Mini – 2.0L XE Email received from Joe, May 2007: Hello! Just written a bit below to go with the pictures that I’ve attached: Searching for big power in a mini is hard unless you go down the engine transplant route. I started off with a 1600 vtec engine and soon was on […]
Saxon PCD – Suzuki 1100cc In memory of Rob, who sadly passed away in 2007. Rob’s ultra light hillclimb car’s development history was first reported in both Racecar Engineering magazine and CCC magazine in July 2001. CCC went back to see how the car had performed on the track and what developments had […]
Opel Manta – 2.0L XE Simon’s Manta was featured in Total Vauxhall, May 2006, which they allowed us to reproduce. Email from Simon in August, 2005:Car Make & Model: 1975 A series Opel Manta. The car was featured in Retro cars march 2004.Engine specification: Stock XE fitted with 208 kit lightened flywheel and 4‐2‐1 […]
Caterham – 2.0L XE Graham Ford has been a customer for many years, he originally came to us when he decided to upgrade his Caterham from a cross flow powered car to run the 2.0L Vauxhall XE engine. He originally started with our TP208 kit and then came back each winter adding various goodies and […]
Astra GTE 16v – 2.0 XE Email received from Jamie, 2006: Hi Steve, got the car mapped finally after chatting yesterday, mine came back with 230hp at 8057 rpm and 173lbft at 5900 rpm and Darrens got 220hp and 176lbft, the Steves did an excellent job and as I’m sure you aware they really […]
OMS CF04 – 2.0L XE Well Done to Trevor finishing top 2.0L Driver in the British Hillclimb Championship 2005. In 2006 Trevor changed his OMS to Hayabusa power. Trevor’s OMS pre 2006 had our 2.0L XE TP290bhp kit on his 2.0L Vauxhall engine. Trevor’s 2005 season started with FTD at Harewood hillclimb on Easter […]
Cortina Mk2 – 2.0L XE Herbert Burrell’s Mk2 Cortina with a Vauxhall 2.0L 16v engine fitted using our bits. He started the conversion in 2002 and finished in 2005. He sent us the pictures in 2006 and it has done about 2000 miles.
Vauxhall Astra, 2.0L XE Letter received from Andy in October 2005: It started life as a 1.6 16v sport which I paid £150 for, due to engine damage. I had a 2.0 litre 16v in the car we were selling with the SBD 208 kit fitted, so I swapped it into the sport. It stayed […]
Westfield – 1.6L Vauxhall Email received from Mark, 2004: 164 Kit installed and all working well for 2004 – now looking forward to next upgrade of cams, pistons and rods for 2005 season. The car has run exceptionally well for the few events competed in 2004. On a personal level, the power and its delivery […]
Astra – 2.0L XE Darren’s comments: I’ve run the Astra for several weeks successfully now, and attended a rolling road event at Gerald Dale Motorsport Saturday 12th March. I was pleased to find that the setup was making good power, and the early run in the morning made 189bhp at 6333rpm with peak torque of […]
