August's Mag!

[Renrut]

Arrived today and after I'd sorted the leaking petrol (long story) dived in for a read with some pizza!

Looks a good one, especially liking the 999 warm up article (I'm in it! ) and the bike engine fitting guide. The CA18DET guide was good too, only maybe missing a list of cars it was fitted too - was it just the S13 200sx and Bluebird turbo? Not read much else yet but I'm very happy with it so far!

[OilyFingers]

Spot the engine has the title on it if you hover over it on the main page with your mouse

[Renrut]

someones fixed it now so it just says 'mystery engine'. I think its a ferrari flat 12 from something like a testarossa but I've been wrong before and I'm not about to ruin my record

[dazzler]

Got mine through as well, looks like a good issue, will take a proper look when on the throne later.
Anybody spotted the nice add promoting the website/forum so you boys best play nice when the new people come lol

[OilyFingers]

someones fixed it now so it just says 'mystery engine'. I think its a ferrari flat 12 from something like a testarossa but I've been wrong before and I'm not about to ruin my record

yeah you are wrong. Its got too many cylinders and its not from mainland europe. Think of a time when racing drivers were more like fighter pilots without wings and death was something you looked at through every apex.

[Renrut]

someones fixed it now so it just says 'mystery engine'. I think its a ferrari flat 12 from something like a testarossa but I've been wrong before and I'm not about to ruin my record

yeah you are wrong. Its got too many cylinders and its not from mainland europe. Think of a time when racing drivers were more like fighter pilots without wings and death was something you looked at through every apex.

It was just a quick glance and I couldn't think of any other flat many cylinder engines

[fha772]

I think that picture is taken at Donington museum, i just can't think what engine it is

[OilyFingers]

One thing is certain its not a flat or boxer engine. It could be though of as one engine laid on top of another engine with a common crank.

[rooskle]

16 cylinders ain't so common

[Renrut]

Well I got the engine guessing wrong but I could give some pointers on the bike engine fitting guide

First thing is he didn't make it clear there are vtr1000s that aren't SP-1 or 2s and they make about 30bhp less and should be avoided.

Could also offer some suggestions on the reverse setup

And the complete omission of anything about lowering the gearing is worrying, most of the engines listed were fitted to bikes capable of 300kph leaving you with 3 gears that are unusable in a car. Gettign a rwd diff that drops it down enough is important and not to be overlooked.

And an improvement on the article would be the relative weights of the engines, compared to something very high power for its weight like a k-series or one of them vtec honda things they're not that attractive. my rc51 engine is about 96kg, the fiat engine I ripped out was about 110kg inc fwd box, but the rc51 still needed a diff and various other bits adding to it. A modern fiat 1.4 will make almost as much power as the rc51 but have more torque lower down and fit into the car a lot easier. Obviously don't want to put people off doing crazy things with their cars but its nice to know the pitfalls before you start!

does make the point right at the start about buying the whole bike though, but I think it needs to be in capitals and maybe printed onto a tight t-shirt with added boobies just so you read it several times