Eoghain
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- Feb 12, 2009
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- DC2 touring car, golf tdi
Hi everyone,
This is the car I hinted to in my spoon Integra road car build! The car has a long history of motorsport back from new. It was built as a semi works car to be ran by a satellite customer team in the 98 and 99 BTCC production championship. I've been finding it hard to get photos and info from back then, but it was ran by GR motorsport who I think are no longer in business or who have changed name! It was built from a basically new car and used many mardi gras motorsport parts.
It has been in Ireland many years now and has had a few owners and has gone through various rebuilds and development over the years. Here's a few picture from ITCC races in modello.
The car had landed to me for a few shell mods from its previous owner, I kinda fell in love with the and ended up buying it off him as he was going down a different route with another car. I bought the car as a rolling shell with full Mardi Gras Motorsport racing suspension, front 4 piston Alcons with 300mm discs, ATL composite bag tank with Bosch Motorsport pumps, 4 way adjustable intrax dampers. In the deal I also got front and rear bumpers in standard plastic and in fibreglass, 4mm thick carbon bonnet, carbon headlight deletes and grill, carbon boot door,composite bumper bars, plastic4performance curved window kit and adjustable front splitter with air dame.
So while I got a lot of gear with the car, it's still missing a lot of parts which is basically what I've been doing the last few months gathering them up!
Here's a few pictures of parts I've gathered.
Pretty much have everything I need for the car in those pics, all the safety gear like seat, extinguisher, harness, steering wheel, battery, all new fuel fittings and lines, new brake fittings and lines, new wheels, carbon dash (extremely light!!) all the parts required to build the car loom, all new suspension bolts, new wheel bearings front and back and new longer wheel studs and nuts
I had to do a few shell mods as I'm quiet tall (6 foot 5) and needed to mount the seat as low as possible for good head room with a helmet. So I mounted the shell on my spit so I could do the fab work
Picture of the fuel tank in situe, notice the clearance for a nice clear flow for the exhaust.
Here you can see a dash bar I fitted as the car had none!!!! Also I've fitted extra side intrusion bar along the floor. I've also fitted tubes for air jacks, the car is very low and with the aero I plan to buy it's going to be impossible to get a jack under her so they are a bit of an necessity...
I also fitted a new higher harness bar so I had the correct angles on the belts.
I had a originally thought to build a big power b series 2000cc engine, but due to the complexity of the engine spec required and the fear one small mishap would cost thousands my mind was changed to go k20.
I bought an English spec EP3 that had its interior stripped out for a project but never finished so I was able to run the engine to do a leak down and compression test and I'm happy to be report that all is good!
So current status is I have a few parts to buy, engine mounts, exhaust manifold, exhaust parts to build a system, haltec ecu and wiring loom, AiM dash, helix clutch and flywheel and Titan throttle bodies. The shell also needs a few finishing touches before it can go for paint but I had to put it to one side for a short while as I am in the middle of building an eg6 rally shell, once that's complete in a couple of weeks I'll finish the fab work on the Integra!
This post took a while to write... I hope yee enjoy the build up of the car! Any questions just shout!
This is the car I hinted to in my spoon Integra road car build! The car has a long history of motorsport back from new. It was built as a semi works car to be ran by a satellite customer team in the 98 and 99 BTCC production championship. I've been finding it hard to get photos and info from back then, but it was ran by GR motorsport who I think are no longer in business or who have changed name! It was built from a basically new car and used many mardi gras motorsport parts.
It has been in Ireland many years now and has had a few owners and has gone through various rebuilds and development over the years. Here's a few picture from ITCC races in modello.
The car had landed to me for a few shell mods from its previous owner, I kinda fell in love with the and ended up buying it off him as he was going down a different route with another car. I bought the car as a rolling shell with full Mardi Gras Motorsport racing suspension, front 4 piston Alcons with 300mm discs, ATL composite bag tank with Bosch Motorsport pumps, 4 way adjustable intrax dampers. In the deal I also got front and rear bumpers in standard plastic and in fibreglass, 4mm thick carbon bonnet, carbon headlight deletes and grill, carbon boot door,composite bumper bars, plastic4performance curved window kit and adjustable front splitter with air dame.
So while I got a lot of gear with the car, it's still missing a lot of parts which is basically what I've been doing the last few months gathering them up!
Here's a few pictures of parts I've gathered.
Pretty much have everything I need for the car in those pics, all the safety gear like seat, extinguisher, harness, steering wheel, battery, all new fuel fittings and lines, new brake fittings and lines, new wheels, carbon dash (extremely light!!) all the parts required to build the car loom, all new suspension bolts, new wheel bearings front and back and new longer wheel studs and nuts
I had to do a few shell mods as I'm quiet tall (6 foot 5) and needed to mount the seat as low as possible for good head room with a helmet. So I mounted the shell on my spit so I could do the fab work
Picture of the fuel tank in situe, notice the clearance for a nice clear flow for the exhaust.
Here you can see a dash bar I fitted as the car had none!!!! Also I've fitted extra side intrusion bar along the floor. I've also fitted tubes for air jacks, the car is very low and with the aero I plan to buy it's going to be impossible to get a jack under her so they are a bit of an necessity...
I also fitted a new higher harness bar so I had the correct angles on the belts.
I had a originally thought to build a big power b series 2000cc engine, but due to the complexity of the engine spec required and the fear one small mishap would cost thousands my mind was changed to go k20.
I bought an English spec EP3 that had its interior stripped out for a project but never finished so I was able to run the engine to do a leak down and compression test and I'm happy to be report that all is good!
So current status is I have a few parts to buy, engine mounts, exhaust manifold, exhaust parts to build a system, haltec ecu and wiring loom, AiM dash, helix clutch and flywheel and Titan throttle bodies. The shell also needs a few finishing touches before it can go for paint but I had to put it to one side for a short while as I am in the middle of building an eg6 rally shell, once that's complete in a couple of weeks I'll finish the fab work on the Integra!
This post took a while to write... I hope yee enjoy the build up of the car! Any questions just shout!