On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:07:03 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

On Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:32:07 PM UTC-6, John H. wrote:
The title says it all.



http://blog.caranddriver.com/theres-...mons-insanity/



From the way I read it, the car is for sale now. You might want to add the little bugger to your

collection.

Man,t hat's neat, John. Good use for old cars and bike engines. back in the late 70's and early 80's the 'micro-midget racers were using CB 750 Honda engines for 12 mile dirt track racing. limited only by CC's one guy made a car using a Kawasaki 750 two-stroke triple. Bike stock they were 87 hp. Then when you raise the compression and put on expansion chamber exhaust it wasn't difficult to get a bit over 110 hp out of it.

The local tracks band him because he was 'non competative' kinda like nascar. Everybody runs the same engines, frames, restricted carb plates. so it comes to the skill of the driver, not the power of the car.

There's two parts to that story I love:

"The pistons were seized in the bores, beat them out with a torch and a hammer. The piston rings
came out in pieces. Forensics showed the bike had been parked because it had sheared one of its
lifters off, and the cam and lifter were wrecked."

But, they just got some parts and fixed it! I'd like to see pictures and a story just about that.
But the bottom line was typical Guzzi:

"The alternator died because we were overtaxing it with the two fans—we swapped batteries at each
driver change. The oil-pressure gauge started showing zero psi, yet it kept running, so we kept
driving it. Eventually, it crossed the finish on day two with the checkers."

Reminds me of the time one of my coils died, but the 850T got Sandy and I home on one cylinder -
from Munich to Stuttgart. The bike sounded like a 'Ma Deuce' going down the road without the plug,
but it got us home.