[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[janvanvurpa]

I f you mean I don´t know difference between twostroke and 4-T, I do. I just commented the sound and they actually sounds about the same (Corsa 1,0 4-T and Saab 2-T).
Btw back in the years I was starting my career as district rally driver I now and then did maintenance on the 2-T Saab Sport engine by taking it apart and mounting it together again. The engine didn´t work with any other sparkplugs but Champion UK16V btw. If any other there where a hole in piston right away...

Just joking Pelle, you know I spend 20 years on nice 2 strokes before I start seriously working on miserable cars....I just love the simplicity of two stroke and the wonderful fact that they fire---and make power---every single time the piston goes up......a good 2-t moto-cross bike by late 70s would make 33hp for 1/4 liter which would be 264hp from 2 liter---with just a single carb....no valves, no camshafts, no springs, no ECU, and with just cleaning the air filter--do that for a whole season and run like a clock...
40 years ago.. I think we'd all love to have that power and that reliability in the engine, clutch, and especially the gearbox----thousands of shifts at full throttle, no problems..

Cars are so complicated, so delicate, so insanely costly....so bad only a handful of people can afford to really piska djävlarna ordentligt....... I mean what does just a gearbox and axles cost from Sadev for a little Ford Fiesta FWD car? ca 100,000 kr or more... Who has money for that?