NS Dev
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| posted on 8/10/11 at 07:29 PM |
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Xe powered locost for sale
Looking at selling my locost to fund another project, pics will follow when I take some!
Stuart Taylor lightweight race IRS chassis (ally floor)
Low mileage, done approx 3000 miles since built, only been out twice in last two years due to starting up Retropower and so no time, ever for fun!!
This is a proper car. You won't find any piped leather or chrome gauges strewn across the dash. You won't find an off the shelf loom with
all the spare wires taped out of the way. It has nothing on it that is not required. Everything has been custom made where an off the shelf item was
not suitable or indeed ideal for the job. Its performance also has to be experienced really. Its not like your small bike engine locosts, it really
has some serious shove (and I have driven a LOT of quick cars!)
A brief spec:
200hp vauxhall 2.0 xe on jenvey 45mm throttle bodies
Mbe 956 ecu, dizzyless ignition
Arp rod bolts
H/D big end bearings
Caterham hpc wet sump (have dry sump kit for extra or thrown in for the right offer!!)
Paddle clutch
Type 9 box with concentric clutch mech
3.62 sierra viscous LSD
Stainless fully tig welded long secondary 4-2-1 manifold
Big carbon can
Lightweight denso alternator
Revolution 6x14 minilites with very good Yokohama a048r tyres in media
Compound
Raceleda billet 4 pot front calipers
Cortina uprights
New escort 2.4 turn quickrack on ally mounts
Sierra rear discs
Mintex 1144 pads
Bias bar pedal box
Custom stainless fluid reservoir for all three master cylinders with float switch built into tank.
Lightweight billet rear driveshafts
Stainless tig welded fuel tank with inbuilt surge tank
Carbon dash with custom warning light arrangement and Elliot tacho
black grp scuttle, nose, cycle wings and rear wings, alloy sides, rear panel and bonnet.
Currently fitted with caterham screen/frame, but has no wipers or demist, it was sva'd with no screen. I also have a basic aeroscreen/deflector
which can be swapped on very easily (just a few allen head bolts) should your mot man be silly about it. I just use rain-x inside and out on the
screen!
Will be taxed and mot. New at sva 4 years ago, on q plate.
Very light car, 540 kg when last weighed.
Needless to say, flipping quick!
These cars look great, same proportions as a caterham or pre lit Westfield, much smaller than a lot of the locost makes.
Ooh it's on alloy protech shocks all round as well! Springs are 275lb front and 140lb rear.
Open to offers somewhere in the region of 6k
Pics will follow
[Edited on 8/10/11 by NS Dev]
[Edited on 9/10/11 by NS Dev]
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MikeR
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| posted on 8/10/11 at 08:00 PM |
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knew this day would come - but its sad all the same. Its a lovely looking car and built to nats very high standards.
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donn006
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| posted on 8/10/11 at 08:03 PM |
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hi dev if you want to sell the sump either one separate ill haveit .... sorry to see you selling it thanks for all your help in the past cheers donn
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NS Dev
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| posted on 9/10/11 at 05:19 PM |
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Would also consider an engine, gearbox, prop and ancillary bits ready to drop into ur locost and go for offers around £2600, or £3200 with dry sump
setup. You won't get 200 totally reliable hp ready to turn the key for less
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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NS Dev
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| posted on 9/10/11 at 05:25 PM |
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Ps just noticed somebody asking 12.5k for basically the same thing as mine on pistonheads!!!
Think they may be thinking rather wishfully, but puts mine into perspective!
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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T66
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| posted on 9/10/11 at 06:10 PM |
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Ringing you Monday - And to get to the point, I will ask on everyone elses behalf - Whats your next project Nat ? Grasser ?
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NS Dev
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| posted on 9/10/11 at 08:28 PM |
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yep!
A friend from my local club is selling his class 9, and its a very good car that I know the history of.
I don't have time to build one now, and if I can only get out on the odd sunday in something with wheels and an engine then I'd rather be
competing than road blatting the locost.
The plan is to possibly use the car as it is for a start, but I am getting everything together to lower the compression of an XE and fit an Eaton M90
blower, together with water injection and a nissan pulsar intake setup, and move the car to class 10 and race the twin bikes with a car engine!
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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edspurrier
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| posted on 16/10/11 at 07:41 AM |
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IS this still going please? We may be interested if it could easily be fitted with a race cage etc.
Thanks
Ed
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NS Dev
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| posted on 18/10/11 at 08:16 AM |
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Some interest but currently for sale, finally managed to get it out of the garage and a photo or two taken:
Also looking at the pics reminds me, it has a vapor dash, but the revcounter is not used on that (they don't work very reliably) and the elliot
is used instead. It also has a steel spherical jointed quickshift and billet steel gearstick (all machined by me) which is very nice in action. The
clutch is a helix cerametallic 4 paddle but with sprung centre, and is actually very progressive to use and smooth with the hydraulic release
mechanism. This in turn has a remote mounted plate bolted to the outside of the bellhousing, which mounts the bleed fitting and the bulkhead point for
the clutch flexi line, so no messing about if you need to bleed it up (not that I ever have had to) and no pipes rubbing on the bellhousing cutout
like so many are!
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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NS Dev
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| posted on 18/10/11 at 08:21 AM |
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PS yep cage would be pretty easy to sort. Only single ally outer skin to cut. I can sort cage if its required
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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NS Dev
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| posted on 21/10/11 at 11:59 AM |
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anyboy interested before it goes on ebay and pistonheads?
Retro RWD is the way forward...........automotive fabrication, car restoration, sheetmetal work, engine conversion
retro car restoration and tuning
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Pat_T
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 posted on 22/10/11 at 03:30 PM |
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Me! Very!
I have U2U'd you, please get in touch asap!
www.instagram.com/patroclueus
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