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Damn I'm rather jealous! I've had a lot of Toyotas but not the gansta Chaser. I hope to before the fun police ban such excessive cars

Oh well I'm in my light weight n low power period at the moment!

Finally making progress! After a weeks delay and two duff injectors my car is finally running with a preliminary tune so I can put some miles on the the rings n bearings. I'm pleased with the 160BHP output from the 1587cc Toyota lump as I know it could be tuned a bit further. Anyway somewhat irrelev...

I used to go on a few Lotus runs when I owned one and they were very well attended. Usual routine probably, meet at a pub then follow a pre-determined route. Except on one occasion just about everyone got lost down a narrow country lane and 30 or so Elise's ended up on someones drive. The owners wer...

I was going to post almost exactly what Bladerider said above. My dyno operator of 20 years told me it was done in 4th as that's usually pretty close to 1:1 and on a lot of GBX such as the ubiquitous Ford type 9 the 4th gear is part of the shaft so less loses. Only what I was told though and probabl...

The setup on my Striker kit car didn't have a one way valve and it seemd to work OK but it would ensure maximum oil delivery to the bearings if the Accusump was triggered. The Accusump was T'd into the return line from the oil cooler. The issue I had with this setup was that the sandwich plate didn'...

Thanks agin for the welcomes.

Tony your not far off if I'm sitting in the car. Last time I weighed it with a half tank of fuel it came out at 535kg.

Hard to say really as I can't even decide which Rotrex to use at the mo and really need to try both sizes I'm considering. I also haven't lowered the compression from 10.5:1 so that'll be the first limit but this is just a test to start off. I did have 8.9:1 forged pistons in it at one point but I r...

I'm using an OMEX 710 ECU and will probably get Richard, the owner of OMEX, to map my car as he's got a lot of recent Rotrex mapping experience. My car is sat at Mech Repairs in Cheltenham just down the road from OMEX unfortunately my ECU had a duff logging chip and its gone back for repair. Been wa...

Having seen a Striker go up a bank and hit a tree head on last week on track the front end was surprisingly complete . Yes the chassis rails collapsed and the wheels were pushed back but the radiator was still sealed and no distortion of the driver/passenger area was evident! That's my old engine th...

Hi guys and thanks for the welcome. Indeed my car is a RAW sourced Striker which really only resembles the Sylva original design as so many revisions have been made since. I'd like to believe I've contributed to the developement over the last few years as I'm regularly at the factory in Hereford wit...