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Lee Broadhurst's NR prepared Time Attack Car
NR Autosport's History
The 1981 Colt Lancer Turbo EX2000. This is where the Evolution story began. 26 years on and Nick Rountree's exquisite example gleams as though it's no more than a day old!
The car, affectionately known as 'Little Bo' is the ultimate in an impressive line of LT's he's owned.
Back in 1996 this linked Nick to the 'Lancer Turbo Register (LTR)', an enthusiast's car club for all things 'Lancer' and all things 'Turbo'. Nick was already working for the local Mitsubishi Dealer where he qualified as Master Technician and then advanced to Service Manager.
June 2002 ... NR Autosport Begins
As the years progressed and Mitsubishi themselves continued to push the boundaries of four door saloon cars to limit, the ‘LTR’ soon became the ‘MLR’ that is known so well amongst Evo owners today. Thanks to the evolution of the MLR, this was the inspiration for Nick to leave Lincoln Mitsubishi and offer a specialist market for the Lancer Evolution – and so in June 2002, NR Autosport began.
Sticking to what he excels at and not wanting to be ‘jack of all trades’, NR has been able to establish itself as one of the most well respected Evo tuning companies in the UK Since opening, Nick has always run the day to day tasks in very much a “hands on” fashion from the workshop - not the office!
The first encounter ...
Nick's first encounter with Evo's was back in 1997, when the owner of Lincoln Mitsubishi imported an Evo 5 GSR. The vehicle turned up on a transporter with a flat battery, not the most impressive entrance! After a quick recharge he attempted to take it for a road test, but there was no drive. They could even get it into gear without using the clutch! It was quickly discovered that someone at the docks had been launching it and the clutch fell out of the inspection hole into the bell housing!
 A new clutch was delivered from Japan in 2 days (lots of stamps) and after fitting the test drive could go ahead. Dr Good (R1 GOOD) bought the car 6 months later and still owns it to this day; it is now running an NR 450bhp package. The car has been maintained by NR Autosport for some 90,000 miles and is still going strong today
Some say of Nick: “He never blinks, and if you look closely, instead of a twinkle in his eyes he has 3 Diamonds as pupils!"
NR Autosport has become something of a 'One-Stop-Shop' be it servicing, rebuilding, converting, mapping or any other 'ing you can think of NR does it, and does it well. They tend to only recommend products that they have tried and tested and always quote-conservative power figures. This may put people off as they can get more bhp elsewhere but if they chose one of NR's packages rest assured they will be happy, as have many customers to date. |
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NR 800 BHP Engine Dyno'd
We took our latest 2.3 Fast Road Engine For our customer Russell Tweed to one of the best engine dyno facilities in the UK @ Norris Designs. Using this fantastic facility Nick could safely map this monster timeattack engine using an SM4 Autronic ecu, with every aspect of the engine’s performance
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NR Autosport Customer Cars
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Ryan 480 bhp Evo 4
Evo 4
Engine & Transmission :
Fully Rebuilt E8 MR Engine
NR Steel Rod Conversion
NR Stage 1 Cylinder Head
HKS Camshafts
RC 750cc Injectors
TT S205
NR Tubular Manifold
Sard Fuel Pressure Regulator
Walbro 255 Fuel Pump
Magnex 3" Stainless Exhaust
Cusco Induction Pipe
HKS SPF Filter
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