Project Mental Wheels

[diesel des]

The efr 7163 should be great!! But while your in there have you thought of building a stroker. Because more is always better...

[K Simmonds]

Ball's, I'm going to have my work cut out making my Coupe keep up with this!

Nice write up mate, this car is going to be truly awesome.

When are you planning on attaching the wings and landing gear?

[cardcrash]

He doesn't have it yet, being installed later this month.

The gearbox is having a new 1st – 2nd gear hub & carbon covered synchros. Being painted too.

[Greg_S]

Nice write up. What did you have done to the gearbox? Didn't realise will had a 4wd rolling road either

[cardcrash]

Ok, just had an update from Will, spec creep just got a whole lot worse, received this in text form:

Update city - Drilled brake discs front and rear ordered, callipers at paint shop, brackets being machined, compound 08 performance friction pads ordered. KW v3 on order, subframe bushes on order, engine and gearbox mounts ordered, Apikol rear diff mounts ordered. Head at machine shop as is block and crank, Mahle rings and Motorsport bearing shells have arrived inc thrusts. Block to be painted satin black. Cat-cams ordered. Pistons being machined. Rear subframe/wishbones/control arms all being powder coated. Solid rear axle bushes to go in.

And now there’s talk of a Wavetrac rear diff??? Apparently will be “epic”

Should make ADI and have Dave Rowe on hand for MoTeC support… looking forward to that!!!

[cardcrash]

KW coil-overs.

[macspring]

That's the worst case of spec-creep I've seen in a long time.



Looking forward to updates, and more particular your driving impressions when it is done.

Sorry about this question, but what about suspension ?

[cardcrash]

All of the above!

Which is why I've kept the output to 550bhp, to maintain driveability and mid-range torque, any more and I think I'd have to use bigger turbos and be limited to high rev range power band and perhaps only get 2-2½k usable revs per gear... I dunno, I leave the technical stuff to Will, I just tell him what I want...

[Error404]

Looking good Charlie.

Whats the plan for the car - track, road, drag?

[SE_30]

Nice one Charlie, your in safe hands with Will and VRS.. he will without any doubt make that wallet lighter.

I'll have a look round this on Friday..

[Teg]

Many thanks

Better get saving. No one tell my other half!!!!!!!!!!

[Rikki Kitto]

Do you have a big hole in the garden and a shovel for the money like most of us do, Nice work by the way

[AndyP]

Nice! Looking forward to see how that turbo performs.

[cardcrash]

Nice write up will look forward to watching this build. Good to hear good things about VRS, I think I will be going to them when I can afford a nice power hike. The rest of the car is ready for more power.

Thanks Yes, I highly recommend VRS, speak to Will he's a very knowledgeable guy, will offer you virtually any and every mod ever conceived and will not only undertake practically any job you request of him without huffing and puffing and grumbling but will do so with unreserved enthusiasm. The flipside of this is that it encourages you to overstep your budget boundaries or as in my case, vaporise them! But he'll tell you if he thinks it's not a good idea and explain why.

Would be interested to know approximate costs for a build like this? If you don't mind?

Not at all, present costs stand at around £13,000, mostly for parts.

Here we have an invoice for some injectors, sensors and a software upgrade for the MoTeC:



This one's for the gearbox work:


Clutch, flywheel, intercooler, wastegate and blow-off valve:


Repairing a scratch I put in the wing, fitting the heated windscreen and hooking it up:


And here we have one for some con-rods, the turbo, the MoTeC ECU & display and fitting some tyres:

[Teg]

Nice write up will look forward to watching this build. Good to hear good things about VRS, I think I will be going to them when I can afford a nice power hike. The rest of the car is ready for more power.

Would be interested to know approximate costs for a build like this? If you don't mind?