My MKII Escort Competition Rally Car
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My MKII Escort Competition Rally Car
This is my first tuning project, my second after rebuilding a 1969 landrover.
Managed to scam this MKII of my uncle for £000 as it had been sat at my house for some 6 years.
It's already been used in rally comps by my dad and my uncle so I know it was worth pre-2000
Here's it in action with my dad and uncle in a competition:
And this is how i bought it:
Its got a 120BHP 2.0 Pinto engine with a lightened and balanced Stage 1 bottom end with Mahle pistons specialy built by BURTON motorsport:
Took 2 hours to drag it 200ft with the tractor to find out the brake pad had split and was jamming the wheel.
Once inside the damage became clearer so i started work on the Rear end. Stripping the number plate, lights and bumper i could get a better look at the shell.
After Poking around with a screw driver for 1-2 hours it was apparent it had had a bit of a prang on the back corner folding the metal inwards and causing the bodyshop to use about 1 1/2 inch of body filler to straighted out the shape, and all that body filler had cracked and let water under it causing quite bad (compared to land rovers) rust (in other words serious rust lol):
Theres going to be a lot of grinding, sanding and bodyfiller practice for me to do over the next few weeks by the look of things.
3 hours work on the rear end produced some nice shiny steel underneath the rust and filler (with the aid of a wire brush lol).
I will post more as it progresses
Managed to scam this MKII of my uncle for £000 as it had been sat at my house for some 6 years.
It's already been used in rally comps by my dad and my uncle so I know it was worth pre-2000
Here's it in action with my dad and uncle in a competition:
And this is how i bought it:
Its got a 120BHP 2.0 Pinto engine with a lightened and balanced Stage 1 bottom end with Mahle pistons specialy built by BURTON motorsport:
Took 2 hours to drag it 200ft with the tractor to find out the brake pad had split and was jamming the wheel.
Once inside the damage became clearer so i started work on the Rear end. Stripping the number plate, lights and bumper i could get a better look at the shell.
After Poking around with a screw driver for 1-2 hours it was apparent it had had a bit of a prang on the back corner folding the metal inwards and causing the bodyshop to use about 1 1/2 inch of body filler to straighted out the shape, and all that body filler had cracked and let water under it causing quite bad (compared to land rovers) rust (in other words serious rust lol):
Theres going to be a lot of grinding, sanding and bodyfiller practice for me to do over the next few weeks by the look of things.
3 hours work on the rear end produced some nice shiny steel underneath the rust and filler (with the aid of a wire brush lol).
I will post more as it progresses
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Good to see anther being made good again
Ps the good thing about the landrovers most panels are alloy so dont tend to have the same problems as the cars
will keep an eye on this m8
Ps the good thing about the landrovers most panels are alloy so dont tend to have the same problems as the cars
will keep an eye on this m8
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Landy Panels
Yeh your right landy panels dont corrode in air as their brimabright but they disintergrate when they are in contact with steel and it causes a corrosive reaction which causes the panel to simply drop off lol :P
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Re: Landy Panels
Originally Posted by Big JC
Yeh your right landy panels dont corrode in air as their brimabright but they disintergrate when they are in contact with steel and it causes a corrosive reaction which causes the panel to simply drop off lol :P
My old 110 had started to corroad (sp) in places mainly the doors
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Re: Landy Panels
Originally Posted by Alan s1
I always fort it was the most stuppid thing to do Use a Steel frame and put alloy panels on top
My old 110 had started to corroad (sp) in places mainly the doors
My old 110 had started to corroad (sp) in places mainly the doors
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