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Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Dustman on June 04, 2005, 20:50:17
While searching he net for technical answer for my Disco.. look what I came up with!

(http://www.jordanrover-tech.com.au/images/pic_002.jpg)

here are some more pics.. http://www.jordanrover-tech.com.au/gallery.cfm
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: robbie on June 04, 2005, 20:51:59
Smokin'!!!!!!  :twisted:
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: datalas on June 04, 2005, 20:55:38
reminds me of the launch of the discovery

Big curtain around the middle of the room, everyone is chatting, it goes quiet, smoke billows out from under the curtain for dramatic emphesis..

and dad says, in a volume where everyone can hear him "it's a deisel then"
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Xtremeteam on June 04, 2005, 20:57:29
last time i did that it ended with a PING & a loss of drive :oops:  :oops:
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Andy. on June 04, 2005, 21:13:46
Quote from: "datalas"
reminds me of the launch of the discovery

Big curtain around the middle of the room, everyone is chatting, it goes quiet, smoke billows out from under the curtain for dramatic emphesis..

and dad says, in a volume where everyone can hear him "it's a deisel then"


 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Like it  :D
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Jake on June 04, 2005, 22:09:05
(in the style of Jim Carrey)
SMOKING
blimey!!
 :D
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on June 04, 2005, 23:10:49
That's the supercharged Aussie.

I think it's running (from memory) about a 5.0litre.
In that pic, it's got the front prop-shaft removed.

It was in 'LRW'(?) a few years ago
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Andy the Landy on June 04, 2005, 23:14:35
Thats one hell of an SD1 in the pics :D
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Manicminer on June 04, 2005, 23:25:49
Quote from: "Andy the Landy"
Thats one hell of an SD1 in the pics :D


I had one up to about 10 years ago. The engine was modified/improved to burn all the fuel thrown into it etc,etc.
It used to pull 120 mph in 3rd gear , 160 mph was the most I had out of it(ran out of straight road - not many of them around here).
0 - 60 in 4 seconds, 0 - 100 in 6 seconds.

It had a flat front and a rear spoiler.

Good old days.
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Andy the Landy on June 04, 2005, 23:45:13
Quote from: "M Thomas"
Quote from: "Andy the Landy"
Thats one hell of an SD1 in the pics :D


I had one up to about 10 years ago. The engine was modified/improved to burn all the fuel thrown into it etc,etc.
It used to pull 120 mph in 3rd gear , 160 mph was the most I had out of it(ran out of straight road - not many of them around here).
0 - 60 in 4 seconds, 0 - 100 in 6 seconds.

It had a flat front and a rear spoiler.

Good old days.
Got any pics [-o<  - the SD1 was one of the big cars I didnt own in my youth and wished I had - would have one now if I had somewhere to keep it :wink:
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on June 04, 2005, 23:55:49
Quote from: "Andy the Landy"


 Got any pics


Beat me to it :D

Sounds a bit like that RPi (http://www.v8engines.com/) SD1 that was at Billing a few years ago, after Clarkson had it in one of his  videos (http://www.v8engines.com/projects-033-clarkson.htm) (against V B-H in a  Nova)
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Xtremeteam on June 04, 2005, 23:59:26
i liked the nova more when they went head to head,got a mate who's called stig from up the road with a red sr nova with the redtop twin cam init & if no 1 told you it was a 2 litre u wouldnt no,its totally standard from the outside,just vauxhall wheels n a small exhaust
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: muky-kid. on June 05, 2005, 02:22:58
Quote from: "M Thomas"
Quote from: "Andy the Landy"
Thats one hell of an SD1 in the pics :D


I had one up to about 10 years ago. The engine was modified/improved to burn all the fuel thrown into it etc,etc.
It used to pull 120 mph in 3rd gear , 160 mph was the most I had out of it(ran out of straight road - not many of them around here).
0 - 60 in 4 seconds, 0 - 100 in 6 seconds.

It had a flat front and a rear spoiler.

Good old days.


Yep i had one it was a Vitesse 3.5 V8 manual, awesome burn outs and your right would do over 100 in 3rd  :shock:  never did get it flat out, a bit too big and wobbly to handle round bends and no road long enough....  :lol:
OH they were the days... petrol 32 pence for a litre of 4 star  :D
remember 4 star+ with high octane addatives.. great stuff. They wouldnt allow it now, or would they  :wink:

These days ide love to have the Lotus Carlton, now that is a beast.  8)
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: Manicminer on June 05, 2005, 09:34:40
Quote from: "Andy the Landy"
Got any pics


Sadly not  :cry:  :cry:

It started off as an X reg SE  3.5 V8.

A bloke down the road had it and spent and unknown amount of money on 'improvements'.
It had a £2000+ German suspension system , large chrome effect alloy wheels, the flat front, built in twin headlamps, rear spoiler, smoked polarised glass all around and the biggest meanest 5.0L Twin Turbo under the hood.
It was awsome.
He also ran an older SD1 for racing.

To cut a long story short he ran out of money and sold the 5.0L engine to someone from Scotland. I happened to be in the right place at the right time and offered him a stupid low price for the rest of it, and could he throw in the engine from the racer.
I was basically told to remove myself from the vicinity :lol:

He 'phoned me towards the end of the week and accepted the offer :wink:
The 'racing' engine had been balanced, ported, bigger inlet and outlet manifolds, custom exhaust, the carbs had been balanced and it was running with K&N filters on each side.
What a sound. You would have waggon drivers hanging out of the window wanting to know what was roaring up behind them, car drivers in front would panic and pull over and let you pass.

Some t***** in a transit van drove into the side of it in a carpark (my motor was the only one there) and bent it. On the plus side the insurance payment was for more than I spent on it :wink:
Title: Light'em UP!
Post by: lowey on June 05, 2005, 12:46:57
Quote from: "robbie"
Smokin'!!!!!!  :twisted:


Its probably Clarkson tryin to hide from a Challenger tank. :lol:
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