Practical Performance Car - September 07
CARS AND DRIVING Volvo amazon  An amazing hot rod with 600bhp and hand made panels On any Sunday  The Retro Rides Show at Mallory Park had some cracking cars in attendance 27-litre Rover Charlie goes to the pub. Every journey’s an event in the Rover PPC £999 Challenge (click here to find out more) All you have to do is build the fastest car you can for under a grand READERS CARS Nissan Pulsar, Lambo replica, trike, Subaru Legacy and MG TB Top Ten quick estates (click here to see more) They used to be for antique dealers. Now they’re for crack dealers STAFF CARS  Will makes his Capri more exciting by fitting smaller brakes Blown BMW  M3-eating 318is with a homemade supercharger conversion WORKSHOP PPC ROLLS TURBO We’ve threatened to blow it, now we’re actually doing it DiY EFi A Chevy V8 twin turbo on Megasquirt in a Dakar off-roader Renault 5 Turbo Tuning Guide How to get big power without spending big money Tech Talk  Your tech problems solved by PPC’s experts and readers. E-mail kev@ppcmag.co.uk Readers Projects  What PPC readers are building in their garages and on their driveways Walker’s Workshop What’s on Dave’s rollers this month BUYING Hit, Miss or Maybe  The good, the bad and the ugly of performance cars all in one place Ebay Secrets Top tips on how to buy bargains and sell for more on Ebay Top Gear  New tuning products from the top manufacturers for you to drool over PONTIAC FIREBIRD  Buying a slice of yee haw fun. Chest wigs and tatoos optiona SCIMITAR GTE  A quarter of the price of an MGB and better in every respect REGULARS Piston Broke  Will Holman asks about the law on exhaust systems and doesn’t like the answer Welcome to the PPC club All you need to join is petrol in your veins and some spanners News  What’s going on in the world of real performance tuning this month. An ICE-free zone Letters  Write to us at will@ppcmag.co.uk and let us know what you think of PPC. We can take it

ENTER THE PPC £999 CHALLENGE...

We’ve found out how fast you can go for £200 and had a lot of fun. Now it’s your turn to put your car against the clock and the competition.

Reckon you’ve got a car you’ve built, or can build a car for less than a grand that’s faster than everyone else’s? Then you need to enter the PPC £999 Challenge. The rules are simple and there aren’t many of them – the car needs to be road legal, roadworthy and have a current MOT, and it needs to have cost you less than £999 including purchase price. You don’t need to show us receipts and you’re allowed to sell some parts off it to offset the costs, but don’t turn up in an Impreza STi and expect us to believe it cost you £500, or arrive with a one-off titanium engine block and claim it’s okay because you work for McLaren. Basically, stay true to the spirit of the competition and we’ll have a great laugh.

Entries are now closed for the first event on Saturday October 13 at York Raceway, but fear not because we’ll be running another next spring for those that want to build something really special. So get in touch if you want to enter. The competition will be split into two events – a drag race and a timed slalom course so performance and handling will be essential if you want to wear the PPC crown. 

WANT TO ENTER?  LET US KNOW AS SOON AS YOU CAN BY E-MAILING ED@PPCMAG.CO.UK