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24 units built
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Coventry Climax FWA "85", straight 4 cyl, 4 stroke, petrol engine
1098cc, 72.4 x 66.68 mm
9.8 : 1
63.5 kW / 85 hp @ 6250 rpm
100 Nm / 74 ft-lb @ 4400 rpm
drop forged steel crankshaft with 3 main bearings
2 valves / cylinder, SOHC
aspiration, natural with 2 x 1-1/2" SU H4 horizontal carburetors
distributor ignition
water cooled
MG XPEG, straight 4 cyl, 4 stroke, petrol engine. Click here
1466cc, 72.0 x 90.0 mm
8.33:1
70 HP / 5700 rpm
78 lbft / 3400 rpm
cast iron block, aluminium alloy head
drop forged steel crankshaft with 3 main bearings
2 valves / cylinder, OHV, chain driven
aspiration, natural with 2 x SU H6 Carburetors
firing order 1-3-4-2
water cooled
wet sump
MG TC 4 speed manual gearbox
Results in WSCC
| Car entry, chassis number | Car number/ result | ||||||||
| Buenos Aires | Sebring | Mille Miglia | Le Mans | Tourist Trophy | Targa Florio | ||||
| Team | 1000km | 12h | 1600km | 24h | |||||
| Lotus Engineering, 97 (Climax 1.1) | #48, disqu alified | ||||||||
| Lotus Engineering (Climax 1.1) | in entry list | in entry list | |||||||
| Lotus Engineering (Climax 1.1) | #46, 11th | ||||||||
| Lotus Engineering (MG 1.5) | #40, acci dent | ||||||||
| Bobbie Burns & Norman J. Scott, Jr, (Climax 1.1) | #78, acci dent | ||||||||
| Frank Miller/ George Rabe (Climax 1.1) | #79, disqu alified | ||||||||
| Joe Sheppard/ Warren Smith (Climax 1.1) | dnt qualify | ||||||||
| Dick Steed/ Peter Scott-Russell (Climax 1.1) | #47, 15th | ||||||||
| Statistics | |||||||||
| Works Starts/finishes 7/2 | 3/0 | 1/0 | 3/2 | ||||||
| Drivers | Team entries and car number | ||||||||
| Lotus Engineering | |||||||||
| Colin Chapman | 48 | 46 | |||||||
| Ron Flockhart | 48 | ||||||||
| Peter Jopp | 40 | ||||||||
| Mike Anthony | 40 | ||||||||
| Cliff Allison | 46 | ||||||||
| Bobbie Burns & Norman J. Scott, Jr | |||||||||
| Norman Scott | 78 | ||||||||
| Robert W. Samuelson | 78 | ||||||||
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