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02-17-2012, 04:01 PM | #1 |
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Over the years I have owned a total of four. 1 base model and 3 Shelbys. Cheap, easy to work on and incredible performers if you know what you are doing. Still one of the best handling FWDs of all time, I'll always have a soft spot for them. The black one is slowly absorbing the red one's goodies.
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02-17-2012, 06:28 PM | #2 |
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Nice looking Madura. After seeing a close-up, I remember the angled "cooling fins". There's a story that after Suzuki didn't have a bunch of sales with water-cooled engines like the Water Buffalo (GT750) and RE5 (Rotary), they put fins on the Madura so people would think it was air cooled.
There was also a story about the handlebar ends angled with your thumbs up. It was because people were used to driving in to the dealer with their hands at 10 and 2 o'clock on their steering wheel. So the handlebars would feel natural to them when they sat on the bike. Drag bars, shorter braided-steel brake lines, and a fork brace would help the front end. Maybe a brake-fluid change and bleeding (the slave cylinder, not you) will help the clutch. |
02-17-2012, 06:38 PM | #3 | |
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02-21-2012, 06:57 AM | #4 | |
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PS I did have a chrysler laser back in the day, wound up with a coolant leak and cooked the motor though otherwise a prety good little car. |
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02-21-2012, 06:51 PM | #5 | |
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Sorry to hear about your Laser, the 2.2s were damned near bombproof as far as motors go but there were a few spots where they were lacking, like the pool of stagnant coolant at cyl#4...most Turbo Dodge enthusiasts mount drilled 180* thermostats first thing, Most over 300hp tap the water jacket on the back of the head and run a line to another tap on the top on the water pump.
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02-24-2012, 12:56 AM | #6 | |
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Sorry about your girl.....
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04-05-2012, 12:11 AM | #7 |
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In case you want another one: http://denver.craigslist.org/mcy/2940763088.html
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04-05-2012, 12:14 AM | #8 | |
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btw, this bike is scary fast for its size/weight.
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