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. .'just wondered if anyone knew what had happened to it, where it had gone and if it had been used in anger over the past year or so? I was told it was to be used in hillclimbs and sprints but haven't found anything by searching on results etc. - still miss that car despite it costing me so much (more than money!) Midway through the season the new owner started on a 4AGTE conversion and I've seen nothing of it since. - hope more will come?(AP, Stoptech etc) but as they were front only you're right, they did need care especially in the wet. I actually sold the car with a brand new OBP pedal box etc. bought with that in mind but suspect the pirate who bought it may have then sold it on separately.. . do you know how well it performed in the sprint series?(ie 1980cc) conversion with itbs and an uprated c64 exige gearbox and drive shafts (that can be machined to allow aw11 outer hubs to be fitted). Looks like he only did rounds 4 and 5, it was driven by Rick Parker. I don't think he was getting the most of the car for whatever reason though so his results don't really carry any significance.(if treated sensibly) and light weight that was enough to see off MGF and ZR race cars, a slick shod CRX and various Alfa challenge cars on a couple of track days. My favourite car and I then 'graduated' to full on race spec. BMW M3s; wish I hadn't bothered.& this came up 
well the car is coming along nicely t25 turbo is on & 22v rear brakes on with vented discs i will be testing it all soon at bruntingthorpe proving ground i'm looking for 220-250bhp @ 1.5bar boost with quick spool. 
& the car needed lots of work& the supercharger was giving just 4psi so its been off the road since but will be back in the tss for 2011 
[/img] Nice of him then to not pass it on!(to a guy in Barbados) and was then sat in an indoor storage facility for a couple of years. £4000 for supposedly re-building and refreshing it including the brakes. It came back with several issues not sorted, dodgy wiring and a knackered 'new' engine. It wasn't until I threatened legal action that I got the car back.(which had been recently re-built so should have been fine) and repair some of the damage/undone stuff from Poole. I'd have hoped after all that it would have been pretty much sorted!- despite having loads of other cars from Clio Cups to race prepped M3s - is still my utter favourite; I miss it loads and regret getting diverted by other cars hence my interest. When set up right it handled brilliantly and was so quick even with way less power than you hope for. My best ever track session was one at Cadwell where it just flew and felt so right.- it should be a monster with that power. We bought it and brought it home today. 
Eventually the turbo cried enoguh and he sourced a turbo from an S15 Silvia for it although all the plumbing and pipework still needs to be sorted then it'll probably need remapping(the wiring in the engine bay looks like a rats nest) then I'll combine all the best bits of this car and our current sprint car onto one shell or the other (haven't decided which yet) then all the leftover bits will be sold off, ideally as a complete car as neither of them deserve to be broken for parts.kaiowas wrote:Update on this car.
Latest on it is that the turbo the Rik fitted wasn't really suitable, it wasn't sized correctly and couldn't handle the flow or the boost.
Plan for the time being is to get it up and running tidying up a few bits as I go
I know the wiring has been an issue for a long while, what with the various engine transplants and the utter butchery committed by some of the previous mechanics like Kevin Poole, but if properly set up you'll find this handles so well and is such a joy to drive. The steering is the absolute very best I've ever felt in any of the 2 dozen road and race cars I've had. - or maybe get a race team to do one of the lightweight military spec. looms etc. - it should be very competitive. The seam welding, cage, lightweight body parts etc. took so much time, work and money. At it's best it was ace!(well, I) can keep up to speed.(but scruffy) loom if I have any trouble with it. We're torn between this shell which has had plenty of work done to it and our own which we've got a sentimental attachement to (as well as having worked on a lot ourselves).(and expense!) it caused despite my efforts being mainly down to the donkey work like stripping, lightening etc.(pop up by hand at any rate!), sunroof etc. PrepFab did the seam welding, cage and arches. And Tollbar Racing did a lot of fine tuning to the suspension. Well over £30,000 went into the car.(and STACK dash) that caused problems - I should have (wish I had) bitten the bullet years ago and gone for a full out conversion of engine, gear box and wiring loom... cheers! I'm sure I'll have a scary number to post up at the end if you want to know it! Along with the cage and the LEDAs they were big factors in me deciding to buy it. I'm guessing it's probably still worth good money and it doesn't really add anything to the car. Though to be honest I can pretty much remember each and every bill. Had I kept it I wanted to add data logging etc. but got too bogged down with other cars/projects regrettably and ran out of money. www.finkydink.co.uk/FEAM%20history.pdf.. Although he has had a few years 'out', I can now start documenting his progress again. He has a great pedigree!