Show us ya... cars !

[KiwiCol]

Did ya get a wee go in it Tony?  Looking at the specs on those, they'll put all but the higher output Holdens & Falcons to shame.

[Andre]

Anything that can be likened to a 14 got to be great 

I was 14 once !!

My 14 was 14 once too !!

[VladTepes]

We have the new Kia at work today.

3.3ltr twin turbo V6 rear wheel drive.
272kw / 369hp.

woo hoo buckaroo !


Is that the $60K version?

[northern]

Anything that can be likened to a 14 got to be great 

I was 14 once !!

My 14 was 14 once too !!

My 14 is 14 years old (2003)

[BlackAdder]

Not my car but my sons.
Citroen AX with a turbo charged B16 Honda engine fitted in the front putting out over 300hp and the same in the rear. Puts a new meaning to shed built

...I've allways wondered how in hell do you sync those engines in those two engine mods...?

[grog]

how is it done?

[Tony Nitrous]

how is it done?

The only one I've seen done wasn't that perfectly sync'd.

It ran two bike engines, linked throttles and clutches etc.
It had 2 gear shifts coming up out of the floor like a car but side by side,
at the top the left one bent left, the right one bent right,
this gave two separate gear levers that you used together as a T-type shifter.

The car had two rev counters so if one bike motor shifted or one didn't the rev counters showed this, it wasn't a huge drama both engines carried each other just at different rev's. The T-shift let you change either motor back up or down to put them back together.

Running in perfect harmony would be nice but I don't see it as essential.
We have bolted earthmoving scrapers together and one pushes, one pulls, they work as a pair but may not be identical in performance.

Modern cars have some very good sports-auto gear box's and would probably make a double engine build a lots easier.

[Yoda]

Hi he installed a splitter for the clutch see photo and linked the throttle cables. One gear shifter then fabricated and extended the gear linkage both engines go into the same gear at the same time. Crazy thing is he works in a call centre and has had no previous mechanical experience. The car with only one engine ran sub 13 second quarter miles at the local drag strip. Haven't ran it with twin engines as both need a remap.

[Tony Nitrous]

I was driving an Audi "RS6 Performance" today.
Nice estate car / wagon.
Go's OK, you'd expect it to with 600hp.

Shame I can't quite stretch to the $247,000 price tag for the
base model before you start ticking the options list.

[Speedy1959]

The fastest car I have owned was a Mercedes CLK63 AMG
Only 25 of them here in the UK

[Kiwifruit]

Must be fast if its kept in a cage on a lead.

[KiwiCol]

How fast did you ever get it up to Speedy?  (on a closed track - naturally, nothing to do with roads)

[Speedy1959]

How fast did you ever get it up to Speedy?  (on a closed track - naturally, nothing to do with roads)

A "friend" allegedly went to 150mph then chickened out.. (Mercedes say 185mph for these)
I was "told" it got there very very easily...
I was also "told" that it hit 120mph by the time it joined a motorway from a slip road..

It was by far the quickest car I have owned.

[KiwiCol]

Sounds very impressive power / speed.  She'd have been a very thirsty girl when pressing on I'd imagine.

[Tony Nitrous]

I was driving an Audi "RS6 Performance" today.
Nice estate car / wagon.
Go's OK, you'd expect it to with 600hp.

Shame I can't quite stretch to the $247,000 price tag for the
base model before you start ticking the options list.