Duratec the donkey

[gambler]

I’ve been offered a much cheapness deal on a duratec kit for donkey. Approx 200hp on throttle bodies.

It’s shat itself pretty much every year and I’m getting sick of the k series.

Any thoughts on this. Honda would be better but it’s much more expensive option and k20s are getting harder to come by

[Scotty C]

SHED

[campbell]

Some say ... the Duratec is the thinking man’s Elise upgrade.

Better drive shaft angles for a start. Allegedly.

[neil]

There's a build thread for one on Seloc although the pictures are now dead -

In a lot of ways it looks like a better option than a k20

[Scotty C]

talk to Steve Williams.

[Andy G]

With Scotty!

Steve Williams is the man. If its his kit then should be solid solution.

Even the 150bhp version he had went well from memory.

[UncleRon]

Agree as regards Duratec conversions Steve Williams knows these best - Unless Steve is pretty convinced the conversion you have been offered is a sound solution I think I would consider selling the Donkey, you should easily get your money back and buy something you want that's been loved a bit more than being abused That said if Steve rates the complete conversion and its much cheapness then I would go for it.......

My 2p worth would be that if your main aim is to track the donkey then any cheap K series solution has got risk written all over it and to build a decent robust K north of 160 brake is going to be £5k+ and a decent well installed Duratec or Honda conversion is going to be in the region of £8k to £12k and given the Donkey has been treated to 'cheap as possible' jobs and raped for its parts all over and just replaced with anything that will do for most of its life then I just don't see that the rest of the car is worth ploughing that sort of money into the engine. The value of the donkey added to a decent engine conversion cost could buy you a better car all round without the hassle of doing the conversion plus inevitable final fettling.......

[Rusty]

If you go with Ron's suggestion to put donkey out to pasture,
I'd happily offer dirt cheap price!!
Ha!!