Who has the guts to climb into their own engine bay?

I'll let the pic and video do the talking



http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/13/great-moments-in-motorsports-adventures-in-throttle-cable-repla

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-Jason

So thats what a fire retardent suit is for!

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

Jeez that's commitment.

Manually operating the throttle?

This is what shoelaces are for!!

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

They probably didn't get MacGuyver like we did. I still want a 'What Would MacGuyver do' t-shirt.

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Grant Hughes

What you can't see are the two service guys in the trunk working the brakes and clutch with hand pumps.


I love crazy eurofreaks.

turoc Wrote:
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> So thats what a retard suit is for!

fixed for you

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-Mark
www.nocoastmotorsports.net

JohnLane Wrote:
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> Manually operating the throttle?
>
> This is what shoelaces are for!!
>
> JohnLane
>
> Overkill is consistently more fun

You're assuming he is smart enough to tie shoes...I'd bet on velcro shoe laces for this guy.

Reminds me of when Dale Beard broke the throttle cable on his Datsun at the Pacific Forest Rally in 1989. He just wired the throttle wide open and used the key to turn the engine on and off to slow down in the corners. Remember that, Gene? Crazy MF...

We always said Dale could break a sledge hammer in a sand box...He had one speed. flat out, win,break or crash. Something about those old MotoX rider, they're all a little "tetched"

LOL, now that is retarded....seriously wired it wide open? Wow....

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-Tom
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Tom, for kicks, go look up "Le Rhone" or "Gnome" or "rotary engine history" or something. They're old airplane rotaries - not the Wankel design that we know, more of a radial engine that spins around a crank that's bolted to the airframe. The prop was bolted to the engine case.

Anyway, they had little throttle control and mostly ran wide-open all the time. The main speed control was via "blipping" the engine by cutting the spark.


The whole thing sounds ridiculous when you think about it - a big mass of 7 to 9 cylinders spinning around throwing castor oil in your face and constantly trying to flip your puny little wood-and-paper plane over, and of which you only have the barest minimal control, but they were the hotrod engines of their day.

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Self-righteous douche canoe

So that's why they sounded like they were cutting out all the time!

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

hoche Wrote:
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> Tom, for kicks, go look up "Le Rhone" or "Gnome"
> or "rotary engine history" or something. They're
> old airplane rotaries - not the Wankel design that
> we know, more of a radial engine that spins around
> a crank that's bolted to the airframe. The prop
> was bolted to the engine case.
>
> Anyway, they had little throttle control and
> mostly ran wide-open all the time. The main speed
> control was via "blipping" the engine by cutting
> the spark.

> Little throttle control? There was no carb,thus no throttle,only full fuel flow-thus either on or off to control speed
>
> The whole thing sounds ridiculous when you think
> about it - a big mass of 7 to 9 cylinders spinning
> around throwing castor oil in your face and
> constantly trying to flip your puny little
> wood-and-cloth plane over, and of which you only
> have the barest minimal control, but they were the
> hotrod engines of their day.

Kinda brings new meaning to "torque-steer". I finally read a pilots memoir that confirmed the rumors about the effects of breathing all those castor-oil fumes. Yup,there's a reason pilots lept out of the cockpit at the conclusion of the flight.

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Bruce Beauvais
Too many SAABs to count

When I read the title I thought this thread was going to be more noise about rule changes and building a Galf with the motor in the back seat. Then the whole interior would be the engine bay.