Two family sources to help with your project could be Paul and Daniel Gibson who founded the Vision marque and Jamie and Alex Champkin (who own a Vision which is extremely competitive right now). I can approach both on your behalf if you would like me to do so. Best wishes and good luck with the project. Steve Chaplin.
Sitting in the garage where your Van Diemen FVJ used to live, I just happen to have a Clubmans Cup spec 1600 K series engine which might suit your car?
It is dry sumped & comes with an alloy bellhousing, exhaust & silencer, loom/ecu etc - I'm looking for £1800 for the lot.
I am going to run the car in "European spec" and have to use a 1.8 Carburetor fed Zetec engine.
Thanks for the offer of the Rover 4 cylinder unit, it sound like a good deal. I will mention it to those chaps local to me who might be in the market for just such an engine.
( By the way I have sold the FVJ in Guernsey, that too was a good deal!)
Pete... Its me - Tom. The Portly Gentleman who was in your mirrors at Oulton. I know I missed Snetterton but bloody hell you soon get forgotten in this business!
I will re-introduce myself at Thruxton. I'm the fat b#startd with the orange hair and even oranger car.
Hi Tom,
As you can imagine, my being based on Guernsey does have it's challenges in finding contacts etc, If you have a chance to mention my search to Russ I would be pleased.
My plan at the moment is to have a go at terrifying the French with a front engined car!
It is now costing in excess of £1000,00 just to get over to the UK so running in the Proto class doesn't look likely at the moment.
The car I have acquired has never been a running car but with a little work and some help I will hopefully get it race ready for next year!
I'll get in touch with Paul, Daniel and the Champkins for you as requested. Just a thought, but could you keep your car here and just get a regular fare over to the UK to prep and race it? I'm sure someone could store it for you for not much if you have some good contacts. We'd love to have you out with us. Any friend of Tom's is a friend of ours!