🏅 TWINCHARGED NISSAN MICRA - Eden Young's Time Attack K11 | HALTECH HEROES

Alright, we're live on TV. Please don't curse, please don't say anything, or I'll beat you up. My name is Alan Young and this is the world famous Spicy Micro. About 8 years ago I was really extremely tired and bored. I had a bunch of desk jobs. I quit my job and had just enough money on the bank to pay the bills for the rest of the month. With the help of some credit cards, of which my wife doesn't know anything, I bought my first WIC welding device and a few basic things and devices. And for a little more than 8 years we've been in our second building in a small town called Skagnes in Great Britain. The name of the town sounds more like a disease than a real place. Whatever. You shouldn't laugh. He needs a mouth organ. My family has their roots in short oval stock car racing and I was no exception. M. I think I started at the age of 11 or 12 in a junior formula without a driver. And I remember sitting in the assembly area and shivering like aspen leaves, you know, the restless leg syndrome. A mixture of fear and adrenaline. But M. Yes, I remember exactly that my body immediately calmed down when the green flag was shown and I just concentrated on the race in front of me. I was something like a wet weather specialist. I remember sitting there every race day and praying that it would get wet or at least rain. Because when it was a rain race, I was always at the front and no one could catch up with me. I decided to plan for the future and bought my first road car, a Honda Civic EFDX from 1990. And of course it didn't take long before I started modifying it. The 1.3 came out and I built a 1.6L single cam VTEC from the later EG Civic. And yes, I turned this car into a rocket for a 17-year-old. So how did we get from Civics to Micros? Well, my company, which I have set up in the last eight years, is primarily focused on the manufacture of powertrains for these little treasures. We make dome struts, exhaust systems, cranks, turbo kits, compressor kits, refined suspension components, brakes, upgrades and all the great stuff for these little Micros. I decided to build a competition car. And the original premise for this car was to include our entire parts catalog in it. We hadn't developed a cheap compressor kit for this car for a long time. This was our compressor kit Mulit Car. And after I drove up and down the street and realized how spiky the car was, I thought, you know, this car is going to rock. So I decided to sign up for the UK Time Attack Championship, paid for the participation and at that point we were obliged to build this car in the first version. And to make it short, what I thought was an extremely fast car, turned out to be the slowest car in the entire competition and that in the very first year. And it quickly became clear to me that the little 1300R Compressor Nugget could not keep up with the, well, So would you take grey code? But of course it is. Grey code, one of the beautiful things in life. As a Nissan enthusiast, as I call myself now, each of my favorite cars would be a Nissan March K10 Super Turbo, thanks to Marty from Marty Kmart, who bought one and raised the prices, was unattainable. So I thought to myself, if Nissan would produce the K11 as a turbocharged version, which one would it be? So the little 1300C-G engine came out and a 1500C-G-15 engine came in. As you can see, it is equipped with a turbocharger. What you cannot see, however, is the compressor hidden under the turbocharger. Yes, this is a Nissan Micro K11 Super Turbo. And thanks to the Hautec equipment in this vehicle, we have all these unreliable, complicated rows of vacuum lines and vacuum-operated valves and replaced them with drive-by-wire throttle valves, which are all controlled by Hautec. This allowed us to bring this engine combination to over 300 hp. Still with the unopened 1500cm3 engine. You will probably notice that we have two GFB X38 wastegates. No, it's not a twin-scroll turbo. The wastegate is basically there to generate a boost leak on the positive side of the compressor to release the excess boost. The compressor directs positive pressure into the turbocharger and creates a kind of connection system. And if the turbocharger wants to take over, we switch the compressor off via the clutch. We open the throttle valve and the turbocharger sucks the air from the air filter. The compressor not only ensures the torque in the lower rpm range, but also helps to charge the turbo. The turbo is quite large for a small 1.5 liter engine. But according to Dinograss, the compressor ensures that the turbocharger runs a little faster. This gives us a nice flat torque curve from about 1500 rpm to 75,000 rpm. This is a pretty wild machine. It is very exhausting to drive. And that's why we call it Spicy Micro. Speaking of handling. We have a set of special BC Racing threading suspension that is accompanied by our entire range of adjustable suspension and brakes. At the front we have 282mm rims with four pistons and at the rear we have our conversion set of brake drums on brake discs. One of the most striking things you will see on this car is the carbon fiber. Carbon fiber. Thanks to a nice partnership with Rasky we managed to reduce the empty weight of this car by 25 to 25 kilos. I mean, these fender wings weigh, for example, 600 grams and are, compared to the glass fiber fender wings that were on it before, I think they weigh 3 kilos. That's a lot of weight saving on the front of the car. And then of course we have our splitter and the air damper. We have our big wing at the back. That's something you just have to have in a race car. Okay, here we are in the cockpit of the Spicy Micro. The magic happens, as the saying goes. The most important, my absolute favorite piece in the entire interior is the beautiful Haltech IC7 dashboard that displays all the important functions of the engine, which is extremely important, because the engines tend to shoot themselves. We have our removable steering wheel with our removable cable-free pad for everything necessary. A cam pad on which all our lights and windscreen are located. Boost control, box stopper and so on. A tire pressure control system. Down here we have our PD16 and Elite 1500 insulator for our electronic servo steering, our milled shift lever kit and a prototype of a steel assembly plate system that we cut at home with our plasma cutter. This is where all the magic happens and this is where I fight for that this car drives straight on the racetrack. The car is really a proof of what we can produce. So, what's next for the Spicy Micro? Behind the scenes we have just built a new, fully forged engine with 1500ccm displacement and we hope to bring the new setup to about 380 to 400 hp. The ultimate goal would be to take part in the World Time Attack in Australia. And I hope that with a list of planned upgrades we will beat the competition by far. Go! Do it! Pursue your dreams! Debt yourself! Get yourself a credit card! Buy yourself a big welding machine! Realize your dreams! And when it comes to electronics, don't forget to go to H-Tech. Who the hell orders Uber Eats to the gym? Isn't that pretty pointless?