When driving a Nissan Cherry Turbo fairly active at the dragstrip,
it requires that you have quite big loads ov spareparts...
Spareparts can be verry difficoult to get over sometimes.
If you don't want to get ripped off by youre local dealer,
the best thing to do, is to buy more cars just for the parts.
My first spare Cherry was this blue non-turbo 1,5GL
I bought it just because it had brand new headlamps and for the hood.
Cluth and gearbox was completely wasted.
Price: 200 cigarettes
After parking this blue little beauty (upsidedown) by the carsematery,
everything was ok for a while.
But only a short while.
For some time I had a dialog with the owner of the 250 BHP-Cherry Rainer.
Rainer and his brother had upgraded there garage with a Nissan 200,
so now at last the Cherry in Gothenburg was for sale.
We agreed about a confidential price for the car,
a spare car plus lots of extra parts.
He decided to keep the exclusively made turbocharger for about 1000£
just as the MapFeul and the intercooler.
I got so much extra parts, one car just was not enuff to carry ti all.
Gearboxes, clutches, driveshafts, standard turbochargers, you name it, I got it.
Everything was to satisfaction, untill I got to the issue: Bringing it home.
Gettinge two non drivable cars from Gothenburg to Stockholm (500km)
just isn't the easyest thing to do.
The sulution to my problems was to get two trailers,
put them on eachother and then get someone to drive one of the trailers back to Stockholm.
The idea was to let one of Rainers brothers drive one of the trailers back,
so that I didn't have to do Stockholm-Gothenburg (500km one way) twice that weekend.
I worked in Oslo at the time, so after that 500 km drive,
I didn't get home until friday evening at 23:30
After trading my Lexus to a Ford Mondeo with a trailer-hook
I went to pick up a rental-trailer and then picking up Zuzuki-Pontus trailer
wich we put on top of the rentaltrailer...
The clock showed 02:00 when I finally could lay my head down on my pillow.
The pillow was as soft as it has never been before,
so in other words i overslept 4 hours.
Those 4 hours was enuff for Rainers brother to leave Gothenburg without any trailer.
CRAP!
Not much to do,
but to face the fact that I had to return to Gothenburg on the Sunday too.
As an expert on carrying a trailer,
I managed to damage the rentaltrailer a bit...
That wasn't too popular, since they were closed when I got back with hte first car,
I also returned the trailer one day to late.
Thanks good Preem! it only cost me 86:- Sek extra
Naturally, the roomers about the Cherry with 250 BHP were,
if not completely wrong, they were a bit excellerated.
The values that I have got proof for is 190 BHP/ 140 kW at 4540rpm.
Yes, at 4540rpm. that was when that engine blew up.
According to the guys that meassured the 140 kW's
250 BHP would be a reality at 6000rpm.
However we will probably never know,
since I will probably not meassure the engine when I'm finnished
based on the story Rainer told me how they normally test.
Usually, they just put the pedal to the metal and then see what happens.
After meassuring and trashing the first engine,
Rainer built a new engine with the remains from the first one.
That newely rebuilded engine will probably be dismanteled one extra time,
just to Wokifie it. After that it will replace the engine I had in the Wok 2001.
That engine will probably end up in the red one, wich will probably end up being black.
The red one (or black in the future) has got a trailer-hook,
so if everything works out as it should, that will be somewhat of a traling car...
Anyway, what ever happens during 2002, it is now winter. The Cherrys are cold and I'm working in Oslo.
It will be verry interesting to see when I'll have time to fix all the cars,
but I will fix them, and they are going to be fast!
