I already have a thread running called "My Project Supercar" but I have recently put that on hold while I have a little fun with my Noble M12.

Ive had the M12 for a few years and it has been my company car iterally, I have done 40k miles in it in this time and it remained completely standard and was quite frankly an astonishing machine that was a worthy replacement for my M3 company car (the M3 turned into my track day toy after covering 160k and is an amazing car).

Earlier this year I had a slack period at work so decided to do some routine maintenance and to correct a few known issues with my model as std (weak gearbox, no track day sump etc) which whilst had never caused issue or unreliablity I wanted to do just to keep it that way.
As with all best laid plans it all went horribly wrong, I upgraded the box clutch etc and then remapped it to 400bhp... were almost imediatelly the big ends in the engine went...

So I decided to go the whole hog and put a mountune race engine it, also upgraded the box to a 6 speeder which I has strengthend, changed the clutch again (as box used different one) etc etc.. all this cost me close to what I originally paid for the car and when finished we rolling roaded it and it did 480bhp on low boost (0.9bar full boost would be 1.7bar).
We never mapped it for full power as we had some issues with the spark plugs and so I went to lemans and had a ball in the car on low boost.... upon return the engine prompty dropped 2 valves and destroyed itself due to an assembly fault by myself.... not good

Anyhow I have now decided to absolutelly mad with the car, I have sold almost all the nice parts that made it the monster spec that it was (intercooler, exhaust, turbos etc etc) and I have started a whole set of all new mods... these include developing my own single large turbo setup, developing a tripple plate clutch and doing a whole set of chassis mods (I cut the rear chassis off) and some radical body mods.

All in all its going to be a bit of a monster and hopefully quite unique and maybe a little fast

Anyhow onto some pics.



In its std guise with some stripes that I fitted and some M400 wheels.



Engine lunched itself



new clutch and flywheel helped save 10kgs off the rotating masses!!!!


some of the new nice bits ready to go on... old race spec turbo and fuel pump as examples... the race spec is 600bhp and im 'going a step further






new exhaust runs dual external wastegates which will be unsilenced





body mods are going to be kept under cover for the moment, mainly as they typically look rubbish until they are complete and painted

That exhaust / wastegate set-up is

More pics please!

PS. you are clearly mad, good work!

Amazing, top work

That is going to fly... once it spools up

It'll be lag, lag, lag, WOOSH

Company car?! I'm clearly doing the wrong job!

Nice work and hats off to your patience with all the issues

It's not lag, it's boost threshold. Two very different things. But I'm guessing the boost threshold will be quite a step. I assume you'll have a lower boost "street" map to stop it being a bit scary on the road?

sorry wasnt meaning to sound arsy, just hear it a lot and i've gone to a lot of lengths to make sure its less laggy than before.

going to have 3 settings for boost, Low, medium and high

Fantasic, Bookmarked.
It should be epic, you seam to know exactly what your doing!

Excellent.

I appreciate you lunacy and am looking forward to updates.

Bookmarked, that things going to be mental