N14 SR20 Hillclimb car

Wee update. Dry weight is down to 860kg. About 40kg less than start of last year. Quite chuffed considering the weight of the cage. And someome asked if the dta s40 would need a trigger wheel on an sr20 and the answer is yes. Dta have tested without one but results were 'unreliable'. Also my diff bearing is nowhere to be seen so at least the 1st event will be with a stock vzr box same as last year.
 
inahole said:
Excellent.

Now tell me that you are coming to Olivers Mount please!
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Na, I'll be staying North of the border for the next few years. Maybe when the kids are a bit older I can start going a bit further afield but its just to much to truck them all over the shop for racing!

Car still isn't going anyway. Should get it back the end of this week hopefully. The distributor is gone and its been coverted to run a coil pack, the itbs are on but the ecu hasn't been wired in yet so still not running. Bit gutted as I am back to work a week on Tuesday so chances of driving it before I go are slim. 1st round will now be a sprint up North in Golspie on the 7th of June. Fingers crossed!
 
Ah, that's a shame would have liked to see it in the flesh.

Suppose vids will do for now.

Fingers crossed it all comes together soon mush.
 
I have'nt had the bill yet so pass on the cost at the moment. Not entirely sure which coil pack hes used but its fairly easy to change. All you need is a trigger wheel, suitable crank position sensor and a coil pack. I wouldn't say there are any benifits as such unless your running a standalone ecu. Mabey not all stand alones im not sure but Dta have tried and failed to reliably run a nissan dizzy with their software so for it to work properly it needs to be converted. Id imagine it would be the same story with other ecu's because all the nme rally cars and early btcc engines ran coil packs with stand alones (motec i think from memory).
 
damienga15de said:
Never see much on it :(

Probably be out of my price range anyway

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What parts would you be after?
For a fast road/track and even mild to moderate 'race' engine you will get much better bang for your buck from off the shelf parts than you will trying to track down expensive and in some cases outdated technology from a btcc car.

Anything from the rml era would cost an absolute fortune to buy and maintain so forgetting about that and looking at the more conventional p10 cars even the later ones are 20 years old now, technology has jumped lhugely over that time particularly with regards to electronics and fuels.
The other thing to consider is that they were built to a set of regulations. You could build a 250bhp engine for a fraction of the cost of buying (asuming you could find one) a p10 btcc engine because you can overbore it, put whatever size of throttle you want on it, run as big valves as you want etc etc.
I had a bit of a romantic notion about building a btcc spec engine when I first started to build the sunny but once I started looking into it there is no benefit to it other than bragging rights because you can get comparable power for a fraction of the cost.
 
You can still get parts on the odd though. The cylinder head I've got was reasonably cheap for a race head. Needs quite a few bits to get it up and running. It was a lucky find though.
 
Im hoping to race in the Irish touring cars late next year iv bought a n15 with msi spec cage and all seam welded just needs engine and suspension

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