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Interesting I will have to read up on thay EV Sera guy's thread sometime. Yes I almost forgot the car can't be completely zero emissions if the electricity didn't come from renewable; currently solar and wind being easiest to obtain domestically but most of the driving is done during the day...
 
I have read that ethanol produces a different type of emission but that can be filtered. I guess I can understand the need for 98 may not be as in demand in those regional areas but I would have thought most modern ICE cars have a knock sensor to retard the timing?

Yep knock sensor will retard the timing, but it's still not enough to run a 98-only car on 95RON, a complete retune is needed.
The number of 98-only cars is pretty thin on the ground though, usually only deals with Imports which are still tuned to run on Japan's awesome 100RON GoFast(tm) juice.
Just so happens I had an aussie delivered 98-only soobie though, because running trim was identical to the JDM version, and even with the ADM tune it was still not conservative enough for 95.
 
You just learn to live with it though, make sure you have a 3G connection and run something like the BP app on your phone, or do your research before you head out into rural areas. I drove ACT to Adelaide and back, didn't really need to deviate anywhere to get BP Ultimate, just planned my fuel stops so I knew I could drive to the next station in less than 600kms.
 
Exige would be a lot more logical choice, but for those that love competition audio and show cars, they wouldn't look twice at a nice Exige compared to an over the top, vulgar MR-S modified to barely resemble what it used to be.
Funny crowd they are.

Maj is spot on here!
All talk and no real action

Don't put the motor in now. If you are intent on building somthing crazy take your time then drop it in when you're off your opens

Honestly put a stock motor in and learn to drive the car FAST. Don't just compensate lack of skill with more power.

You have to understand from our perspective a lot of this sounds like a joke.

You're talking about hydrogen powered cars, F1 valve train systems for super high rpms in a street car. 
Alot of people come on here, have this fantastic idea about how they're going to do this AMAZING conversion and build, then they dissapear or sell up and buy somthing more expensive

Or you do a totenkopf and build a mental mr2 and then upgrade to a lotus :)

TurboDoseBro
All these haters out here, I'm gonna build me the fastest MR2 on this forum.
 
Badboyz4lyf.

 

Yeah I do understand where your coming from but I am just throwing a few ideas out there to make it interesting and its good for people to jump in and throw some insight in I didn't know much about LPG vs other fuels like e85 ect till I came on here so Why bag me out for having ideas if we didn't think this way we wouldn't of evolved from monkeys

Well I too hope this thread doesn't end and I dunno about you guys but I see nothing wrong with what Buzza posted about all these alternative ideas. Actually I thought the MR2 crowd was prone to "weird" ideas considering MR2s are the "different" choice. Come on guys this is a forum and as MR2 owners we should be more supportive :)
 
Buzza just wanted to bounce ideas off us which is okay right since this is a forum? If he was asking what a phillips screwdriver was then I'd probably tell him to go home.
Lets be honest, not a lot of 19 year olds think like this; about alternative engines/fuels etc most are too busy getting smashed on the weekends so we have to commend him for that at least :)
 
Buzza mate I'm happy to continue hashing out so feel free to PM
 
EDIT: seems like there's some missing posts after going thru my email...

Ok Dudeman first thing i do tomorrow is go into my garage and take a photo or better yet a vid of the car and me and i will post it on youtube and send the link your way! 
And Tree really appreciate it mate !

FWD bit still has me wondering????????????