Howard gentry wrote:
>
> >
> The Elva was a feather weight..But those pesky
> porsches were the very devil to beat.
> The 3 main bering engine was the picture of
> reliability, if balanced. Wish I had that Elva
> today..It rode like a buckboard, but it did shift!
>
>
We had someone drop an oil line and torch his new WRX battling with one
of those "pesky Porsches". It was spectacular watching him fly down the
straight spewing a jet-tail of burning oil (it took almost an hour to
clean up the mess on the track and I think the car is still being
rebuilt a year later).
Now as for reliability, this is why I have only done the minor (+040)
overbore and probably won't do much more to my engine block itself.
That hunk of (heavy) iron is as solid as a rock when others are melting
down around her.
So, there comes that point where the car changes from fast-street, to
street/track, to racecar. You said he drove the Elva on the street
(before 'flipping it' - ugh), but was it really a 'street' car?
I think I may not be getting to that 100hp (unless I supercharge it)
until I win the lottery and buy that extra special 'A of my dreams as a
daily driver!
--
Eric
'68MGB MkII
Adelaide, South Australia
"Nothing overshadows truth so completely as authority"
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