RE: New track car almost ready

[MarkoTVR]

Nice one, D-Angle!! That excellent!!

[user d]

Never mind all the high prices and yet-to-be-turned-into-real-metal photos.
Check out the MK Sprint-R, from Martin Keenan, at mkdevelopments.co.uk
It's 350kg, powered by a Yamaha R1 of 150bhp and is in production with an on-the-road-price of £6,500 if you screw it together yourself! It reminds me of a formula Vauxhall or somesuch and would fly around the track with a big aerofoil on the back.
It can even be put through SVA like most kit cars and thrashed down the high street!
I WANT ONE SO BAD!

[jaecy]

is there a website for this car? official?!

[sprinter885]

andyinpembs said:

Is having a car nose that pointy actually legal??

Only if your name's Captain Beaky.

Looks kinda unadventurous copy of any single seater to me. Give me a Toniq-R anyday

[BoRED S2upid]

That nose is never road legal you could skewer something on that. Roadkill kebab anyone?

[D-Angle]

MarkoTVR said:

Nice one, D-Angle!! That excellent!!

I cannot claim credit:
www.sniffpetrol.com/issue075.html

[lukeb]

user d said:

Check out the MK Sprint-R, from Martin Keenan, at mkdevelopments.co.uk

Woot! Not especially pretty, but in terms of spec it's the absolute bomb. Now I have to seriously resist temptation. Doesn't look too difficult to add downforce to :scratchin:

[anonymous-user]

lukeb said:

The stripped out Fireblade BECs broke new ground by getting within shouting distance of 400kg, if this is as light as claimed then it's fantastic step forwards.

The Striker R1 I built 3 years ago ( www.auiu24.dsl.pipex.com/ ) was 390Kg with fluids and there was ~10Kg of excess baggage on that, which was pretty good for a 2 seater roadgoing car. At the time there were probably only 3 cars I knew of which were geniunely under 400Kg despite every manufacturer claiming their cars were 410Kg when in reality they were more like 470Kg.

300Kg is in a different league. It will be interesting to see if it really is this light.

Richard

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 28th September 18:27

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 28th September 18:27

[anonymous-user]

lathamjohnp said:

There were some Striker R1s putting out 150bhp+ for around 400kg. You could have someone build you a beautiful one for a heap load less than £50k.
John

Hi John :-)

My Striker R1 was 390Kg according to the corner weights at the KCW open day. On the dyno it made 172bhp with my exhaust manifold and the shorter velocity stacks. Whilst this power figure is probably a bit high there was a caterham fireblade there on the same day that made a little less power than expected, so the dyno wasn't hugely out. It cost me £12K to build and was worth every penny!

Richard

[trenchtown]

D-Angle said:

WHAHAHAHAHA!!! So true!!!

Although its not just a british phenomena; the whole of europe churns out new supercars every ten seconds. Infact, I reckon to become a fully fledged EU member, you need to have at least one citizen who's strapped with cash and feels the need to create his very own supercar.

Personally I just like Noble and Ascari, although they're different concepts altogether

[robcollingridge]

How much! He's having a laugh. My Fisher Fury R1 is going to be about 160bhp and 425Kg but will cost less than £15k and looks a whole lot better too.

www.robcollingridge.com/kitcar

Rob

[member8888]

Why buy this when you can buy a F3000 car for 10K, put some cycle wings on it, lights etc and register it. I've often thought about offering such a service. Is there a demand for such a service? Bottom end would be formula Ford right up to F1 cars.

[MidnightDriver]

You could poke some ones eye out with that!!!

[bales]

If this car weighs in at 300kg and is road legal I will be very very suprised, 300kg is very very light. The formula student car I helped to design weighed 220kg and that was pretty minimal and tiny in comparison into that. Plus I would hate to crash in a car that weighed that little

[M400 NBL]

All of a sudden my Midtec seems lardy

Have you checked out the lightweight Golf in the Readers' Cars forum. Very impressive.

£50k would buy an ultima. probably 0-60 in less than 3 seconds

[PJR]

The more you strip a car down to save weight to add performance, the more it starts to look like you should just get a fast motorbike instead. The 2 seem to become more and more related when cars get to this stage.
Rapid, light weight, zero creature comforts, minimal/no bodywork, no aerodynamic downforce aids..
I expect the car would corner better though, even without the areodynamic hoopla.
Still, makes you wonder..

[eccles]

when you consider Davrians were weighing in at around 460kg's around 35-40 years ago for a road going car, and lightweight racing ones were even lighter, 300kg's isn't that impessive!

[Captain Beaky]

sprinter885 said:

andyinpembs said:

Is having a car nose that pointy actually legal??

Only if your name's Captain Beaky.

Looks kinda unadventurous copy of any single seater to me. Give me a Toniq-R anyday

Oi !

[roadrazer]

The pricing of the RoadRazer is NOT £49000 as mentioned in the article. Introduction pricing will be £35000 for a turnkey car and £19900 for a kit. When buing the kit you need donor parts from a Hayabusa and wheels. See www.roadrazer.com for more details.

Regards

Mikkel, The RoadRazer Company

[fuoriserie]

roadrazer said:

The pricing of the RoadRazer is NOT £49000 as mentioned in the article. Introduction pricing will be £35000 for a turnkey car and £19900 for a kit. When buing the kit you need donor parts from a Hayabusa and wheels. See www.roadrazer.com for more details.

Regards

Mikkel, The RoadRazer Company

Wish you guy the best of luck with your new project, because I understand how hard it is to design, engineer and finally build the prototype.

I like it very much and the design is really unique.

Ciao
Italo

Edited by fuoriserie on Tuesday 10th October 08:57