Anyone have info on this FD.. absolutely insane

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Jan 21, 2009 | 03:07 PM

Smitter

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Anyone have info on this FD.. absolutely insane

This car is stated to be a 4 rotor, but does anybody else know anything about it or who it might belong too.

Check out this video, i dont know whats more impressive, They way it sounds or how fast it gets down the track. i wonder what the 1/4 mile time it has???
Sorry if its been posted before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7F2ttEXWU

Jan 21, 2009 | 03:15 PM

SINxSELEKTAH

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it's a 4rotor n/a from aus/nz IIRC....runs sub-10s and think the current color is now black

Jan 21, 2009 | 03:21 PM

staticguitar313

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Search around, there was a video somewhere with the owner talking about the car and they showed the interior etc.

Jan 21, 2009 | 08:25 PM

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Im pretty sure it was street legal at the time too.. Not sure about now.

Jan 21, 2009 | 09:04 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gmonsen

This video has been around for years. That's the sound an NA 4 rotor makes. 787 heaven. Its one of the reasons I went NA 3 rotor. The 4 rotor is a bit high-pitched for me, but, hey...

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Jan 21, 2009 | 10:49 PM

evilg

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I was standing in the crowd for that video.... man that thing sounded amazing.... back then it ran 10s, and the guy daily drove it!

Haven't seen it in a while tho.

Jan 22, 2009 | 12:46 AM

staticguitar313

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owner's name is like Bruce or something

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Jan 22, 2009 | 01:32 AM

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I have the issue of NZ Performance Car magazine that had a feature on that car. Pretty good read. Can't find it online though.

Jan 22, 2009 | 04:04 AM

JSmall

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I found another video which has more information on the car.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/B...r-NA_12634.htm

Jan 22, 2009 | 04:09 AM

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wow just wow

Jan 22, 2009 | 10:00 AM

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The owner of the local Kart track is French, and used to be a corner worked at Le Mans. Told me the 787B was the loudest, most painful (inner ear) car he ever heard.

Jan 22, 2009 | 11:37 AM

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wow, that's just utterly amazing. I don't know how you guys could say the 4 rotor sound is too much. Its just off the wall amazing. One day, ill have my 20b. And in my dreams ill have my 26b.

Jan 22, 2009 | 11:51 AM

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I think i could definetly put up with the indy car sounding 4-rotor. its not like u would be daily driving it

Jan 22, 2009 | 12:40 PM

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Volume and painful pitch notwithstanding, I LOVE the sound. Back in the 90's, my Dad and I stood at the kink in the back straight in Montreal for the F1 race, and when the V12 lamborghini motors (in Saubers then, I think) went by at the top of 6th gear it HURT way down in your ear canal.

Painful, but glorious all the same.

I love the transition with the 4-rotor between that worlds-largest-and-most-pissed-off-chainsaw idle, to the wail at high RPM.

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Originally Posted by gmonsen

Peter... Couldn't agree more. The sound of a 4 rotor NA is painful. The 3 rotor sounds great, imho, but can't take the 4 rotor sound. The turbo version of the 3 rotor muffles the high pitched sound a bit more and makes it very nice-sounding. That version uses the lower compression 8-8.7:1 rotors which themselves lower the pitch of the sound. The 4 rotor NA and my 3 rotor NA use high compression 10.2:1 rotors and they inherently have a higher-pitched sound. I am building a custom exhaust and muffler partly to tone down that sound at 8-9,000 rpm.

Gordon