Shelsley - in car, what car

[robmar]

http://www.pistonheads.tv/clip1269

 

all looked very relaxed and unfussed, launch control

[Simon.Rogers1]

I make it a sub 30 sec run also

[Irrelevant]

"what car" . . .. guess it's that 4x4 Puma thing with a gazillion bhp. IIRC it's got an unlimited WRC motor and associated trick gearbox, diffs, antilag. etc....all the toys in fact.

Only seen it at Goodwood before, but even pootling up the hill, it was still clearly a very quick car. Looks very well sorted in that video

[DSL]

The guy who drives it ownes X-Trac the transmission people, have heard paddock rumours suggesting it cost circa £750,000 to build 😳 😳

 

Jez set a faster time than it did at Loton park last weekend *thumbup* Not too shabby for a 50 year old classsic, & thats just Jez 😬 😬

 

Edited by - DSL on 15 Jun 2007 07:28:16

[DaveK]

Car is owned by Mike Endean who sponsors the British Hillclimb championship.

 

If you look at Gould racing cars website i think there was a build spec under special projects.

 

Mike took the closed car record at shelsley @ 28.08 secs from Tom Hammonds quattro sport

 

Cheers

 

Dave

[robmar]

Dave thanks - found it

 

http://www.gould-racing.co.uk/projects/special.html

 

The design specification for this car has to be one of the most impressive in the world. Turbo charged, 4WD sequential transmission, fully independent suspension, uncompromised aerodynamics. “What we have designed and built here is fundamentally a dream come reality”. Totally unique, the Gould Puma was conceived by Mike Endean, the one time chairman and founder of Xtrac Ltd. He wanted to combine his vast technical expertise in transmission design and his passion for sprint and speed hillclimbing competition.

 

An extreme hybrid is the best way to descried the car, it utilises a Ford Puma body shell, stiffened and strengthened with stell tube fabrications both for safety and to bear the loads of the engine, transmission, differential and suspension. The rest of the body is all carbon on carbon/Kevlar mouldings, the doors, interior, bonnet, floor, boot lid and of course rear diffuser.

 

The engine is a self modified turbo engine dating from the turbo F1 era, with an estimated output near 1000bhp. Engine location is unusual has been far as back in the engine compartment as possible for weight distribution. To transmit that huge output to the road Mike himself designed some of the intricate 4WD system, a lot of it based on modern rally technology. The engine position also helps with mounting the front differential and suspension. The in house suspension design is a development of previous designs, modified to fit the unusual layout, and place the Ohlins dampers and rockers to get the right ratios.

 

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only 1000 bhp