3.0L V6 powered K10

Lol you're a crazy guy!!! :eek: This was posted on here a while back. Looks insane. You got any power figures/graphs etc yet?? :) Nice work.
 
that does look mad, are you hoping to get it down a strip as soon as it passes its MOT? or have you got some fine tuning to do?..
 
It's taken a few cans of stella to build the beast I can tell you.

Most difficult bit has been getting it road legal. Sounds awesome when you start her up. Side exit exhausts heat the tyres and keep the interior warm (no heater matrix).
I had a small feature in Retro cars 2 months ago, which was when the pictures were taken. Going to update with new pictures soon and hopefully patrol a few shows.
 
Thats awesome! thought this thread was gonna be about that blue one which never worked properley, but this looks very impressive. Nice one!
 
power is 155bhp, but it's the torque that counts: 230Nm at the wheels in a car that weighs about 850kg.
 
Whats JAE? And whats this about the blue one? Very intrigued about it.
 
K10-V6 said:
power is 155bhp, but it's the torque that counts: 230Nm at the wheels in a car that weighs about 850kg.
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You need to be a member of the MSC to read the information about it unfortunatly, but its a huge jap car show this month. The MSC has 30 places for cars, and they're not yet all filled either!

The blue K10 i believe was used in a competition (but didnt win). it wasnt road worthy like yours, no windows, bars across the windscreen / bonnet and stuff like that.
 
Oh yeah! That was my inspiration car! The V8 micra at spagweb.com. Couldn't safely get a V8 into it though (although I wish I had tried harder!). I'll have to aim for the 23rd then for it's unvieling.
 
the only other thing is i believe you have to be a member of the MSC to have it on the stand, but i may be wrong about that.
 
Nice work! Probably the most extreme and well thought through K10 modification I have ever seen to date. I think this may be the kind of mod that all others will be compared to! Not sure what I think of the spray paint that must have been a pain to do the car lol! Good luck with the MOT, and please keep us upto date.
 
It's tuned up ok at the moment. I had problems with the carb as it was chucking fuel down one side instead of an even distribution causing menacing backfiring. Turned out to be the two butterfly valves not being synchronised. Runs sweetly now. Revs pretty freely. Engines had a slight overbore to 3.1L, the rest is pretty standard.
 
Paint's been polished up since the pics and the bumpers modified for lower and meaner angular look. Still a dirty black. Cheers everyone!:laugh:
 
Its great, Something I have always wanted to do but never had the time. I would probably have gone for a 200sx running gear or tried a mid engine setup. One thing for sure that car is going to be VERY tail happy, there is no weight in the back of that at all!!
 
That was my prime concern when building it. I have made it pretty weighty at the back though, the jaguar axle weighs in at 80kg and I made a new fuel tank from 2mm guage steel and positioned it behind the rear axle for added balance (and safety from rear impacts). The rear arch extensions are all steel fabrications too as well as the side skirts which are structural (to stop the chassis twisting under load).
 
Some decent thought has gone into this then! Would be interesting to see the weight distribution of this. I have a feeling though you may need more, perhaps some kind of downforce in the true sense, rather than added mass. Is handling a concern? Did you have any other aims for this other than something unusual, and quite frankly nuts :)
 
I wish I knew!

I knew nobody out there would have tried to do it properly because of converting it to RWD. There were no real aims, it's just sort of......grown! Yes if I had alot of money I would have done it PROPERLY with lots of aluminium. But aluminium is so difficult to work with and is subject to fatigue really easily. The wings are difficult to see in the pictures but there are intakes and exits above the bumpers. The front wings too. I will probably need a wing of some kind for corners, but this only has to go striaght for 1/4 of a mile. :upside:
 
And with such an engine base as well, your results should be great. You should come to the Jap show at santa pod in October. Perhaps then I will have some competition (Joke to everyone else) lol.
 
Will take time to balance everything on the car though, so you will probably beat me for a few meets! Your 172bhp in a micra is pretty rapid at the far end of the strip (assuming nissan march turbo), but getting grip over the first few hundred metres is where the RWD and chunky tyres pays off. Probably a fair match really! Gotta go now, my eyes are getting sore. I'll be back on-line sometime later this week.
 
My best ET is now 15.1 @ 92mph. My 60ft was 2.478 seconds, so you can straight away see how much wheelspin I get. I would expect you to be around 1.9 60 foot on a good launch.

Ed
 
Got to congratulate you K10-V6! Well done! Please keep us all updated on your progress with this.

As you're obviously aiming to use this car on the road sometimes (mot), would you consider a roll-cage at all? Know your aiming to be a 1/4 mile car though so maybe not. :upside:
 
Wow, crazy stuff there! I was also expecting it to be the blue one, cant believe you pulled it off and its going to go through its MOT, good luck with it, im dying to see some vids of it running!
 
Arnold said:
the only other thing is i believe you have to be a member of the MSC to have it on the stand, but i may be wrong about that.
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To go back to that, you don't have to be a current member, if you come to JAE and say you're with the MSC, they'll show you where we are.

Then just give us £20 [for a Silver membership] and you are more than welcome on the stand.

And with a car like that it would be a shame NOT to have it on the stand! :cool:

Hats off to you for the effort you must have put into it :)
 
Update 01/08/05.

All steel centre console finished with tachometer, chrome clocks, vintage radio for the standard micra speaker (in the passenger footwell, LW & MW only!) and more modern Sony CD player. Replaced the quarter panels in the back for 1/2" MDF for my Pioneer 6x9's and covered with origional panels for that nostalgic look. Tidied up the arches where the fat wheels were catching and donned the petrol tank to the brim with Sainsbury's UL petrol and Leaded suppliment from HalFrauds.
Treated the Jaguar differential to a new home-made gasket and oil.
Changed the engine oil and filter.fwn
Changed the gearbox fluid (which takes ages trying to squeeze the stuff through a tiny pipe! Gives you wrists like pop-eye).
Made sure all the wheel-wheel measurements and tracking was ok.
BUT.....

MOT went terribly:-

Spent ages setting it up, tuning the twin carb with timing light and dizzy dwell angle 'till the engine roared. Whizzed it off to the MOT man, had great fun testing the turn of speed, left the keys and went back. 10 minutes later they asked :" Come over, we can't get it started again". They had driven it in fine and had it getting warm for the emissions test (which is a joke for a 1977 3.1L running Leaded petrol). But it just stopped. Got there, tried the usual trick of pouring a bit of petrol straight down the carb, but to no avail. Had to end it there.

The guy was willing to test it though and had already pointed out a few minor concerns...

The hand brake had too much travel.
The battery didn't have a tray and was loose.
The steering was too heavy.

:suspect:problem seems to be predominantly choke phasing, causing the engine to flood at high revvs (like the prolonged period during emissions testing at 2-3000rpm, especially when the engine is cold). So I stripped the carb and found a 20-odd year old diaphragm for the choke vacuum pull down with several small perferations from the abuse the garage mechanic gave it. !"£$!^"%£! grr

So now I need to get hold of a Weber DGAS 38 carb gasket kit, not as easy as it sounds without waiting a week. o_O

I'm also getting a reconditioned steering rack (manual) to replace the leaky power steering one which is allbiet useful. Will be testing it again soon though!

I've been so close to giving up and selling her! She's taking over my life! But I can't (or can I for a reasonable amount hehe, everything has a price as they say).:glance:
 
Rusty said:
As you're obviously aiming to use this car on the road sometimes (mot), would you consider a roll-cage at all? :upside:
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I'd love a roll cage, it'd make me have a bit more confidence when driving it! It's just priorities though, I want it road legal so I can move it around as I may well be loosing the storage soon and I have no trailor/ can't afford paying huge transport costs. I'd also like to drive it to shows too, so these things outweigh the safety factor in my silly mind at present. I could probably make one, but I'd rather it were a certified jobbie, again $$$.
 
my role cage is legal in german ;D so it must be legal everwhere :;D we have the hardest car-law in europe
 
moxon said:
my role cage is legal in german ;D so it must be legal everwhere :;D we have the hardest car-law in europe
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But the highest speed limits on the autobahns? :D I guess that makes sense actually, if you have the most road-worthy cars :)
 
hm ok we are abel to drive 300 km/h an more if we want but only on the autobahn and not on all parts, many parts are limited of 80 till 130

in the city 50 khm on countrystreets 100 km/h :D

but it is funny to drive up to 250 with the bmw 540i from my dad :D
 
I bet you still get ppl tailgaiting flashing their lights trying to overtake though!

Also top car, whereabouts are you?
 
oh yes many german drives like crazy assholes

its danger to drive left of the autobahen ( its the right side in england ;D)

iam from east germany near kaiserlautern , Saarbrücken

its near france the autobahn here is called a6 and a8 the a6 has no speedlimit :D
 
I meant I need to divert the funds into getting it on the road first before I get a roll cage.

It'd probably be ok on specialist insurance anyway. Direct line gave me a quote for it at £560 per year fully comp! Only thing is, I said it had 2 major modifications of which direct line only allow 2.
1) it had a 3.0l V6 powertrain which gives an unknown power increase of estimate less than 20% power increase (hehe).
2) it has been converted to rear wheel drive (ahem).
 
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think about the amount of tuning parts avliable for the essex though, loads of it, dirt cheap and off the shelf due to its popularity

tuning "lesser" jap engines is a ball ache to get uprated parts for, so I assume this is why (as well as knowledge and avaliability) he selected the ford unit

interesting read that, could have been a strip monster :k10:
 
I would have kept it looking like an innocent little Micra from the back, without the fat wheels and side extensions. Perhaps a 'baby on board' sticker and L plates...
 
Lol, Not sure whether that would work with a rear drive V6. :)

The clearence that the wheels give are probably necessary to ensure that the rear transfer box doesn't hit the floor!! Doubt it would be possible to get even majorly feathered throttle down on stock wheels....you'd be pulling off in fourth! lol
 

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