I daily drove my caged Subaru for a couple years. That was until I was taking a trip to the beach and someone rear ended me, leaving me without a racecar for the rest of the season. After that I only drove it on the street occasionally.
I daily drove my caged Subaru for a couple years. That was until I was taking a trip to the beach and someone rear ended me, leaving me without a racecar for the rest of the season. After that I only drove it on the street occasionally.
I did it twice; two years in a Showroom Stock C Miata and then a year with a Volvo 144 rally car.
Automotive journalist Simon Taylor drives his HWM Stovebolt Special to events all over the UK and Europe.
I did it at 19 with my turbo 2.3 swapped 86 mustang. Looking back I'm lucky I didn't get hit because we cut all crash protection out of that car trying to match my v8 capris ET with a mostly stock 2.3 on 18psi.
Im driving a 1999 Peugeot 405 2000.
I've swapped the solex carb with aisan, and engine is fully rebuilt with forged internals making about 150 whp with the right fuel, also ive raised C/R from 9:1 to 10.4:1 .
It's fun to drive it daily but you have to be really careful, i mean it. the car feels like you have a magnum while every body else has water guns, it makes you feel like a MAN a sheriff, someone who can rule the streets. Im not looking for attention, bodywork is a mess, love tapped, traded paint, break checked, you know what im talking about, as you see it you can recognize it's not another peugeot with a loud muffler.
I've deleted the ac compressor but everything else is there to use, it's in street racer class and i cant do alot to remove weight from the car as it should look like a factory ride.
If you dont care about how much you want to spend on fuel, then go ahead have some fun with your life, give it a try and you're gonna love it.
Just be careful with your decisions when you're driving it, its a killing machine.
There are race cars meant for reliability and there are race cars built to be as fast as possible. That MGC is a lovely car of the first sort - equivalent to a hot street machine that is still drivable, the sort of car the factory used at Le Mans in the old days.
Don't try that with a current spec MGB race car that has 15:1 compression, and a cam that runs to 8500 rpm.
Heck, don't try that with even a vintage racer - my DOHC MGA runs 12:1 and Cosworth cam profiles and lacks the flexibility too go through much traffic even if they carried 105 octane at the pumps.
In reply to wspohn :
You're right, if you want to have reliable racecar to use as daily drive you should go for a lemans car.
Ive made a challenge and called it *lemans challenge* 1700km trip on one engine start, from bandar-e-charak to karaj in iran.
I did it in 14 hours, 12 hours of driving, 1 hour of fuelling (4 times 15 minutes) and 1 hour of rest. I had an average of 130km per hour. There was hours of driving with over 170 kph and the ride felt good all the way back to karaj. I just blew an oil pressure sensor, meanwhile 1800cc Peugeots have lost their compression through valves.
In these kind of situations, the simpler the engine the less chance to break anything apart. My engine is SOHC 8 valves, with mechanical fuel pump, and since it's carbureted ive got magnetic delco and it was able to make power without hesitation.
Compression ratio shouldn't matter as long as your cooling system is good and you're sure what kind of lathe done to make the engine. It must be an art. What matters is your engine and gearbox oils, you need a good quality oil and a cooling system so they don't overheat, overheating of oil could kill your ride midway.
P.s carbureted engines have better fuel atomization, better fuel cooling effect, which can keep your engine alive after alot of abuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eToHTf-QUBA
In reply to wspohn :
If you can drvie this to the track you can drive anything.
Tom1200 said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eToHTf-QUBA
In reply to wspohn :
If you can drvie this to the track you can drive anything.
Those 'headers' should be cheap enough......
What kills the race cars on the street is the peaky cams and cooling systems that are built to take into account a steady flow of air rather than getting stuck in traffic. Oh yeah - and a ceramic button race clutch in traffic is anything but a pleasure.
I actually drove one of my race cars from a motel to the site of car meet (it was a general MG meet) on the streets crossing my finger that I wouldn't hit too much traffic or a policeman that noticed that the headlights were really intakes for brake cooling ducts.
daily for years; three seasons, three of those years I had a 114 mile round trip. Not sure I could do that now.
I used to daily this BITD.
AGHAYEMACHINE said:In reply to wspohn :
You're right, if you want to have reliable racecar to use as daily drive you should go for a lemans car.
Ive made a challenge and called it *lemans challenge* 1700km trip on one engine start, from bandar-e-charak to karaj in iran.
I did it in 14 hours, 12 hours of driving, 1 hour of fuelling (4 times 15 minutes) and 1 hour of rest. I had an average of 130km per hour. There was hours of driving with over 170 kph and the ride felt good all the way back to karaj. ...
That looks like quite a journey! What was the route? I looked at some possible routes and 'street view' scenes from Google Maps. I doubt that you took time for any photos along the way. Outside the urban areas it reminds me of some roads I've traveled in the southwest USA.
In reply to chandler :
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In reply to David S. Wallens :
Since some just think a street car they made uncomfortable is a race car how about this:
If you could not pass tech at a NASA or SCCA sanctioned event for wheel-to-wheel to racing.........it's not a race car. It's a really uncomfortable, street-legal HPDE car.
In reply to buzzboy :
It was a magazine project car that we did with BMW upon the 318ti's release. It ran a few BMW CCA races. I tracked it a few times. Fun times.
I love the wheel and tire package. Amazing fitment.
Gosh I'm going to miss my ti
In reply to AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) :
there is a timelapse of it on my instagram @projectcar.le.viliam
part 1 - https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbqdtzJATbC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
part 2 - https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbuH1v8gV7w/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
started from karaj to tehran highway - went to azadegan east then khalij-e-fars freeway down to the shiraz. rested the night there and started back again in the morning. from shiraz, you can choose between 3 ways to go to bandar-e-charak and ive choosen the middle one the lamerd route. lamerd route is an old road, 2 ways, back from mohammad reza shah kingdom, going through mountains with alot of curves.
youre right, it looks similar, and more dangerous if you know what i mean. its a hardcore road to go on...
sorry im being to late on the forum, i had to take my classes.
Would you keep a cheetah in a dog kennel? Traffic is bad enough sealed away in a climate controlled cocoon, I don't want to ride a clutch I don't normally touch apart from leaving the pits. And my race car doesn't have headlights or windows or a back seat. But worst of all, you can't just find 110 at any old gas station. Not that I'd have a gas gauge to know when I need it anyway.
No, I ride motorcycles, that's way more excitement below the speed limit than race cars are below 100.
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