Men and Motors

This is the engine to be! a Kawasaki ZX12R. It has about 175bhp and not bad torque characteristics at about 100ft-lb @7500rpm. Of coarse the Busa engine is the big hitter of the bunch but so is the price tag ? I’m sure this will do the job very nicely. Four main things to [...]

Prop shaft!

A very cool piece of kit….I’m sure you’ll agree! It’s an expensive one-off item but a crucial piece of the car that transfers power from the engine to the differencial. I will be installing this fairly soon and will show you the installation photos when ready.

Sprocketless Engine

Very simple, very effective – one of the many things that attracted me to GTR was the fact that it was shaft driven. This hub and the prop shaft are superbly engineered witch gives me great confidence putting it together, it really is a fit and forget part of the car!

Sprocket and Hub

The top left of the picture is the new hub that replaces the sprocket – the nut and brass washer can be reused. Some thread lock will be needed when tightening and close attention to bending the brass washer over the nut will be required as about 160bhp + will be passing through it and [...]

The Hub

This is the o/s/f hub the old sierra discs are being used at the moment with a poss-able cosworth upgrade ! or maybe some cool looking cross drilled pair of puppies !!! I’m getting way to enthusiastic over a set of brake discs? after Paul taking me round the track at Oulten Park at break [...]

Cool front view !!

As you can see from the picture the steering rack which is a 2:9 ratio bought from Rally Design at a very reasonably price is fitted with alloy mounts, the rack extensions are supplied by Paul and I think are a much better way to extend the rack other than welding ends on to it??
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