(+ Video) machine generated to overcome Czech speed record in history finally checked in. Yet in fact, the fastest in its time it was.
When in 1996 the Tatra replaced an aged model 613 newer T700, it was basically a facelift .Large and robust, but still facelift, further development of the T613 model, because the new car also stood on the foundation arose in the seventies. Perhaps because of the Tatra showed her the machine does not belong to the old iron and also to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the automaker decided to build something that can handle more than three hundred aa speed reaches Czech speed record. Thus arose in 1997 model Ecorra Sport V8 outside T700 more than resembled.
Now to achieve a speed record for a flying kilometer, which drove Czech rider on Czech car, this car was designed. T700 chassis adjusted restoration company Ecorra Lubin, hence the car got its name, and the engine comes from Tatra. It was 4,4litrový fork osmiválec air-cooled and filled atmospherically. His output was 400 hp and has a similar engine, which was originally also in the bowels of Tatra 700 GT and appeared also in the Tatra Graphite , although there was a slightly different parameters. The five-speed manual transmission provided power to the rear 18 “wheels, and the car weighed 1,280 kilograms.
The record attempt was planned, but the day before the planned attempt Ecorra after the airport in Hradcany u Mimoně swept Tatra MTX V8 and a record of the fifties overcome – with the result of only 210,895 km / h, although at the end of the flying kilometer car reached 260 km / h. The following day was Ecorra Although quicker, the average speed of two passes of the flying kilometer was 276 km / h, but reportedly able to override table records only once a year, so officially left empty-handed. MTX record remains true today and it is so questionable that Czech car – technically incidentally always Tatra – is actually the fastest real. Whether factory Ecorra, MTX V8 or Graphite Mr. Labaška . In the case of the road it probably will Graphite, an absolute record but it could easily explained and include the right machine.
Subsequently Ecorra V8 moved to the museum in the nearby Tatra Koprivnice and other speed record attempts didnt. Some time later, in 2000, however from there he got into the hands of brothers Hajduškových as a skeleton. He was also acquired engine capacity 4423 cc, the same as in the record attempt. According to some sources, he was now 400 hp and 500 Nm, according to other Newton was 450. The maximum speed is 320 km / h. The reason for the purchase and completion was simple – Ecorra Sport V8 hits the circuit and endurance races. Manual pětikvalt still remained.
It was originally Ecorra red and obviously plastered sponsors, weighed 1,330 kilograms, which is a very serious racer. But this car has a length of 5.1 meters and despite its great weight accelerates to a hundred for four seconds flat. Over the next ten years we could see on Ecorra variety of circuit enterprises in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
Over the years, car doznával course, various changes. Took place mainly in aerodynamics and sometime in 2004, the machine also came with black lacquer. There is also little changed position of the motor, the dimensions of the car dwindled. One of the most intriguing, however, was not visible from the outside. It was the gearbox – the original shell pětikvaltu was custom-made six-speed sequential gearbox. He moved here allegedly being in 2004 when the body of the car was also reduced slightly under five meters and extended from 1.8 meters to two meters straight.
Sport Ecorra then rode in this specification, the lap times of the Brno Masaryk Circuit with modifications car apparently gradually improved from 2:30 to 2:07 for some. In 2007, at the wheel even he sat John Haugland, who perhaps do not imagine especially for those who in past decades watched the Skoda rally.
Sometimes at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century Ecorra Sport V8, still in black moved into the Sports Car Museum in Lány bit west of Prague and spent several years there. If you have just started looking for a day off, when to go there, we have to disappoint you – this gem is no longer there, the brothers now have Hajdušková him in the garage and said she was trying to put back into working condition. Given that the existing 4,5litrové Tatra V8 engines, one would count on the fingers of one hand, it will not be easy, but let’s fingers crossed. Maybe then we’ll see him in action …
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