Lotus 23B Email received May 2008 from Tom, who built this Lotus 23B from scratch: Hello Kim, I built this Lotus 23B from scratch 1990 ; the chassis is made from Sandvik high strength 55.UTS stainless steel Tig welded in a special jig I made……..5 link reverse rear wishbones and a total of 22 Aircraft […]
Team Stedile, Brazil Sportscar, 2.0L XE We received an email from Joacir in Oct 2008: Dears Steve/Carole, After four of the five races of the Brasilian Endurance Championship we already have the tittle. Last Sunday/28, after three hours of a tough race, we won in a great battle against 38 cars and inherited the Brazilian […]
Opel Kadett GSi – 2.1L C20XE Johan’s 2.1L C20XE has been built with our 4th upgrade taper throttle kit although Johan arranged for the headwork to be done himself. He also has a dry sump system. Information received January 2008:Opel Kadett GSI 16v -89 (Vauxhall Astra mk2 GTE 16v)drysumped 260bhp 248nm N/A with 33/29 […]
Westfield – 2.0L XE Mark bought his Westfield to us to have a new 2.0L XE installed with a taper throttle body kit. He collected it just before Christmas 2007 & emailed to thank us. Hi Steve, Just wanted to send a quick note to say thank you so much on an amazing job. It […]
Vauxhall Lotus FVL – 2.0L XE Email received from Kevin, June 2007: Hi Steve, thanks for your help at Pembrey, here is a pic of the car that i promised Kim! Hopefully see you soon. 2006 Kevin ran our 250bhp Taper throttle body kit on the 2.0L XE Vauxhall engine in his Lotus FVL & […]
Mini – 2.0L XE Email received from Joe, May 2007: Hello! Just written a bit below to go with the pictures that I’ve attached: Searching for big power in a mini is hard unless you go down the engine transplant route. I started off with a 1600 vtec engine and soon was on […]
Opel Manta – 2.0L XE Simon’s Manta was featured in Total Vauxhall, May 2006, which they allowed us to reproduce. Email from Simon in August, 2005:Car Make & Model: 1975 A series Opel Manta. The car was featured in Retro cars march 2004.Engine specification: Stock XE fitted with 208 kit lightened flywheel and 4‐2‐1 […]
Caterham – 2.0L XE Graham Ford has been a customer for many years, he originally came to us when he decided to upgrade his Caterham from a cross flow powered car to run the 2.0L Vauxhall XE engine. He originally started with our TP208 kit and then came back each winter adding various goodies and […]
Astra GTE 16v – 2.0 XE Email received from Jamie, 2006: Hi Steve, got the car mapped finally after chatting yesterday, mine came back with 230hp at 8057 rpm and 173lbft at 5900 rpm and Darrens got 220hp and 176lbft, the Steves did an excellent job and as I’m sure you aware they really […]
OMS CF04 – 2.0L XE Well Done to Trevor finishing top 2.0L Driver in the British Hillclimb Championship 2005. In 2006 Trevor changed his OMS to Hayabusa power. Trevor’s OMS pre 2006 had our 2.0L XE TP290bhp kit on his 2.0L Vauxhall engine. Trevor’s 2005 season started with FTD at Harewood hillclimb on Easter […]
