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Postby coozer » Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:29 pm

This is my dry weather toy, I say dry weather now as this happened when I went out in the wet....
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That was last year, it has been professionally repaied and noe looks like this...
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It started life with this engine for ease of SVA...
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But now sports this rather special little motor...
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Running bike carbs at the moment it howls when the VVT kicks in at 4K. I'm toying with teh idea of bike throttle bodies but can't see the benefit ATM

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Postby Burtle » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:27 pm

Nice clean looking motor you have there. What does the new engine kick out, is that a type 9 box you have it coupled too?

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Postby Renrut » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:59 pm

Didnt think they were very good for offroading, you got stuck in the first hedge [:D]

Good to hear its back on the road even better than before, after all you can't just fix something and have it only being as good as before you broke it [;)]
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Postby coozer » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:56 pm

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Trebuchet, Arial,Verdana" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Burtle</i>
<br />Nice clean looking motor you have there. What does the new engine kick out, is that a type 9 box you have it coupled too?

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Yep its a type 9 and the motor kicks out close on 170bhp. Its blindingly fast compared to the old 1.8...
I'm not expecting the box to last long as it already clunks a bit when changing gear like theres some backlash in it.
Future mods are throttle bodies, cams and 200bhp. A set of 13" Minilites would look better as well I reckon.

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Postby Smiler » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:51 pm

Looks lots of fun.
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