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Post by cyf on Dec 12, 2015 15:28:08 GMT
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Dec 12, 2015 16:07:52 GMT
An interesting little car Cyf with a two stroke engine which from memory used to rev and smoke a lot  |
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Post by cyf on Dec 12, 2015 19:17:04 GMT
Yes a nice blue smoke, the kind I don't want to see coming out of my P5 tail pipe!
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Dec 12, 2015 19:21:19 GMT
Yes a nice blue smoke, the kind I don't want to see coming out of my P5 tail pipe! Neither do I Cyrille  |
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Post by Phil Nottingham on Dec 13, 2015 6:41:58 GMT
They were good cars well equipped for their day, fast and had a separate chassis could be bought new in the mid 60's for around £500 incl PT. Same two-stroke engine and freewheel as the Auto Unions and DKW's I once had (even fitted a Wartburg engine into one) The SAAB also had the same engine
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Post by cyf on Dec 13, 2015 20:35:16 GMT
SAABs had two stroke engines?
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Dec 13, 2015 21:06:56 GMT
SAABs had two stroke engines? Yes they did Cyrille I am sure our SAAB guru David will say which one and when  |
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Post by Warwick on Dec 14, 2015 5:15:45 GMT
The rally winning Saabs of the 1960s were 2-stroke.
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Post by Phil Nottingham on Dec 15, 2015 18:53:46 GMT
Superior to the Ford V4 in all respects apart from cost
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Post by barryr on Dec 15, 2015 23:48:04 GMT
That old v4 was a terrible engine. When I was a lad my parents had one in a Corsair. It went like a missile but was never smooth! My friend had a mk1 Capri Xlr with same engine.
Interesting anecdote no 1. The Capri was 2 tone and had rally bits like a map light as standard. It was used as the car Jacko drove in the TV series brush strokes.
Interesting anecdote 2. My mate Alan bought it off a Mr Alcock. Alan's surname is Bottoms which we always felt would make an interesting solicitors practice name !,
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Post by Warwick on Dec 16, 2015 0:08:12 GMT
V4 is a difficult configuration to balance.
Off at a bit of a tangent ...
A neighbour is constructing a Briggs & Stratton V8 using 4 V-twins, to put in a ride-on mower. Just for fun.
They are interconnected in such a way as to get the typical V8 firing order, so that it sounds right.
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