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Nickhead's Castle Combe Saloon Championship Car...
The latest project!
I've been toying with the idea of doing the saloon car championship for a few years now and finally decided to go for it!! We are aiming to compete next year. I've got a few mates helping out with it on the event days and most importantly in the prep! Andy - AJ Auto's (mechanic) Mike- Big Willy's (welder/fabricator, mechanic) Me - numpty I'll be dontating the good stuff from my gti so that will be going back to standard We are using a 1.1 106 shell kindly donated by Andy Spec will be: Full weld in OMP cage Single seat My bodied 166bhp engine Rallye box with ATB diff Poly bushed everything Satchshift 23mm torsion bars 25mm ARB Coilovers Bilstein sport shocks Wilwood 4 pots And obviously everything will be built to meet the championship Regs The shell will be bare by the end of tomorrow and off to mike's for the prep! I took a few bits out of it today, it was complete when I started:      |
I can see this being mental, both your other cars look spot on! :y:
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I think you may be needing more power!.....
or stick a stock a engine in and go Class D (iirc) |
Plans sound great, will keep an eye on this.
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I've got a diagram for that rollcage for you :D
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Nick I mean this in the nicest possibly way, your a fuckin nutter!
Have fun ;) |
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they've sent a silly large file. Will need to shrink it down to make it emailable...
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Did you work out a special price for me too :y: |
Can't wait to see this evolve mate :)
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:panic: :zainy: :wacko: Think that about sums it up :clapping: |
ill have those window winders and mechanisms unless you put a grinder through them lol :P
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We might be keeping glass for the first season!
Car is off to have the engine bay, underneath and floor pan sand blasted next week. I've taken the fuel tank, engine, gearbox, basically everything else off it now. Hoping to order the cage next week and then some real progress can start! |
Make sure you read the regs thoroughly if you haven't, you're not allowed to chop any bodywork (more for those reading, regs are fairly tight, only recently been allowed a BE box for example, suspension mounting points can't be moved, used to be glass only IIRC)
so many of the cars aren't as light as they could be, in an effort to keep costs down and stop people just turning up with btcc cars, though you do see ex-Rover coupe cup cars which are perfectly eligible as long as they adhere to the turbo restrictor regs. |
I've got copies of the MSA Blue book and the CCSC regs,
The reason I sold the Saxo was it was too heavily modded for the regs. |
Still planning the engine mods over winter or is that now on hold?
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On hold Josh, going to concentrate on getting the car built, do the first season with the power I have then, see what happens.
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A few more updates.
Finished stripping and took to the sandblaster!! Not very exiting yet as its just a 1.1 shell. It's in excellent condition, and rot free which is a bonus! Having the engine bay, underneath and floor pan done. All that weight gone! A few snaps:        Little video of the Rock hard underseal! Going to take him a while to get that off!! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...66AA878B27.mp4 |
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