Just found some links to fredriks escort cossie, has the world rekord of fastest street cossie on the 1/4mile, all standard kabin and all
10,23/222km/t full weight and slics fixit gearbox and std diff


http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...604&q=cosworth
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...248&q=cosworth
http://www.cosworthcrew.com/Fredrikf...0bromsning.wmv
http://www.cosworthcrew.com/Fredrikf...k%20226kmh.wmv
record time is`nt filmed

BUT the timeslip said : 10.23sek 222kmh 60fot 1.65sek 402m
6.6sek 176kmh 201m

 

 

thats the sort of car we need for the TOTB team
Standard diff ????

 

Love the way he allows the revs raise in 1st gear, then kicks the clutch to create slip and build boost faster. First I've seen that technique used for 1/4 mile

 

awsome car a have used that technique to do doughnuts in ma escort hard to get it not to understeer though

 

Jep standard diffs, have an diff plate in the frontdiff, nothing else
std axels also

 

Bonus as ive just fitted a diff plate to my car in the hope it will stay together with 400+ brake.
Mike Rainbird looks like your trans might stand up to a few launches for TOTB.

 

Have found a way to get the std frontdiff to hold together ALL SECRET

He is willing to come to TOTB but wil need some help because it is a pretty long trip from Vësterĺs in sweeden to england

Sponsors anyone???

 

id chip in to get it there

 

goes very well

 

i would need sponsers too

 

Fairly nippy that

 

sounds & looks nice

somebody pay for him to come will they

 

good time ...but sorry standard diffs?? LOL good luck...please report back truthfully about how long they last

mine must have been a world record at 10.3 but didnt realise thought there were faster escort cossies running the 1/4 elsewhere

best of luck with the car anyway especially those diffs!

 

yours must off been quicker on street tires then kev if it was on slicks.

 

it will be an even longer trip back if he comes over with standard diffs

 

sorry i didnt read the first post properly....slicks and standard diffs fair play if you can get away with it...fook knows how after i blew my second diff apart (standard) i fitted a quaife atb and shortly after a 9" and a quaiffe thickwall case on the front....which i also broke

i only ever ran street tyres as neil says

 

And that was on crails super sticky glued 1/4 you were braking bits. lol

 

As i said, it is on std diffs, have welded reinforcements on the casings nothing else, still standard

 

pmsl i,m sure they spray that start line with silicone

 

fair play to you if you can get away with it

i couldnt on mine even when i first started doing the 1/4 mile stuff and that was only with around 500bhp

 

or what ever they have left over form the drift oval.

 

he will only get away with that for so long!!!

 

Kevin Sharp any pics of said car so i know what your talking about

 

i think thats all i have on photobucket of it.....i,m sure davie has a couple of vids around if he reads this

 

I remember the feature on this car a while ago and thinking standard diffs , but unless he is on his 20th diff it does seem to work. The amount the guy has spent on the car you would think if he was having to change diffs everyother week they would be uprated by now???

 

yeah but are they standard ford 9 inch diffs?

 

lets hope he comes over and shows us what to do to make a standard diff reliable

 

Its standard escos diffs, frontdiff havent broke since the reinforcements, but reardiff brok 5 times last year until they welded it.

Diffs brake on hard launch, not in speed aparently.

Are trying 3,9 diffs this year, will soon come some results i think

 

Is about strengthening the sump mounts for the frontdiff, and welding an reinforcement to the top off the frontdiff, then its fine, as said, never broke since.
Rear diff no reinforcements, but flexible rear-axels

 

so where are they welding the diffs or is it top secret?
I take it he is running a diff plate in the front then exta weld where his other diffs have split.

 

dam too slow

 

LOL, got ya

 

here you go pal,i bet you realy miss talking about broken diffs!

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...26484&q=dovboy


and the one that never was

 

if main reason front diff breaks is due to casting flexing a see no reason why weldind gussets onto diff would not solve this problem

 

I thought it was a safer way to launch a 4wd, get the car rolling a tad, then launch it harder, so the drivetrain doesnt recieve full throttle shock?

It appears that way in the fist clip, but in the last he seems to let the revs build longer as you say, so I could be wrong

 

i have a few laps of knockhill with the ffd box in on dvd but i dont know how to upload them

any advice would be appreciated

 

you need to rip them which changes the file type then you can upload to you tube or photobucket..

i had to do this with my daddythrash footage but took me ages..

best to catch one of the pc geeks

would like to see this

 

The black car would of been awsome if it got finnished but then where would we have got all our bits Dave. lol

 

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