Good afternoon all,
I have recently purchased my second vx220 and thought it was only right to share it and the plans for the car.
Its worth mentioning I have already found the forum very useful for a few bits so thanks for the input of everyone.
My previous vx220 was a yellow 2.2 with a supercharger and light track mods, It was actually a great car but was sold over the Westfield to fund a house deposit and however great the Westfield was, it has moved so little over winter I thought I was more beneficial having a car I can use whatever the weather.
So the replacement....
A 2001 vx220 2.2 NA, with a fairly comprehensive engine build and supercharger conversion, good track mods and a very clean with great aesthetics.
It seems to be a great base for what will give me loads of track pleasure, the first track day is booked for this Saturday at Blyton. (We always have one track day here just to see what the limits of the car are and how it reacts there before taking it to say Cadwel or Oulton park.
Since purchasing the car I have removed the carpets/rear interior/door cards and will be on the look out for some carbon fibre seats as and when funds allow.
There is a boss and 320mm suede wheel to go on before Saturday, I have ordered some Ferodo DS3000 front pads and some blue stuff rears that also need fitting and bedding before Saturday!
The engine spec and power I am quite happy with at the moment, its not breathtakingly fast however is perfect for learning the car and it will take me some time to be exploiting it properly, I am curious as to what ECU's people are running and whether we think the current set up is working efficiently.
Its a fully forged 2.2, Eaton M62 supercharger, Comp Blower cams, Tullet 3" full system, 2.8 modular pulley, OBD tuner enabled ECU, it ran 275bhp according to the previous owner which I thought for that spec was slightly low. I did wonder though if a better ECU and some adj cam gears may be needed to get the most out of the set up?
The chassis feels fairly well sorted but Saturday will tell us more, I have already lowered the nitrons at the front slightly to give it abit more rake (it was sitting fairly flat and high at the front).
My first mini project for the car is to sort the gearbox and ratio's out, they are ludicrously long and it seems such a good way of getting some better performance out of the car. Truth be told I will never see over 130mph on any of the tracks near me so may aswell get it geared as closely to that as possible.
To do this I am going to use the 4.4 Final Drive from America (Saturn VUE) to start with, this will give a optimum top speed at 7k in top of about 147mph, still abit long but a massive improvement. I may look at going down from the 17" rear wheel to help with this however the market for wide 15/16" wheels is terrible in the current PCD. I may even look at doing the S2 elise conversion and run 4x100 as then we can swap wheels with our other project (Mk1 Mx5 with a Honda S2000 engine...going supercharged!)
At the same time as putting the shorter final drive I will be fitting a quaife LSD and lighter flywheel, Ive heard good things about TTV and it seems they make the Courtney motorsport ones so will probably use that.
Im thinking that should realy wake the car up and make it feel 'alive' on the track.
Then it will be a case of using the car whilst reducing weight where I can before bolting on the haroop charger if its needed.
So there's my plans, really looking forward to getting my head and hands into this car!
I'll post some pictures up shortly, any advice or help on the build will be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks
Dan
