specials - Page 2

ss_collins · 4 Jan 2003, 14:07 (Ref:463537)

Its a big game of hunt the car!

ss_collins · 4 Jan 2003, 14:22 (Ref:463549)

I've just e-mailed terry briggs about the audi

ss_collins · 8 Jan 2003, 16:53 (Ref:467480)

I have been to see terry briggs Audi TT - lovely little beastie, got some nice pictures of it in the snow, I'll post some here at some point. Its for sale by the way if you want a potent bit of kit and you have 12 grand spare.
Any more suggestions? and does anybody know how to get in contact with Andy Burton?

egor · 9 Jan 2003, 13:12 (Ref:468417)

Jon Burn has a Metro 6R4 thats been played with quite a bit. The main change is that he has lenghtend the wheel base by about 7 inches so it is near to the wheel base of an Escort Cosworth.

SS have a look on his website at
www.absoluterallying.co.uk

ss_collins · 9 Jan 2003, 14:28 (Ref:468479)

nice but is it really a special??? I'm sceptical - I turned down ali serpens 6r4, you got convince me - guys is it a special??

egor · 9 Jan 2003, 15:10 (Ref:468505)

Yes I think Jon Burns is special, I may be wrong but I don't think any other Metro 6R4 has had a 7 inch piece added to the middle of the car(plenty have been shortened though

).

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I was at longcross in september for my clubs rally, there was a toyota starlet cosworth there does anyone know more about this car?

Its a bit more special than the Starlet(if it's just the engine), there's plenty of cars fitted with a none standard engine, a common one is fitting a 2.0L Vauxhall 16V engine into Mk2 Escorts.

ss_collins · 9 Jan 2003, 16:48 (Ref:468587)

the starlet was just mad totally different car - hmm. I need a bit more convincing - he has a very nice website though.

SJ Spode · 9 Jan 2003, 17:07 (Ref:468606)

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Originally posted by ss_collins
nice but is it really a special??? I'm sceptical - I turned down ali serpens 6r4, you got convince me - guys is it a special??

I agree with egor. The bodywork mods make it significantly different to the usual 6R4, and so worthy of inclusion; even if just to show a move against conventional rally wisdom (ie; Audi shortening the wheelbase on the Quattros & the success of the 206WRC with a shorter wheelbase than competitor cars).

ss_collins · 9 Jan 2003, 17:41 (Ref:468627)

go on then.

egor · 10 Jan 2003, 08:09 (Ref:469236)

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go on then.

Little bit of arm twisting gets a long way

ss_collins · 10 Jan 2003, 20:35 (Ref:470593)

it does, more cars!!

cybersdorf · 10 Jan 2003, 23:52 (Ref:470790)

Speaking of the Dakar, remember the 6R4-based special Ted Toleman took to the desert?

ss_collins · 11 Jan 2003, 15:07 (Ref:471170)

nope but go on.

ss_collins · 14 Jan 2003, 17:00 (Ref:474100)

Gone a bit quiet guys.

KA · 18 Jan 2003, 11:12 (Ref:478067)

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Originally posted by cybersdorf
Speaking of the Dakar, remember the 6R4-based special Ted Toleman took to the desert?

stretched wheelbase, powered by a Rover V8, and used a lot of Ford RS200 bits in the suspension as I recall- that would certainly have to count as a special

Someone also put a Rover V8 in a 6R4 for club rallying in the UK at one point (ironic, given that the original prototypes used a V6 cut down from the V8....)

imull · 18 Jan 2003, 22:13 (Ref:478481)

There was a bloke who had a twin engined car. I think it was a Scirocco. This was raced sucessfully for a few years. The rear engine was an Auto and the front engine was a manual

ss_collins · 18 Jan 2003, 22:32 (Ref:478500)

how did that work then? do you know who it was?

mickj · 20 Jan 2003, 02:07 (Ref:479614)

Re the Twin engined Scirocco, was the driver Tim Brise, Tony Brise's brother?.

Tattoo · 20 Jan 2003, 10:34 (Ref:479797)

If i remember correctly the Sirroco was driven by Kim Mather, and i believe the rear engine was turbo, front engine normally aspirated.

I saw at at an event i was servicing on, must be at least ten years ago, never heard what happened to it.

KA · 20 Jan 2003, 11:27 (Ref:479835)

Quote:

Originally posted by Tattoo
If i remember correctly the Sirroco was driven by Kim Mather, and i believe the rear engine was turbo, front engine normally aspirated.

I saw at at an event i was servicing on, must be at least ten years ago, never heard what happened to it.

That's the one

mickj · 21 Jan 2003, 02:05 (Ref:480718)

Tattoo you are right,it was Kim Mather. mickj

ss_collins · 21 Jan 2003, 02:11 (Ref:480720)

http://www.knights19.freeserve.co.uk/Before.htm

so there twin dub.

BrendanMcF · 15 Feb 2010, 15:39 (Ref:2633834)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tattoo

If i remember correctly the Sirroco was driven by Kim Mather, and i believe the rear engine was turbo, front engine normally aspirated.

I saw at at an event i was servicing on, must be at least ten years ago, never heard what happened to it.

Excuse me for resurrecting such an old thread, but I did an article on Kim's twin engined Scirocco for Triple C magazine in 1986. The engines were not turbocharged, but had superchargers (both engines giving about 180hp each) and was probably the scariest car I ever sat in...

What was marvellous about Kim's creation was he managed to overcome a lot of the problems that the VW factory team, who built a Jetta on the same principles, were never able to solve. That he built it in his own, modest garage from salvaged cars was a triumph.

He competed in rallies and the Rally Race Car series (?) with quite some success, not sure what happened to it afterwards.

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