MONSTER

Hello all, do any of you lot know how to tell if your escort is a homologation model? aside from the bag in boot how do you know, do the first 2 letters of the chassis code help? mine are NG

All replies appreciated.

Regards, Dave

Holty

You should have the following:

1. Bag in boot as mentioned.
2. Pump for water injection (under rear seat i believe)
3. A jet in the intercooler outlet (top) at the throttle side

hope this helps.

Mine was registered early jan 93 and its homologation!

Mike Rainbird

iTrader: (3)

As far as you should be concerned ALL large turbo Escorts are homolgation models. The only difference being that once the required allocation had been produced, they just stopped supplying the bits with the car that Holty mentions. But very few cars have the homolgation bits still with them anyway...

MONSTER

Thanks guys

Dan

Whats the bag in the boot for then?

Azrael

For water for the water injection system. But even Grp.N cars didn't use it - they used some more sensible container instead.


Funny bit is that the car HAS to have water injection fitted to be run in Grp. N because it was homologated with water injection. Some cars were banned for not having it in early years.

Dan

Oh right, cheers Jakob!

Azrael

No probs. Recently I was asked about water injection on a rally recently. (as a joke of course as they even didn't require roll-cages let alone homologated parts)

Dan

No roll cages!

Azrael

Yep :-D


Seen pics on pictures forum? If you want check them out. There were some really fast stages :-D 4th gear :-D

Dan

4th Gear, fook that! lol

Azrael

I realy loved that although I had pretty nasty situation with pedestrians on one of the stages when on left hander over the crest where I was supposed to cut beside the tree groing on the corners apex there were 3 girls walking beside the road next to one another effectively taking up about 3 meters of the road and I had been full throttle for last 300 meters so it was really huuge speed.

Dan

Bloody hell mate, I take it you managed to avoid them ok! lol Bet they shit themselves!

How did you get on with that really we spoke about the other day, or has it not taken place yet?

Azrael

I managed. Leter on road stage I had more dangerous situation... then I nearly, very nearly shit my pants...

THe girls.. well I don't think they noticed how bad it was, they only seen me for like 3 seconds and it was me who was scared. My co-driver didn't even notice. :-D



Which one? ;-D Since "Rajd Jurajski" I am grounded and without a car since I destroyed suspention. Now I am going to germany and don't know when it's going to be fixed :-(

Dan

Think we spoke about 3 weeks ago on MSN and you had one coming up?

Azrael

Oh yes. That was the one On friday I had some practice on the tack and saturday I had rally, 10 stages I think 34 stage kilometers. Not a long one but lot's of emotion

Dan

How did you do it in then mate? Hope you got on ok!

How did you break the suspension aswell?

Azrael

Now... some pics here:

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=128244


I did well untill 3 last stages. On SS8 I was braking too late hit the chicane (no damage but stopped sideways on the road) and lost couple of places :-( On SS9 I bent left suspention strut and destroyed the tire. I limped on hazards to the final stage wich I did in a car that turned only left at sensible speeds.
For a begginer who only saw stages in the morning, and one knew only from describtion I think I did quite well. 9th overall, 6th in the class. All the cars in front of me used slick tires and mopst of them were really prepared rallycars. I managed to beat N-10 spec Scoobie without restrictor (350bhp). Unfortunately on SS9 we destroyed the suspention, I don't know how nad where, it just bend. I didn't hit anything and there isn't any sign of it on the wheel.

I hope this is throughout information

Dan

Well sounds good mate, shame about the car tho!

Will check the pics out though!