Practically Classics Forum

TerryG wrote:A supercharger and a turbocharger on the same engine. It has 108hp so I wouldn't have thought anything else the factory offered in a K10 would be quicker. Plus you could uprate both blowers to a modern spec and generate even more power / torque through a wider band.

Fair comment, but the CVT version of that car is quicker and more efficient, just as a modern CVT is in more general terms. Accelerating hard as the rev counter reading falls away is a weird experience, but no gears**, hence no gear changes mean that the time spent playing with the gear lever is saved so although I too would love a SuperTurbo, it would need to be a CVT one as that's where the real performance is. That, and the head from a 1 litre one on the 1200 bottom end as the greater amount of metal around the guide bosses in the 1 litre head is the only reason it was chosen as the base for the modifications.

**- OK, so it has a reverse facility in the final drive, but the primary unit has no gears at all, just magic beans and fairy dust. In an ideal world, all CVTs would be fitted to cars with two stroke engines that could be started Honda-style for reversing.

Rich, I'm off to view it now , so should get there about ten minutes before the listing ends. Well it seems very cheap for a clean, low mileage K10 and I need something to keep the Corolla company since the guy who was selling the Surf did the work I'd asked him to do yet still managed to get a fail sheet for it, a fail sheet that involves expensive parts and some doubt about its true mileage.
It's karma punishing me for scoring that Toyota last year so cheaply and with no faults yet, bar a cracked exhaust manifold which was hardly the end of the world, some 14,000 miles having been covered in it since. Karma dictates that the next ostensibly sound car I buy must be a complete dog which will show its true colours in the first week and fall apart gradually from then on, but that was the Surf, so by that reckoning, the white CVT Micra should be a straight one. I hope it is, because it's 100+ miles away and that's a five gallon, 200+ mile round trip by Toyota.
Wish me luck, eh?

good luck mate! although its parked on your drive by now....pics please...

That was a waste of petrol! I didn't even knock at the door as the carefully photographed car was a bit of a banana, having clearly been bent and subsequently got at by the Cataloy fan club. One to avoid, unless you particularly enjoy digging out muckle great clumps of Cataloy and repairing damage properly, with fresh metal.

Oh, and a subsequent call to the w4nk3r had him admitting that the CVT needed a new start clutch and possibly a reversing clutch too, which Cap'n Asspiece said was fine as the forward clutch was working so I'd have been able to get the car home. Yeah, as long as there'd been no need to stop on the way, for junctions and the like.
So another partial success then!

at least you had a nice trip out in the toyota

Yeah, damned good jalopy she is too! Almost MR2 levels of get up & go in a straight line, but with an extra row of seats and lovely access to the alternator, not that they're especially prone to failure when mounted in a dry place.. :

Random Corolla fact: I had never experienced travel sickness as a driver before I met the Corolla, thank goodness for the quick "one shot" window motor in the driver's door! And when you arrive at the car wash with the sickness still attached to the car, by 'eck that queue soon vanishes!
True dat, yet my Various Volvos 140 and 240-shaped never - in spite of the 140s' "favourite armchair" cornering style and its fondness for slithering about all over the road like something a fraction of its bulk - made me hurl when I was out for a er, hurl I suppose. Stoopid English language uses the same word for the cause and the cure. Mind you, the roads were looked after then, now there's a strip of grass running up the middle of the A1. Wouldn't mind the overtime rate that the guy who mows that lot must be getting.

i used to suffer from travel sickness, not fun...
meanwhile
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Hmm, on the description of the lovely old Microcar, it says

les pneus sont neufs, mais anciens

..so which is it then? N/O/S tyres apart, I love that thing almost as much as I love the tiny truck in the last listing.
And where did the Renault 20s and 30s all go? There are so few left now that anyone would think they'd been prone to rust or something.

i like the renault thing 4x4 & all that, sounds fun!

Yep, GR9 4 ramraidins.

JPB wrote:Yep, GR9 4 ramraidins.

Ramraidins? Is that when you put a large snowplough device on the front of a truck, charge into the farmer's fence, rustle the sheep into the back of the truck and get the flock out of there?