New car...again....Kit car content

Ol’ Tarby · Dec 23, 2017

harvsurrey said:
Nice looking car

@Waitey the mt75 box isnt quite as rifley like as a type 9

As for tuning potential James there is 250bhp in a zetec on bodies .

What ecu is it running and what chokes in the bodies , find that out first.

I suspect you wont gain much on mapping as it will have been done for the IVA .

Exhaust is also where power is held on the zetec especially in kits , trick manifolds are where its at and decent flowing silencers.

Bigger brakes ... forget that as the MI6 single pot calipers are mega with the right pads , you will spend ££££££ on something else to be better

Spend that money on 13" rims and loose unsprung weight

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It's running an emerald K6 mate, but I'm not sure on the the bodies sizes. Just know they're AT bodies.

As for the brakes, I'm sticking with the standard caliper and going for decent pads.

I'm not gonna be spending big money on chasing power etc etc. It's just a bit of weekend fun

... · Dec 23, 2017

A 2.0 stock with the right chokes in the bodies and a good exhaust manifold will give about 175 tops

Ported head

After that your looking at cams with vernier pulleys

And you will see 210bhp

I ended up with just under 500kgs , 240ish bhp

And lots of carbon

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Ol’ Tarby · Dec 23, 2017

harvsurrey said:
A 2.0 stock with the right chokes in the bodies and a good exhaust manifold will give about 175 tops

Ported head

After that your looking at cams with vernier pulleys

And you will see 210bhp

I ended up with just under 500kgs , 240ish bhp

And lots of carbon View attachment 1350103

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What classes as a good exhaust manifold?

The one it's currently running..

... · Dec 23, 2017

Current one looks made to be a convinient fit

A good balance one will look like this

http://www.dunnellengines.com/zetec_components.php?partno=RMP1960

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Typhoon · Dec 23, 2017

Horse s**t car.

Ol’ Tarby · Dec 28, 2017

Did a few little bits earlier

I've removed all the wet weather gear and sold it as it'll never see a wet day anyway. The money I got for that has paid for the new seats.
Drilling rivets out is boring as f**k! Soon got bored of that so I decided to take the old seats out and make sure the new ones fit.

Unbolted the harnesses

Seats whipped out

New drivers seat slotted straight in with room to spare!

I've also taken the centre tunnel top panels out ready to retrim those and replace the red gaitors. Not got pics of that though.

Tomorrow I really need to sort my garage out though as I'm getting pissed off with s**t being everywhere and unorganised, and nowhere to put stuff down

Stay Puft · Dec 28, 2017

Those seats look err comfy!

Mr Plums · Dec 28, 2017

James said:
Did a few little bits earlier

I've removed all the wet weather gear and sold it as it'll never see a wet day anyway. The money I got for that has paid for the new seats.
Drilling rivets out is boring as f**k! Soon got bored of that so I decided to take the old seats out and make sure the new ones fit.

Unbolted the harnesses
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Seats whipped out
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New drivers seat slotted straight in with room to spare!
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I've also taken the centre tunnel top panels out ready to retrim those and replace the red gaitors. Not got pics of that though.

Tomorrow I really need to sort my garage out though as I'm getting pissed off with s**t being everywhere and unorganised, and nowhere to put stuff down

Plastic seats?

Is it quick mate?

Ol’ Tarby · Dec 28, 2017

Davyy said:
Those seats look err comfy!

Comfier than they look!

Mr. Plums said:
Plastic seats?

Is it quick mate?

It's nippy mate, yeah!

massiveCoRbyn · Dec 28, 2017

Seats look much better!

Ol’ Tarby · Dec 28, 2017

massivewangers said:
Seats look much better!

Certainly less old manish :up:

Plus there's more room now

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 6, 2018

Picked up some new front wings this week. They're the "sport" style wings with flat tops. GBS sell these for 80 quid each! I found a guy on eBay who makes them to order for 60 quid, a pair! Couple that with eBay's 20% offer last week and I got them for £48.

Old

New (placed on, not fixed yet)

I also picked up a set of cheap mintex 1144 pads this morning from a chap on one of the forums, so I fitted them earlier on.

I then got pissed off with the state of my garage and not being able to put anything down anywhere so I've started to sort it. Gonna order a small skip next week to get rid of a load of s**t that I've accumulated over the year while doing the garden

Waitey · Jan 6, 2018

CSR wings should be vented

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 6, 2018

Waitey said:
CSR wings should be vented

Yeah they would look better vented to be fair. These were cheap though

... · Jan 6, 2018

Waitey said:
CSR wings should be vented

Indeed , and the ones without tend to cause alot of front lift.

In the ones i have driven on track it causes lots of intial understeer

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Ol’ Tarby · Jan 6, 2018

It's going to cause zero issues for me, as I don't care about a slight bit of lift at the front or whatever. It's a play thing

Raceface_13 · Jan 7, 2018

If it did cause issues you could always drill afew rows of small holes or larger ones backed with some black mesh, youd hardly see them and possibly sort the “issue”

What forums are there for kitcars? I was on the madaboutkitcars forum but its proper dead

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 7, 2018

Raceface_13 said:
If it did cause issues you could always drill afew rows of small holes or larger ones backed with some black mesh, youd hardly see them and possibly sort the “issue”

What forums are there for kitcars? I was on the madaboutkitcars forum but its proper dead

Yeah not a bad shout that, mate!

There's locostbuilders, rhocar and another that I can't remember.
There's nothing that's as busy as here though

JD · Jan 9, 2018

James said:
It's going to cause zero issues for me, as I don't care about a slight bit of lift at the front or whatever. It's a play thing

Is that worth just reading back to yourself, fella? Surely the last thing you want at 30/50/70+ is lift at the front of a very light sports car? Having done 70+ in mine, light/no steering is not something I'd chance for the sake of a few quid or some time drilling holes (as per the suggestion above).

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 9, 2018

JD said:
Is that worth just reading back to yourself, fella? Surely the last thing you want at 30/50/70+ is lift at the front of a very light sports car? Having done 70+ in mine, light/no steering is not something I'd chance for the sake of a few quid or some time drilling holes (as per the suggestion above).

Am I completely underestimating the aerodynamic effect they have then? Lol I thought it was only a suggestion based on losing time over laps of a track. If it can have that much of a negative impact on just general driving then I'll get some holes cut in them

... · Jan 9, 2018

James said:
Am I completely underestimating the aerodynamic effect they have then? Lol I thought it was only a suggestion based on losing time over laps of a track. If it can have that much of a negative impact on just general driving then I'll get some holes cut in them

It wont have huge effect at road speed , but understeer if geo is set right isnt so bad unless at 60+

The aero of a 7 type car is that of a brick anyway

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Ex-User (19928) · Jan 9, 2018

harvsurrey said:
It wont have huge effect at road speed , but understeer if geo is set right isnt so bad unless at 60+

The aero of a 7 type car is that of a brick anyway

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Albeit a small brick

... · Jan 9, 2018

Jeff simply said:
Albeit a small brick

The hole it makes and the aero effect is not actually small

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Ex-User (19928) · Jan 9, 2018

harvsurrey said:
The hole it makes and the aero effect is not actually small

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Compared to a house brick perhaps.

Physically for a car it's silhouette is small, unless I've misunderstood aero at a very basic level..

Filters · Jan 9, 2018

I'm jealous mate, how're you finding it so far?

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 9, 2018

Filters said:
I'm jealous mate, how're you finding it so far?

I've done less than 2 miles in it since I bought it mate. It's in the garage up on axle stands at the moment. It won't be out till the weather improves in a few months

Filters · Jan 9, 2018

Don't be such a girl 😂 wrap up and check a lid on.
I've been looking in to the MK and MNR kits recently, you'll have to bring it along to blyton :up:

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 9, 2018

Filters said:
Don't be such a girl 😂 wrap up and check a lid on.
I've been looking in to the MK and MNR kits recently, you'll have to bring it along to blyton :up:

Yeah I'm gonna look into the logistics of it. Not much room for the camping gear lol

I like the MKs but not keen on the MNR front nosecone

Filters · Jan 10, 2018

James said:
Yeah I'm gonna look into the logistics of it. Not much room for the camping gear lol

I like the MKs but not keen on the MNR front nosecone

Funnily enough I quite like the MNR nosecones, makes them stand out from the crowd a little.
Any particular reason for going for a car engined kit?

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 10, 2018

Filters said:
Funnily enough I quite like the MNR nosecones, makes them stand out from the crowd a little.
Any particular reason for going for a car engined kit?

The main reason being I have no experience of bike engines, so thought I'd struggle to fix it. Reality is though it's just an engine at the end of the day so probably no difference in that sense.

Extra torque? I'll throw that in as a reason aswell lol

Filters · Jan 10, 2018

James said:
The main reason being I have no experience of bike engines, so thought I'd struggle to fix it. Reality is though it's just an engine at the end of the day so probably no difference in that sense.

Extra torque? I'll throw that in as a reason aswell lol

Fair point well taken, bike engines can be tempremental.
what powers it making roughly?

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 10, 2018

Filters said:
Fair point well taken, bike engines can be tempremental.
what powers it making roughly?

Hmmmm well I don't know for sure as it's never been roaded. A 2.0 zetec on bodies should be around 170bhp, but I'm sure the guy I bought it off said it was only running the Emerald base map, so I can't see it running the most it can. I'll be getting the mapping looked into in a few months to make sure it's running ok

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 12, 2018

Great service once again from George

Waitey · Jan 12, 2018

You on vented. Thats rare.

Ol’ Tarby · Jan 12, 2018

Waitey said:
You on vented. Thats rare.

Yeah they're vented mate. Rare in a good way, or a bad way?

... · Jan 12, 2018

Rare as in you don't need vented on a light car with the MI-16 calipers all it achieves is adding weight

the object is loose unsprung weight

these were mine , solid , on ali bells and holes like a swiss cheese