The car was until may 2009 a turboed A-series, but after yet another breakdown, I started this conversion.
One of the ideas behind it is cost. It is a budget-build, and TOTAL convertion is about 6K.
The engine is from a RX-7 FD 1995. Originally a twin-turbo engine, but now singel-turboed.
Water/methanol injected for cooling, MS injected, and "some" custom sollutions. Hopefully it will turn out about 300bhp, but my engine-guy wants to fuel it with E85 ( 85% alcohol 15% petrol) and don't think he can make it to run less than 350-370bhp...Time will tell.
Prop-shaft is custom-made, and will cope with upto 1000bhp, and the gearbox is covered by a kevlar-mat...both is dragracing-spec for safety.
Rear axel is from a Volvo, suspension is Spax coilovers, and it is all connected with 4link and panhard from a Ford RS2000, suspended in the roll-cage...sort of space framed. Rear brakes are a combo of BMW and Audi.
Front subframe are still Mini, but modified to suspend the engine. Front suspension is also Spax.
Everything, apart from ECU, water-injection and turbo-parts are things U might find at your local breaker, to keep the cost down.
The bulge in the bonnet IS nessecary to cover everything! We will use 2010 to sort out everything, and make it work,
and the plan for the 2011 season is to modify the intake and lower all the aux, so that a smaller bonnet can be used.
Again...BUDGET!
The car is not done, so the finnish is not great, but we'll have it up and running soon.
Track-ready-deadline is set to april...
