911

A friend is racing a Smart city car this year, and is now working on a new engine!
Does anyone know anyone who might have experience of doing such a task in UK or else where?
Web sites needed as this really is out into the unknown territory...

He must be barking mad.. but why not?

Graham

Bat-Fink

YouTube - SMART DIABLO - smart-ul care bate un Ferrari

paul2070

Smarts R Us in Nottingham(i think),or Smartarse in Romsey should be able to help mate.

I used both these companies to mod mine when i had it and both are very good(in my experience).

I had mine remapped,modified air intake,pipercross filter,uprated plugs,and more,lowered,and a smart plug fitted to take all the traction controls and safety devices off along with the speedlimiter which otherwise cuts in at about 85-90mph(from memory),and means you can run to the cars maximum instead ,which with mine was around 110mph until it hit the rev limiter(which could not be removed)

RON

Z cars used to do a bike engined conversion.... but it's not on their site any longer.....

911

Thanks to all.
Been on ASK and have found 2 players

sw-exclusive.co.uk and bigperformance.co.uk

The car is already close to Brabus tune, and he is now ready for the plunge!

Any other leads most welcome.

Graham

RON

Just remembered, last time i visited power engineering in uxbridge, there was a well modded Smart outside... might be worth dropping them a quick email.....

craigdmcd

iTrader: (2)

First thing to do with them is get a decent bilge pump to suck all the water out of the interiors!!!!! (Sorry, work in MB of Glasgow and am getting sick of the sight of them)

Andy M3

Avoid like the plague. I bought a 4-2 Cab on from them this year. It was a gift from my dad to my mum. I paid over £6k for it and had it sprayed. The colour was wrong, the paint was done by Stevie Wonder, the panels had cracks in them, the car was not valeted even a little bit despite their claim. **** customer service, forgot who I was when I collected the car!

Couldn't give a **** attitude.

SW is pretty good though, a few chums have had their cars fettled by them, all with good results

94impreza

The best way to go faster is to buy a second smart car for the other foot.
Sorry couldn't resist lol.

vindaloo

I had a video of that thing being tried out. It didn't sound erm... refined but it did look very fast for an egg!

J.

andythejock01wrx

What on earth is the handling like on these wee jobbies ?

Saw one whizzing through a roundabout last week and it looked like it was about to tip over !!

briforbes

It did......

SlimJ_2005

Found videos on youtube of these Smart cars with a bike engine conversion, looked stupidly quick!!

It kida got me thinking, wouldn't it be cool to take an old style mini and whack an R1, ZX10R or whatever engine in the back!

briforbes

That's been done as well...very quick!

vindaloo

zcars.org.uk

andythejock01wrx

Not an off-roader then ?!

Nice wheels. Looks a whole lot better than the toy-like std Smartcar.

51st state

have a look at this, i've seen it go, the van at the ring
www.ring-mini.de
very quick, very well engineered, handles as well

flat4

Graham, is he using the standard engine and tuning it or going for a bike engine transplant? you can easily get 115-125bhp out of them without too much trouble, you name it you can get it for them, race clutches, blueprinted heads, coilover sus., exhausts, oil coolers, bigger turbos/injectors/inlet pipes/brakes etc. just be prepared to pay over the odds for them The 2 you found are a good start

Not started modding my roadster yet but i don't think it's far away

911

Hello Kev:
Thought of you when I started this thread, but wasn't sure if you still had yours.

He has just bought another 600 engine , not a bike engine. If he fits a bike engine the car goes into a crazy class on a hillclimb.
This car has hillclimbed seriously all year, and now it is time to get serious.

He has just bought a Brabus turbo with manifold and has the engine in pieces at the moment, wondering where to start!
He is VERY competant with cars to say the least.

Any help is welcome.
Keep it coming.

Graham

flat4

all depends on how deep his pockets are...