Citroen 2cv V8 Racer
Discussion
Petrolism said:
Aside from possibly using old parts, why not sell the carbs and put Jenvey throttle bodies on? Surely a decent modern closed loop ECU will make initial and further tuning a lot easier, whilst also allowing flat shifting, etc.?
It's harking back to the 70s era of Special saloon racing , no electronic gizmos and no ecus .The expected power output is pushing the limits of normal tuning without going to very expensive and extreme levels .
We ran a very similar set up in a MK1 escort 15 years ago that was pushing 360bhp and was incredibly reliable, with the latest head and camshaft development we have been reliably informed that the target power is very achievable.
Using stuff that has been hoarded over the years, some very canny trading over the years , lots of in house fabrication, old school technology and lots of know how the total build cost should be surprisingly low . The biggest single expense will be the carbs .
In the near future it looks like we will have a car at the BHP show at Lydden in Oct probably this Holden .
Konrod said:
I love watching threads like this, thanks for posting it up. One (probably stupid) question, but how will you get the pully on the water pump and run the belt - it looks from the pictures that the chassis is in the way. Are you extending it in front of the chassis?
That is just the mule engine , the race engine is yet to be built .I am told that it will have a high capacity water pump of a much shorter design but things will be tight ! It will only have an electric fan mounted on the rad .
A similar engine is currently being assembled for a mad customer to be fitted into his Land Rover!
Not a great deal to report of late .
The pedal reservoirs have been fitted on the second attempt, the first ones looked far too modern so older style ones were fitted .
The doors are being stripped lightened, strengthened and repaired as necessary.
My cousin Lee Follett of FG Fabrications visited today to measure up for the front roll cage hoops. Once these have been fabricated and fitted the rest of the body mounts can be fitted and the exhaust system can be fabricated and fitted .
The colour scheme changes almost weekly, last week.it was yellow in tribute to the one in the Bond Film , this week it's Red Charleston colours .
The past choices have been Yellow /Black and Black/ Silver.
The Dry sump system is near to complete and will be trial fitted shortly .
Things have been a bit slow on the build front of late . Peter the owner /builder is absolutely snowed under with work ( 9 E types among many others )
Me being in hospital for 7 days was not part of my plans either .
Thanks to Lee of FG fabrications the front roll cage can now go in .
The intake manifold is coming together , it's being fabricated in house then off to have castings made as Peter has several customers who want similar set ups on some mad V8 Land Rovers .
Me being in hospital for 7 days was not part of my plans either .
Thanks to Lee of FG fabrications the front roll cage can now go in .
The intake manifold is coming together , it's being fabricated in house then off to have castings made as Peter has several customers who want similar set ups on some mad V8 Land Rovers .
Greg_D said:
Max_Torque said:
grumpy52 said:
It will be close but with an expected 400 -420 BHP, t
Is it turbo'd?It does sound a lot for an rv8...
People are still developing these engines and 400 bhp is realistic for race engines , most are running at well over 4 ltr and 4.8 ltr is often used . They do drink fuel though . The Escort we previously raced averaged 5mpg , this was a car that weighed 875kg fully ready to fire off the line .
With no inlet manifold of the correct height available Peter had no choice but to fabricate his own . Several customers have expressed an interest in acquiring the same so he will be having a batch cast from his fabricated version .
Very lucky to have a contact locally that can undertake the casting at reasonable cost .
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