project FTO buggy

ok well i am putting the prelude on the back burner as i am about to start building my dads new toy which i have been looking forward to for a long time lol

what we are going to do is build a Class9 autograss buggy which is basically we can do what we want as long as its a car engine and between 1472cc and 2070cc N/A (no jay NOS is banned lol), now most who race in this class use a buggy built with a vauxhall redtop in which is good but only 150bhp stock, they then set about tuning and get them upto around 200bhp, thats 200bhp in a buggy that with the driver ways around 400kgs, 0-62mph on dirt is around 3.5secs lol from a good well sorted machine

now as thous of you who know me, i like to be different so i started looking around for engines in that catagory that would be very powerful but also cheap as blown engines are common, while i was looking i also got to thinking about transmission too and thought that a triptronic set-up might be better than a manual, as a result of both of these factors i have decided the engine and trans we are going to use will be the 2.0 V6 semi auto with triptronic from an FTO (until now its never been done in autograss as far as we have found) which comes out of the crate 180bhp for the GR or 200bhp for the GPX which puts us on even power with the redtops and gives us a little more weight over the rear wheels for traction

what we intend on doing to start with is just run with a stock GR motor and while my dad learns to drift on dirt i am going to try and lay my grubby little mits on a good GPX (or GP version-R 230bhp) and then set about tuning it with the aim of 300bhp N/A, the plan is ITB's with standalone maybe megasquirt if it will do a V6 if not i will talk my dad into omex 710 lol

i am picking the donor FTO up tomorrow and a half built tub is arriving at the weekend which has all the front cockpit built but the back where the engine goes needs doing which is perfect for us as we are doing it different, now before anyone says there might be a reason why everyone uses redtops, we have spoken to 4 owner/drivers about this idea and they all said "we never even gave it a thought, i will be looking out for it"

so i will be putting all of my spare time into building this now as we need it ready for the start of next season which is in 11 months lol i will post pics as i go lol starting tomorrow with the donor car before i set at it with the socket set lol

sounds fun, i would have said the main reason for using redtops is theyre so common and people know what exact gains to expect as its been covered a million times,

id go a little different given the limits and go for something like a 1.8 from a civic vti-s again because i reckon there more of those about than ftos with a 2.0 v6,

interesting stuff either way

not surprised they use the redtop its the daddy.... bullet proof and the best bhp per pound ratio around

all sounds good mate good luck with it all keep us updated....

3.5 seconds on dirt is mad my dads mates 185bhp megabusa westfield can only just do that weighting in at 350kgs on the road with semi slicks........

jason

Will be intresting too see how this works out hope it goes to plan ill be watching this one

1250cinqturbo (ADMIN) wrote:not surprised they use the redtop its the daddy.... bullet proof and the best bhp per pound ratio around

all sounds good mate good luck with it all keep us updated....

3.5 seconds on dirt is mad my dads mates 185bhp megabusa westfield can only just do that weighting in at 350kgs on the road with semi slicks........

jason

these things run proper dirt tires and the ones that hit 60 in 3.5 ar running 2 tuned busa engines or similar

ricky we did look at the 1.8 teg lump but the problem is they are expensive to get a hold of compared to the 2.0 V6 fto, the one we just bought set us back £325 for the full car and it has lots of toys we can take off and sell like a full de-cat SS system made by powerflow, panels and lights and wheels extra lol so hopefully we may make our money back lol

my dad getting over heavy with the throttle, and yes we had let the engine warm up first but in all honesty i wasn't happy with him for holding it on the limiter