Pink & Blue 182, JDM DC2
Well this weekend I went to get the Striker from Hereford. Quite a long drive from Kent, but well worth it. Took about an hour to load her all up and strap the car down.
There were 3 boxes of assorted parts, 1 set of wheels with Yokohama A032's, 1 set of wheels with Eagle F1's, 2 spare wheels with Eagle F1's as well as the set on the car with Eagle F1's. A carbon fibre drivers seat, assorted pots of paint and fibreglass and importantly a full tonneau cover. lol.
The car itself as some of your may know is a Raw Striker. Originally made by Sylva Sports Cars in Kent but sold to Raw Engineering in 2002. My Striker is valued at around £8,500 and was made in 2004 so 2 years old. It weighs uner 500kgs and has a stock 2002 fuel-injected 998cc engine from a yamaha YZF-R1 motorbike. Power to weight ratio is therefore in excess of 300bhp/tonne.
Performance as you'd expect is stunning. 0-60 in first gear is under 4 seconds and it gets very illegal very very quickly (Mclaren Mercedes SLR is 3.8/3.9secs for reference!)
Car has no heater, no doors, no roof, no windscreen, no radio so as raw as it comes.
But whats it like out on the road.. well, in all honesty its astonishing. Its the fastest and most agile vehicle I've ever been in. Change of direction is immediate. The steering feeling is heavy but planted and you feel every bump and vibration, welcome back to coilovers! The pedals are very close together and require little effort to use. The accelerator and clutch are very "on/off"affairs with the non-servo'd brakes requiring work to get the most out of them. Since everything is so closely mounted its easier to left foot brake, especially without the servo. The pedals are rock solid so feels great.
The sequential gearbox is like something else, you nail it in 1st, wait for all the shift lights to come on then lift off the gas, pull the shifter back and immediately nail the throttle again and it justs keeps going - all in a split second, theres no pause in power just brutal in your face brash acceleration. You need both hands to steer purely to hold on for dear life. Oh my goodness.
The engine and 'box whine as I hold it in 2nd gear in a 30mph village, a little lift off the throttle to keep the speed down and the carbon fibre exhaust backbox pops and bangs.... I tighten the harness and lower my visor as we approach the national speed limit sign the revs rise... 5,000 rpm (11,000 rpm shift point) the noise is deafening, its ringing in side my helmet, the mirrors are vibrating so much you can't see anything behind you, - but who cares, because as I nail the throttle the next point of reference is far away on the horizon and boy do you get there quickly.... hold on tight...
Awesome.
Pics from the PistonHeads advert - will add more tonight.
There were 3 boxes of assorted parts, 1 set of wheels with Yokohama A032's, 1 set of wheels with Eagle F1's, 2 spare wheels with Eagle F1's as well as the set on the car with Eagle F1's. A carbon fibre drivers seat, assorted pots of paint and fibreglass and importantly a full tonneau cover. lol.
The car itself as some of your may know is a Raw Striker. Originally made by Sylva Sports Cars in Kent but sold to Raw Engineering in 2002. My Striker is valued at around £8,500 and was made in 2004 so 2 years old. It weighs uner 500kgs and has a stock 2002 fuel-injected 998cc engine from a yamaha YZF-R1 motorbike. Power to weight ratio is therefore in excess of 300bhp/tonne.
Performance as you'd expect is stunning. 0-60 in first gear is under 4 seconds and it gets very illegal very very quickly (Mclaren Mercedes SLR is 3.8/3.9secs for reference!)
Car has no heater, no doors, no roof, no windscreen, no radio so as raw as it comes.
But whats it like out on the road.. well, in all honesty its astonishing. Its the fastest and most agile vehicle I've ever been in. Change of direction is immediate. The steering feeling is heavy but planted and you feel every bump and vibration, welcome back to coilovers! The pedals are very close together and require little effort to use. The accelerator and clutch are very "on/off"affairs with the non-servo'd brakes requiring work to get the most out of them. Since everything is so closely mounted its easier to left foot brake, especially without the servo. The pedals are rock solid so feels great.
The sequential gearbox is like something else, you nail it in 1st, wait for all the shift lights to come on then lift off the gas, pull the shifter back and immediately nail the throttle again and it justs keeps going - all in a split second, theres no pause in power just brutal in your face brash acceleration. You need both hands to steer purely to hold on for dear life. Oh my goodness.
The engine and 'box whine as I hold it in 2nd gear in a 30mph village, a little lift off the throttle to keep the speed down and the carbon fibre exhaust backbox pops and bangs.... I tighten the harness and lower my visor as we approach the national speed limit sign the revs rise... 5,000 rpm (11,000 rpm shift point) the noise is deafening, its ringing in side my helmet, the mirrors are vibrating so much you can't see anything behind you, - but who cares, because as I nail the throttle the next point of reference is far away on the horizon and boy do you get there quickly.... hold on tight...
Awesome.
Pics from the PistonHeads advert - will add more tonight.
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