Oops!

They blew the engine on the Norris Evo last week as well didnt they?

Common knowledge is that they wreck EVERY car they test :D

BBC needs to realise the difference between "driven hard" and "abused".

Paul

:eek:

Not forgetting the yank who broke 2 gearboxes!

Article in the Daily Mail about this , names the 'Stig' as Perry McCarthy.

That evo must have been about to blow up anyway there is no way that towing a caravan at 124 mph caused that engine to blow up! and if it did, there is another good reason for not buying an EVO.

Also reported on page 3 of today's Times.

& also names The Stig as Perry McCarthy.

Hugh

Erm..

Did I hear them right that the EVO was kicking out 700bhp ??

Is this possible ? (Well obviosly not given the engine let go!)

D

The Norris Designs Evo has figured at 770bhp (IIRC) on an engine dyno. Apparantly it had covered 5000 miles quite happily in this state of tune .. then again you'd expect it to do fairly well after spending £70,000 on it!

From what I have read, the Top Gear 'test' driver may have ignored the dangerously high exhaust gas temperature readouts that it started to generate until it went pop ...

A few years ago my mate won a car from a certain car magazine, it was featured on top gear and they abused the hell out of it.

the 770hp should be taken lightly for the norris car

714hp on engine dyno

770hp was rolling road, with about 580hp at the wheels and I believe a nominal % to give flyhweel power. But over 700 on race fuel for sure

paul

Who's Perry McCarthy?

one time brit F1 driver, had a drive with long defunct team whos name escapes me (Onyx?), has a long history in single seaters, now races GT cars and does some driver managment

paul

If i wanted my car tuned, Norris Designs is were i would take it. Both this Evo 7 (0-60 = 2.8ish, 0-100 = 5.99) and his last Evo 5 were amazing!!!

Evo block can take the power, but everything else needs upgrading. For example, he had problems with the diffs exploding from the torque!!!

Check out the vids at the website
http://web.norrisdesigns.com

Cheers
Chris

Pavlo

714 was before he got the big injectors fitted. 771 after fitted and remapped.

web link (cant do a clicky)
http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23337&highlight=motec

Quote from the man himself:

"Well the ND Evo 7 is very poorly after todays hammering it took, On our fifth run the engine blew up! The first four runs were about getting the right angle and seeing how the caravan would behave and different speeds then the 5th was a proper go where we got to 126Mph ish and the engine let go!

The day was very hot and the runway was very short but I was still confident that the car could do the business. The main problem was that I was not driving and able to monitor the engine whilst attempting the record. After taking the datalogging from the Motec it transpires that we had 1170C exhaust gas temps...............result...................melte d piston!

I am not going to let anyone else drive this car again! Last time the clutch died when a journo drove it then this time the engine died, oh well you live and learn!"

The team that McCarthy drove for in 1992 was Andrea Moda Formula. is teamate was Roberto Moreno.

Can somebody tell me whether the Norris Evo was on TG last week and that I managed to miss that as well, or is there somebody out there who knows the schedules and its going to be shown this week.

Was kicking myself for missing last Sundays episode, looks like I might have to kick harder.

Ahhhh *relaxed* a breath of fresh air, its beenalmst a year since I last posted.

Hummmmmmm diddly biscuits

Amazingly at Le Mans I managed to speak to the owner of the Jaguar and to Perry but not at the same time.

Jag was fabulous, the owner had driven it down from UK and it looked like it was still in the exact race spec. Owner was a bit "Tim nice but dim" but a real enthusiat whose father had raced it originally in 1953 race. Chatted to him at 7.00 am on the Sunday morning just as they were gathering for the historic lap.

Perry McCathy ("The Stig") is a good driver but an even better entertainer and public speaker, he should have his own half hour show on TV he's that good. He does great impressions of all the other drivers and has interesting gossip about all of them. Hilarious tales about Miko Salo flying a remote control helicopter in his hotel room and nearly breakibng his legs with the rotor blades!

Perry has raced at Le Mans many times and it was unfortunate that the UK Audi run out of petrol on its first stint.

I suppose our licence fees could be put to worse use than being used to rebuild classic cars that have been thrashed. I rather that than the money being spent on salaries for Eastenders "stars".

Any good on corners :D

Until its beaten the record belongs to Martins Esc Cos... I wouldn't give top gear anything as they just want to use and abuse... Shame about the Evo as its an awesome beast and has some legs on it on track!

Nath



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