To build one Fury might be considered wilful...


But three? Well, much as I fancied building a Stuart Taylor Phoenix with its loverly round tube chassis, there were many good reasons simply to build another Fury. Not least, the largish pile of Fury parts I had lying around. And the fact that I'd already built one, so building another live axle Fury would be a walk in the park.


Obviously, it would be a waste not to use my 3.54-CWP'd Quaife ATB-equipped disc-brake-bracketed live axle. So a live axle chassis it would have to be. That merely left the choice of engine.


The obvious choice was a carb'd Fireblade engine, to put me in class C in the RGB series. Obvious, but dull. Class C has some great racing, but I wanted to do something different. Class A (again) seemed a bit ambitious - I'd need a mid-engined car with a 'busa or ZX12R engine (although not having one would provide a marvellous excuse for an abject lack of speed). Class B had been the archetypal 'pot-hunters' class - very few entries even after the regs were amended to allow R1 engined-cars to play. However, the new Class B regs for 2007 were for any sub-litre engine. This widened the field up to CBR1000RR, GSXR1000 and R1 lumps, which are now producing power outputs close to those of the class A engines.


And I'd always wanted to build an R1-powered Fury. Easy to install, teeny little engine, nice box and usefully more power than a Fireblade. And best of all, they don't need dry-sumping. And best of best of all was when I discovered that the more powerful 2004-2006 engines don't need dry-sumping either, and they produce over 170bhp. So, a 2004-2006 R1 powered live axle Fury it was going to be.


Time to order some bits...