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[quote="ferret"]
John your car looks very tidy, do you have the original guard mounts on it, the reason I ask is that my MK 1's (the other car as I am lucky enough to have a molecule!) guards need a dose of viagra to keep them tight. Do you have a quick fix for that? Also the Mk 1 indicator park light stalks are a pain to keep tight and a pain to tighten when they do work loose, any remedy for that?  Mine has the cooling ducts like yours in the nose cone too. I agree they are well done.

The repowering of the Mk 1 is going a little slow the Type R engine is in place but and am now sourcing new Axles. Think I may use Hondata for the ECU setup and take it to 245bhp. I sold the 180 hp Rover engine for half what I paid for the Honda Engine to a guy who is repowering his MG for racing.
Enjoy Atomising.

Regards,

The Ferret.
 
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PR,

My guards are pretty good although I did sheer a cap screw on one of them, on a long trip, and came home with it in the passenger foot well. You can really tighten mine up hard, which is probably not possible if yours are 100% fiberglass. I seem to recall mention of mine having a metal edge in the glass but I can not be sure.

Keep us posted on the transplant. @$%!&, I could have done with a spare Rover engine. I would like to keep mine original in that respect, but may tweak it at some stage.

[quote="apollyon25"]
Well... we have to make up for the fact you have had yours longer...

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PR has actually had both his Atoms longer than i have owned one.

Well... we have to make up for the fact you have had yours longer...

It sounds like this project has the green light. Wow all the other cars in the country are going to be 100HP minimum more than mine.

Try two Hayabusa or GSXR 1000 engines, they will probably fit 

The chasis wasn't changed other than removing and plating over the old engine mounts and then adding new mounts for the honda unit.  Apparantly very straight forward.

[quote="wisp"]
Do you know what mod is required to the chassis?
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You would need to talk with Z-Cars who did the only conversion I know of.

And original Mk1s came with a 190bhp option from the factory

[quote="benyeats"]
Will not fit without chassis modification.  It has been done in one case.

I suspect the expense will mean it is not worth doing, you would certainly be at Atom 2 160 money by the time you had finished.

You could tune the Rover unit to give approaching 200bhp but not so sure about reliability at that level, rumour is they don't last so long in VHPD tune crates

Ben
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Do you know what mod is required to the chassis?

BTW - Ferret's Mark 1 already has a 180 BHP Rover engine. He also owns an Atom MK2 220.

It looks like that car to me. But that was a little while ago. Looks to me like someone is chancing it a little.......

Assuming it is this car

http://forum.atomclub.com/https://atomc ... ic.php?t=8

then someone did at the time and for a much lower price than the PH one.  No wonder you car dealers are all driving round in supercars 

Ben

Why, who bought it Ben??

[quote="Mitch Millett"]
The one that Z cars did is for sale on Pistonheads out of interest.....
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Is that an out of date ad or has it changed owners very quickly ?

Ben

The one that Z cars did is for sale on Pistonheads out of interest.....

Yep - ditto.

Requires a lot more work than would be viable really.  Plus you'd need to find a spare mark 1 anyhow!

Will not fit without chassis modification.  It has been done in one case.

I suspect the expense will mean it is not worth doing, you would certainly be at Atom 2 160 money by the time you had finished.

You could tune the Rover unit to give approaching 200bhp but not so sure about reliability at that level, rumour is they don't last so long in VHPD tune crates

Ben