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