The short version is that El Wifeo and I went to the Bathurst 6 Hour at Easter and came home a bit fired up.
Then her work took her away from home for a week and I was left unattended with a head full of ideas and too much time on my hands...
The slightly longer version is that I have been gunna build a ‘more serious than Cheap Car race car’ since way before we started in Cheap Car. Dating back to an RX808 that bought in 1996ish.
More recently, Group 3E Production Touring cars were on the radar, particularly a Phase2 S40 T4.
The Production Touring Car class uses a power and torque to weight formula, and the cars are classed by the resultant number - you need 55 or higher to be in slowest class (Class E).
40-54.99999 is Class D, etc.
They changed the formula a year or too back, which moved the S40 from being a good Class D car to a slow Class C one - at which point it the idea went off the boil.
Then after the 6hr, I revisited the idea, and made a short list of:
BMW E36 325i;
BMW E56 323i;
Peugeot 306 GTi6;
Fiesta XR4.
Then this beauty came up, for a grand total of $1000. I offered $700 and he accepted immediately...
It was only $700 because the motor is stuffed - it runs really well but belches smoke once the revs are up, and eventually it oils up #3 spark plug.
