| The quest for cheap horsepower has been the | | | | plan to tune a used engine for your fast car then |
| forefront of club motorsport for many years and, | | | | try to get one from a passenger car that has |
| seeing as the gap between competitors season | | | | done low miles and hopefully never been driven |
| budgets seems to be growing wider all the time, | | | | hard, you would not want to buy a used engine |
| ever more important. The low budget competitor | | | | off me for example! Much can be done to make |
| needs to do most of his or her own work on the | | | | a car fast without taking the engine block apart, |
| car to keep costs down, so how do you build fast | | | | for example many cars leave the factory with |
| cars on a budget? The class rules need to be | | | | very inefficient air intakes with warm air feeds. |
| taken into account as building an illegal car for a | | | | This is great for economy but no so good when |
| championship is helping no one! | | | | we want to build a cheap fast car. |
| The best way in my experience to build a fast | | | | The warm air feed and much of the breather |
| car on a budget is to go for some serious | | | | system on most cars can be modified within the |
| lightening, I mean take out everything that is not | | | | championship regulations to give a fair few extra |
| used. I even go as far as to scrape all the sound | | | | horsepower. In many championships induction is |
| deadening pads off the floor of the car and | | | | free thus allowing the airbox to be drilled or |
| remove all underseal, you can also take out all | | | | removed entirely and replaced with a home made |
| unnecessary wiring, if you are building a race car | | | | or after market item to help make that elusive |
| chances are you are going to take out the | | | | fast car on a budget. |
| airbags, but you will be surprised how many | | | | I have been competing in club level motorsport |
| people leave the wiring in and just tape the ends. | | | | with an extremely low budget for years and I |
| I do all my own engine work, also keeping cost's | | | | have had a fair amount of success, nothing will |
| to a minimum, many engines come out the | | | | ever beat the feeling of beating a car that cost |
| factory very inefficient at producing horsepower | | | | 10 times as much as mine! |
| and much can be done to improve this. If you | | | | |