Project Car / Motorbike thread. Let's see 'em.

AaronM

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It’s 60mm on the 2.3L Duratecs (Mondeo, Escape and The Mazda SP23/Mazda6), 55mm stock on a 2.0L. ChinaBay throttle bodies are cheap, and when the electronics ends up not being as smooth swapping the internals of the genuine article works fine.

I’ve spent some time around Duratecs so that made the XR4 a sort of logical thing for me. Although dealing with one in its natural habitat is a bit strange :)
 

Haakon

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Just met a bloke with a 1970 Mercedes 280 sedan - with an LS3 with Whipple, VY Commode rear end, XF Falcon front end, lots of Willwoods and big wheels. Complete sacrilege on so many levels but looked like fun.
 

AaronM

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Quite true. China has the domestic market volume to be able to throw hundreds of iterative improvements in EV design and build in incredibly short cycles.

Nice to see the “comfort” level improved to a level that suits the range.

The day we can do a CBR-SYD return trip without recharge and not making concessions to comfort or cruising speed/AC and headlight use will be probably the yardstick of “an EV that is useable as an only car for many people”. That’s tantalisingly close right now.
 
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