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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 09:20 AM Reply With Quote
Pulse GT1

been asked by a couple of lads for some more info -
not really 'locost' but here we go !!
car was built to race in the british GT series mid '90's against mclaren f1, porsches etc, was tested at silverstone with jag XJ220 engine pushing 860 BHP. 2 weeks before the first race the rules 'changed' so was never raced, fot parked up, the back end chopped off to make the suspension off the gearbox but never finished.
i bought the project october '08 as a pile of bits, but came with all the moulds.




first job was to rebuild the rear end & refit the front











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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 09:35 AM Reply With Quote
next question was what to power it with ?!?!
looked for 6 months for an audi rs6 engine with no joy so dropped on an audi rs4 2.7 twin turbo engine. i had fitted to this had low compression head gaskets, ported head, uprated injectors, all the timing gear done, inconel tubular manifolds onto rebuilt rs6 turbo's running s3 compressor wheels, custom flywheel with triple plate clutch. then it's all bolted to an Elite TLX300 6 speed sequential dog box







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posted on 6/8/10 at 09:38 AM Reply With Quote
AWSOME.





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posted on 6/8/10 at 09:48 AM Reply With Quote
drooooooooooooooooooooool





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ceebmoj

posted on 6/8/10 at 09:52 AM Reply With Quote
do you have any pictures of the rest of the body work?
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posted on 6/8/10 at 10:50 AM Reply With Quote
Come on KHM, we need more pictures and description!





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posted on 6/8/10 at 10:56 AM Reply With Quote
We need more info on this and up-to-date progress pictures





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Fred W B

posted on 6/8/10 at 11:20 AM Reply With Quote
Yes, Yes, and what is that spendy looking transaxle?

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posted on 6/8/10 at 11:39 AM Reply With Quote
Wow!!!

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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 01:04 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Fred W B
Yes, Yes, and what is that spendy looking transaxle?

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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 01:05 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by ceebmoj
do you have any pictures of the rest of the body work?


give me chance, i have to work too LOL





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spdpug98

posted on 6/8/10 at 01:08 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by khm
quote:
Originally posted by ceebmoj
do you have any pictures of the rest of the body work?


give me chance, i have to work too LOL


Not when you have a car to build and photograph for us





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Lightning

posted on 6/8/10 at 01:23 PM Reply With Quote
I have just had a little accident.

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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 02:09 PM Reply With Quote
right where was i ..... ah yes the car LOL

photo's of the body panels on, i did not like the doors so made the window openings bigger & they opened 'conventionally' so fabricated my own butterfly hinges. fitted projector headlights into bonnet
this is with the 'road wing'












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khm

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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 02:15 PM Reply With Quote
engine & box got fitted














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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 02:17 PM Reply With Quote
off for 3" exhaust system

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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 02:19 PM Reply With Quote
then we fitted the caron fibre twin plane wing










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Lightning

posted on 6/8/10 at 02:20 PM Reply With Quote
As you have the moulds for the panels, why not make a jig for the chassis. I would be interested. Finished mine looking what to do next.





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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 02:21 PM Reply With Quote
now working toward a test day now that the engine is running
610 BHP 540 bhp at the wheels, 740 NM torque
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tegwin

posted on 6/8/10 at 02:40 PM Reply With Quote
Wow! Thats nice!





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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 06:57 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Lightning
As you have the moulds for the panels, why not make a jig for the chassis. I would be interested. Finished mine looking what to do next.


you never know, maybe in the future i could start to make them, but it would never be a cheap car to build so you would have limited customers i would think, then again ultima don't seam to struggle & they are miserable sh*ts LOL
to build a proper jig would cost a few thousand - and thats the only way i would build it - not near enough i'll do !!





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khm

posted on 6/8/10 at 06:58 PM Reply With Quote
thanks for all the positive feed back - nice to know i must be doing something right !!





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alistairolsen

posted on 8/8/10 at 08:13 AM Reply With Quote
Looks like a proper project! Im assuming there was some aerodynamic work done when the original design was prepared?

I take it to original car used the gearbox to mount the suspension to? But your engine and box in the current iteration are no longer stressed members?

Some really nice quality work gone into that and an unusual but very good choice of engine!

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khm

posted on 9/8/10 at 07:53 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by alistairolsen
Looks like a proper project! Im assuming there was some aerodynamic work done when the original design was prepared?

I take it to original car used the gearbox to mount the suspension to? But your engine and box in the current iteration are no longer stressed members?

Some really nice quality work gone into that and an unusual but very good choice of engine!

Keep us all up to date


originally chassis was as we have done it, then back end was removed to use gearbox as a stressed member, but we have gone back to full chassis - thought it would be better for road use





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