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Gorgeous car... Are they the 8j rally mags? Replicas? Cool horn pad too, never seen one like that before!
Also think that DB5 looks a little more like a DB2... ;)
I'm pretty sure that would make it a 2.6L.
the L24 had small bore + short crank
the L26 had small bore + long crank
the L28 had large bore + long crank
So large bore + short crank would make for faster revs, but less torque.
Nice article too! It's fun when you start learning about all the little intricacies of these cars. Like the early C-pillars not having any vents (they had vents in the hatch.. Think this was phased out due to fuel smell issues)
IMO Air dams make them look like a girl with a stunning body but a Stan Smith chin. Never seen a car with an airdam that looks betterthan it would just a chin lip. Gnose is much more classy.
Still a Miura.
Oh wait... 2000GT
No! Z432-R!
aaarrrghhhhh too many. Hypercars of the time I guess though.
What an anal facility. Feel bad for the guy who has to polish the floors to that standard. Impressive.
Just noticed that this uses the same instrumentation warning lights as a VW Passat.
A PASSAT!! HAHAHA. what a sucker.
The rolling shots are my favourite, the side-on one is great.
Might just be me, but I feel what makes speedhunters different to all the other motoring publications is the focus on the everyday enthusiast, with cars built or restored by the owners. That speaks to me a lot more than million dollar hypercars we don't even dare to dream of owning. The E92 M3, M6, McLaren, etc features just feel a bit boring, as every other motoring mag wants to cover the same stuff there.
The owner isn't the same guy who had the 962 is he?
Dino I can almost positively affirm that that motor is not from an Autech S15. Or any S15. S14 and S15 motors have a hump in the rear half of the rocker cover for the VCT stuff (as well as that weird little circular protrusion at the front which I'm not sure what it's for).
Autech SR20DE have a cherry red rocker cover too. I'm almost positive that it's a standard S13 sr20de rocker cover. Which means it'd be an S13 sr20de head, which means unless he's put the bad head on a good block, it's an s13 motor... ?
KA24 would have been a cool touch. Nice attention to detail though; looks like he's grafted USDM side indicators onto the rear. Cool little touch!
Derp, clearly left my brain a bit fried... I missed the next post....
Holy shit.
Just cleaning up a bit of my brains from the walls they've been exploded over.
I'm hoping for some damn good coverage of that orange Z432 behind the 2000gt, as well as those S30's wearing the Type B g-nose gear..
gguirhgrggrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmm
Was just not really digging some of the coverage lately. Just a personal thing really. Not too into the american scene or VW's (I know I know, speedhunters = diversity). But nothing gets me hooked like some good old fashioned kyusha rides. Spotlights my favorite! (think the liberty walk S30 was my favorite spotlight of..... ever?)
Nice one Dino. I was losing faith in speedhunters recently, this is sweet though.
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If anyone wants some names or sources to back that up i'll spend a while trying to find them..
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Pricing is about $30,000
When you consider an LY series crossflow motor (which is actually the most sought after, not the S20) would be literally impossible to buy, that's quite cheap. LY motor is super cool, if you could do an engine porn on one of the ~11 ever made you'd make my 2013.
Just for reference, one of the Z guys in Japan (mats- something, memory escapes me), had bought a complete LY motor ~30 years ago for $60,000 USD from a private racing team running them.
So this motor really is a bargain. You'd spend about that trying to make 340whp out of an L series.
Because this is the land of the internet and anything you say or do will be ridiculed by hundreds of shitty immature people that cut other people down to make themselves feel important.
Don't feed the trolls. Not even once.
Cool vid anyway. I can see Huxham's filming has improved quite a bit since RWB was coming out of the woodwork. Though some footage of it being drifted would have been nice I reckon.
even the bit at 3:50???
If it was all completely private property and filmed with the approval of the owner... well... I'm impressed/jelly that anyone can own that much delicious road.
And there's a time and place for it, 2am mid-week in a super low traffic area, and you'll be lucky to see a single soul. But if you do it during daytime through the 'burbs, that's plain dumb. Unfortunately it's the idiots who do the damage, and paint us all with the moron brush.
Bullshit that was an industrial area. You can't be that thick to actually believe it.
Street racing is dumb. Street drifting on the other hand, far, far less damage is likely to happen. You know the instant you're about to lose the drift and you either straighten out, or slowly spin out. Max speeds don't really reach more than 80k an hour.
Anyway 10/10 loved it.
oldtimer being '75 onwards? Should definitely be 68 onwards, I think that year pretty well defines when the 60's style started going out and 70's style was starting to come in.
I wonder what he does for a living.
Honestly, one of my favorite articles this year. Well done :)