Porkie

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Nice arithmetic Steve

mark

Squeaks car is a 3.1 stage 4 330+ bhp depending on how its mapt on the day

he did 0-60 in 4.2 0-100 in 11.7 1/4 in 13.15 @ 106 mph top speed of 147.7 mph all at brunters

Mike1

Perhaps the smaller turboes on the Minker means it spins up a bit faster and is perhaps quicker at the "bottom" of the gears than the more peaky Cossie?
Gear ratios might be a bit different as well? Cossie gets to 120 in 15.9 and the Minker ( and Testarossa they included for comparison purposes ) both take 16.7 seconds. The Ferrari did a 13.5 @ 107 ss 1/4 just for interest.

MWF

I would have thought the powerbands would be like chalk and cheese, as one is coming on the boost the other is running out of puff.

Hence why one is exciting and the other a good everyday car.

Mike1

Anyone know if there are many of those Power Engineering Sprintex supercharged XR4is/XR4x4s still in existence. When I owned an XR4i, I remember a guy walking across to me at the pumps at the Baileys filling station ( nr Shrewsbury on the main route into Wales ) and saying my car looked pretty clean. He'd got a similar car on the far side of the pumps and it was supercharged ( done by Power Engineering ). Followed him down A5 for a bit until my turnoff but it certainly shifted pretty well. Always looked out for one for sale but only ever saw one come up in the back of Fast Ford and it had sold by the time I rang up.
Didn't one of the famous racing driver's like Derek Bell or similar used to have one and reckoned it was one of the best road cars he'd ever had?

MWF

There's not a lot of Sprintex supercharged 4is out there at all I'm afraid

rallycross

Its worth about £1200 in the trade

Muzz

Sorry to bring this up again, are they 2wd or 4wd?

MWF

All 4wd mate

BlueSmoke

Fookin' ell, a Clinker!

Mr S1

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Can't believe how many of you lot have never heard of them or seen at least a pic of one !!!

Is this place full of whipper snappers and old bastards ??

pjv7771

good job its quick with it being that ugly

Mr S1

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Proper quick mate, even by todays standards - real weapon back in '89

BlueSmoke

There's no middle ground!

Mr S1

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Ain't that a fact !!!!!!!

Andreas

Dunno whats its called but ive got a mag filled with tests of Sierras made by different car magazines and they compare the Minker with some other conversions. Seems pretty fast but I cant understand how it could beat a proper stage 3 cossie. Was a long time ago I compared the acceleration figures with my own Sapph and if I remember correctly it was a fair bit behind the cossie. But it shure seems like a very nice conversion giving low down power.

Porkie

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Did they used to eat gearboxes? surely they were near the limit of boxes?

MWF

I've not heard much about them breaking boxes. But it does seem a lot of what TurboTechnics did to these cars is still under a bit of speculation, at least that's how it seems to me.

On most of their conversions they uprated everything that needed to be done, even the baby 200bhp conversions on the 2.8 had the old Type-9 modified (I think). So with that in mind I would have expected the MT75 in the Minker would have been looked at, but, as mentioned, I would doubt anybody knows the technicalities other than those that worked at TurboTechnics at the time.