what size exhaust tube/elbow etc for my setup?

[turbomike]

whats the highest power output of all the simmy boys you know craig?

[CNHSS1]

mines the highest sprinter at a modest 250, but Pete silcocks road and trackday Sabre is knocking on the door of 300+ with his VNT protoype turbo and a DET. Stew B is building a killer DET with big turbo (for a scim anyway) and is looking for 350+.
One of the old Reliant dealers, Graham walker Ltd in Chester, built a Sabre (same as mine underneath but much prettier) that was factroy backed before relaint went bust. It was built nearly 10 years ago and had all one off internals. titanium rockers, Omega forgies, steel rods and a Lumenition ecu. Turbo wise it originally ran Rs500 T4 turbo and Pace intercooler for circuit racing, but they ended up on a T34 hybrid. Ive raced against it and to be honest the power delievry was crap for sprints and hillclimbs but the workmanship was stunning. the cars been sold recently and the engine blown up, so a new one along the lines of mine and yours is being built for this coming season, should be nearly ready by now i reckon.

[s13eater]

i was going to mention that one, it was red, i had pics of it, it had a weired tubular manifold, someone told me it was 20ltr, i sold an et engine a couple of years ago craig, it was one of your scimmy crew, he fetched it for a friend, ithink he was from norfolk way.

[CNHSS1]

yeah thats right, it was based on a Ca20 rather than ca18. Ran a bluebird head with rear dizzy and std inlet manifold with cossie TB. odd looking tubular exh manifold was to try and improve power delivery and packaging iirc. The guy that owned it, had someone else build the car. Ive spoken to the owner Graham Walker but hes not really interested in it now as hes sold it, but i would love to find the guy that built it and developed it.Ive loads of pics somewhere i will dig them out. I beleive most of the engine work was done by Oselli Engineering at the time, as there were no real jap tuners around then.
dunno who that was re the engine you sold, but im bound to know them, it aint like theres many people daft enough to play with scimitars!

edit pics of the car are at work, will post some monday

[s13eater]

ok mate cheers, i was told the guy who did a lot of work on it and built the manifold was a dentist, no bull, and just alately theres a guy in the jap mags who maps cars and he was a dentist, could this be the same guy .

[CNHSS1]

yeah thats right, he was a retired dentist!
Barry something or other his name was, i will ask a mate who kenw him for his second name. I think him and Graham actually shared the car when it was circuit raced in the 750MC calsses before they changed.
Barry Marsden, im sure of it, although i will check with my mate to be sure.

[turbomike]

Originally Posted by CNHSS1

mines the highest sprinter at a modest 250, but Pete silcocks road and trackday Sabre is knocking on the door of 300+ with his VNT protoype turbo and a DET. Stew B is building a killer DET with big turbo (for a scim anyway) and is looking for 350+.
One of the old Reliant dealers, Graham walker Ltd in Chester, built a Sabre (same as mine underneath but much prettier) that was factroy backed before relaint went bust. It was built nearly 10 years ago and had all one off internals. titanium rockers, Omega forgies, steel rods and a Lumenition ecu. Turbo wise it originally ran Rs500 T4 turbo and Pace intercooler for circuit racing, but they ended up on a T34 hybrid. Ive raced against it and to be honest the power delievry was crap for sprints and hillclimbs but the workmanship was stunning. the cars been sold recently and the engine blown up, so a new one along the lines of mine and yours is being built for this coming season, should be nearly ready by now i reckon.

,i would of been interested to see the power output with the rs500 t4 on there ,must have been using a LOT of boost,was this car successfull at all

[CNHSS1]

in between melting turbos and blowing engines, yeah it was quick. i think they got a bit disillusioned to be honest, they ran an SS1 like mine but with about 230-240 brake and that was good, but all the time and effort not to mention money that went into the Sabre didnt really pay off. I think it was just a lack of development. There was so many 'urban myths' as to power out put, but some just didnt add up to my mind. Ive heard 400bhp bandided around although around 300-340 with the T34 was the last figures i heard before it was sold. i suspect it was running 280-300 reliably but the T4 turbos and big boost were killing engines and parts left right and centre. Not a problem when a car dealership and factory was backing the car i suppose.
It was finally retired about 6-7 years ago and has passed thru a couple of owners since, before being sold to a current sprinter who blew it up testing it a month after buying it! a new modern spec engien should see it more reliable and quicker tho.
The only track i have data from that ive raced at and it did, my car was quicker ound the lap although slower max speed over the start/finish line. Rumours of when it ran full slicks and big boost, it ran 1.5 secs quicker than my best time so ive got summat to beat i suppose ;-)

[turbomike]

sounds a very interesting car,would be interested to see pics of car/engine posted up

[CNHSS1]

no worries, will do monday mate