Wooop! It’s finally here! If you’ve missed the build up to this point then check out the previous blogs here… Take a long hard look at this magnificent piece of British craftsmanship! What you see here ladies and gentlemen, is one reverse-engineered bespoke radiator and intercooler combination, lovingly created by the artisans at Forge Motorsport, [...]
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Photos to come. Visit our FlickR or Facebook pages for picture now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorracinguk/ and http://www.facebook.com/thorracinguk It’s all in the details this month for Project Celica! With Banzai’s deadline pressing and the new spangly intercooler and rad still being hand-crafted at Forge Motorsport, we were keen to use the time available to pick up on all [...]
Photos to come. Visit our FlickR or Facebook pages for picture now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorracinguk/ and http://www.facebook.com/thorracinguk Chaaaaaaarge! When you look at the basic nuts and bolts of the art of tuning, it’s fairly simple really. Take component X and connect to flange Y. Fabricate this, fettle that and mackle up the other. Analysed in its most [...]
Photos to come. Visit our FlickR or Facebook pages for picture now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorracinguk/ and http://www.facebook.com/thorracinguk We like to keep up with the latest tuning trends and developments here atTHOR, and as you left us here on the blog last time, our MD Peter Betts was using cutting-edge measuring technology to create a series of three-dimensional [...]
Photos to come. Visit our FlickR or Facebook pages for picture now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorracinguk/ and http://www.facebook.com/thorracinguk Apart from the Peter Pan-like appearance of our MD, Pete, it’s fair to say that the art of tuning and its subsequent coverage in the motoring press has progressed somewhat over the last few decades. Open up a classic mag [...]
Photos to come. Visit our FlickR or Facebook pages for picture now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorracinguk/ and http://www.facebook.com/thorracinguk In the immortal words of Rolf Harris. ‘Do you know what is yet?’ We’re guessing that you probably know ‘what’.. but who’s wondering ‘why?’ Our Project ST has been a mission from the outset. Full of engineering-led goodness, our accomplished [...]
Photos to come. Visit our FlickR or Facebook pages for picture now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorracinguk/ and http://www.facebook.com/thorracinguk We don’t want you to get the idea that this project car lark is all unpacking boxes of shiny parts and bolting them on.. or fabbing ingenious trinkets and making them work. Oh no. Ok, that’s a big part of [...]
Photos to come. Visit our FlickR or Facebook pages for picture now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorracinguk/ and http://www.facebook.com/thorracinguk When choosing a Japanese car to work on as a project, a conundrum often results. Choose a scene favourite like the Subaru Impreza or MR2.. and the world is literally your oyster. A myriad of specialists and parts for these [...]
Mint original bodywork. Check. Hi-po Nu Skool powerplant. Check. Bespoke exhaust system and manifold. Check. Rare Rims. Check. What’s missing from this list? Yep, you spotted it. Decent suspension. If you were kind enough to read our blog last month, we were putting the finishing touches to an uprated GT back axle, complete with factory [...]
Axle F One standard axle + 3 x factory horsepower = recipe for disaster. Having done the sums, We’ve come up with an elegant – and manufacturer supplied – solution to the equation. Catch up on the whole story here. Since you last joined us, we have been racking up some enviable road mileage in [...]
