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[Lucky Phil]

On 7/1/2025 at 7:37 PM, gstallons said:

I hate to show my ignorance but , what is it ?

An mx5 here in Australia. I saw a longish Youtube history of the car a little while back. Very interesting.

 

[Joe]

  
 

 

[audiomick]

Thanks for that, @Joe. 

There was a Karmann Ghia somewhere in there, which reminded me of this. I haven't ever seen it, just read about it on the Interweb. Sounds like fun, though. 

https://www.bader-racing.de/en/home/home_news.htm

A quote from the site:

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The last ‘real’ aircooled Porsche engine fits perfectly in the aircooled Karmann Ghia. The base version of the 993 engine with 3,6 liters and 286 h.p. was tuned with racing parts and now achieves a power of 320 h.p. with a torque of 386 Nm.

Optimised cylinder heads, sport camshafts, RS rocker arms, an optimised exhaust system and a newly programmed engine management catapult the street machine into new dimensions.

The 6 speed manual transmission with differential block transmits this power via Cup Constant velocity joints on the street. 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by audiomick