Car and Driver magazine did a twin-engined Honda CRX as a project street car several years ago, and acknowledged the Twini as an inspiration. Stephen --- On Fri, 4/3/09, joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote: From: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET> Subject: Re: NVC: Monster Lupo To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 3:08 AM > This bloke in Croatia replaced the 1.3L motor with a 24 valve VR6. > And then cut the floor out of the rear and plugged in another 24V > VR6. ha!! The Spirit still lives!! ;) 40-odd (and some of them were very odd!) years ago, John Cooper, of Mini-Cooper fame, did the same thing to a Mini. :) http://www.mibv.com/Mini/Misc/TwiniMini/index.htm the funny thing was, it did very well in the races, as i recall ... it was able to do about 100 mph ... through the curves!! as it was four-wheel drive. all the corvettes and ferarris and porsches would be downshifting like crazy to get through the curves at Daytona (the road course), and the little mini just went buzzing past them in the curves. :) of course, on the straights, all the performance marques just zoomed past the little thing ... and then promptly got passed again in the next series of curves. ;) it was hilarious. all the big cars were shifting up and down and going vrooooom-vroooom-vrooom .... and here was this little tiny car just going rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr all around the track. aw, well ... it was a hoot. :) unca joel |
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