Ooooo - yes please!!

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Re: Ooooo - yes please!!

Post by mouseflakes » Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:33 pm

How about a Mazda rotary engine?

Though - looking at some photos, they look rather tall.

How did the GS Birotor behave? might be worth looking at one (find one first!) to see how the rad as fitted (I'm assuming they were water-cooled)?
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Re: Ooooo - yes please!!

Post by jorgy » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:15 pm

How about making your life seasier AND get to keeping the fab Citroen flat-4 ? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exo1PbuvNvs

So that you can devote all your time in trying to adapt larger disk brakes...

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Re: Ooooo - yes please!!

Post by andmcit » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:48 pm

I've seen this before and I like it!! :twisted:

The G engine sounds like a turbine anyway before Magasquirt/Turbo.
The comments on his other YouTube files mention a doubling of bhp.

It certainly goes very well and the standard brakes are huge so I'd expect
they'd manage - vented are no good on inboard disks!!!

Rhd, so could be someone in the UK I need to talk to! Other clips show greenlaning
in Dorset...

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Re: Ooooo - yes please!!

Post by Dieselman » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:58 pm

robert_e_smart wrote:I'd love to try a GS out, but it looks too small. And the CX doesn't have the biggest amount of interior space either!
Robert, You'd have no problem fitting in. I'm 6'4" and learnt to drive in a Gs and Gsa. They were fantastic cars for their day, so smooth and vibration free. At idle passengers used to think the engine had stalled..
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