Little update...
Visited Z-Cars yesterday, highlight of my week!
They spent two hours with me showing me around the workshops and some other projects that they are (quite rightly) very proud off.
I went to collect the old engine, gearbox, mudguards and a few other bits that could now be resold.
I saw my new engine (sitting in the passenger footwell) and wow! It looks brand new!
Not a mark on it!
However, I had got my wires crossed and found out that the engine is a slightly later generation, it's actually a K4 and with the dry-sump set up added and a free flowing exhaust that will mean that power output will be nearer the 170bhp mark!!!
A few other small things were discussed and I was shown the final drive gizmo!
Wow! What a box of tricks, billet aluminium casing, housing a proper Quaife limited slip diff and reverse gear with power taken directly from the output shaft of the bike gearbox.
It will now be geared to have a top speed of around 140mph, not that I plan to do that kind of speed in it, but that will mean that I can sit on the motorway at 70mph with the engine ticking along at about 6000 rpm. Remember this is a highly tuned bike engine and as standrd the redline is 12,500 rpm!!!
Final thing, just how heavy the original engine/gearbox is! Wow!
That gone means that the finished car will weigh around 360kg with around 160bhp at the rear wheels!
And (if sufficient
For the mathematicians amongst us that equates to a power-to-weight ratio of approx 444 BHP/T
To put that into perspective... Here are a couple of car either side of that 444 figure.