Thought i'd share some pics of what im up to at the moment , my sierra has taken a backseat while this car gets a re-build .I bought it 6 months ago from a Rally crosser in Belgium , he wasn't sure whether to go racing or Rally crossing after he retired from Rallying so he bought a car for each ! the Mondeo was bought from MSE on the pitwall at spa after it threw another turbo ( with the engine stripped it became obvious why it didi this ) , i bought it less engine , loom and ecu but a host of other bits had been taken for another project !

on the ferry coming home with it

as it last ran ..



previous colours ..

 

Hi Tony


Whats the engine thats meant to be in this?! I remember seeing this for sale a while back, But I thought it was a V8 RWD Mondeo..Looks like Im wrong though!


How you keeping?

 

looks like a nice race car...what kind of engine has it got?


How do you get time to drive all your cars Tony?

 

Hi Radders, alls good mate ,
Euan , i only have 2 cars , but 2 kids as well means i rearely get to race these days , lol.

This is the engine being test fitted , 742bhp and 666ft lb on race fuel .



I was always going to change the turbo anyway , a JGE 60 Turbonetics /Garrett hybrid was fitted and dynoed




Made what i wanted , good boost from low down as well .

 

Looks like the engine out of that thunder saloon Saph?!

Nice power

 

should be a beast then!

Thats a funky looking inlet

What races/trackdays you planning on doing with it?

Nat day??

 

I remember watching this fucker on Sky Sports or Eurosport racing in BelCar, back when it was silver, was awesome

Fast as fuck, nice black smoke or big flames on every gearchange top

 

That looks fantastic

 

That looks cool and would make an awesome track day car, which is blatently stating the obvious as its a track car

 

Wicked Mondeo mate, nice bit of history. Engine looks a beast

 

Still is silver , i remember watching it in Belcar and thought "i gotta get me one of them , lol "
I bought the Quaife viper box that it ran in 2004 , heap of shit thing ! It now has a Drenth MPG sequential , bit more like it i reckon .










they broke up a wolf racing Eggenburger RS 500 for the rolling gear, its been quite heavily modded since then tho , one piece Dymag rims , 10.5 and 11.5" wide and much smaller centrelock spindles to reduce rotating mass, huge Brembo brakes and moton 3 way Dampers too ...

 

How much 'quip UNDER that car LOL!


did this used to be a V8 at all Tony?? I could have sworn I see one nearly the same as this, but V8...

 

Not this one , no . There was 2 others , the sister car to this was YB powered as well but Vincent Radermacker ran a more space framed version that im not sure of the engine type ??? as for what i'll use it for , Dutch supercar and a few selected club events i reckon would be enough .
this one ...

Prefer the rear wing on my one tho , lol.

 

That one looks quite smart



Its going to bug me about this frigging V8

 

good project Tony,good luck with it.

 

Spent a while deciding where to site the dry sump tank and then running the lines for it ..



Finally settled on about here...


also had a chance to remove the Fuel cell cover and the nasty bits of old steel pipe that feed both sides from the quickfills, i'll get these remade in Alloy i think ...



Gratuitous shot of the monster carbon twin element rear wing ,lol .

 

that looks stunnin motor

 

Brian

 

Proper

 

That's awesome Tony! Love the look of it!

Did you buy this off www.rallycarsforsale.net by any chance? I'd seen one on there advertised for a number of months, looks amazing!

 

serious looking car, like the look of that, who would have thought a mondeo could be so good

 

Gearbox is now re-built and the car is ready for re-assembly as of tomorrow , hopefully this will be one of the last static shots of it ...

 

looks a monster

are you just using it as a play thing or are you going into compotitions with it?

any way good luck

 

Awesome car you have there.

 

Serious car! I love it!

 

That's nuts

 

Wouldn't have minded coming down again to see it...


Awesome car

 

Finally got round to sorting the Hydraulic clutch and pipework , refitted the triple plate clutch and bolted the gearbox on , this is all getting dropped in together but will have to wait til im back from knockhill this weekend now .

 

This cut out allows access to no 4 plug , the motor sits a foot under the bulkhead , ive had a cam sensor let into it as well so in all this rocker cover owes me 2 or 3 hundred quid !



Nearly ready to go ..

 

 

cool car

 

Love this Tony, can't wait to see it run!

 

Git out and give mr birley a run for his money

 

Dont worry andy , it will . Seems Greg got there 1st anyway , lol

 

Looks awesome

Do us all a favour and enter Time Attack 2008 and show the jap crap that ford still rule LOL

 

That is a mondeo to my taste...


Hope I get the chance to see this machine live

 

No a big fan of mondeo's but yours looks mean as

 

ok , got the motor in today , its tight but its in ! lots to make up so that theres room around everything , the engine actually sits behind the steering rack so you can imagine how far back it is under the bulkhead .



Tight huh !


This is the front of the car , all in one bit ..

 

Look great Tony

What championship are you going to run it in ?

 

serious serious car tony.

AWESOME!