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Postby Adoom » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:38 am

Check this out. Looks like it could be rapid but OMFG MOVE THE AIR FILTER!!!!!!!!
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 379432.htm
The engine is breathing air that has been preheated by the intercooler AND the radiator!!!! COME ON PEOPLE. He cant spell either.
Don't the commoners know that hot air is BAD!?

*looks outside*
Is it warm enough to go to the garage yet? I'm bored.
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Postby strap-on » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:15 pm

unfortunately in a car like that space is rather at a premium. It looks like he has done the best that he can, that being said it wouldn't have been that hard to put a panel on the passenger side above the guard and ducted that down
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Postby strx7 » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:17 pm

that thing would FLY
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Postby TRD_ZERO » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:31 pm

strap-on wrote:unfortunately in a car like that space is rather at a premium. It looks like he has done the best that he can


^I totaly agree and that thing is wicked.
Adoom you're being rather critical
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Postby Cahuna » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:38 pm

Great little cars, and Chevrons are one of the strongest of all the 7 replicas out there. My mate in the club has one that he has used for 20 years on gravel Hillclimbs, Autocrosses, Rallysprints and (I believe) even the odd rally. Rolled it into a tree once, yet there has never been even a hint of chassis weakness from it. Unlike other replicas (like the Frasers) which are aimed for the tarmac only. (And which is more than can be said for the boss's AW11...)

In my mates car he has the filter in front of the radiator, there is quite a bit of empty space there (and there looks to be on this car too), the only issue would be routing the intake pipe around the radiator.
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Postby nz_climber » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:03 pm

yeah they are a pretty cool little car! As for the air filter, there isn't much space, in those things, yeah there room in front of the radiator but no room to get the pipes around radiator (well in mine anyway) the best way would be a vent/duct in the bonnet. I have a 18RG in mine with twin carbs so the air filter just sits on them, and will put get around to making some sort of vent/duct to get cold air in. a hint if anyone looking to buy it, make sure you can get in, as they a pretty tight fit!
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Postby deaf_rattle » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:15 pm

i really dont think he would need the very small power increase you would get from moving the filter. that thing is badass and would easily beat rs legacies :lol:
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Postby Cahuna » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:26 pm

nz_climber wrote:a hint if anyone looking to buy it, make sure you can get in, as they a pretty tight fit!


Yeah. My mate offered me his one for sprints at Taupo one year, when I tried to get in all I succeded in doing was getting my left leg and butt-cheek in and reducing a bunch of grown men into tears of hysteria as they watched my vain attempts :oops:
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Postby Boosted_162 » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:31 pm

Anyone notice the catch-can is a garden hose off the cam cover into an old washer bottle :lol: :lol:
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Postby Emperor » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:07 pm

Boosted_162 wrote:Anyone notice the catch-can is a garden hose off the cam cover into an old washer bottle :lol: :lol:


why spend lots of money on blingy cans :P
my old rx7 just had a fuel hose into a old meths bottle, then upgraded.. to a pump bottle!! 8)
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Postby Adoom » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:29 pm

TRD_ZERO wrote:
strap-on wrote:unfortunately in a car like that space is rather at a premium. It looks like he has done the best that he can


^I totaly agree and that thing is wicked.
Adoom you're being rather critical


Isnt that why I'm here? To be critical..... I know everything. I'm awesome. Bask in my Awesomeness!!!!! Kidding.
I had a 7 replica for a while. I was going to buy it off the old man but yeh. I had the STARVIA, GO THE STARVIA!! OH YEH!!! and an Anglia as well. I just couldnt afford it so I gave it back after fixing it up so it was road legal again I owed him some of your human monies anyway.
I just recon that since most of the carby 7's have big as holes and filters sticking through the engine cover/bonnet..... Why didn't he do something like that. I don't mean just stick the pod out in the wind. That would look a bit rangi. Make something that looks 'like' the carby filter arrangement. You could even pretend it was NA then :P
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Postby AceSniper » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:37 pm

I think this is the one iv seen at meremere? not sure it was much like it (red and turbo) running low 13's I think... maybe even high 12's... it was quick was some time ago tho
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Postby Si » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:05 pm

I so want one of those things.
With a SR20DET.

nuff said.
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Postby Mr Revhead » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:37 pm

i helped my mates boss do some work on hie one, not a lot of room anywhere!!! :lol:

i got in it, sort of, butt wasnt touching the seat, i was wedged in! and my knuckles dragged the ground if i let my right arm drop :lol:
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Postby Adoom » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:42 pm

Si wrote:I so want one of those things.
With a SR20DET.

nuff said.


Of cause since I know everything...... I have actually measured both an SR20DE and a 7 replica....... The SR will stick a fair way above the top of the bonnet. Its a tall engine with all those cams n' things on the top there.
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Postby Si » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:53 pm

Of cause since I know everything



Google knows more, google tells me this:

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Postby Snoozin » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:56 pm

Pity it's a Chevron, one of the uglier 7 reps.

I'm a purist, so twin carbed 4 pot in a decent Lotus 7 S3 rep for me please. At the very outside, quad throttles will suffice.
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Postby AceSniper » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:55 pm

back in high school days we were building two of them in automotive, one was certed before I left, someone phoned the school saying there was a car doing skids on the field.... was just our small auto class learning to flick the back of it out :lol:
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Postby strap-on » Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:04 pm

Si wrote:I so want one of those things.
With a SR20DET.

nuff said.


gotta remember the chassis can only handle so much power.

I love these cars, as someone as said the chevron doesnt really earn much points for looks, Im a fan of the frasers
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Postby Mr Revhead » Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:40 pm

westfield! or caterham!
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