The car is built to compete in a French national rally series, and as such it has to remain a Ford, a 1600 and be N/A... He has toy'd with the idea of various variants of 16v engine but due to the costs involved so far it retains the good old CVH...

Basic spec is RS1600i CVH, Fully balanced, Forged Pistons, fully worked head running a Piper 316° Cam, 41mm 'Crawl Racing' Carbs from a GSXR1100.