Car Tax

4A-GE covers like 5 generations of various engines it seems, including the "Blacktop" 20v with ITBs, 4A-GZE was the supercharged one.

99p start, no reserve, ending in 5 days, could get lucky? There's also one on the Fensport website from an AE86 for £85+VAT.

What about a VAG 1.4 turbo diesel? Keep both your cars sooty. Wasn't there a build of a 1.9 TDi Wiesel in Practical performance car?

The orange one I have mentioned before, that you knew what brand it was, that has an R1 engine and a sequential gearbox that has 6 forward gears, then you reverse, you flick a switch, and you have 6 reverse gears. The box it's self is well small! Just a little gold box with a stick and switch poking out :-)

I'm suddenly remembering a conversation where we were told under no un-certain terms to tell his mum he'd bought 'that one' (I knew the name at the time) as she was aware of the name = but only cos he had promised not to cos it was 'not that cheap'.

You can solve any problem if you throw a bucket of cash at it ;) But I can't even afford a bucket at the mo'. Any changes have to be cheap, my last engine change cost me nothing once I'd sold the crossflow to some daft southerner who paid over the odds then drove

200 miles in a Land Rover to pick it up, then home again :)

Probably a Quaife.

There have been others, but the Quaife is the most prolific. Around 900 quid plus Velocity Added Turbulance IIRC.

Your correspondent continues to work on a plan for a cheap alternative.

Hehe yea I didn't think about that before I started typing, which is a shame, cos then maybe I wouldn't have made like, 5 obvious S&G errors, as I'd have typed no more than "The orange kitcar I know has a reverse gearbox (6 speed each way), but I think it was big pennies"

Apologies :-) Originally I was just answering "bike engines sound like rabid chainsaws and have no reverse" - I just got a bit over excited hehe! It doesn't sound like a rabid chainsaw, more like 2000 sports bikes in one - but at Elvington it does have to use this extra huge silencer to get under the noise limit - and then it just sounds a bit weird, like a hyper farting duck or something.

Starter motor mounted on top of the diff driving the pinion with a chain and sprocket.

Not for me thank you.

They're generally rubbish.

My solution will involve the engine driving the car in reverse.

Just use the other engine? (c:

If I were to be bolting the other engine in, I would want both to drive frontways.

(Cackles insanely)

Mazda RX7 Turbo. And go for some straight through pipes too.

Spotted on an RX8 logbook that they're now listed as 2660cc, but on the MOT computer you can choose between that and 1300ish.

Bastards. How out of order is that?

Heh, as people are recommending stuff that's not light nor under 1550cc, how about a supercharged LS2 motor?

Keith Black 500ci lump running on methanol.

Anyone got a nice turboshaft motor lying around from a helicopter?

If it'll work in a bike...

The new ZR1 motor, is a supercharged all aluminium LS9, 638bhp and 604lbs/ft :-)