Lots of Merkur Xr4ti's

[chessboxer]

These cars rule!
http://www.merkurclub.com/carlisle_2K1/Post_event/showfield.htm

[da9b16]

Not a merkur but has it's motor....

his setup is pretty sick and extremely informative http://www.msvorinich.itgo.com/

[AccordWarrior]

Merkur's are really sweet...I have a friend who really wants one...the only thing that sucks about them is the dealers in America didn't know how to fix them, so a lot of them are in pretty sad shape...but Turbo and rear wheel drive...what a fun set up...

[uncle_el]

i believe fizzbob had one at one time.
weird looking cars, but definitely had/have some "go power".

[Maple50175]

Merkurs are sweet my sorrta buddie had one.. he was into all those turbo old cars.. he blew the engine...

[chessboxer]

Originally posted by fizzbob7
oh yeah....xr4ti's are fun.......not the most reliable thing since they're usually beat on then sold...........my dad and i had 8 that were running at one time.....my 2 brothers got one, 1 was wrecked, 2 became parts cars and the rest were sold......fun little cars though...had one that made 300whp that lasted a LONG time and was still running when i sold it....ran 12's......my intercooler design using a volvo 760 turbo FMIC is floating around on the net.....i told a guy how to do it when i was 16 and the next thing i know they're being sold for $800 or whatever.......thing is, the German versions, the cosworth sierra (rs500 was the top of the line model) was even better......i tried getting one of the DOHC 2.0 turbo engines and it was gonna be $15000 just for the engine/tranny/ecu......those were factory intercooled, water injected, easily made 250whp with a few twists of the screwdriver and are still some of the coolest looking cars around........bad thing is that the factory 2.3's, all of them, weren't balanced well at all from the factory.....that is their main problem....i've had a bunch of fast ones though but i've spent a lot of time working on them too.......had to build my first one from scratch basically when i was 15......nice big back seat for getting ass in too ;)

i can vouch for the back seat. and fizz, do you know of any good places in the dirty south here to get them? i might be running into some money and if so, i might break down and get another.

[xScott]

http://www.merkurclub.com/carlisle_2K1/Post_event/Images/car_show63.jpg
This is sick looking.

[chessboxer]

thats the sho engine transplanted into a merk, its such a shame to see a car that is so small in number get changed when someone does get one. 2.3 pride baby, not sho power in a merk.

[Toddy]

my preacher had one. it ran a 12.8 in the 1/4. awesome car. i tried to buy it from him but he said id kill myslef. bitch to work on though