COUPE FREAK
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racing mb,,
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would be interesting on the road,is it road legal?
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heres another souped up car,, bit of a wolf in sheeps clothing,,
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twin turbo's,,
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guessed what car it is,,
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got it now,,
andy_k
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COUPE FREAK said:
that looks very much like the mossellman twin turbo on a 300 24 valve engine - so it's most likely a W124
Andy
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dont know if its a standard engine,, or owner mod,, but i bet it goes..
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W210 Fan said:
german ebay,,
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http://cgi.ebay.de/MERCEDES-RENNWAGEN-STUDIE_W0QQitemZ4601734760QQcategoryZ72649QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
ah yes
I dread to think how much that body work cost, I assume he had a "friend" who may have sourced it from the Sauber spares department.
ah yes
I dread to think how much that body work cost, I assume he had a "friend" who may have sourced it from the Sauber spares department.
W210 Fan
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looks a bit out of place on that car and wont be doing a lot because of the shape of the body work that preceeds it so the air that reaches it is not how the wing profile was designed. I can see that it is a high downforce wing due to the shape of the profile and the size of the endplates, my picture that is underneath has the low downforce wing as it is nearly flat and has small endplates. The wing on the german Ebay car has been set up for max grip/pressure/inverse lift and lower top speed. I am wondering what the engine is like. The car the body work was designed for was a 650BHP supercharged merc V8, the LeMans special in my pic was a 1500BHP+ (qualifying) and normally ran at 800BHP using a twin turbo 8.5 litre V8 that amazingly only shredded 1 gearbox during the 1989 race it ran at where it crushed all the opposition. The 1000K car (5 litre supercharged V8, used in 1000 kilometre races throughout the season) would top out at about 200MPH due to being geared to accelerate round short circuits like Silverstone, The full on Le Mans `special` would have long gearing and get to 250/270 during race/qualifying down the Mulsanne straight and was very much a mans car, its such a pity that the nanny state ****holes deemed that a 4 mile straight was too dangerous and made the ACO (people who own/run/organise the Lemans 24hour) cut it down with 2 chicanes, most of the old school drivers liked at as the cars where very stable at that speed on a road laid with a lazer and liked the rest for the minute it took to go down there (thats a mile in 15 seconds, or theoretically Ascot to Edinburgh in 1 3/4 hours not the 8 1/2 theaa.com just quoted) to check the dials and wipe the sweat off their brows. thats my rant over, I used to love that race
