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PPC £999 Challenge Focus "Team Renrut"

Practical Performance Car £999 ChallengePPC's £999 challenge draws in all kinds of people and cars, from the outright wacky to some very tasty cars, This "PPC £999 Focus" is all about Will aka"Renrut".

"It'll be my 3rd year doing the PPC £999 Challenge. First year was in a mk1 MR2 which managed to run all day on no water and still turn in a 16s quarter. Last year I used (abused?) a Fiat Seicento sporting. It was standard except for a lot of interior stripping. It did well for a £300 54bhp car, a great hoot to drive but it wasn't enough to even get in the top 15 finishing places.

Looking forward to this years challenge I looked up my options. I didn't look far as the value of a Seicento was still only about £500, even with 10 months MOT, and it weighs close to nothing so a good starting point for a build.

When trying to decide what to do with it, my brother offered me a Honda VTR1000 1000cc bike engine for £300 including "all the bits to make it run". I've since discovered what he meant was "most of the bits to make it run"...

Bike Engined Fiat

 

Bike Engined Fiat

Since last September its had a full back end rebuild using Fiat parts and homebrew construction all bought from various breakers very cheaply due to a lot of fiat parts being common across the panda, cinquecento, punto, seicento!

A few extra bits were necessary, sprockets from Talon Engineering to gear it down, a bike fuel tank and pump for £20 because the fiat one wouldn't fit and the pump wasn't big enough. A fiat diff with a bolt on crown wheel and an electric motor (to give me reverse) have even been donated by the kind folks on the forums to make sure I finish it! 

But there's still so much to do - wiring! Snagging! MOT! PPC999!"

You can check out Renruts complete build here on the PPC Forums

Take me to the £999 Booking Page


 


 

Practical Performance Car (PPC) is a monthly magazine aimed at real car enthusiasts interested in affordable performance tuning. At PPC we pride ourselves in providing the most entertaining, informative and inspiring features for petrolheads everywhere. Each month we feature an eclectic mix of affordable performance cars, great driving adventures and world-class technical features for the DiY tuner. Our editorial team is headed up by well known Will Holman who has a deserved reputation for 'stick a V8 under the bonnet' attitude to life. His editorial team is stacked with experience including Dave Walker (speciality engine management), of the sadly missed Cars and Car Conversions (CCC) magazine, David Vizard, the legendary engine tuning guru, and Kevin Leaper - ex technical editor of Practical Classics.

Have a look at the online Staff Cars section to give you a flavour of PPC but for the real thing go to your local newsagent, WHSmiths, Asda, Tesco or Sainsburys - PPC is on sale the last Thursday of every month. Better still visit our subscriptions page for the latest offers and discounts to have PPC delivered direct to your door at a fraction of the cost.

Examples of magazine features: brakes uprating, suspension improvements, engine transplants, buyers guides, ECU management, kit car builds, car event coverage (including PPC's own show, PPC in the Park) and much more. Examples of some of the staff's cars: 27 litre Rover SD1, 5 litre Capri, track day Rolls Royce, MK1 Transit and more.