PPC £999 Challenge Focus "TeamTotalWankel"

PPC's £999 challenge draws in all kinds of people and cars, from the outright wacky to some very tasty cars, This "£999 Focus" is all about Nick aka"TeamTotalWankel".

"This'll be my 3rd year doing the £999 challenge. The 1st year was in a very rusty RX7 TurboII that managed 0-60 in 5.5secs and a 14.0 1/4 mile, and came 4th overall. Last year was an E34 535is which was only bought for a 'Ring trip, but decided to pump a 100bhp shot of NOS through it and managed 6th.

This years car is a joint effort with my mate Gaz, who wanted to get involved

It's a '91 Toyota MR2 G-LTD n/a bought for £250 off ebay (offline ;o) It was much better than expected and even had 6mths MOT, but the engine was knocking badly. We tried to 'patch up' the existing engine with a set of shells but this only managed a few hundred miles before the death rattle returned. So, back to ebay, we sourced a complete engine and auto' box from a '96 Celica for £100. This isn't quite a straight swap so we had to find a few bits to make it fit, but it does have 178bhp (allegedly).

We happened across a very sexy set of 'Buddy Club' coilovers from an MR2 specialist for £150. They were off a crashed car and suspect damaged but turned out to be fine, which was nice. We've also ditched the 'boat anchor' back box and fitted a 2nd hand Powerfow item, which is a tad fruity!! Ebay also came up with some part worn Yoko A032s already on MR2 15" rims.

All that's left to do now is strip the very nice interior, along with anything else we don't need, and fit the NOS kit off last years BMW with 100bhp jets. Oh, and collect the trophy ;o)"

Think you can beat Nick and his MR2? Get your entry in fast as space is running out

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