The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T (Vol XVI)
Discussion
D_T_W said:
L100NYY said:
D_T_W said:
D_T_W said:
Gents, daft question I know, but can somebody point me in the direction of a suitable all encompassing HPI check that will tell me all the nasty info I don't want to know about before buying a car I don't need but really really want?
Well, it's nice to see my self control is still non existent, oh bother...... 
What have I bought instead? A Civic Type R with aftermarket Koni suspension and stainless exhaust. Does sound good though, and it goes like the clappers
L100NYY said:
Don't talk to me about wood. :shudder: 
Unless, of course:
jeremyc said:
L100NYY said:
Don't talk to me about wood. :shudder: Oh, and who's is/was the 'Grale in the reflection?
king huge.L100NYY said:
Do you still have it or has it errr.......ya know......gone elsewhere?
Oh, and who's is/was the 'Grale in the reflection?
Long gone elsewhere, thankfully. Oh, and who's is/was the 'Grale in the reflection?
The 'Grale was one of my neighbours. He too has long since moved away, so no idea whether he still has it.
It was quite an eclectic collection in the street,. with variously my TVRs and RS2 parked alongside the Wooden Wonder and the Italian.
jeremyc said:
L100NYY said:
Do you still have it or has it errr.......ya know......gone elsewhere?
Oh, and who's is/was the 'Grale in the reflection?
Long gone elsewhere, thankfully. Oh, and who's is/was the 'Grale in the reflection?
The 'Grale was one of my neighbours. He too has long since moved away, so no idea whether he still has it.
It was quite an eclectic collection in the street,. with variously my TVRs and RS2 parked alongside the Wooden Wonder and the Italian.
Output Flange said:
It is. They had to put a lot of engineering work into it, as there is (apparently) an architectural issue with flat planes over 4.5 litres. From memory, their solution was a big rubber damper.
Same reason you don't find big four-cylinders without balance shafts (e.g. 2.5-3.0 Porsche fours) - they're internally-imbalanced by design. Flat-plane V8 is just two inline fours on the same crank so same problem. Think the 918 is otherwise the biggest production flat-plane V8.
NomduJour said:
Same reason you don't find big four-cylinders without balance shafts (e.g. 2.5-3.0 Porsche fours) - they're internally-imbalanced by design. Flat-plane V8 is just two inline fours on the same crank so same problem.
Think the 918 is otherwise the biggest production flat-plane V8.
Don't forget our own Plucky Brit TVR produced a 4.5 litre flat plane V8 in the Cerbera.Think the 918 is otherwise the biggest production flat-plane V8.
Aftermarket tuners are now converting these to have capacities between 4.7 and 5.0 litres.
IMO I'd say that it's not so much that, it just looks a bit too stretched and the detail has been stretched to accommodate the length and it makes it all look a bit uncomfortable on the eye. It's a big 2 tonne car so if the wheels were much bigger, though it may look 'better' on the page, in reality they would be huge.
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