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At Santa Pod Raceway, Friday 6th May 2011
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2008 Entry List
The entries that attended Alternative Energy Racing 2008 are listed below, click photos for larger images. View the 2009 entries on the 2009 Entry List page.
Electric Vehicles (2)
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Electric Scooter utilizing a 125v Nickel Metal Hydride battery. Production vehicle.
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Electric 1972 VW Beetle with 240v, 2000 amp battery. Experimental vehicle. |
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Alternative Fuel Vehicles (18)
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Nissan Silvia S15 with SR20DET single turbo engine fitted with a Bio Performance Full Flex dual fuel conversion running on bioethanol. |
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Dave Jenkins has this year converted his truck that competes in the British Truck Racing Association Championship to run on biodiesel. |
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Triumph Daytona 675 triple, running on bioethanol with minor modifications including higher compression and fuelling mods. The Bike Magazine “Fast Fruit” project aims to run on apple-ethanol. |
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1995 Laverda 650 Formula, modified for circuit racing in the Minitwins national race series, and running on E85 bioethanol. It was the first bike in the UK to utilise ethanol in racing after it was ACU approved. |
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Fifth Gear are also testing Lotus Engineering's tri-fuel powered Exige at AE Racing. The experimental vehicle shares a lot with its production siblings, but can run on petrol, ethanol or synthetically produced methanol. The genius of the methanol is that it is made from atmospheric CO2, allowing this fuel to be carbon neutral. Performance and fuelling tweaks over the standard Exige should push power to 270bhp. |
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This Touareg is a 5.0V10 with 313 bhp completely standard but running on 100% biodiesel produced in a FuelPod 2.
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Mk 5 Volkswagen Golf TDi, 2003 production vehicle with no modifications. Produces around 140bhp from 2.0 litre engine. |
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Virtually standard Mazda RX7 twin turbo, with bigger fuel pump and pressure regulator and standard ecu and internals. Approx 230bhp on E85 Bioethanol. RX Motors have heaps of Drag Racing experience to go with this green project. |
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Alfa Romeo 156 Sportwagon 2.4 diesel, producing around 215 bhp. Now running latest Chlorine filtered Biofuel called BIESEL, combined with BADASSGAS diesel fumigation system, giving an additional 25% bhp and torque. Fuel: PROBIESEL (Propane 10% Biodiesel 90%). |
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Toyota Hilux 4l V6 running on Bioethanol. |
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1,000 bhp BTRA racing truck, driven by Matt Summerfield. Matt clocked the fastest time at Santa Pod's 2006 truck show, and is now back burning biodiesel.
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Rover 75 production vehicle running on 100% biodiesel made from recycled restaurant waste using the GL EcoProcessor. Graham’s own processor design uses little or no water to purify the biodiesel, and recovers most of the surplus methanol, making it a very eco-friendly design. The car uses the standard BMW designed engine with some minor performance modifications. |
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Chip Shop Customs
www.angelvwclub.co.uk, www.customtint.co.uk
Volkswagen Type 3 1990, with Audi 1900 TDI engine conversion(approx 130bhp). Modified engine mapping using straight biodiesel. Driver: Ian Corbett.
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Skoda Fabia VRS running 100% vegetable oil with conversion by Voil UK. Single Tank Technology and modified ECU, with 130bhp engine. |
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Nigel Hull
A 1950's VW Beetle running on Bioethanol.
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Wayne Dearden
www.VWElectrics.com
BMW 525 TDS 1993 running on 100% vegetable oil in a home-made conversion costing less than £110. Wayne is an experienced "Run-What-Ya-Brunger". | |
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