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Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Oh contrare as Del Boy would say. I thought it was a lovely looking car.
I'll lend you my glasses. Googly eyed it was.
Oh contrare as Del Boy would say. I thought it was a lovely looking car.
Aye Scott next door has a Scoobie that has been played with (balanced lightened crank, match bored pistons, bigger intercooler/turbo/injectors) and remapped to just short of 400 bhp on pump fuel and a bit over on E85 that probably does about the same.I've a TVR cerbera that on a track will get down to 8mpg. Normal running 15 mpg.
I can relate to that. I’ve got a Maserati 3200gt. Last time on the dyno it showed 406bhp at the wheels. Normal driving around is in the mid-late teens. Took it to Bruntingthorpe a few years ago and managed 58 miles on half a tank (15 of which was getting to the track from the hotel).I've a TVR cerbera that on a track will get down to 8mpg. Normal running 15 mpg.
I have never driven anything that produced such little power from so much fuel.
We had a Rover 800 2 ltr, same scenario, big car, engine too small, heavy fuel consumption.I recall reading an article saying the smallest 2.0 engine in a Granada, because it had to pull a heavy car around, had similar efficiency to the 2.9V6.