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Volvo B18/B20 fitted to VW Beetle for racing. 1959 MG MGA with a Mazda Miata engine. Chrysler Intrepid with supercharged V8 and conversion to rear wheel drive. In car tuning culture, an engine swap is the process of removing a car's original engine and replacing it with another. This may be a like-for-like replacement, or to install a non ...
Automated manual transmissions can be semi-automatic or fully-automatic in operation. Several different systems to automate the clutch and/or shifting have been used over the years, but they will generally use one of the following methods of actuation for the clutch and/or shifting: hydraulic or electro-hydraulic actuation, [12] electro-mechanical, [13] pneumatic, [6] [14] [15] electromagnetic ...
The Sard MC8-R was a modified and lengthened version of the Toyota MR2 (SW20) built for GT racing by Toyota's SARD (Sigma Advanced Research Development) works team.. SARD heavily modified the front half of the MR2s chassis and completely replaced the rear with a custom setup in order to fit a twin-turbo version of the 4.0-liter 1UZ-FE V8 producing 600 bhp (447 kW). [1]
Gear shift lever on a motorcycle (above the toe of the rider's boot) A sequential manual transmission is unsynchronized, and allows the driver to select either the next gear (e.g. shifting from first gear to second gear) or the previous gear (e.g., shifting from third gear to second gear), operated either via electronic paddle-shifters mounted behind the steering wheel or with a sequential ...
In 1998, Toyota Racing Development offered an official kit body conversion and tuning program for MR2 owners to transform their existing SW20 MR2 into a wide-body TRD2000GT replica car. This was to pay homage to the TRD2000GT wins in the GT-C Japanese racing series, since the TRD2000GT racing series cars were based on the SW20 floor pan.
Toyota Motor Corporation's S family is a family of cable operated manual transmissions built for small to mid sized front wheel drive vehicles, but also used in mid-engine applications. The S family has received various upgrades and enhancements over its design life.
Top and side view of a typical manual transmission, in this case, a Ford Toploader, used in vehicles with external floor shifters. The first car to use a manual transmission with synchromesh was the 1929 Cadillac. [5] Most North American marques had adopted synchronized manual transmissions, usually for second and high gears, by the mid-1930s.
Spec Racing continues in Later Models of the NC and ND chassis Miatas, though they are not intended to serve as a replacement to the NA-NB based "Spec Miata". A new MX-5 Cup (professional class) based on the ND series MX-5 costs $80,000 turnkey, [ 3 ] and champions of the national series can win over $200,000 to advance up the motorsport ladder.