My mate had an NSU Quickly, we would ride it in the woods all day, the engine also ended up in various bikes and go karts, massive fun.
Hi Mike, after having the Quickly made road legal, I used it to travel to work as an apprentice engineer for my first year, I discussed tuning it with my foreman who had been a keen biker in his earlier years, I got a spare cylinder head and set it up in the lathe as he advised skimming it to increase the compression, what started as a few thou' ended up with him leaning over my shoulder and winding the compound slide to take a good 1/8'' off! I cleaned up the ports a bit, fitted a huge reverse cone exhaust, and finally a set of 'Ace' bars to help with improving airflow! It would only run on 5 star petrol, and you had to surprise it with a real heavy prod on the pedal to get it to spark up! Great fun back in '73 and a lot cheaper than a Yamaha Fizzy (which I would have loved, but couldn't afford!) and it proved somewhat faster than a stock one. I'm sitting here smiling to myself recalling all this, thanks Mike!
Enough about the Lotus. To clarify, you have a twin-turbo V8 Cobra? A 289 with a warm crank and breathing work done is nice by itself. But then adding twin turbos? That's considerably more mental. Particularly when you're that low to the ground!
Second this! Pics of your RAM please And maybe get it working first before you see if you need the extra power from the twin turbos?! I’ve been out in a couple of Cobra reps with American V8s in them (not even 429) and they’re ridiculous even with 300bhp ish!
Not many people have happy memories of the Quickly. The engine was so portable we used it in lots of configurations, it's probably still running today.
No pics available at mo of Cobra, it's somewhat buried under a few years worth of junk in the workshop! It's a rolling chassis on Jag XJ6/XJS/XJ12 running gear, with no engine or box fitted yet. As i mentioned, the engine is a 289 cu inch small block Ford V8, which I'll eventually get back to building, i have a forged steel crank, ally flywheel, forged rods and pistons, Edelbrock heads, solid roller lifters, camshaft gear drive, steel main caps, with brace plate, then an Eaton supercharger from an XKR Jag being fed with a 90mm throttle body and 8 injectors with an intercooler, then short headers and finally the twin turbos, i was originally going to run it on methanol and have got large high flow fuel pumps with big bore braided hoses to feed it, but as methanol is poisonous to breathe and very corrosive I'm now planning to use Av gas. It's being built purely for drag racing - SantaPod is only 15 miles or so from where I live.
