Hoonicorn

[racrguy]

yep, ken blocks engine is junk

I said it was weak, not junk. It's probably got a few things that help it live longer than a full tilt 410 race engine; lower compression, not as radical grind on the cam, thing of that nature.

[Strychnine]

The Hoonicorn goes to London



6:34 The Stig is in the background reading on a bench LOL

[Strychnine]

Oh, also there's a Hoonicorn V2 now...

1400+ hp - twin turbo on methanol

"When I say that this is the most frightening is that car I have ever driven, I don't exaggerate. Not at all."
- Ken Block





FF to 9:30

[BMCSean]

[Murph Tang]

Dear City of Dallas,

I would like to drift my car around your streets and video it.

Could you please block off parts of 635, 35E and all of Northwest Highway.

Thanks, Murph

PS: Could I use some of your police cars and a hot dog stand to drift around?!


How do you even get a city to do that?

[BLAKE]

Start by dealing with a city government that's a lot better than Dallas.

[Strychnine]

They had the backing of Top Gear, so probably $$$$.

The Met also refused to say how much the BBC paid them, claiming it was commercially sensitive information


It is understood that the production company is footing the bill for policing the filming days. The company will also have to pay Westminster Council for closing of roads. There is also a fee for filming in locations such as Whitehall and Parliament Square.
Road closure orders usually cost in the region of £1,000 - £2,000, with a fee charged either as a set rate or a rate per application and up to six are available per year for each road.
On top of this, the BBC would have been responsible for covering the cost of traffic management plans, stewarding, policing, maintenance and removal of all advance signing, traffic management signs, cones and barriers.

But, apparently not everyone was happy.

but more serious was the anger caused by some of the rubber burning taking place near the Cenotaph, the Whitehall-based war memorial which hosts the National Service of Remembrance.

Retired British Army Officer Colonel Richard Kemp hit out at the Top Gear production crew, likening the Cenotaph to a cemetery and branding the filming that took place near it as “gravely disrespectful”.

Mr Bridgen had harsher words for the public broadcaster, pointing out that Charlie Gilmour - son of Pink Floyd frontman David - was handed a 16-month jail sentence for swinging from the Cenotaph. He has called for an inquiry into why the BBC was allowed to film in front of the monument.

[BLAKE]

When reading about the Cenotaph in a Jalopnik article when that news first broke, it sounded more grievous that his looks in photo and video. I saw somewhere that it was likened to doing burnouts next to the tomb of the unknown soldier here in the US, but we don't have that parked next to a busy intersection.

[Strychnine]

Just going to throw this out there...

The Hoonicorn cemented it for me - that Cobra I want to build won't be done until I can afford a sequential transmission, a la Mark Crespan's V8 Supercar powered "Mongrel." . The pure violence of the shifts in Ken Block's videos are something I need in my life.

[Murph Tang]

Dunno about LA but the BBC had to clean up all the tire.... oh sorry ....tyre marks in London.

What a beating that would be.

[BLAKE]

Just going to throw this out there...

The Hoonicorn cemented it for me - that Cobra I want to build won't be done until I can afford a sequential transmission, a la Mark Crespan's V8 Supercar powered "Mongrel." . The pure violence of the shifts in Ken Block's videos are something I need in my life.

May I suggest an edit to this plan? Build it with a T-5 and add the sequential transmission when you can afford it. You seem to be in the habit of setting sights so high you'll never actually be on the road. Nothing personal, just trying to push you out of planning phase and into the fun stuff.

[Strychnine]

May I suggest an edit to this plan? Build it with a T-5 and add the sequential transmission when you can afford it. You seem to be in the habit of setting sights so high you'll never actually be on the road. Nothing personal, just trying to push you out of planning phase and into the fun stuff.

Ha, that's very true I tend to spread myself thin and underestimate the time commitment needed by some things.

[cool cat]

Yes I agree, get it going, then build up when funds allow. Plus the violence incurred by the T-5 behind a well built V8 will be a different kind of rush.


A rush to clean that mess off the road.

[BLAKE]

Yes I agree, get it going, then build up when funds allow. Plus the violence incurred by the T-5 behind a well built V8 will be a different kind of rush.


A rush to clean that mess off the road.

Lol, that potential exists. Highway gears and peg leg rear has kept my T-5 healthy. The new 3.73/8.8 is likely going to put the 'ol T-5 to the test.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Matt, throw a 4r70w in and use paddle shifters, till you can get that sequential.