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The Beast (mk2) at Wings and Wheels in 2014.. In the 1960s, engineer Paul Jameson put a Rolls-Royce Meteor engine into a chassis he built himself. [3] He did not get around to building a body, and sold the car to Epsom-based automatic transmission specialist John Dodd, who had supplied the automatic gearbox.
The Toyota R32V and R36V engine family are a series of turbocharged, 3.2-liter and 3.6-liter, 90-degree, four-stroke, V-8, gasoline racing engines, designed, developed and produced by Toyota for sports car racing; between 1988 and 1999. The engines were used in various Toyota sports prototype race cars.
The Laforza GT was equipped with a Ford V8 5.0 SEFI V8 (from the Mustang GT) and a few fitted with the 5.8 SEFI V8 (truck version) with the same transmission and transfer case as above. Some of these versions were fitted with an optional Kenne Bell supercharger. In 1996 production was transferred to Rayton-Fissore's successor company Magnum ...
The M4 was a roadster conceived between the end of 1969 and the beginning of 1970 coupling M3 chassis with a 5-liter Ford GT40 engine, [2] but development of this particular car was stopped once JWAE signed the agreement with Porsche to use their 917 for the 1970 season, [3] while in 1969 M5, a Formula Ford single seater, was built, [2] and ...
The Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires is the signature spec series for the Mazda Road to 24. The MX-5 Cup race cars start as complete MX-5 road cars from the Mazda Hiroshima, Japan factory before being transported to engineering development partner Flis Performance in Daytona Beach, Florida, where they are transformed into a race car.
On December 22, 2009, Honda announced the HSV-010 GT as the successor to the NSX Super GT in the Super GT series. For the 2011 season , the HSV-010 GT's radiator was divided in two and relocated to the sides of the car, with the goal of quicker cornering via a reduced moment of inertia with respect to yaw .
The Toyota GR engine family is a gasoline, open-deck, piston V6 engine series. The GR series has a 60° die-cast aluminium block and aluminium DOHC cylinder heads.This engine series also features 4 valves per cylinder, forged steel connecting rods and crankshaft, one-piece cast camshafts, a timing chain, [1] and a cast aluminium lower intake manifold.
The original class rules specified an engine displacement of under 2.5 L (150 cu in), natural aspiration, and was the secondary class below the top tier class, GTO. The class later became known as GTS-2 in 1995, then GTS-3 between 1996 and 1997, and eventually evolved into the GT3 class for 1998. [8] [9]