British Touring Cars is a vey interesting formula - they are like the GTCs built on a standard chassis modularly applied to front and rear wheel drive cars. In fact one of the Passats from last year became the Mercedes this year. Its a stock drivetrain and all they do is pop the engine (a 1600 turbo) and body panels onto the frame. Is that not what we should be looking at - kind of a simpler BTCC-cum-more sophisticated Ashley Formula Supercar (those Cape Town Opel powered spaceframes) with a standard type engine? So you can buy the kit for say R200K and build the car for double that? My take would be to go for a less tuned 2-litre atmo or tightly-specced 1.6 turbo mill. BTCC uses the FIA 1.6 turbo like they use in the overseas S2000 rally, which is expensive, but there is no reason why we cant come up with a more basic, less costly but still reliable solution. Then everyone has to use a spec gearbox/diff/drivetrain, spec brakes, spec shocks and suspension and the rest and all that changes is the body and the engine, but then those also use a spec injection/ECU/turbo too. Is that the solution?
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:52:01 +0000
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