Simpson Motorsport & Restorations

Last period ashore seen Scott's clio come over for inspection and refresh of another k24 block due to the previous one doing the all to common k series rod bearing failure.

Fresh block was fully stripped down and refreshed to everything except rings.
He should see many happy trouble free miles now and its well deserved after such a nice swap he has done 👌🙂

Update on yumens eg...🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️k20.
Good progress this week, looking forward to seeing it sing this summer 😎

k24 frank strip down and refresh for a certain orange eg 😄. No signs of any big issues except being stored incorrectly for a reasonable amount of time.
Plenty of work to do so more updates coming 🙋‍♂️.

Glad to see this man happy again. A joy to help him get back out and hopefully with some better reliability

A poorly k20 brought in by McNab Motorsport from his Ep3 race car.
First was to get a look at what really happened…
Alloy weld in sump baffle had come a drift and no doubt would of been sucked up against the oil pick up limiting the supply.
So best bang for his buck was to put a fresh k24 bottom end in the equation.
The k20 head needed some work after finding some let say not true valves and a knackered guide.
So while the guides were out we thought why not port it a tad…
After a clean up in the sump we went for a clockwise motion baffle new 4 piston oil pump and new service items on assembly and big end shells.
Looking forward to seeing how it performs on track next year!

After a needed break from cars and just life in general we recently purchased a DC5 to have that trackday fix.
During a recent trackday with Yumen from TTD / Tracktiontrackdays he had some 4th gear issues😅.
Being abit bored on leave at home we decided it would be a nice job to do.
Damaged / rough bearings, 4th gear replaced and some fresh speed factory detent springs shes back in action.

As far as other jobs go... we are game for selective lets say hobby based jobs i can carry out in the garage in home 🙂.

Not entirely sure where to begin...

Will try not to get to deep...

Recently iv had some personal struggles and balancing work to a healthy load proved to be diffcult and near impossible with the input required to make it all work the way i wanted as well as continuing with my demanding career at sea and having that all important time with loved ones.
As time progressed over the last year it began to grind me down and the love for the hobby slowly disappeared.
Yes a slight regret letting it go that way but at the same time i believe whats for you wont go by you.
Im sorry to those iv let down and had to pull the pin on but family time and health is to important.

We have moved out of our unit and took a change in direction to 2 wheels with my father and hope to make many memmories touring about and tinkering in our gargae at home, there's always a silver lining...
I want to say thanks to those who helped me along with the short journey it was, i like to think we made some smile and saved a few cars along the way.
Moving forward small regrets are better than much bigger ones later down the road.

Best regards to all

Francis.

What a day,
Words cant describe the emotional roller coaster.
Sad to see her go but its all for the right reasons..
End of this chapter.. lets begin the next 😀

An update for everyone... some will be wondering, what happened to the raffle...
We gave some extra time to see if enough intrest in tickets would come through and it just didnt seem too.
In that period a chap called Andy cooper came foward waning to purchase after Gary prebble recommended the car.
We are delighted to see it live on and be used properly and cared for by nice guys.

So here she is as blank canvas and ready to go

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K20 swapped civic eg sprint/timeattack race car PRE RAFFLE! post.

Afternoon all,
as above the decision has been made to raffle off our civic eg we've owned for 5 years.

It has a fantastic spec and comes with an assorted amount of spares!
Please see spec below ⬇️

For just £25 a ticket you could win a proven and capable sprint/timeattack ready to go racecar!

How it will work...
-So on Friday 6th we post again announcing 550 tickets are available
-You purchase as many tickets as you wish per person
-Email us at [email protected] how many tickets you wish to purchase with Name, contact number and paypal payment address
-Then send payment to paypal address [email protected] , please send as friend's and family ( if not youl be refunded and tickets not accounted for)
-We will reply with your ticket numbers after a google random number generator on your purchase.
- Daily at 20:00 the total amount of tickets available will be updated
- Once all tickets are sold a time will be made immediately for a live draw. Winning number will be again a filmed with a google number generator

The raffle will take place once all tickets are sold not before so please

SHARE SHARE SHARE!!

SPEC! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
CHASSIS
90k eg shell car fully rebuilt top to bottom 3 years ago.
Original arches
Meister r coilover 22kgf 12kgr
Hardrace camber arms front and rear + resr toe arms + extented studs
Dc2 rear control arms with 98 spec anti roll bar
Dc2 hub swap, 5x114 , subframe and steering rack ( still with power steering via dc5 pump fitted where air con unit was on the k series)
Ap5000 calipers 330mm floating discs with ds11 pads
Dc2 rear calipers pagid 282 discs and ferodo ds2500 pads
Blue ball joint and track rod ends
Honed 7/8 master cylinder and booster delete with master support
Custom brake lines + fuel lines through interior
2.5 l hand held extinguisher
Oddssey race battery located at the rear with isolater at the dash and cbale pull from scuttle panel outside.
X2 cobra carbon fia approved bucket seats (out of date)
Trs harnesses 4 point ( oit of date)
Omp bolt in fia approved cage
(Certain safety bits dont require to be in date for sprint events just good condition)
DRIVETRAIN
k20a2 built by andrew baird at automek glasgow
11.1 wiseco pistons
Manley rods
Dc5 cams
Brain crower springs and retainers
Skunk 2 valves
Rbc inlet with ep3 throttle body
Oil and water pump, chain guides and done when built
Clockwise motion sump baffle
All held together with arp studs. Honda head gasket
Gearbox is a ep3 6 speed freshly rebuilt with carbon syncros new bearings and seals
Spoon 1.5 way plated l*d
Stage 2 kelvar action clutch
Rywire earths and swap harness
Misimoto full length radiator
Mocal thermostatic 16 row oil cooler
255 walbro fuel pump
Hybrid racing shifter
K pro v3
X2 sets of staggered wheels
17x9 f 17x7 rear
Near new ao62s
Fairly worn ar1s
X4 of 17x7 for wets with new uniroyal rains sports

EXTERIOR
Byc side skirts wing kit, mirrors, air dam, mild steel splitter mounts he made us for extra strength
All oem steel panels excpet the jdm style boot which is fiber glass

Well thats a year today i had a rare chance of correcting a mistake. Its not often that happens really is it?...
No engine and looking sad after a successful year but sometimes.a time out is needed. Soon she'll be back together.
Fraser's eg also coming on now.