<—- Former 350f (with some 4oof parts) owner. Gawd what a nice bike.

I worked for TVR of America from 85-89. Every 280i that came in the country went thru my hands. I saw graffiti on the bottom of a few cars. (nothing nasty- more like “Hey Fat Bob-don’t forget this bolt! or a cartoon. ) If something was put on under the carpet somewheres it wouldn’t suprise me at all.

And then theres that little matter of where to fit a couple of 5000 gallon tanks....

Its not like its worth that today and won’t be worth shit tomorrow. The offer still will stand (and keep getting better) the longer he waits. My attitude about work would be good too if I knew the day I called it quits, I’d be rich.

A buddy of mine-who was a good mechanic- was going to school as an engineer. He came into the shop one day after class looking flustered. “whats wrong?’ “THEY ARE SUCKING THE COMMON SENSE OUT OF MY BRAIN!”

I’m positive the builder was an engineer. It shows all the signs. He had an idea. And because he was an engineer, at no point in time could you say to yourself “no that won’t work-lets try something different.” So a bad idea its just worked out in a weird tangent until it meets the design parameter. The original…

Raising shift points? Raising rev limiter?

There’s no lobbyists selling permission.

Bent pushrod?

Forever. They don’t print that quick. I’m guessing the cam gear is a couple of hours. ( We have one at work. All the boss has made is silly little trinkets.)

Guess I wasn’t the only one to think of this.

Yes. As of 3 years ago. A bad accident with a rally class car where the nav. was almost ejected. (Bad cage design/ seat mount.) But PPIHC decided to limit the number of people at risk by just making all classes driver only.

A guy I know bought the special tools that a Porsche dealership had to buy to be a service center on the Carrera GT. I seem to remember the cost to the dealer was like $140 —THOUSAND!

Don’t get me wrong-I’m not knocking the accomplishments or skills of either driver. Its a matter of what you are trained to be best at. In general, rally skills are a lot closer to what you want for hillclimbing than road racing. Road racers are trained to be “slow in fast out”-smooth-steady over a long run.…

Also one is a rally driver used to being able to take every corner-known or unknown-at a rapid pace. The other is a closed course racer used to learning a few corners and being able to honing them to get them exactly right.

Awesome car-very talented driver. But you can tell hes driving line of sight. 150 turns is a lot to learn in a short time.

You’re right. That thing has “Who framed Roger Rabbit” all over it.

These were better plow trucks than play 4wd’s. The v-8 weighed 750 lbs!. As I read somewheres “ The weight on a big block with the torque of a 6 cylinder.”

The problem is how many overlapping layers of shit you have to remove to get to the wires....

I got to ride in one The best description I could give is—go on Craigslist. Find the best riding mower you can buy for $100. Get it running-dump a quart of oil in the gas tank. (even though its a 4 stroke) For the smoke effect.