All Over For Race Speed

[Scott_Mac]

Site is down, no email response.... and this in a thread on the British Cars BBS.

 

Posted 24 July 2004 at 14:36:38 UK time 

Owen Geddes, Bovingdon, N/A 

J-P

 

quite right, I'm afraid I have.

 

I will drop you a mail though as I have sold the designs etc.. for the engine conversions onto a good friend who intends to make a business out of it, so the conversions live on. So he will be able to sort you out within a few days.

 

I am just getting the last few orders out from this week and whatever outstanding bits possible this weekend, then for me its lights out.

 

cheers

Owen

 

Hope i get my bits and pieces, but i'm not holding out here...

 

 

At least the engines live on - hopefully.

[Kris H]

Blimey - bad news for Owen but from a cynical point of view we had a bit of a lucky escape with Le Mans then. Shame after he went to such an effort to sort that out for everyone.

[Scott_Mac]

Hopefully i figure in the list of outstanding orders... but we'll see.

 

He said my bits were in, but who knows

 

Given the not so great reports by a few folk on the PTP170 kit, that kind of limits the options for more power!

[Kris H]

Particularly if you're not going to go down the TT route...

[Scott_Mac]

TT sounds good, lots of torque etc, but £7k for a 190, thats in Duratec space, and not too far short of Honda power.

 

Not that i have 6k to spend at this moment.... the RS kits seemed to offer good performance for about £2k.

[Kris H]

They do/did but with the uncertainty it was one of the other things putting me off TBH - waiting around to find out if we could even get to Le Mans wasn't a laugh at all.

 

Weird thing is that I've ordered quite a lot of stuff from RS before and it's always arrived on time and for a good price, and before this I would have said I was quite impressed by them. Guess the knives will really come out now though, which is a shame.

[Mark A]

Scott,

 

I'd be cautious about reading too much into the last thread on SELOC about the PTP 170 kit vrs the RS175 kit, as the author, Rob Stevens is a best mate of Owen. And who knows but he could be the new owner of the RS designs.

[Scott_Mac]

Valid point their Mark.

 

I have heard a few other stories saying the same, but such is the way with the internet i have also heard lots of good reports about it.

 

DVA and PTP, both have good names and reputations... i just need the cash then i could make a decision

[Mark A]

Best thing to do is drive (or passenger) in cars fitted with both conversions.

[Kris H]

Pretty sure that the guy on the warks run had the ptp 170 in a 135r and it's fair to say that it was a little quick as I'm sure you'll remember. Quicker than the 111r or so it seemed anyway.

[Scott_Mac]

Yup.... agreed with that Kris, hence my statement above... he was very happy and impressed with his, and he didn't have the anonymity of the internet... but then again I know Zippy from SELOC was very happy with his RS170 and i've spoken to him in real life too.

[JohnnyM]

realistically you can expect any upgrade such as that to be pleasing over the 118bhp of std. since you have an extra stable of horses helping out. I would suggest trying both and seeing which delivery suits your driving style. since ultimate speeds are probably quite similar.

[simon_prickett]

Is the Duratec actually a viable commercial project? Like with a price list and someone to do it and all?

 

Simon.

[Kris H]

I thought that it hadn't really got that far yet (i.e. still a few issues with the original testing one) but am happy to be corrected. The audi one is still out there somewhere as well isn't it?

[Scott_Mac]

The Duratec is still stumbling along....