Project 36/400 T350R
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Sadly these days I think the only way you'd get a magazine review is if the respective companies agreed to advertise in the publication. Allegedly.
I'd be really interested to see a back to back RR comparison of the different options though as I would definitely not rule out a Sp6 to sit alongside the Tuscan in the garage in the future.
I'd be really interested to see a back to back RR comparison of the different options though as I would definitely not rule out a Sp6 to sit alongside the Tuscan in the garage in the future.
395bhp from a standard 3.6 SP6 with total seal rings, emerald ECU and bolt on parts is an amazing result. The engine isn't really a racing engine, I bought the motor for £500 from a guy who removed it from his Tuscan after a rebuild because it didn't make decent power(320bhp from memory). The engine has been rebuilt by Joo with standard parts along with a head stud kit and the total seal rings. The gains have come via the induction mods, cam timing and exhaust. When finalised it'll make a nice bolt on kit for road cars with some big improvements in bhp. That's gonna be an excellent bang for buck upgrade for SP6 owners.
ceejay said:
395bhp from a standard 3.6 SP6 with total seal rings, emerald ECU and bolt on parts is an amazing result. The engine isn't really a racing engine, I bought the motor for £500 from a guy who removed it from his Tuscan after a rebuild because it didn't make decent power(320bhp from memory). The engine has been rebuilt by Joo with standard parts along with a head stud kit and the total seal rings. The gains have come via the induction mods, cam timing and exhaust. When finalised it'll make a nice bolt on kit for road cars with some big improvements in bhp. That's gonna be an excellent bang for buck upgrade for SP6 owners.
Why haven't you gone for a 4 litre engine, speed six engines do not really lack bhp but torque especially against the ajp8/rover engine cars?Edited by WolfyJones on Wednesday 22 May 11:54
We've run a 4L in the past but because we rev them so hard we have had issues inc snapping a main cap bolt. The 3.6 seems to be a better unit for us and the current engine has done more than a seasons racing with no problems. Reluctant to change from something that has worked so far given the problems we've endured in the past hence the reason we've chosen to develop the 3.6 to take advantage of its revvy nature with good bhp figures at the top end. generally were 10% up on bhp and torque from where we started which is a decent gain plus we should be losing up to 40kg from the car too. Every little helps.
Long time no see, Ceejay!
It's been over a year since this thread last saw action, but the T350R was out at Brands last weekend so thought I'd update it with what happened.
The car hadn't run in anger for 3 years, and the tyres were at least 3 years old, possibly older. Cliff also hadn't driven the car except for a poor test day at Oulton last year where we failed the noise tests and had a gearbox seal failure meaning total track time was about 10 mins ..
and so we arrived at Brands with little idea of how the car would go.
In the end the car was great .. class pole and 2 wins (although the competition in the class wasn't exactly overwhelming, just the three cars out in class b sadly ..)
Of note though is the results of looking through the datalogger data .. despite being slower through most corners by around 5mph, the car was faster at the end of the straights by around 3-4mph compared to our last good data from Brands .. so it looks like the build has been well worthwhile.
The car hadn't run in anger for 3 years, and the tyres were at least 3 years old, possibly older. Cliff also hadn't driven the car except for a poor test day at Oulton last year where we failed the noise tests and had a gearbox seal failure meaning total track time was about 10 mins ..
and so we arrived at Brands with little idea of how the car would go.
In the end the car was great .. class pole and 2 wins (although the competition in the class wasn't exactly overwhelming, just the three cars out in class b sadly ..)
Of note though is the results of looking through the datalogger data .. despite being slower through most corners by around 5mph, the car was faster at the end of the straights by around 3-4mph compared to our last good data from Brands .. so it looks like the build has been well worthwhile.
Sadly not .. development stopped when I ran out of time but 400 is just around the corner. The exhaust we have on isn't the best in the world so it wouldn't be hard to get it. Ironically it would be easier on a road car to get 400 .. no track noise regs to have to deal with ..
No Manley race valves or GT cams or unpaid invoices in this engine either ..
No Manley race valves or GT cams or unpaid invoices in this engine either ..
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