Tuning the Ariel Atom

Sorry guys…. I know I know… It has been months since my last update.

Please forgive me as my schedule is sometimes too much for me to handle…  The blog has definitely suffered as a result.

SO, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN to read more of the articles.. I am going to be posting fast and furious this week to catch up on lost time.

Here is an article about the Ariel Atom I tuned.  It probably is the only one in Singapore as I have not seen/heard of any others around.

 

Rainy morning.  I peeked out to catch a glimpse of the skies outside and wonder if it will be a good excuse to stay in bed today.

 I crawled out of bed and dragged my feet into my personal reading room. That’s how I usually start off a day’s business (pun intended).

I was prowling thru the paper’s election news when my phone started ringing.

“Joel, what are you doing?” an old friend boomed over my phone.

“Errr, taking care of some…..business. Yes?

“I have a Ariel Atom with K20 that I would like to do some tuning on.  Will you be able to help me tune?”

 “Ok *doomp*. Oops.  I will need to take a CLOSER look first?”

 A time and place was set, and I set off to the car’s storage location to check it out.  I also brought along with me a custom made engine harness too with an OBD plug as these cars do not come with anything like that.  Without an OBD plug, would also mean that we cannot use the most cost effective solution of the Hondata FlashPro to do the tune.

I custom made this!  At least in future, the owner could use it to do any flashing to the ECU.  Datalogging he might want to from the FlashPro.  Or read out some error codes.  Or whatever…blah blah blah…

After testing and everything was certified to be working 100%, we made a trip to Uber’s Mainline Dyno to wait for the arrival of the beast.

 

I will leave it to my friend Dorian to fill in the rest of the “story” here, he went totally ballistic when I told him I was going to be tuning the Ariel Atom.  All the rest of the narration you read below is written entirely by Dorian, so you need to swap the perspective a little… one that is coming form another Author.

At Uber’s Dyno

The customer rolled up with a grin in a Volvo XC90.

Dorian:  Eh, what car is this?  K20?  Volvo lei..

Joel: Look behind lei, on the trailer…

As I walked to the back, I felt its aura even before I spied it’s insane spoiler.

There it stood in all its glory. Beaming on the tow bed tied to the rear of the XC90.

An exo skeleton shell, no more comforts than a F1 car, everything is kept to the most bare.  Except the engine… Nothing is bare about the engine.  A Honda K20 Supercharged to 300 BHP on a chassis that is barely 500 KG.

It is a hybrid, somewhere between a F1 car, a motorcycle, a car, the Ariel Atom stood before me.  I remember the minister’s speech about being greener and moving towards hybrid cars.  I hope he has some Ariel advisors beside him.

All the blood in my body rushed to my head. I have seen my fair share of Honda Engines but this is the first time I am given a chance to lay my hands on an Atom! (I didn’t take Chemistry in Secondary School. Corny….hahah)

Everyone at Uber also scrambled out to caress this infamous beauty.  Without any hesitation, the Atom was strapped up on the Uber’s Mainline Roller Dyno and everyone was eager to see it do its runs.

After Joel worked his magic, the car made over 15WHP gains on the Mainline Dyno.

Here are some pictures

And an article in the international Atom Club which the owner posted on.

Whew, a good day’s work done. It isn’t everyday that you see an Atom in your stable.

 

And why is that so? I thought awhile ago, the Atom seemed almost realised on Singapore streets. A quick check reviewed that while on one hand the Atom failed certain legal requirements, another was that there was a barrage of comments and complaints from the public when the article on the Atom appeared on our main paper.

Complaints such as, it was too fast, it is an outright sports car, were quick to drown out any hopes of the seeing an Atom beside you at a traffic light.

So lets see how true it is. Compared to any other car, the comments seems pretty valid.

But how about comparing it……. to a bike?

Lets take a stock Hayabusa for comparison

Atom

Power 300 HP

Weight 500KG

0 – 100km/h 2.9 sec

Top speed 240km/h (depending on gear ratios)

 

Suzuki Hayabusa 1340

Power 196.87 -> 200 bhp (round off)

Curb Weight 260 KG

0 – 100km/h 2.8 sec

Top Speed 299km/h

So what do we have here, we have a 800bhp per tonne bike that performs even more insanely than the Atom and it is travelling on just two wheels! Did someone do their maths wrongly and thought that the Ariel might be too dangerous for the roads? Surely the “slower” Atom planted on 4 wheels is a safer option than that!

So why can’t we have the Atom on our roads? I do not mind wearing a helmet and storing a raincoat in the boot; let me rephrase that… perhaps a Poncho in my pocket…

 

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