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Rat'l Trap
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That is two different MR2s. The last pic is an earlier gen car than the other pics. That means there are more than one person out there who are...."not firing on their full compliment of cylinders..." 
joukaishou813924
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that could be or they have entered the same car several times and used whatever body panels they could get their hands on.
BigIrish
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Looks like the last one is trying to mock the first. No way that is actually a functional engine.
cycledog
A really rusty biker
Maybe Doc Brown is developing some new Mr. Fusion. Was there a Flux Capacitor in the back seat?
joukaishou813924
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they made it 1-2 laps round a track before they had chain drive issues
sneakysnake
"There’s nothing new in originality"
The last pic looks like would cause cooling issues.
sgtpontiac
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Gotta be two different cars.... last pic anyway..
The first photo looks like a totally different vehicle as does the last...[S
The first photo looks like a totally different vehicle as does the last...[S
nefareous
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MR2 Radial
If you go to the 24 hour of lemons website, the wacky, Ripened LeMon started his thread on 5/16/2010...the day he picked up the radial and did not have a clew what it was going into. The thread is now about 34 pages long ! There is a video link to the car running in the rain see the following.... YouTube Radial MR2 Gingerman
If you go to the 24 hour of lemons website, the wacky, Ripened LeMon started his thread on 5/16/2010...the day he picked up the radial and did not have a clew what it was going into. The thread is now about 34 pages long ! There is a video link to the car running in the rain see the following.... YouTube Radial MR2 Gingerman
yeah, those are both mine.
here's a picture that explains it a bit better:
the front car is mocked up (as well as we could in a few hours) to look like the real one. it was it's maiden voyage so we wanted a backup. the front one has a 2010 camry 4 cylinder in it. so there's 72 years between the production dates on both engines.
The motor runs like a top, it feels like you're strapped into an industrial paint shaker full of bolts. perhaps solid mounting a 540 cubic inch radial motor in a car wasn't the brightest idea I've ever had.
there was a relatively major break after 1 lap at the track. it's not the kind of thing that should have been noticed at the track, but i ran out of time. the whole car was built in about 3.5 months. i'm getting rid of the chain assembly for the next time out.
here it is on the 2nd firing up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc5BbgwpV4Y
the tune was so awfull there that it could not rev to it's red-line without a load at full throttle. best it could do was about 1700RPMs (redline is 1875)
and here is evidence that it made it to the race track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWlx-rZxmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWtFJ-W8X0
anyways, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
and yes, i do have the intention to put plates on this thing and drive it around town a bit.
here's a picture that explains it a bit better:
the front car is mocked up (as well as we could in a few hours) to look like the real one. it was it's maiden voyage so we wanted a backup. the front one has a 2010 camry 4 cylinder in it. so there's 72 years between the production dates on both engines.
The motor runs like a top, it feels like you're strapped into an industrial paint shaker full of bolts. perhaps solid mounting a 540 cubic inch radial motor in a car wasn't the brightest idea I've ever had.
there was a relatively major break after 1 lap at the track. it's not the kind of thing that should have been noticed at the track, but i ran out of time. the whole car was built in about 3.5 months. i'm getting rid of the chain assembly for the next time out.
here it is on the 2nd firing up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc5BbgwpV4Y
the tune was so awfull there that it could not rev to it's red-line without a load at full throttle. best it could do was about 1700RPMs (redline is 1875)
and here is evidence that it made it to the race track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWlx-rZxmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWtFJ-W8X0
anyways, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
and yes, i do have the intention to put plates on this thing and drive it around town a bit.
joukaishou813924
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I am very impressed good sir you are a creative person
King Herald
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Anybody who builds anything like this deserves a big pat on the back from me. [cl [dr
I love this sort of thing, and I'd be building something like it too if I had a source of a decent motor. I like big V's, but a radial is a series of V's too.
There's a guy in Poland (I think) who put one in the back of some small car, built his own gearbox and everything.
Anybody who builds anything like this deserves a big pat on the back from me. [cl [dr
I love this sort of thing, and I'd be building something like it too if I had a source of a decent motor. I like big V's, but a radial is a series of V's too.
There's a guy in Poland (I think) who put one in the back of some small car, built his own gearbox and everything.
yeah, he was my inspiration. if you search youtube for goggomobil radial you'll find them
using an MR2 to put this in was a bit of a surprise to me i was expecting old american iron to have a much bigger engine bay, but the 2nd gen MR2 had the biggest engine bay i could find. keep in mind that width between the rails was a big factor. the motor is 43" in diameter.
old V's are neat also but it's hard to beat the look and sound of a big displacement radial engine.
