Welcome

Welcome to my blog.

This corner of the internet is going to be dedicated to the build of my latest track car project.

The ultimate aim of the project is simply to have a car in which to go fast and have fun, whilst giving myself a stimulating engineering project to work on outside of my work.

There are some secondary aims based upon previous projects I have completed, and things I have learnt upon the way. These are as follows:

1) Do as much as possible myself. Use the project as an opportunity to learn new skills.
2) Minimise monetary expenditure, maximise return. Although I am not building the project to make a profit, nor can I afford to throw money down an endless pit. The key to not making a loss will be in purchasing the right components and completing as much work as possible myself.
3) Make it fast! I have owned, driven, and been driven in some very quick cars over the past 10 years. I appreciate that you can have just as much fun on track in a 1.5d citroen AX (see here) as you can an Ariel Atom. When it comes to scaring passengers however, faster definitely tends to be better! :) As I like to attend trackdays with my friends I intend to make this car faster than the previous one in order to maximise the grin factor.
4) Finally, get the practicality balance right. In it's final guise my previous track car could not traverse certain speedbumps and could not be driven in heavy rain. With this car I aim to minimise weight and I am quite happy to sacrifice comfort, but not compromise the ability of the car to drive to/from the circuit in any conditions.

Target:
over 530bhp/tonne wet weight with 5l fuel, no driver.