1480 Clubby Build (Now in Paint)
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Well I bought this shell of a Friend who raced it in 2008 unfortantly it was involved in a crash near the end of that year which pushed him out of the racing sceen. The shell has had a lot of work done to it such as a weber box fitted it has had the arches tubbed and all excess panels cut out. The only damage done to the car in the crash was the floor pan where the subframe mounts was bent inwards and the fiberglass front end was a right off. I started work on it this week
to date I have fitted A flat alloy boot floor:

I fitted a rear wheel arch cross brace:

I fabriciated and fitted A suport for the floor around the subby mount:

I have dry built the cage into the car to try and get as much of the drilling done befour I Paint the shell:


next weeks plan is to make a few bolt in mounts around the car to tie the shell into the cage better. I have also started building the in boot ARB. I am trying to have the car dry built befour the end of the month so I am ready to Paint next Month.

Edited by PaulH on 10th Mar, 2011.

Nice work Paul :)

Pedro Silva

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You must have a few projects on the go Paul ? Good luck. :)

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looks good :)

Way way to many Phil my Mk1 has been put into dry storage for a year untill I get time/money to do it properly. The devlopment race car is also in the same storage, this is just a quick and dirty build to give me some thing to have fun on the track with over the coming summer :).

what spec engine is going in to it besides a 1480?

This seems very interesting, will you turbocharge a 1480cc?
You can acheive 150/155bhp with a 310ºcam and a good head from an aspirated engine. You will just need the right setup.

Doubtful, im guessing hes sticking na

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

The 1480 will be one of my full race 1480s running kawasaki ZR pistons, a farndon full steel 86mm crank, Turbo Phil full race NA head, 320 Cam, and in house exhaust and inlet manifold all sucking trough a weber 48 and all sparked off by our in house ignition system, it will be running trough a Jack night dog box and a tranx limo. Should have around 130 at the wheels if every thing works out right.

Edited by PaulH on 16th Jan, 2011.

Have you run a 320 before Paul?

I seriously doubt it!

Ya Paul I just finished a commission, 1460 with one and I have to say I was total amazed how well it did we made about 7% more over 6000rpm and only shifted our base line up about 300 rpm full trottle with the maped ignition came in at 3200 insted of 2900 on the swifty 310.

Exelent spec, i'm building a AKM 7-port, drilled to 45mm with 37.7int/31exh valves, 1460cc all steel full race with 45 webers DCOE 152G, but i go for 310º hope i can drive it on road to.
Also a Clubman, mine is a 1275GT.

Cheers mate, let us updated...

Sounds good, look forward to seeing the engine built, no doubt that the engine will pull 130 if not more from what i've heard the 320 is capable of, especially a 1480. good luck.

Just Got this for it its an EVO 5 JKD invlute dog engagement gear kit, I love these and there geting a little hard come by these days:

Nice, seen the last owner of this project post a vid of the incident in which it got bumped http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EUg9y3qngg&forumid=250646

ouff!!

Yes i moved to the darkside

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This looks like its going to be animal with that spec! Like the bracing for subframe mounts

Rich

2012 Avon class c 2nd place 13.8 @98mph

Yup that’s the very one its a testament to the cage how little damage was done to the car, some good detective work there Tom lol.

Edited by PaulH on 18th Jan, 2011.

Nice. Would it not be easier to make some solid bushes to insert into the DSN brackets?

well I supose it would with it just being a simple turning excersise but that would involve buying some bar stock and a set of the DNS brackets where as I had a piece of 25mm x500mmx500mm flat plate knocking around the workshop so I reconed why not

Nice work Paulie, keep the updates coming looks class!!!

Mark

Full blooded driving before the shunt.. Was very tight in the pack of cars, could see it coming!

Looks like a good project base though.

Edited by MarkGTT on 19th Jan, 2011.

Thanks lads,

Progress Last night and to night has been bad as last night I failed miserably at making the in-boot ARB it all went tits up,
And tonight I spent most of the last 3 hours compiling an order list from the bay, I forgot how much stuf is need to build a Race car !!
Hope to make sume more progress friday .....

Edited by PaulH on 19th Jan, 2011.

Well I made a little bit of progress last night, I got the Subframe rust free and a few coats of stone chip.


I also managed to get the old seat mount cut out and the welds cleaned up,

Well little up date jents,
My New 6mm valve train Arived for my Slark Full Race head 38.8mm inlets and 31mm exhaust the head is a work of Art to be honest I will get some pic over the weekend of it.

And now for pauls Guessing Game What is this a part of

Edited by PaulH on 28th Jan, 2011.