mister2
Oh man. I saw on the Aussieelises forum that your sold the Exige Cup260, but I didn't see that you bought that. F#$king awesome!  

 
Yeah, sold the Cup 260, great car but I was just about ready to spend another ~$30k on it to get it where I wanted, so I thought I'd sell it and buy a proper race car (it rarely got road driven anyway) for around the same money with more performance... well.... I ended up spending more, quite a bit more..
 

kameleon
170rwkw on a BEAMS n/a is Massive power and certainly not a cheap exercise. Adrian is close to a low 1:10 at Wakefield if i am not misstaken? and is still on a basically stock GEN3 n/a engine.
 
Awesome racecar James but certainly outside the realm of most of us here!

Yeah, most people around here are alot more sensible than me.  I should have invested the money so I don't have to work until I am 70!  You obviously have a fair bit of BMW experience.  How do you rate X5's, around 2005-2007 sort of vintage, 3L turbo diesel. 

Great cars, the perfect all round car in my opinion. Hopefully be getting the missus into one in the future myself.
 
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B24
The issue isn't too much power, its being settled with the track and knowing your car. Any 200+kw car should be doing a 10 without too much work. I did a 1.08.1 with about 180kw but still had plenty in it, Pat was very close to the 10 and Glenn is under the 10's now. If a S15 can do a 1.03 with 260kw then a MR2 should be pretty close with similar spec's.
Less weight, excellent suspension and balanced car is number one. You can drive the big power quickly around Wakefield but you need to get all the braking an corner speeds right. Having the right mines helps a hell of a lot. Ian and Adrian prove this point very well.
Thanks for the review on the trackday. Looks like its coming together. One of the key points was taking control of everything as there were a few issues in 2013/2014 with help from timing and Wakefield which ended up causing a number of delays with the running of MTC. I really kept a eye on everything so down time was at a minimum, everyone was looked after and the event was very close to schedule even though there were a number of delays caused by a few  unfortunate incidents to fellow competitors. The pug turned out to be a pretty handy service vehicle!
James: Just drive it mate. No mods please! You have a great little car there. Hope to see you doing some door to door racing in 2015.
Who is up for two 6 lap 'MTC cup races' in 2016? Must be a caged race car. 6 is enough to make it happen. Pat/Pete W/Peter G/The Pearl/Steve G/Aaron?/Owen/Luke/Michael B?
 
 

Hi Steve, nah, no mods, no money left for mods!  I need to mod the nut behind the wheel first anyway.  It will be different driving a high DF car for sure.  The car makes around 260hp but is only 535kg, so should still have plenty of poke.
 
I might have missed the boat for door to door this year.  The car is still in portugal at present, should be shipping in next week or two.  As I didn't know what I was doing I didn't lodge my entry for the sportscar racing series up here, and i'll miss at least 1-2 rounds anyway by the time the car arrives, plus I also need to sort out the log books etc (CAMS is going to be a PITA, I have already been talking with them and they are most unhelpful, AASA not so bad.  The car is a carbon chassis car).
 
Maybe in a couple of years once I am running representative times with the car I might add some small boost forced induction, probably still run standard compression ratio etc.  

Let me drive one of the high powered mr2s and I'll squeeze a good lap time out of it 😃

I think with better weather (drier track) and decent tyres, i should be able to get down to the 1:15's hopefully.
I cant see ecu and exhaust upgrades getting a Beams to 170rwkw when its only 147 at the flywheel now (assuming my engine is performing at its best). After i get new wheels and tyres, the focus will be on suspension - new springs, shocks and bushes etc. The engine currently has plenty of power for me atm while i am learning. I don't think i'll ever match Adrian, but if i can stay in his mirror for a session, i'll be happy.

I thought the beams had 150rwkw. You should be able get an extra 20kw. Just need to get more air through the motor. Good set of headers and a exhaust to extract them gases out that should be 7- 10kw. The factory ecu are very, very, safe tune. For drivers that might do full acceleration in top gear in low rpm, great for creating knock, Car maker have to anticipate stupid drivers. With a good ecu tune you could get 10-20kw and increase torque out of a motor or just do a simple fuel regulator with AFR Wide band OS sensor then adjust your AFR ratios should be about 10kw gain.

Apparently the stock headers are very good already. People on the Beams forums have tried aftermarket option with little or no improvement, some have even reported a slight drop. I don't know what can be done with a stock ecu, but the cost of an aftermarket ecu probably wouldn't be worth the small gains. A better exhaust is on my list though. My first focus is on basic handling improvements, and trying to improve the nut behind the wheel (me).

It's harder to drive a high power car that is not set up right than lower powered car that is set up right.
The guys with racing slicks or semi slick and good brakes should be faster than those with street tyres and standard brakes it's about corner speed. As I counted last there more corners than straights at Wakefield.
When I last race bikes at Mallala there where guys with lower powered bike doing faster time than the higher powered ones. Just because of suspension setups and tyres.

grosso
I thought the beams had 150rwkw. You should be able get an extra 20kw. Just need to get more air through the motor. Good set of headers and a exhaust to extract them gases out that should be 7- 10kw. The factory ecu are very, very, safe tune. For drivers that might do full acceleration in top gear in low rpm, great for creating knock, Car maker have to anticipate stupid drivers. With a good ecu tune you could get 10-20kw and increase torque out of a motor or just do a simple fuel regulator with AFR Wide band OS sensor then adjust your AFR ratios should be about 10kw gain.

 
Unfortunately nothing written here is true about the BEAMS. The power figure is 147kw at the engine not wheels for a redtop such as Ricks and 154kw at the engine for the Blacktop from the Altezza.
 
About 115rwkw for a Blacktop and less for a redtop stock. These are highly strung engines stock and gains are not as easy to have because of this. Check out the stock 4-2-1 extractors on the Blacktop to see what i mean. 
 
 

kameleon
Great cars, the perfect all round car in my opinion. Hopefully be getting the missus into one in the future myself.
 
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They seem CHEAP for what you get also.  2700kg or thereabouts towing capacity, so more than a prado more refined than a prado, same cost or less than a prado and more oomph than a prado.  I guess the only thing a prado does better is off road, but I hardly do that, I'll keep the landcruiser around if I want to do off road anyway.