Re: Why do all the ricers love the Honda Civic?

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:57:14 -0500, "WindsorFox[SS]" ran around screaming and yelling:

well, thats an ignorant reply....

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....lots of go fast goodies for the ford2.3 and german 2.0 engine... JT

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Joey Tribiani
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On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 15:00:42 -0500, "WindsorFox[SS]" ran around screaming and yelling:

keywords being "VW of late"....the latest aircooled vw imported into the US was in 1979....although we refer to 67-79 as "late models"...

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Joey Tribiani

Who besides VW & Porsche (unless you mean the quantity of engines & not manufacturers)?

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Vince McGowan

Google is your friend. Without doing any searching, I can name Fiat for example, as one of the more famous ones. Then there's Citroen, Tatra, and a number of diesel engines and lesser known makes that no longer exist. Plus a bunch of airplane engines, Lycoming and whatnot. So very much is possible, if you have the will, the time, and happen to own a machine shop.

I don't know what parts were used, even VW's own cylinders could be bored considerably larger. Today nobody bothers to have them bored, because aftermarket parts are available that are larger to begin with. Stock 1500 and 1600 engines could be bored out to 1700, and same applies to 1300 as long as youi machine the head opening larger too. From 1300 to 1700, and throw in a custom made cam with insane duration, and lots of manual headwork, and aggressive lightening of all moving or rotating parts.

Today the race class rules limit induction and displacement, engines in a beetlöe cannot be larger than 1649cc. These pump out 150hp and more today. Still very few aftermarket parts are used, due to class rules forcing you to sell the car at a fixed price. (Not nearly as much as it costs to build a winning engine).

Jan

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Jan Andersson

Well now Mark. I can only speak for the ACVW group, but we don't need no high powered overpowered high torque monstered motors to be cool or pick up chicks with. The girls all know that we ACVW's are extremely thorough and careful and pay very special attention to all the "little details" that are the most important to keeping a fine classic car going. They also know that we do the same for them donchaknow......*8-}

-- the Grokdoc Tom Malmevik all that groks is god

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Thomas Malmevik

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aircooled VW racing....

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...Gareth

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Gary Tateosian

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ilambert

On the EVO 8 the rear spoiler uses carbon fiber-reinforced plastic for both the horizontal and vertical components. This means it's VERY strong. It was also moved moved 58mm rearward from the EVO 7 spoiler position into an area where the airstream is faster, producing 1.7 times more downforce. If the spoiler was just for show then why would they bother? They'd just stick a huge plastic POS spoiler on the back like a ricer does. It'd certainly be cheaper.

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Sven

How is it attached to the frame?

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TCS

In the early 70's, the super Bees ran at daytona with the rear wings not attached to the cars frame.

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Dennis Wik

But 30 years ago you were not running 6 second 1/4 miles with the same engine. If there were no interest in hot rodding that engine it would not have gotten that far and nothing would have come of it. Just like the Civic. 130 HP in 1974 from a modified 4 cylinder compared to 600+ HP from a V8.

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WindsorFox[SS]

No it is a well informed reply. I have seen with my own eyes an air cooled VW flat 4 powered vehicle run in the 8's at a local drag strip. How many 2.3 Fords have you seen or heard of doing the same thing?

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WindsorFox[SS]

ROFL. That question brings to mind a Mitsu with a HUGE tall wing like the Daytona, so the trunk lid can open. The difference of course from the ricer being that the wing tall enough for the trunk to open would be ON the trunk...

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WindsorFox[SS]

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ilambert

Indeed it is.

Diesels, airplane engines??? We're discussing souping up cars.

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Vince McGowan

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:29:50 GMT, Vince McGowan ran around screaming and yelling:

to be more specific Jan was talking about souping up aircooled VW's by using parts sourced from other vehicles...and *adapting* them for the acvw....so aircooled diesels and aircooled airplane engines(which was an answer to your previous question of who other than vw or porsche had aircooled engines 30 years ago) are very much a source for parts to "work" with our little engines... JT

Reply to
Joey Tribiani

Are they!! Learn something new (almost) every day.

What kinds of parts from an air cooled aircraft engine can you use on an air cooled VW engine?

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Vince McGowan

It doesn't need to be.

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Sven

You are not following the lesson. These are only used as parts sources. Creativity still existed 30 years ago. Now all we have is copycats. :)

Jan

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Jan

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