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The (ex) company yacht had a clear fuel return line that ran vertically alongside the fuel tank and connected to a fitting at the bottom. The fuel level could then be checked even with ignition off. A simple, safe and cheap solution but not very useful when the engine is running. A second...

Hi Keith. There is no doubt that your rule is correct in the vast majority of cases but I don’t believe that it quite applies in the case of the RF40. As my car stands now in road trim, the top of the front arch does sit just on (if not under) the top edge of the tyre. The top of the rear arch...

Ross, RL’s original car was a Tornado and it was more-or-less the same colour scheme as this. If I remember correctly, RL’s main motivation for selling the car overseas was to avoid customer/product confusion between the RFs and his Tornado. The significance of this colour scheme is that it...

I would go a step further and suggest that, not only are the Pollies immorally using the road toll to raise revenue, but it seems that they have no interest in reducing the road toll at all. That would result in killing the cash cow. A government report was recently released showing how a...

Jack, far from looking unprofessional, I think that the exposed screw look is quite desirable. If you look at the headlight surrounds of the earlier Pagani Zonda you'll find that they agree with me too. You’ll also find them surrounding the fuel filler of the Elise and Audi TT, the Merc SLK...

Michael Schumacher is now, it seems, a movie star. In his movie debut, he is the voice of a car named "Ferrari" in the new animated film, Cars. :D

Not an expert and just relaying a personal experience. I had an MR2 (also mid-engined) that was once set up with twice the required toe in on the rear by an inexperienced technician at a "reputable" alignment shop. The car was showing similar symptoms to what you have described and was...

We Australians will be paying a little more attention to it than usual seeing that we have finally fielded a team that has qualified. A friendly game was played here in Melbourne between the Socceroos (the Australian team) and the European champions recently and it drew a crowd of nearly 100,000...

Webber has always done well in Monaco, even won there in an F3. With regards to who's-going-where, how about this as an outside chance. Webber to go to Renault next year. (Flavio is Webber's manager and actually owns his contract as I understand it. The media talk after he went to Williams...

Peter, I might be able shed a little light on your question of eyebolts alongside the seats. I have two sets of seats, the standard RF seats and the RF race seats on which Ross’s seats are based. The standard seats definitely do not allow enough space for the eyebolts to be mounted so the...

Ahh that magic balance between under-steer and over-steer… much more difficult to achieve on a mid-engined car (and differs between track car and road car). Ideally, on a serious track car (and I emphasize “serious”) I would set up the car so that it has natural over-steer, then drive it so...

This is an interesting topic. I have sometimes wondered whether the grip properties of the tyres themselves change with speed. I remember reading a tyre manufacturer’s literature explaining that grip was not purely a function of the coefficient of friction, but also of the slip properties of...

Lightyears ahead and still moving in leaps. Did I hear the commentary correctly? The average corner speeds have gone up by 25km/h from last year? Wow!

C'mon, you can't fool me. I can see that its really a Fiat replica built on a GT40 chassis :D

Had seen two of them on the road here in Aus (or it may have been the same car twice). They are a damn good idea and I think is the continued evolution of the pure and affordable sports car before it lost its way in the seventies, the previous being the Triumph TR3 and the Lotus 7. The car I...

I like it. Its what the Enzo should have looked like. It seems to me though that the car exists as no more than an idea. The specifications are vague to say the least.

You may be onto something there Ken. The indicators on the cars are flashing a little too fast (about 2/sec), and at one stage there was a man briskly walking into the path of the car traveling toward him at supposedly break-neck speed. Also, the pigeons seem to fly from zero to across the road...

[ QUOTE ] Quote: Okay, here's a purely aesthetic response. I voted for silver. While red, yellow, and other solid colors can look terrific on a GT40, any solid color is inherently "dead". By that I mean the solid colors make a visual statement, but they do not enhance the sculptural...

[ QUOTE ] I wonder if RF used 2 different clutch/flywheel set up's? [/ QUOTE ] That is entirely possible. Years ago, I did some research of my own on alternative pressure plates and found one that was far cheaper, same diameter, same bolt pattern and could be bought off the shelf with the...

Re: Equal Time How many times does a blonde laugh at a joke? Three times. 1. When you tell it 2. When you explain it 3. When they get it.