AllanB

Did a rolling road day on Sunday for the Daihatsu Charade GTti owners club I run. Some very impressive results with the top car putting out 182.3bhp all on stock internals. SOme very clever home tuning with home made hybrid form a Maserati biturbo ansd Daihatsu Fourtrack turbo diesel turbo.

The guys is still running a very unsophisticated ECU and was leaning out a little running stock injectors. Still the engine looks like its running pretty well as you can see form the print out.

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Pocketrocket993/scan0001.jpg

Hoping to be running in the 13s for 1/4 mile times this year.


Pretty impressive from a 3 cylinder 993 cc car on stabndard internals. Expecting to see 240-250bhp form anohter car in about a month again on stock internals. THats a huge increase over the std 99bhp !

nigel s

I had one of these little baby's years ago, very very impressive little car would always upset owners in much more expensive machines.

joey_turbo

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Love these cars. Always on the lookout for one, ever since I heard that they had more BHP per tonne than the M3 at the time (E36 I would imagine)

AllanB

There are a couple coming up for sale. Guy spent ages doing one up, car JTuner were trying to buy, but now he's moving to Portugal. He's based near Watford and won't want a fortune probabaly about £1500, let me know if you are interested.

A GTti with about 150bhp is quicker than my Impreza Turbo so with so little weight god only knows what this 180bhp plus one is like !


AllanB

brickboy

That's a nice smooth power curve!

How much does a Charade weigh? Power to weight has to be good with 180bhp

Bet they sound good with a free-flowing exhaust too, are they a 120-degree triple?

AllanB

About 850K his is a bit lighter. Yeah power to weight shuld be pretty good. Engne is an inline triple.

Daihatsu Charade GTti on track at Brands Hatch - Google Video

Here's the link to a video of one blasting rounds Brands Hatch tell me that doesn't sound great ! Oh yeah thats an M3 he passes by the way which incedentally he builds for a living

Oee of my car in action first when it was a works car second when it moved to the Isle Of Man which I brought it back from

Terry Kaby's Daihatsu Charade GTti Rally Car in action - Google Video

Daihatsu Charade GTti Rally Car - Google Video


AllanB

AllanB

Here the video of the day where you can see the GTtis n the rollers, sound great !

Rolling_Road_Day_April_2007.wmv - Google Video



AllanB