For an old thing it can shift!

A mate of mine owned a Mk2 Cortina Savage, which was a pretty standard, rusting, dowdy looking 2 door saloon car with a Burton tuned Capri 3 litre GT motor and gearbox. It didn't even run flash wheels, just slightly wider steel ones from a Lotus Cortina with chrome hubcaps.

That car was bat-sheet mental.

Originally Posted by Bibio

i had a lada riva complete with rust and dented door with a tuned 1300 engine, high lift cams, webers yada yada

Another mate Gus, who is now the sales manager at Bill Smith Suzuki in Bangor N.Wales, owned a Lada Riva with a 2 litre Fiat Mirafiori twin-cam in it.

He also fitted what we called 'smoke injection'. This was an old Austin Metro washer bottle and pump which was plumbed into the exhaust manifold. You filled the bottle with waste engine oil and when you hit the pump switch it squirted neat oil into the exhaust which created a massive smoke screen out the back of the car. We used to use it give our mates on bikes a bit of a chance of leaving the police for dead as we left Chelsea Bridge or Heston services on a Friday night.

Originally Posted by savage86

Yeah but if you weren't into cars you'd be like wtf! It is my mission to own a sleeper car some day some old rust bucket with a big 2.5 turbo lump or the like.

HAHA! I know what you mean, I've got a rusty old heap with a 2.5 V6 lump in it and I get some funny looks when I drop the hammer!

Originally Posted by Joe Marcon

Yes that is a fast car!

Maybe but you would have had it beat

I once had a 3ltr v6, unfortunately it was in a shogun lol bloody nice motor.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVWMuoVn1s4

I do rather want one of these...

if someone nicked it you could follow the black smoke line up the road

Originally Posted by davepreston

my bro had a nissan micra 1 litre sport
which he then dropped a sunny gtir engine in
feck me that thing went

My cousin is selling a r1 engined micra on ebay . Check it out

Originally Posted by Joe Marcon

My cousin is selling a r1 engined micra on ebay . Check it out

Link?

Originally Posted by Thunderace

Link?

Type r1 micra . I dont get what hes selling . Just frame and engine i think

[Mark_h]

When I was a lad (a few years back) my Mum had a firenza which was a slightly hot Vauxhal Viva but then for a while we have a Chevette HS ( I think it was an HS) anyhow it was a Chevette which was sort of the Micra of it's day with a 2.3 engine in it. However being the 70's all they did was stick in a bigger engine! Still had pretty much the same suspension, brakes and tartan interior. It was mental! We had a race-tuned imp engined husky too.

It's a wonder I made it through childhood.