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Sat in a Farm yard for 20yrs! 200mph Barn Find 90s Sports car Rescued. In this special barnfind episode Jonny Smith discovers a unicorn American muscle car which was a near 400bhp, 200mph Porsche 911 Turbo beating weapon when launched in 1989. Rare in the USA, but even rarer here in Great Britain, the backstory of the Corvette C4 ZR1’s extra special V8 engine can be traced to Norfolk, where Lotus developed the 5.7 engine with quad cams, 32-valves, 16 injectors and 11 throttles. There’s even a Veyron style ‘power key’ for the driver to unlock full power.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:14 ZR1 History
4:12 7000 made in 5 years
4:24 Meet the farmer
5:50 Why did it get parked?
9:57 Meet the new owners
14:15 Adaptive damping and 3rd brake light
15:15 Interior
16:15 THE POWER KEY
16:50 ENGINE BAY
18:43 Inflating tyres
19:10 Fuel pump works
21:10 Boroscope and plug removal
22:13 Inside the boot
25:01 Unseizing brakes using fork lift
27:42 Will it bump start?
28:47 DEEP CLEAN
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