, right hand side of pic) feeds into the turbo, the exhaust pipe comes out of the turbo. The smaller bore pipe coming from the turbo and into the silencer box is from the wastegate and vents to prevent the turbo from overpressuring. The inlet pipe for the turbo is on the left with the air filter on the end and the outlet, feeding pressurised air to the engine (via an intercooler which we can't see) is the pipe coming out of the top of the turbo and going away from us towards the back left. This engine also has a supercharger which complicates matters a bit. I think in this fitment from memory Frank is compound charging which means that the supercharger sits between the turbo and the intercooler and further pressurises the inlet charge once the turbo has done its job.

It's an impressive thing and no doubt will be the fastest thing in the canyons.

Yep. From memory the inlet pipe (from the top of the turbo) goes round the other side and into the supercharger, then into the chargecooler (top left on the far side of the engine) then into the inlet manifold.

There is no air-to-air intercooler so the inlet path is kept very short. I think there are additional radiators to help keep the chargecooler cool (i.e. to cool the water that cools the inlet air in the chargecooler).

[clarkmagpie]

Ohhh Lordy

Imagine rocking up to the work car park in that!

[SamPet]

k-ink said:

Body kits on anything are horrid turds lacking in taste. I challenge anyone to post an image of an acceptable body kit. I cannot remember ever seeing one...

What say you?

[STIfree]

^ Them Borbet A's are an inch or two small away from being perfect

[405dogvan]

SamPet said:

k-ink said:

Body kits on anything are horrid turds lacking in taste. I challenge anyone to post an image of an acceptable body kit. I cannot remember ever seeing one...

What say you?

Despite it's best efforts it's still a bit 'tacked on' - frankly.

Those Borbets are back in style tho - I've seen a couple of Barrywagons sporting them recently

[Digitalize]

Love Borbet A's on the right car, many they're put on now aren't right.

[e21Mark]

I don't really like Merc's but that could be quite nice without the Halfords rear spoiler.

[mat777]

Wibble...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1969-Chevrolet-Camaro-Pr...








Incidentally, I cant quite work out whats going on with the double gear shift levers here. I can only guess that its a 60s version of paddleshift-operated autos we see today, so the small lever shifts to drive then the big lever is used as a manual over-ride when racing 'stangs on the 1/4 mile? am I right or am I way off?