A guy at work is looking for a new car!

His cousin has a Nissan Pulsar GTI-R running about 280bhp and runs quarter mile at Santa Pod in 13 seconds dead.

Different turbo, 2.1 litre engine, FMIC, you get the idea!

Anyway he has about £6k to spend on a base car to try and show up his cousin!!! (More money can be spent on mods later!! ;))

The only stipulation is that the car will also be a daily runner and needs to be relible for his 40 miles a day to work! It will be his ONLY car!

Track cars are fine, but he really wants to 'Live his life 1/4 miles at a time'!!! :eek:

[Edited by Andy Tang - 10/14/2003 3:48:33 PM]

My idea is to get a late Nissan 200SX (14a) for about £6k!

All it would need is a FMIC, boost controller and some skillful clutch control for the RWD and it should be ok!!

Just a little something above the standard 197bhp! ;) Maybe fixed with nitrous kicking in at about 3,500rpm when on WOT.

Stripped out Mk2 Escort with a Cosworth YB engine :)

I like your thinking Rich!! :D

my mate built a nova that does 12.4 second quarters, with mates helping him out he built it for 3K. Although it runs slicks its running a standard cam + head and no slip diff!

all he has to do is change the wheels for normal alloys (10 minute job) then he can drive it on the road

[Edited by bobfrog1 - 10/14/2003 2:53:15 PM]

But... its still a Nova!!

Goochie, I personally don't like nova's either but If I was building a drag car for £6k (like the subject of this thread) I'd buy the cheapest, lightest shell I could get, imagine what a 3K 12.4 second nova would do with another 3K spend on it :)

I've seens lots of cars at the Street Racer Sunday league in the POD, with the exception of a few cars it would be very difficult to build a drag car that does at least low 12 second quarters for £6K

Simple - Westfield kit car - build it yourself

and you can buy it in modules.

Single donor vehicle starts at £2250

Reliability is then down to you !!! LOL

Have to be a westy or Caterham I think......

Either that Andy or a pug 205 GTi .haha....

I've seen Nova's converted with 4wd and the Calibra turbo engine in it for about £5k!!! :eek: 200bhp through all four wheels in a box weighting less than me (probably!!! :eek:)

Gary, the 205 is a good car, but how much work would you need to realistically do, to get 1/4 miles to under 13 seconds!!! ;eek:

If it were me, the Nova would be my choice!! :eek: ;) :p

Forgot the say that it's up to £6k on the base car!!!

Mods can come later!! ;) :D

That said, he seems very reluctant to say how much he wants to spend! :rolleyes:

Would have to be the westy or Caterham then as you have thrust my pug to one side like an old rag

LOL @ Gary!! :)

As I said he wants a 1/4 mile car, if he wanted a cheap track car the 205 would probably be top of the list!! :)

As it will be his only car, he's now worried that a Caterham or Westie would be too cold in the winter!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

£6000 will buy you a nice sapphire cosworth with some money to spare for mods and they CAN be reliably tuned to big figures

Just with a impreza turbo engine and drivetrain;)

Steven,

I think he wants a reliable car!!! ;)

He dont want much for the money this guy does he?
£3K would get a cossie and another couple would give him the BHP to do it I should think.

Either that or buy himself a mini (old old shape) strip it out, add a honda Vtec engine, add nitrous and the 12 second is no probs. I know that for a fact coz I got done up like a kipper at bug jam by one. Not sure it even had the Vtec, but he was running NOS and said it was around 230BHP

Basic turbo engine;) in justy, would be fine:D

5 litre v8 Chevy Camaro stripped out with a supercharger and nitrous!!!!!................Thats what I'm planning anyway!!

A sierra cossie 4x4, theres one for sale on passion ford right now, 93K, fsh and a newly rebuilt engine with 500bhp (all good bits ahmed bayjoo etc.) for 6K.

What about them Daihatsu Charades....they can be modded to be quick quite easily and cheaply ?

Andy: Evo 1V. You can get it pretty light and there is plenty power to come from the engine which is easier to work on than a Scoob.

Dax Rush 4x4 + cossie running gear..about £14 +cossie (new)

Alternative, I'm working on the idea of a Jag XJS v12 (£500), stripped out and fitted with a manual 5 speed box or 4speed auto with a strip shift kit. Engine-wise..400bhp is a doddle just by some minor fettling. And 600bhp via dropping the compression and supercharging like here or a 7.2 conversion. But the weight is still a big problem :(

But using the theory that in standard 300bhp 3 speed auto trim it can do 0-60 of 6.5 ish (using just 1st gear!) and the 1/4 about 15secs. A manual box is said to knock off 1 second, add another 300bhp and 300lb/ft and loose some weight, you have something with alot of potential :D

So you could dump the v12 for a big-block Chevy, more tunable and 100lbs lighter :) But costs will start to get silly!

[Edited by ALi-B - 10/16/2003 10:51:24 AM]

Simple MG Maestro Turbo £300

cant get cheaper then that

All this was for a work colleauge, who hasn't even bothered to reply!!! :rolleyes: ;)

If it were me, I would be considering the following:

1) Nissan 200SX (approx £7k for S14/S14a) - 197bhp

Stage 1 Mods: Full de-cat, filter, lift boost to 1bar, fit different intercooler (probably a Saab one) - 250bhp
Stage 2 Mods: Turbo, Full ECU - 280-300bhp
Stage 3 Mods: Improve fuelling (injectors, fuel pump, etc) and re-fine map - 300-320bhp

2) Vauxhall Nova with full Calibra turbo engine, running gear and gear box. (£6-10k) - Approx. 200bhp

Stage 1 Mods: Fit Nitrous with controller (to give additional 80-150bhp)

3) Cheap Subaru - £4k (240bhp)

Stage 1 Mods: Full De-cat, filter, boost controller (265bhp)
Stage 2 Mods: Front entry conversion on TD-05, improve fuelling system, FMIC (300bhp)
Stage 3 Mods: Full ECU, port headers (320bhp)
Stage 4 Mods: Larger turbo, ECU refinement, tuned headers (350-380bhp)

4) Integra Type-R - £6k

Stage 1 mods: Exhaust, filter, V-TEC controller - (200-210bhp)
Stage 2 mods: Nitrous ;) (250-280bhp)

I will definitely go Toyota Starlet. Samll car but big turbo?

Scoobyhummel

Get an old E30 316 for £500, buy a 5 litre M5 lump for £5k and you're sorted :cool:

Or an early 200sx for £1k, then got 5k straightaway for mods

Renault 21 turbo 4x4 - think they're about 25p nowadays

Early 535 with a supercharger

540, can get these for 3k now :cool: - then a supercharger. And NOS :cool: :cool: :cool:

2nd gen RX7...200as std

etc etc - loads of choice.

But an E30 316 badged car with an M5 lump.....mmmmmmmmmm ;)