605bhp Per Ton 200SX Powered Kitcar
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4 months since my last post, lots has happened.
The week after the trackday at Blyton my turbo let go in a big-way, thankfully nothing went engine side so it was a simple choice to decide what spec to replace it with.
I took off the original turbo (surprisingly easy even though it's a tight fit) and took it to a local turbo place. Thankfully the shell of my turbo was in good nick. This meant that I could get my original one repaired and then upgraded. I went for the option of having the turbine upgraded with a billet aluminium version (should spool faster), 360 degree thrust bearing and staggered oil-seal.
The result looks lovely
I went out for a few drives with local kit car clubs -
Somewhere in Derbyshire
Squires Cafe, Sherburn
Then on 1st June 2015 I became a Dad, saying hello to my beautiful daughter Rowan Mae. Garage and car time was rightfully slim on the ground but over the last few weeks I've started sorting a few niggles out.
I always suffered badly from heat-soak, to the point that on hard pulls in 4th gear the car would misfire. With a bit of headscratching and some visits to the local silicone hose shop I sought to fit my air filter outside of the engine bay.
I replaced the cheap filter I had with an Apexi Mushroom filter. The performance difference from moving the filter is huge, I'd have never thought it would have made that much difference. The noise outside is also increased
I went out for a drive on the moors to see how the noise sounded from the outside of the car...
The week after the trackday at Blyton my turbo let go in a big-way, thankfully nothing went engine side so it was a simple choice to decide what spec to replace it with.
I took off the original turbo (surprisingly easy even though it's a tight fit) and took it to a local turbo place. Thankfully the shell of my turbo was in good nick. This meant that I could get my original one repaired and then upgraded. I went for the option of having the turbine upgraded with a billet aluminium version (should spool faster), 360 degree thrust bearing and staggered oil-seal.
The result looks lovely
I went out for a few drives with local kit car clubs -
Somewhere in Derbyshire
Squires Cafe, Sherburn
Then on 1st June 2015 I became a Dad, saying hello to my beautiful daughter Rowan Mae. Garage and car time was rightfully slim on the ground but over the last few weeks I've started sorting a few niggles out.
I always suffered badly from heat-soak, to the point that on hard pulls in 4th gear the car would misfire. With a bit of headscratching and some visits to the local silicone hose shop I sought to fit my air filter outside of the engine bay.
I replaced the cheap filter I had with an Apexi Mushroom filter. The performance difference from moving the filter is huge, I'd have never thought it would have made that much difference. The noise outside is also increased
I went out for a drive on the moors to see how the noise sounded from the outside of the car...
Edited by dave2007bc on Thursday 7th May 10:18
I've always had trouble slowing the car down at 3 figure speeds. Surprisingly, even though the car only weighs 600kg the Cortina brakes just aren't enough to slow the car down adequately.
I've had my eyes open for some Wilwood 4 pots for a while and a suitable second-hand set came up for sale.
Grubby, but they'll look better all cleaned up
Before and after discs - 247mm solid to 285mm vented
I probably dont need vented discs so when these are done I may go for 285 solids as the discs alone weigh 9kg each, which isn't ideal for un-sprung weight.
The setup was originally from an RS turbo, so I had to get the bore of the discs made bigger by just 0.2mm to fit over my hub.
Test fit onto a spare hub
Things are VERY VERY tight
A quick skim on the hub arms with a grinder I think before they get fitted. The kit came with Wilwood 'race pads', whatever they are. They're about half-worn I'll stick them in for the moment to get the discs all scrubbed in and see how they perform. I'll go for DS2500s or 1.11's in the New Year I think.
The setup will get fitted next week when my mate has some free time at his garage; the calipers will have a fixed copper pipe going to a fixing on the back of my upright and unfortunately I don't have the tools for copper piping so need assistance with this.
There was a car show held locally so I took my green-bogey along.
It received some great interest, children, adults and elders all showed a good interest in the car. I also managed to fit my BeeR rev-limiter to make bangs and flames...because I love bangs and flames
I've had my eyes open for some Wilwood 4 pots for a while and a suitable second-hand set came up for sale.
Grubby, but they'll look better all cleaned up
Before and after discs - 247mm solid to 285mm vented
I probably dont need vented discs so when these are done I may go for 285 solids as the discs alone weigh 9kg each, which isn't ideal for un-sprung weight.
The setup was originally from an RS turbo, so I had to get the bore of the discs made bigger by just 0.2mm to fit over my hub.
Test fit onto a spare hub
Things are VERY VERY tight
A quick skim on the hub arms with a grinder I think before they get fitted. The kit came with Wilwood 'race pads', whatever they are. They're about half-worn I'll stick them in for the moment to get the discs all scrubbed in and see how they perform. I'll go for DS2500s or 1.11's in the New Year I think.
The setup will get fitted next week when my mate has some free time at his garage; the calipers will have a fixed copper pipe going to a fixing on the back of my upright and unfortunately I don't have the tools for copper piping so need assistance with this.
There was a car show held locally so I took my green-bogey along.
It received some great interest, children, adults and elders all showed a good interest in the car. I also managed to fit my BeeR rev-limiter to make bangs and flames...because I love bangs and flames
Edited by dave2007bc on Thursday 10th September 10:30
Only found this posting today. Read the lot. Fantastic job you've done there, you sure have every reason to feel really really proud of what you've done there. Keep the updates coming. I'm into trikes and bikes normally not cars so much but I make an exception when it comes to things of beauty and fine engineering like this.
Edited by Juggsy1 on Saturday 12th September 12:15
I can honestly say that fitting these 4 pots has been the worst 'car-job' I've ever had.
Even after refurbishing the calipers the brakes still kept sticking on, so I decided to replace every thing in the braking system.
The original pedal box had been butchered to fit the hydraulic clutch (it was previously cable) so I called up OBP and ordered their 'eco' pedal box
This came with 3 master cylinders; .7, .625 and .7
As my clutch was perfect, one of the .7's were sold on. The new .7 and .625 were fitted in place of the originals. I went to Clear Motorsport in Preston to have the work done, as quite frankly I was at my wits end with it all.
It took ages to go through the system and get everything bled and by the time I was due to leave the heavens had opened. I had a small drive around the workshop and everything seemed OK.
Then it was on to fitting some carbon vented side panels; the car never overheats but does get extremely hot under the bonnet as you'd expect. I managed to stumble upon a Westfield carbon side panel for a bargain price. As a Yorkshireman, I'm keen to make the most of my money so cut it in half so I could have a vent on each side
The car was a mess after all the cutting the grinding so needed a quick clean. Snowfoam to the rescue!
I then bought some road-tax and went for a drive....and the brakes stuck on. again
I went back home, ordered 2 more MC's (Wilwood this time) and dragged the car back up to Clear Motorsport. We replaced both MC's - it turns out the ones OBP sent me were knackered. Absolutely rubbish!
The weather was kinder to me this time so I covered a few miles around the Clear Motorsport workshop - I didn't realise I'd bought sintered pads - so now I get sparks from the disc under hard braking.
The finished brakes -
To get some miles on the car and I went out and gave it some abuse, including practicing '11s' - a new one for me; more practice definitely needed.
I'm pleased to say the car is working great, and I'm looking forward to my first trackday of the year at Blyton on March 18th.
Other things; I needed some storage on my trailer for my ratchet straps. Old Ammo boxes (£18 from eBay) work brilliantly; metal and lockable!
Even after refurbishing the calipers the brakes still kept sticking on, so I decided to replace every thing in the braking system.
The original pedal box had been butchered to fit the hydraulic clutch (it was previously cable) so I called up OBP and ordered their 'eco' pedal box
This came with 3 master cylinders; .7, .625 and .7
As my clutch was perfect, one of the .7's were sold on. The new .7 and .625 were fitted in place of the originals. I went to Clear Motorsport in Preston to have the work done, as quite frankly I was at my wits end with it all.
It took ages to go through the system and get everything bled and by the time I was due to leave the heavens had opened. I had a small drive around the workshop and everything seemed OK.
Then it was on to fitting some carbon vented side panels; the car never overheats but does get extremely hot under the bonnet as you'd expect. I managed to stumble upon a Westfield carbon side panel for a bargain price. As a Yorkshireman, I'm keen to make the most of my money so cut it in half so I could have a vent on each side
The car was a mess after all the cutting the grinding so needed a quick clean. Snowfoam to the rescue!
I then bought some road-tax and went for a drive....and the brakes stuck on. again
I went back home, ordered 2 more MC's (Wilwood this time) and dragged the car back up to Clear Motorsport. We replaced both MC's - it turns out the ones OBP sent me were knackered. Absolutely rubbish!
The weather was kinder to me this time so I covered a few miles around the Clear Motorsport workshop - I didn't realise I'd bought sintered pads - so now I get sparks from the disc under hard braking.
The finished brakes -
To get some miles on the car and I went out and gave it some abuse, including practicing '11s' - a new one for me; more practice definitely needed.
I'm pleased to say the car is working great, and I'm looking forward to my first trackday of the year at Blyton on March 18th.
Other things; I needed some storage on my trailer for my ratchet straps. Old Ammo boxes (£18 from eBay) work brilliantly; metal and lockable!
Edited by dave2007bc on Thursday 7th May 10:20
Mr MXT said:
Dave - tell me more about that gearlever, got a link?
Type 9 box presumably?
The original car had an MT75 gearbox, this had some random homemade extension on with a long rod that went into the MT75 box - the MT75 is really really short compared to the Type 9.Type 9 box presumably?
The new engine uses the original CA18DET gearbox and was about 4-5" 'off' of where I wanted the gearstick. After hours on Google I stumbled across this -
http://r.ebay.com/16kd3f
All I did was chop the original Nissan stick down and weld that VW attached above on to it. The gearstick then simply screws on. Very simple and works perfectly and as smooth as the original Nissan one as I'm still going direct into the box.
dave2007bc said:
That'd be great thanks! I've got a few from that trackday on my Youtube channel, you might be in there somewhere too!
All I remember from that day is the god awful 3-series BMW spewing blue smoke out the back
I think thats you coming past at about 5.40 on this vid:All I remember from that day is the god awful 3-series BMW spewing blue smoke out the back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LJX7GOn8s
You can make out the engine noise as you pass. I missed the smoke fun as I left around lunch time.
DMN said:
dave2007bc said:
That'd be great thanks! I've got a few from that trackday on my Youtube channel, you might be in there somewhere too!
All I remember from that day is the god awful 3-series BMW spewing blue smoke out the back
I think thats you coming past at about 5.40 on this vid:All I remember from that day is the god awful 3-series BMW spewing blue smoke out the back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LJX7GOn8s
You can make out the engine noise as you pass. I missed the smoke fun as I left around lunch time.
dave2007bc said:
DMN said:
dave2007bc said:
That'd be great thanks! I've got a few from that trackday on my Youtube channel, you might be in there somewhere too!
All I remember from that day is the god awful 3-series BMW spewing blue smoke out the back
I think thats you coming past at about 5.40 on this vid:All I remember from that day is the god awful 3-series BMW spewing blue smoke out the back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LJX7GOn8s
You can make out the engine noise as you pass. I missed the smoke fun as I left around lunch time.
I do have another clip of a green LOCOST going past, but its about a second long. Taken whilst I was sat waiting to join the circuit.
DMN said:
Ah..
I do have another clip of a green LOCOST going past, but its about a second long. Taken whilst I was sat waiting to join the circuit.
Is that on your channel? I lost 2 nuts from my trailing arms in the morning so spent most of it lying under the car taking my trailer apart to replace the nuts I do have another clip of a green LOCOST going past, but its about a second long. Taken whilst I was sat waiting to join the circuit.
That's probably why I was never on track at the same time as you lolGassing Station | Readers' Cars | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff