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anyone know this car?
damien - 28/8/07 at 02:59 AM

anyone know what this is? someone on the peugeot 306 gti6 owners site took a pic of it at "the harewood hillclimb" .

to me it looks like a sylva riot but with a peugeot TU engine in the front.



has anyone got any views?

scotty g - 28/8/07 at 05:43 AM

Its a Striker with the bonnet off.
Easy! Give me a harder one!

zilspeed - 28/8/07 at 07:28 AM

Doh !!

Too slow

stevebubs - 28/8/07 at 07:30 AM

From the front suspension, I believe it's a Mk III Striker - these weren't made for long.

MikeRJ - 28/8/07 at 08:01 AM

quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs
From the front suspension, I believe it's a Mk III Striker - these weren't made for long.


This car has a live axle with inboard shocks with top rocker arm which means it's the original Mk2 design. The Mk3 had the locost style outboard shocks. Not many of them around.

[Edited on 28/8/07 by MikeRJ]

nick205 - 28/8/07 at 08:11 AM

Possibly we're more interested the mechanics of converting the Pug TU motor into RWD configuration?

skydivepaul - 28/8/07 at 08:13 AM

That car is a sylva striker with a pug engine in.
driven by bob bellerby and is the fastest car in the kit cars up to 1700 class.

he usually wins every event he enters..................bugger

mookaloid - 28/8/07 at 12:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by skydivepaul
That car is a sylva striker with a pug engine in.
driven by bob bellerby and is the fastest car in the kit cars up to 1700 class.

he usually wins every event he enters..................bugger


I have regularly parked next to it whilst competing. Apparently it revs to 10,000 RPM

damien - 28/8/07 at 03:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Possibly we're more interested the mechanics of converting the Pug TU motor into RWD configuration?



yeah sorry i should of pointed that out.

thanks for the kit name tho

nick205 - 29/8/07 at 09:09 PM

perenial question that one, with no simple answer. Although generally asked of the Pug XU engines as found in GTIs and Mi16s.

Rumour has it there was a company making conversion bell housings, but no longer in business. Also roumoured to be possible using a LDV (Rover) gearbox but possible problems with unsuitable ratios. There are pictures on t'internet of a 7 type car running an Mi16 engine, but in left hand drive form.

When I spent a lot of time looking into it I reached the conclusion that it was easier to use a Ford or VX XE engine.

What do you have in mind BTW?

damien - 30/8/07 at 03:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
perenial question that one, with no simple answer. Although generally asked of the Pug XU engines as found in GTIs and Mi16s.

Rumour has it there was a company making conversion bell housings, but no longer in business. Also roumoured to be possible using a LDV (Rover) gearbox but possible problems with unsuitable ratios. There are pictures on t'internet of a 7 type car running an Mi16 engine, but in left hand drive form.

When I spent a lot of time looking into it I reached the conclusion that it was easier to use a Ford or VX XE engine.

What do you have in mind BTW?


nothing anymore, ages ago i was after informaiton on sticking the gti6 lump in a locost but there would of been far too much custom work involved.
was just after some informaiton as people on the gti6 forum where asking about it.
im just going to for a zetec myself.