Martyn mapped this!
16 February 2011, 07:22 PM
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Martyn mapped this!
No apologies for this, we know it isn't a Subaru, but if you're a car buff, you got to love it.
Fitted with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine 27 litres!
Martyn Mapped using Emerald management.
1000 rpm in top = 75 mph! The flap switch is a Spitfire starter button
The mag switches are from a Lancaster bomber, used here for ignition
The Jap stuff looks a bit pale!
Not run at full power yet, but we reckon up to 600 bhp and 800 lbs ft torque, without the blower.
The car is built by Bob Petersen, and is of amazing engineering quality.
I have no idea what it cost.
Fitted with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine 27 litres!
Martyn Mapped using Emerald management.
1000 rpm in top = 75 mph! The flap switch is a Spitfire starter button
The mag switches are from a Lancaster bomber, used here for ignition
The Jap stuff looks a bit pale!
Not run at full power yet, but we reckon up to 600 bhp and 800 lbs ft torque, without the blower.
The car is built by Bob Petersen, and is of amazing engineering quality.
I have no idea what it cost.
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16 February 2011, 07:52 PM
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just out of interest, how loud is it ?
assuming your still fiddling with it as you said its not at full power yet, can we have a youtube vid on the rollers so we can hear it ?
assuming your still fiddling with it as you said its not at full power yet, can we have a youtube vid on the rollers so we can hear it ?
16 February 2011, 07:59 PM
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16 February 2011, 09:28 PM
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Would be real lazy power but with more torque than you could ever want,i read a build where a chap put one of the meteor engines[also 27 litres] in a rover sd1 shell.
It would do over a 100mph in first
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-aC5...yer_detailpage
It would do over a 100mph in first
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-aC5...yer_detailpage
16 February 2011, 09:47 PM
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What a beautiful car, and a feat of engineering to boot! Lovely.
Reminds me of the Beast:-
http://www.evo.co.uk/videos/planetev...the_beast.html
Reminds me of the Beast:-
http://www.evo.co.uk/videos/planetev...the_beast.html
16 February 2011, 10:18 PM
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The guy who builds these does nothing else but work on cars like this. He only uses genuine classic Rolls Royce or Bentley chassis, and only uses the right kind of engines. The stuff he actually manufactures is amazing, like the brake calipers on this car, which are incorporated in alloy finned drum look alikes.
The plenum chamber is all fabricated alloy, and there are fabricated stainless parts all over it of superb quality. His customers are very rich men, who will only accept the best.
Another picture..
Martyn was mapping it sat in the back seat, while I was running it up on the dyno. We had to take a while to figure it all out, considering the size of the wheels, like huge, and the seriously strange gearing compared to normal. The actual exhaust note isn't that noisy, but everything else is!
The plenum chamber is all fabricated alloy, and there are fabricated stainless parts all over it of superb quality. His customers are very rich men, who will only accept the best.
Another picture..
Martyn was mapping it sat in the back seat, while I was running it up on the dyno. We had to take a while to figure it all out, considering the size of the wheels, like huge, and the seriously strange gearing compared to normal. The actual exhaust note isn't that noisy, but everything else is!
16 February 2011, 11:34 PM
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The blower case on the front is used as a dry sump tank! there's clever stuff like that all over it. On the front of the plenum is a huge single throttle body. Not only did they make the body itself, but the spindle and butterfly as well.
That filler cap on the radiator is hand made in stainless, and matches another one used as a fuel filler.
17 February 2011, 07:06 AM
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OMG
awesome car. i would have loved to have seen the road test on that.i can just imagine it,alan sat in front driving it,while martin was in back with the laptop both wearing goggles and power sliding it around every corner.
awesome car. i would have loved to have seen the road test on that.i can just imagine it,alan sat in front driving it,while martin was in back with the laptop both wearing goggles and power sliding it around every corner.
17 February 2011, 07:22 AM
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Is that one of the later Merlins? those must push over 1000bhp with the blower fitted 
Some info on the Merlins for those interested
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin
Tony
Some info on the Merlins for those interested
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin
Tony
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Thats awesome!! if i was to be critical about it the only thing i would say is its a shame you can see the modern electric fans in the front grill, other than that it looks so original..
17 February 2011, 07:58 AM
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Necessary evil I think, although the flash shows them up more than you'd see at first glance.