Burpspeed Race Car Build

Throughout 2009 id been saying me and a mate were going to go hillclimbing in my car in 2010. I’ve been interested in it for about 10 years and always fancied a go. But when we looked into the cost verses the time actually driving, it didn’t seem to be good value for money. That and an airfield sprint day I did back at the beginning of August kind of made up my mind that it wasn’t for me. Waiting around for 2 hours to drive for 90seconds. Obviously it’s a completely different discipline from track driving but I’ve enjoyed circuits so much that’s where we belong. Were not ruling out doing some hill climbs but its not what we are focussing on.

So as you have probably guessed from the thread title we are going to RACE!


So with that decided we needed to race prep the car. A cage was needed as well as other safety equipment.
We started looking around for cages and then I spotted a caged phase 1 shell for sale.

I jokingly sent Tony a message suggesting we should buy it and before I knew it we were in his works Shogun travelling to Warrington to pick it up.

We decided that it was better to build a race car from this using my 172 track car as a donor, instead of sticking a cage in mine. (My wife disagrees)



This meant I could do what I’ve always wanted. Build a Track/Race car from an almost bare shell! Effectively reshelling a track car that was already very well sorted and can lap very quickly. This means we can get even more weight off it, although we may struggle to get it anywhere near the weight of the current car (879kgs) due to the climbing frame inside it.. and make everything look nice.

Weve been at it since mid Auguat and the build is progressing very well. The full build can be found at

Burpspeed.com over the next few days. but here are some progress pics.

Starting with the spare shell (pretty much a complete car minus engine, hubs and driveshafts)

It was stripped bare, extra door bars welded in, a harness bar added. Then the whole interior painted white. (The whole car is going white now)

Then the old car was stripped on all its vital organs and the rebuild has bugun


































































































Will post more pics and info as the build progresses

saw this on cliosport the other day. looks proper

any more progress Sir?