Okay, that V8 bike is the only street legal motorcycle I've ever seen that I would be almost afraid to ride. Matter of fact I'd probably be more intimidated by that thing than a full on nitro burning top fuel drag bike.
That is just completely nuts!
#4513129 - 03/28/2012:40 AMRe: True HP of the 8 most powerful classic era muscle cars
[Re: No105_Archie]
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 17,301Nixer
Scaliwag and Survivor
I can never seem to get photos to appear in posts. Can somebody give me a step by step please ?
I
I'll try Archie.
I use the attachment manager
I upload a picture from my computer with that. I right click on the image I uploaded and copy image address.
I close the attachment mgr, then press "insert image link" on the commands bar (or whatever it is)
I paste the address I copied from the from the image in the attachment mgr.
Then post your stuff to the forum.
Here's the weirdness...
Edit your post right away.
It will be an [img][/img] address for the pic..like
"https://SimHQ.com/forum/tmp/22987.jpg" no quotes or bold, that's me
When you edit it, you change the image code from
"https://SimHQ.com/forum/tmp/22987.jpg"
to
"https://SimHQ.com/forum/files/22987.jpg"
You should get a "full" size pic (not more than 2mb) like this AFTER you edit the image address in the post.
Yep.
A total pain in the ass!
Sorry about the non car art stuff. No pics of my old Saturn melting in the sun here in sunny FL. Only pic I had quick access to that was less then 2mb.
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#4513168 - 03/28/2001:39 PMRe: True HP of the 8 most powerful classic era muscle cars
[Re: Crane Hunter]
It belongs to my youngest son, he has been restoring it for the past year.
It needed quite a bit of body work replaced and there are lots of bits not available any longer, and because it is the 4x4 version the body and running gear is just slightly different than the standard 325 so he has had to fabricate quite a bit. The engine is good, and the 4x4 system works, it passed it's motor vehicle test last summer and he was driving it up to last weekend. Now it is time to get the bodywork resprayed and he needs to get the engine bay done too, that's why the engine is out. While it is out he is going to replace all the bushings and rubber mounts while he has easy access to them. just now the car has a lot of red undercoat on it.
This was taken over a year ago when he started working on it. the bodyshell in the background is a spare for my MG ZT, was bought when MG Rover went bust just so I had a spare.
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#4513229 - 03/28/2008:23 PMRe: True HP of the 8 most powerful classic era muscle cars
[Re: Raw Kryptonite]
It belongs to my youngest son, he has been restoring it for the past year.
It needed quite a bit of body work replaced and there are lots of bits not available any longer, and because it is the 4x4 version the body and running gear is just slightly different than the standard 325 so he has had to fabricate quite a bit. The engine is good, and the 4x4 system works, it passed it's motor vehicle test last summer and he was driving it up to last weekend. Now it is time to get the bodywork resprayed and he needs to get the engine bay done too, that's why the engine is out. While it is out he is going to replace all the bushings and rubber mounts while he has easy access to them. just now the car has a lot of red undercoat on it.
This was taken over a year ago when he started working on it. the bodyshell in the background is a spare for my MG ZT, was bought when MG Rover went bust just so I had a spare.
Wee update:
There was a slight score in one of the cylinders so it had to be re-bored, now my son is rebuilding the engine, it's just about ready to start the re-assembly
Last edited by Alicatt; 05/03/2002:13 PM.
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
#4519278 - 05/03/2004:14 PMRe: True HP of the 8 most powerful classic era muscle cars
[Re: Crane Hunter]
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,944Crane Hunter
Veteran
I am more interested in that portable gantry......looks manufactured...is there a brand and model number????
Looks like a home built engine stand to me, the factory ones are typically painted and have wheels.
The engine stand is home built, not by my son but by one of his friends for a 4 cylinder engine, the 6cyl BMW is just a little big for it, mounting the engine sideways on it worked
The gantry is manufactured and is "portable" it belongs to my son's work and can be put up and taken down by one person, I'll get him to get the details when he comes home tonight. From what is written on it, it is made in Germany.
I don't have a lift in my garage only a pit which is fine for a lot of jobs but I'm finding that with the likes of my Range Rover that to do work on the engine you have to take the body off the chassis, I've seen the garage doing it and they can have the whole body off the chassis in a couple of hours and it is much easier to work on the engine running gear/drive train.
Engine safely home, he rebuilt it in the workshop of his work over the holiday weekend here. Middle son driving his forklift.
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
#4519464 - 05/04/2005:08 PMRe: True HP of the 8 most powerful classic era muscle cars
[Re: WolverineFW]
If I had the motor apart like that, I'd be tempted to do a little head porting and a cam swap at the least.
The parts are on the way, well new cam anyway, there are limits on what you can do to vehicles here, the vehicle has to remain standard, when he registered it, he imported it from Holland, everything was noted down even to the spec of the wheels.
Same when I got the 318i in Germany it was a pain in the butt getting it through the test, the tester did not put all the details in the system and the vehicle licence dep. rejected the car as not meeting standards, had to go back and tear a strip off the tester about it as it was on the original documents and he never entered it into the computer, lucky I took a photocopy of all the docs and could show what was missing.
We got a set of M Sport wheels for the 318i, they are an optional fitment to this model but as I had steel wheels on during the inspection they will have to be on for the next inspection. Oh the joy have a search for Auto Keuring Belgium test on You-tube to see what they put the car through, first time I was there I thought they were trying to tear the wheels off with the machine as it pulls, presses, twists and vibrates the suspension to make sure there is no play in it.
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
#4519542 - 05/04/2010:00 PMRe: True HP of the 8 most powerful classic era muscle cars
[Re: Crane Hunter]
Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 24,029oldgrognard Administrator
I wouldn’t like living with that kind of restrictions on vehicles.
It's why my cars are still registered in the UK, especially for the MG with it's supercharger, at least in the UK you can get a single vehicle approval for a highly modified vehicle and the MG is not modified enough to require that
When I took in the 318i to the test station in Belgium they listed everything that was in the vehicle, all the documents, the med kit, toolkit, etc. and it means that when I go for it's yearly test they will be looking for them and also that they will be noted down if/when I sell the car and the list given to the new owner.
In Germany there are ways to get round the type approval with the right documents, I remember a lass having to get the right docs from the manufacturers to accompany the mods she had done to her Mustang for drag racing, it took a while but eventually she was able to get it road legal.
For me, in the UK, as long as I have declared the mods to the insurance and they pass inspection/emissions then there is no problem. With my Subaru WRX STi PPP, the PPP part is Prodrive Performance Pack, takes the 2 litre turbocharged engine up to 305bhp at the wheels and it also came with a new exhaust, headers and new suspension. I had no problems with the insurance about the power hike they were on the point of refusing insurance over the suspension mods. Great car to drive but man it was like riding on a pair of 1950s metal wheeled roller skates plus it needed 100octane fuel, and I had to keep a 24 pack of octane boost it the pocket in the trunk beside the water tank for the intercooler spray just in case I could not find 100octane petrol.
My Scooby the day I chopped it in for the Range Rover.
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
#4519569 - 05/05/2001:26 AMRe: True HP of the 8 most powerful classic era muscle cars
[Re: Crane Hunter]
They almost made that the case in Canada in the early '2000s, after a speeding street racer in a "riced out" car collided with and killed an RCMP officer.
All aftermarket modifications to motor vehicles were to be banned, right down to tinted windows and the like.
Only the prospect of major public outcry and the considerable lobbying resources of SEMA was able to prevent it.