XUD powered kit car

[Xud Missile]

It's still on the road and going well. I did the gov mod and it made a huge difference. The problem now is that I've hit a bit of a cooling limit so I'll be out having a blast and really enjoying it but when pushing hard I'll have to back off as the temps are getting too high. The radiator size and position isn't great so that's something to improve soon. I'll probably end up modifying the nose cone so I can have the intercooler and radiator right up front.

The gearing needs sorting too. 1st gear has no use at all, the rear diff (ford sierra) is 3.62:1 and I'd like to swap to a 3.14 although these are expensive. Out of interest, at what speed do your cars come on boost when in 5th gear? It really feels like it needs a 6th gear. Ahh so a bigger turbo does make it louder

I prefer it to when I had a pinto, no doubt. Boost and cornering hasn't caused any issues for me, soon got used to it really. Long list of things to improve on, which doesn't bother me at all, look forward to fettling!

Sorting out the gearing, cooling and a bit more power and it'll be flip hot. It's been v reliable and frugal on fuel. Most of my workshop time recently has been spent putting a merc diesel engine in a volvo amazon so I'll start to sort the MK cooling issues out when I've got some more done on the volvo, until then I'm just enjoying driving it about