Excuse my ignorance chaps but are there different specs of Honda Conversions. what sort of money are we talking and who are the conversion ‘specialists’!
AND would it be a travesty replacing a perfectly good low mileage original engine with a conversion?
If I were considering a Honda conversion then it would be LotusPower (aka The Edwards Boys). Top fellas, can’t go wrong with them IMO.
Now if only they switched from the Dark Side and did proper conversions like the Audi
If I were considering a Honda conversion then it would be LotusPower (aka The Edwards Boys). Top fellas, can’t go wrong with them IMO.
Now if only they switched from the Dark Side and did proper conversions like the Audi
Any idea of what sort of price we’re looking at?
From what I have read and hered of it is any where between 7k and 10k, depending on what spec, engine and who you get to carry out the works.
From what I have read and hered of it is any where between 7k and 10k, depending on what spec, engine and who you get to carry out the works.
Oooooohhhh fcuk!
AND would it be a travesty replacing a perfectly good low mileage original engine with a conversion?
Yes
Tim.
That what you have pay for reliablity!!!
But to be fare from what i have read once the coversion is complete you have a car that is faster than most thing on the road 360’s 911’s etc so is this is true it would seem a bargin!
AND would it be a travesty replacing a perfectly good low mileage original engine with a conversion?
Yes
Tim.
Dont worry Tim, im just being inquisitive!
I had my Honda conversion done by Maidstone Sports Cars, most tried and tested conversion out there, costs a fair few quid especially if you tick all the options boxes and have a Supercharger added, also comes with a 12 month warranty.
Tuner GP results if youre wondering just how quick a SC Honda converted car is.
My engine had only done 20k miles when it came out and runs perfectly, Ive still got it somewhere.
Cant beat it to be honest and keeps the standard rev happy nature of the car.
Christian
�7-10K is for a normally aspirated (~ 220bhp) Honda right ? How much for the supercharged (~300bhp) car ?
Closer to 13k
Did the maths and you can hit 18k with all the bells and whistles
Closer to 13k
Did the maths and you can hit 18k with all the bells and whistles
Jamie, you’re right that, for example, Maidstone charge around �13K for the turnkey Honda s/c conversion (ie engine & ancilliaries, 6 speed box, ECU, labour, 12 month warranty & VAT), but any excess over that is for uprated brakes/suspension on an Exige, plus wheels/tyres on an Elise.
Tuner GP results if youre wondering just how quick a SC Honda converted car is.
British European Car Tuner GP - Auto Performance Optimization Competition
Not wishing to inflame the ‘old debate’ but it looks like the DVA Power Elise (Steve Butts) was the quickest normally aspirated car there. Slightly ahead of the NA Honda and behind the SC Honda. The VHPD is good IF done well and if there wasn’t people like DVA around I’d have a Honda in my car without question, and it would most likely be the Edwards boyz that would get my money.
True to a point, bear in mind that Steves car is a lesson in weight saving to the Nth degree and does not make for a daily road car (though you could if you were nuts)
You could have powered the car by rubber bands and it would have put in a good time.
I am having my car supercharged by these chaps
www.tts-performance.co.uk �3800 supplied and fitted with chargecooler, they reckon 350bhp
was steve driving his own car or did someone else do that time in his car?
Jamie, you’re right that, for example, Maidstone charge around �13K for the turnkey Honda s/c conversion
�4K more expensive than the equally powerful Audi conversion then
True to a point, bear in mind that Steves car is a lesson in weight saving to the Nth degree and does not make for a daily road car (though you could if you were nuts)
You could have powered the car by rubber bands and it would have put in a good time.
I don’t disagree with that one bit. Though I don’t think many of the other Elises/Exiges involved were exactly plush either.
Would it be fair to say that you’d probably find it difficult to get a car to a similar weight if it was anything but a VHPD in there?
It’d be quite interesting to see Steves car with a motorbike engine… but naturally wouldn’t qualify for the various events he enters I imagine.
Ok it was my car that came 2nd after leading all day, it had had no set up at all, infact the wheels were nigh on pointing in different directions.
Mine weighed in at 825kg with 30lts of fuel in, no weight loss at all, completely road trim, even had my ipod in the cabin along with coats and god knows what else rattling about.
My conversion was expensive but ive had turbo cars, several infact most modified in some way or another and i did not want another one, ive not driven the audi conversion yet but i can tell you my car is spotless and looks like it should have had the honda and supercharger in there from the offset the conversion is that good.
For a road car up against some of the other far more expensive machinery it accounted itself very well, with some set up which it now has i was told low 16’s possibly 15’s were in it, around donington.
Steve butts car is how a K series should be done, it ran well, perhaps king k should try to emulate that before saying his engines are going to win everything, I for one would be bloody suprised if they do, if they ever turn up.
heres the weights for the tuner gp.
Steve’s S1 657Kg (18L)
Craig’s S1 757Kg (17L)
Randy’s Exige 800Kg (25L)
Tony’s S1 815Kg (~6l)
Christian’s Exige 825Kg (30L)
Niels S2 840Kg (28L)
I will not be at donington on the 29th of april but my car may well be, have fun.
Christian