tbh mate it is a shed because its got hurrendeous paint and the interior looks like it has been put together with the inspiration of a five year old (hence the etcha sketch in the top of the dash) ana the car in generall is a shed not the workmanship gone into putting the engine in!
nobody is knocking you for that however i do think it is completely pointless as it will just be death trap is it has no weight so will aquaplane in the wet and wont be able to stop properly as there is too much wieght on the front which will in turn also lose any handling the car ever did have before not to mention the fact that because of its wieght and power it'l never get enough traction off the line to be properly fast!
and its actually not the only one in the world as there is two in italy with redtops (a red and a yellow one) the red one uses the LET lump!
i respect the fact that you like the car and have put a lot of work into it but tbf mate its just a bit too much in a sei!
should've just chucked a punto GT lump in it!my old GT's used to be bloody quick and as the engine is only a 1.4 it wouldn't weigh the front down too much either!
but thats just IMHO!
There hasnt been a front wheel drive one until after this, and as for sticking a 1.4 lump in one.... ive already had a 1.4 turbo seicento running 160bhp, and that was an ugly pile of sh*t too.
Theres nothing wrong with the paint on the car, the interior is sh*t, and if you knew me, you would know id be the first to admit it.
As for the car itself, being the builder and owner of the car, there was no porblems with it, be that stopping, or putting power down. As its a short wheelbased car, it did have a tendancy to lift at the rear on emergency, but 99.9% of the time it was fine, due to the water in the rear rads.
The car had uprated brakes all round, and lots of welding and chassis work.
I know you said your not knocking it, but your first paragraph is insulting, and to be completly fair, you most probably drive a normal car, and probably someone who wouldnt have the b*lls to do something original that hadnt been done prior...
Not being funny, but the whole project took 6 weeks, on a driveway with no shelter, in the p*ssing rain...
Everyone who saw the car was impressed, even the vauxhall owners club, who offered me a place on their show stand at the pod...
I also had magazine interest in the car, but as its now in the state of being rebuilt, thats fell through...
End of the day, it wasnt built to look brilliant, its the whole point in a sleeper, and it was worth every min spent on the car just to see peoples faces when it flew past...
Just annoys me how people can sit there throwing insults at something they have never seen, or had the guts to try themselves....
Also just to add.. as you seem to know about these engines....
Then you would realise saying to put the 1.4 turbo (same as u/t) into a seicento because its light over the xe is incorrect....
The engine you are on about is a cast iron block, and the c20xe is alloy...
The redtop engine is a hell of a lot lighter than the 1.4t..
The xe is only around 60-70kg heavier than the standard set up... id hate to think what the 1.4t is... I know my uno turbo engined seicento was a nightmare handling wise (1.4mk2u/t lump - same as punto gt)