Lot of random pics

Here's a quite a few pics of some progress over the past few weeks, no real order just lotta pics.
































































I'm now looking at a realistic finish time of about febuary, march now so will be done in time for the summer.

Quck update

Ive recently decided not to turbo charge the engine. This was brought on by been given a passenger ride in a 900cc fireblade engined locost. After experianceing how fast a 440kg, 120bhp is i decided that 350kgs and 137 bhp will be enough to kill me lol, so for now the turbo is been left alone.

Turbo Time

Right Heres a small update, after a few weeks of research ive decided to turbo charge the engine. I already had a garrett t25 laying around so i stripped this down and gave it a good clean but unfortunatly its no use for what i need. Good job id not ordered the rebuild kit yet lol.





The problem i had with this turbo was that the turbine housing and wheel were larger than the compressor which on a bike engine will not spool up fast enough so i now need to get either a T2 from a Renault 5 or a TD04 16T from a Volvo. both of these turbo's should give me a turbine housing that is smaller then the compressor for a faster spool up. I will update as soon as i get the turbo i need. Hopefully not long now.

Small update

small update. moved house few weeks ago so not got a great deal done but heres a few pics of how the car is right now.















Chain diff completed, used the rear diff from a sierra 1.8






fabricated rear uprights/hubs


fabricated front upright


Column attached


my current ride, 2.6 V6

Chain diff

Thought id put up a few pics of the chain diff ive made.

heres the diff from a 1.8 sierra


one side welded


side mounting plates cut from 5mm 316 s/s


I made the bearing housing from 3 rings of 6mm mild steel with a 2mm end plate.


The bearings im using


All together




Ive made this diff from s/s and mild to start with but i plan to make it from ali once ive tested it to make sure it will be strong enough. Once its all ali it will drop a kilo or two. The parts are now ali see below for other pics.