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Engine and transmission are in AFAIK, ancilliaries such as AC and wiring still to go.

They will, but I might not live to see TWO of their projects finished!

Seeing all the interior going in is really starting to suggest that the end is in sight. Which would be a dreadful shame TBH.

I’ve not got huge experience with the 200s but I’d definitely recommend the Akra, having followed a 200 with one on the way to CSS one year. They sound fooking epic!

Fancy a real challenge? Try hotlapping the 'ring in a 2018 F1 car. HOLY f**k HOLY f**k HOLY f**k HOLY f**k waitwhat INSTANT DEATH. My fastest laptime is somewhere in the 6 minute region because I haven't made it around without dying painfully yet. (Car...

On some cars, but they really don’t suit the F40 IMO.

I watched that, such an epic car. But f**k me those pop-ups look so awful.

RWD is great when you have a track to play with. Love chucking the Mazda about and wouldn’t want to go FWD again in that regard. When it’s a cold greasy road on a Sunday morning though, I know what I’d rather have.

It’s still torque, it’s just offset. A power curve for this engine would look totally different. So the Honda starts in first and the YB starts in second? How is that a fair comparison. Nope, it’s still RPM. By selecting a higher gear it gives the same effect as having a higher revving but...

No, it is a torque plot, not a power plot. The lines do not have to touch to make the same power. The YB dyno you found is 50lbft down and revs about 1000rpm less, so you’ve had to use a bigger second gear ratio reduction. If you were using the dyno same figures as me you’d end up with the same...

Read the legend. Red and yellow are the same YB, the Blue is the honda. The ‘400bhp’ (it’s Lbft, not bhp) is the same engine in the next higher gear, superimposed onto the same graph (see above for how to do it) as the YB must make an upshift to reach the same roadspeed that the Honda achieves...

Feel free to explain how?

I did say that at the beginning. I have no doubt it’s a fantastic bit of engineering, 185bhp/litre for a N/A engine is great going. It’s just not as quick as most people are thinking when they hear 500bhp.

It's not as simple as 'they both have 500bhp therefore they will both be just as fast'. Peak figures are mostly meaningless but they do give us some information. The most important 'number' you can get from any dyno graph is to measure the area of the space under the torque curve - An engine...

The same point I've made since day 1. It's cool in its own little bubble of 'this is a lot of power for a nasp 2.7 litre 4 banger', but in terms of 'this is a 500bhp engine' it's pretty slow. Most other 500bhp engines are turbo/supercharged and will happily make 4-500lbft and will eat this...

Are you actually reading anything or just being simple? Who on earth is talking about comparing this 500bhp engine to a 350bhp one?

It’s Torque Vs RPM. Torque directly influences acceleration (f=ma). The YB has 500bhp, the Honda has 500bhp. The YB makes 500lbft, the honda makes 300lbft. As you can see, honda gets fooked by the YB, easily. And the same with most other boosted engines. If you don’t understand the data...

Oh rly. Here is a graph against a Cosworth YB. Peruse it at your leisure. (When the YB line is above the Honda one, it's accelerating faster. The Honda can hold the same gear for longer, but it doesn't matter because the YB simply shifts gear and f***s it a second time.) The honda dyno is...

You do realise I'm not talking about a 330d, don't you? Area under the graph is what makes an engine fast. Simply revving to the moon is not enough to make an engine perform like one which has far more torque. P.S. At 11000rpm, assuming it is even still making 500bhp at that point, it will be...

I think you're missing the point. It's an engineering achievement, but outside of its series it's pretty useless. 300lbft is very inconsequential when most other engines running that kind of power level are making 450-500lbft throughout the rev range.

Yeah, I assumed nobody would spend all that money just for fun, lol

297lbft. Less than a 330d. Probably would get walked by the average 400bhp boosted car. It's a cool build though! Would be great if you were only allowed to be naturally aspirated.

I did have a Mobius, but I've been after a dual setup for a while so I'm getting an Aukey DR-02 D. I just wish the back end wasn't so slanty. Flames less than a foot long aren't going to be in shot :(

My experience has been much the same. Cheaper than PSS too. Absolutely awesome tire.

Probably running T1Rs.

Part of me wishes I’d bought it when it turned up down here. But given that it’s the only one with nav you couldn’t really rip the interior out and track it.

Well it’s up for sale again. Did I mention the block is capable of 700bhp!?!

Yeah, but hosting it online is hit or miss whether it gets blocked.

Why not Autosolo it? You'd be able to do it without any modifications, power output matters very little and it's lots of fun for essentially very cheap motorsport.

Another winter arrives, and it's that time again. Let's see everybody's muddy motors. Mine's fairly tame so far but plenty of time to go.