Z-Cars bike engined mini

[_dobbo_]

This evening I had the opportunity to take some pictures of a rear engined Mini belonging to a work colleague.

This car is nuts - GSXR1000 bike engine, sequential gearbox, 4 point harnesses, wilwood 4 pots, the whole 9 yards. No reverse gear though!

I revisted the location I used for my S2000 photos a while ago, because I felt it had more to give and this car would suit the barren background.

Anyway, I am reasonably pleased with these, but would invite your comments/criticisms.

Thanks for looking!

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[andyps]

The photos are great, but tell him the only engine for a Mini is an A-series, and it should be in the front

[CarMac]

andyps said:

The photos are great, but tell him the only engine for a Mini is an A-series, and it should be in the front

Well said!

Don't suppose your work colleague is going to the Kit Car show at Stoneleigh this weekend?

Nice photos, by the way!

[Scho]

sweet car! nice shots!

these things a bad ass.

[_dobbo_]

andyps said:

tell him the only engine for a Mini is an A-series, and it should be in the front

It's a her actually, but as her last Mini was a magazine featured a-series engined 1300 straight cut gearbox effort, this one was always going to be something different.

Besides which, swapping this;



with this;



is probably a lot of work to undo! The car sounds great, and whilst it's a little odd to drive thanks to the bike clutch and sequential gearbox (forward once for first, back for 2nd to 6th, just like a bike) it's hard to a imagine an A series engined car being this much of an event.

[jon-]

Fantastic car, I bet that's so much fun on trackdays.

Great shots too, any detail behind the glass / settings / photoshop work done?

[_dobbo_]

Glad you like them Jon!

These were all shot with a Nikon D200, with either a Sigma 10-20 (always at 10mm) or a Nikkor 28-70 f/2.8

Some of these have an SB600 providing fill flash. I would have used my two Vivitar 285hv flashes but my radio triggers haven't been delivered yet.

Photoshop wise they have all had levels and a very slight curve added, and not much else.

[AndWhy]

Is a car/ bike hybrid a cake?

Great shots overall. #10 the sky looks a little too friendly. #1 if I'm being really picky it bugs me that you've opened the sequence with this shot. Like the shot itself but would have preferred a less extreme starting point (say 7 or 9).

Really like the caliper shot and the harness too.

[_dobbo_]

AndWhy said:

Great shots overall. #10 the sky looks a little too friendly. #1 if I'm being really picky it bugs me that you've opened the sequence with this shot. Like the shot itself but would have preferred a less extreme starting point (say 7 or 9).

Thanks for the feedback AndWhy, it's quite useful as you've actually pointed out some things I wasn't sure about. When I was taking #10 it struck me that the colours of the sky where very close to the colours of the car. I messed around with levels a bit in photoshop to try to highlight this but clearly went too far.

Funnily enough I deliberately posted #1 first as I felt it was the most striking image, but did consider saving it for last.

[Baldspeed Racing]

Cool pics mate and the car looks stunning