HRE Devlopment Autotest Car
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Almost A year ago Now I went out to watch a Customer of Mine compete in A round of the Irish Auto-testing Championship, at the the time I sponsored him a 2 Speed Auto Test transmission.

When I walked away from the event that evening I got to thinking I could build him a real car to compete in,

So with out much hesitation I phone him up and told him to bring me a shell and I would get started.

At first it started out like all projects a nice simple build basically re shell his original car into something a bit lighter and in better condition but as with all my projects that not the way it worked out.

this arrived in my workshop




With in a week we had started some radical body modification






after about 5 weeks day on day off we managed to cut ever bit of spare or non-essential metal from the shell at this point one person could easily lift the shell completely off the ground.






At this point the car was ready to head off for blasting and paint this was done by a top class bloke in Kilkenny.



The shell arrived back to my workshop in the early Summer and we jumped straight back into it



we built up and fitted our custom Sub-frame,



Fitted Coursa B Power steering




a funny looking bucket seat, It was at this point Strange things began to happen





at this point things got a bit sensitive and there is a shortage of photos I'm sure most of you can work out why but safe as to say not much more went into be back end.

a few more weeks passed and we managed to get through all the crapy stuff like making and fitting windows, fitting doors extra and it looked like this :)



and then we fitted the motor


which is a Custom HRE Built Item spec is something on the lines of:

1430 botom end
Auto test cam near 248deg duration
HRE autotest Cylinder head
HRE 2 Speed Gbox
Custom Flywheel
SC Fuel Injection
Custom Exhaust
ATB Differential

after a good bit more fiddling we managed to put the final touches to the car and got it out to its first event in Cork and it looked like this







and here is a link to two little videos of her in full action Yesterday at a round of the TDC AT championship
http://youtu.be/DATmv547azA

http://youtu.be/PNk52NUfmRw

Any one want to hazard a guess as to its final Weight ??

That is a cracking little machine.

400 kg ? :)

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

nice idea for rear suspension

Team www.sheepspeed.com Racing

some work in this car paul and great vids mate!!

interesting rear suspension; did you beef up the cross member at all?

Close but its not entirely made from Carbon fiber

love the videos man.... looks great getting thrown about that "track"

Yes Gavin, If you look in one of the photos above you can see that there is to H frames going between the heel board and the cross member these in turn inter connect into plates in the cross member to effectivly make the heel board and cross member one unite the H frames are made from 4mm wall alloy tube and seem to be holding up to the job very well, on the scales it works out that upwards of 85% of the weight of the car is on the front Two wheels this way.

Great car Paul

1972 998 TURBO SLEEPER

Really nice!
Are those Ford callipers?

Dazed and Confused....

I've opened my eyes now! nice work on the car as a whole

Lovely, did it win?

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

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We came Second over all Will unfortunately Damien Over cooked it on two throws and got 5, 5 second penalty which left us second other wise we would have one by 5 seconds !

whats the colour called? it looks like a nice colour! cracking looking car :)

great mini!!

how do you remember where and what way to go????lol

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

i like :)

Yes i moved to the darkside

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My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

just watched the videos, looks a good lal motor

Very smart car, some really good ideas there
And the colour is rather nice

Jack Jones

Great looking car! Suspension looks pretty special how is it in use? Is the two speed box like normal with some gears taken out? :)

looks great mate, nice and different in areas :)

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

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Thanks Star Mag were very proud of it our selves,
The box is really quite trick to be honest it does use some of the original gears all be it heavily modified, we manufacture our own selector forks and move the gears around to allow 1st to be where 3rd would be on a standard H pattern box and R to be where 4th would have been. We also modify R to be much more like a Dog gear with a separate dog engagement as apposed to the original Crash gear arrangement. and we lighten the hell out of the casing and remaining gear cluster.