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There isn't a Britcar 24hr next year due to the economic situation. There is a Britcar 500, i.e 6 hour 500KM race which we are entering. However with our setup we can do that with one stop and two drivers! Cheers M

Some dodgy looking chap stuck them on while the car was outside the garage at the 24hr. He got the front one on upside down too! ;-) Orange wheels next season? Cheers M

Few photos below from this years season. It's the first X85 to be run in British Endurance Racing and as far as we can find out the most succesful X85 there is with class win at the Britcar/Silverstone 24 hour (1st in Class, 16th overall out of 51 starters) and the highest points scorers in...

No advantage to a larger bore throttle unless the standard throttle body is unable to flow sufficent air mass at WOT. If you go larger all you will see is effective WOT (i.e. engine producing maximum power for a given RPM) at a lower throttle opening which makes the car harder to drive. Standard...

Exactly. The changes we're making for 2009 are to make the car even more crash resistant, reduce weight and hopefully as a side point improve efficency. I'm not expecting it to make a jot of difference to power unless the engine downstream has significant changes made to it! On the subject of...

Get him to drop us a mail (www.bpmracing.co.uk) if he's planning to enter Britcar. We carry around £20,000 of spares for the X85 cups so can do a spares supply deal for him and save him having to carry spares/put out 10K on them. We also have a very, very good team of guys with getting on for...

Interesting to see it got a Production S1 sticker on the nose! Has he only just purchased it or is he planning to enter Britcar next season? Cheers M

I'd want to scope it first and check the signal quality and strength before getting the round files out. If it was sufficent for the standard ECU to run from then it really ought to be sufficent for an aftermarket ECU. It'll more than likely be a configuration issue i.e. rising/falling or the...

Meant the software on the ECU rather than the PC chap. Like I said I'm not knocking DTA at all - its something I'd certainly consider using in a couple of years on X85's when they've got cheaper and need an ECU that the owner can access - DTA have just added support for the 830 cam/crank...

DTA is a good ECU, not knocking it at all. However the software engineering/strat development can take a good deal more time than the hardware design/development. I tend to look at it like a PC - if you want Office and a AutoCAD then it costs you extra above what the box with an OS on it cost...

Motec is cheap mate! The stuff I deal with starts at 2 grand for a bare ECU with no options and runs upto £7500 for the top spec kit. Regarding feature set its important to note that the you're paying for the license to use the strategy not the hardware to do it. Cheers M

Motec Hundred series (and possibly M4 but can't remember off the top of my head) with the DBW upgrade will run the Clio DBW throttle body properly and with decent fail safe (e.g. Primary/Secondary TPS Compare), Motec DBW4 expander will also enable it on Motec's that don't have support for DBW...

Re: PH1 172 Track Car, abit special *ITB update* Well done chaps, first time is always the hardest! Glad I could help and well done on getting it firing first time. Cheers M

How is that advice condescending? I've interviewed for roles with and interviewed people for roles at the companies above. Lado here shouted out without the full facts and was called up on it. There's no arguing your way out of it when there is hundreds of GB's of data showing that his opinion...

Nope very, very easy to do. Have to do quite a few on the race cars as they tend to get tweaked by contact with other cars etc. Ten minute job if its one with air jacks! When you've pressed the old bearing apart pull it apart and use the cage to push the new bearing in. Makes it a lot easier...

Turbines don't care though - no moving parts that rely on the fuel for lubrication - unlike a Diesel pump for example! Best bet is to thin it down to circa Diesel fuel levels as if its way too thick its quite likely you'll shear the pump drive off. Jet fuel is fine straight out the plane...

Get the arse if you want to but if you end up in Motorsport or the general Automotive industry (which from your earlier post it seems like you want to) and write a technical proposal incorporating marketing phrases such as "Cold Air Feed" and "Induction Kit" or their abbreviations then it won't...

Spot on!

ROFL Nothing wrong with abbreviations! The term itself is incorrect. "Cold Air Feed" why is it cold? Define cold as a useful temperature value? Its ambient temperature, which is a term which can be defined easily i.e. "In a 22 degree centigrade ambient at 75MPH the difference between the three...

You've not read what I wrote have you! The point is the term is incorrect, you'll never find it in a proper specification/proposal lets put it that way. An induction/filtration setup can only ever supply the airbox with ambient temperature air. Cold Air Feed is purely a marketing term used to...

Few reasons for it, assuming it wasn't damaged during fitting then usualy its because the fibres used to strengthen the belt are damaged when the belt is made. Quite common to X-Ray belts that are going to used on endurance cars to ensure they are 'good'. Cheers M

CEL = Check Engine Light. Really should be called a MIL (malfunction indicator light) as it'll light up for more than engine related failures. 172/182 ignore it as far as I know. 197 ECU spec does show a failure detection for the acoustic valve actuators - I'll have a butchers tomorrow, I...

At what point have I ever said the induction/filtration setup on the BPM X85 RACE CARS is for road use? The coolant rad in the BPM X85's is offset. It's not in the road cars. No one has claimed that design can't be improved either - I've stated twice that the 2009 X85 SE specification includes a...

It'll CEL eventualy ;)........ or rather it should! Standard induction on the road car for circa 200bhp is fine. No need to worry about it. Stick an ITG in if you want to but aside from that there's no point playing. Less bends = less restriction is a good rule to work from but it also...

Did you miss the part of my post above where I explained the car has 5 large of MM Motorsport logging which records air temperatures at 3 different locations at upto 1000hz? If you mean picking up an induction point on the scuttle panel then thats fine until the car in front sprays gravel over...

Doesn't! Got 630GB of data here if you want to go through it all and try and find a spot where the inlet charge temp is anymore than 2 degrees above ambient when the car is racing. The rad in cars built to my spec is 110mm further across the bay than standard. Cheers M

Acoustic valve on the road car to avoid a CEL. No problem making a plug in module that will avoid lighting the CEL without the valve actualy being there. We've thought about doing an aftermarket setup but in order to gain anything decent on the road car you need to move the battery. Total kit...

How many induction/filtration systems have you designed and how many 1000's of KM's experience do you have with X85's then? That particular car has over 5 grands worth of electronics which are logging data from the engine package at upto 1000hz sample rate, ambient air temperature, airbox...

Race car only. On the road car you will need to move your battery and various other bits, lose the aircon and budge the rad over 110mm/take the angle grinder to your inner wing. Cheers M

80mm inlet rather than 65mm inlet. Cheers M