When RED wheels where cool
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When RED wheels where cool
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Engine: 540 BHP Turbo Systems Group 'A' Specification. Low compression flat top pistons. High pressure / high capacity oil pump. Balanced and blueprinted. Big ported and polished cylinder head. BD15 inlet cam. BD14 exhaust cam. Kent vernier cam timing wheels. Double valve springs. Garret T04e race turbo with 360 degree thrust bearings. Inlet manifold matched to head. 8 grey fuel injectors. Alloy group 'A' dump valve. K&N cone air filter. Dual air injector boost control. MSD multi-spark-discharge ignition. Splitfire plugs. Pectel ECU controlling up to 36 PSI turbo boost. A straight through exhaust system was fabricated in stainless steel with 3.5" bore, 6.5" tail pipe and no silencers. Yes it WAS loud ! High pressure fuel pump. Front mounted 13 row oil cooler. 7 row turbo cooling radiator. RS500 intercooler. Steel braided hoses. Oil breather system and alloy catch tank.
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I remember this car. It used to be a guy called Rick from North London...I remember it being a bit tatty, but I did have a 'Ł15K' engine in it. I also seem to remember the wheels looking a lot brighter than in the pics.
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Re: When RED wheels where cool
Originally Posted by All4it
http://www.cannell.co.uk/Video/rs500_speed%20run.mpg
Engine: 540 BHP Turbo Systems Group 'A' Specification. Low compression flat top pistons. High pressure / high capacity oil pump. Balanced and blueprinted. Big ported and polished cylinder head. BD15 inlet cam. BD14 exhaust cam. Kent vernier cam timing wheels. Double valve springs. Garret T04e race turbo with 360 degree thrust bearings. Inlet manifold matched to head. 8 grey fuel injectors. Alloy group 'A' dump valve. K&N cone air filter. Dual air injector boost control. MSD multi-spark-discharge ignition. Splitfire plugs. Pectel ECU controlling up to 36 PSI turbo boost. A straight through exhaust system was fabricated in stainless steel with 3.5" bore, 6.5" tail pipe and no silencers. Yes it WAS loud ! High pressure fuel pump. Front mounted 13 row oil cooler. 7 row turbo cooling radiator. RS500 intercooler. Steel braided hoses. Oil breather system and alloy catch tank.
Engine: 540 BHP Turbo Systems Group 'A' Specification. Low compression flat top pistons. High pressure / high capacity oil pump. Balanced and blueprinted. Big ported and polished cylinder head. BD15 inlet cam. BD14 exhaust cam. Kent vernier cam timing wheels. Double valve springs. Garret T04e race turbo with 360 degree thrust bearings. Inlet manifold matched to head. 8 grey fuel injectors. Alloy group 'A' dump valve. K&N cone air filter. Dual air injector boost control. MSD multi-spark-discharge ignition. Splitfire plugs. Pectel ECU controlling up to 36 PSI turbo boost. A straight through exhaust system was fabricated in stainless steel with 3.5" bore, 6.5" tail pipe and no silencers. Yes it WAS loud ! High pressure fuel pump. Front mounted 13 row oil cooler. 7 row turbo cooling radiator. RS500 intercooler. Steel braided hoses. Oil breather system and alloy catch tank.
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Originally Posted by B11GNS
Hows that for a find 
, in one of those pics there is a white fiesta rst(H42 BMD), thats my old car which i sold 8 years ago!!! 
PS. ALL4IT, do you know what year these pics where taken?
, in one of those pics there is a white fiesta rst(H42 BMD), thats my old car which i sold 8 years ago!!! PS. ALL4IT, do you know what year these pics where taken?
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So I'be been linked here The wheels wern't red, they were dayglow orange
The pictures were all prior to 1996. The Bruntingthorpe video was taken with only 200 miles on the rebuilt engine about 14 PSI during running in. So yes, it does seem slow. It didn't seem slow when it was run in !!
That 378mm disc obviously did not fit under those 16" wheels. Brakes fitted at that time were 330 + 315mm AP with 4 pot AP calipers and titanium pistons. The 378mm and 355mm disks were going on after the wide-body conversion.
I still have the wheels that were going to be fitted - OZ 5 spoke magnesium 14.25 + 10.5" x 18 centrelock taken from a Le-mans McLaren F1-GTR. The new arches were made by Southdown Aero Services in Carbon Fibre / Kevlar mix, dyed black so they woiuld stone-chip black. They were made in unique moulds taken from the original Gartrac hand beaten thunder-saloon.
That's not a baked bean tin at the back. It's a 6.5" extension of the hollow back box - stainless steel.
That phone holder was a size LMAO. It was for the first Mercury one-2-one handset
At the time, the car was a real head turner and unique. From the comments from some of you it is still a head turner !!
Not bland with body & wheels the same colour. I remember quite a few imitators afterwards ....
Sadly, I eventually realised that I wouldn't get around to finishing it as I had moved on to other cars (getting old, you see
) so eventually sold it to get my new Daimler in the garage .I haven't given up on performance cars yet though, just defected to Porsche's. I might leave the Daimler as standard - 370 BHP / 378 lb/ft
I'm currently doing lots of things to my 944 turbo to try to get close to 400 RWHP. A new project for me. Lots of tuning and no shiny things under the bonnet
Nice to see that the old beast still arouses interest ! I might even buy another one one day
Rick
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Originally Posted by eastendr
So I'be been linked here The wheels wern't red, they were dayglow orange
The pictures were all prior to 1996. The Bruntingthorpe video was taken with only 200 miles on the rebuilt engine about 14 PSI during running in. So yes, it does seem slow. It didn't seem slow when it was run in !!
That 378mm disc obviously did not fit under those 16" wheels. Brakes fitted at that time were 330 + 315mm AP with 4 pot AP calipers and titanium pistons. The 378mm and 355mm disks were going on after the wide-body conversion.
I still have the wheels that were going to be fitted - OZ 5 spoke magnesium 14.25 + 10.5" x 18 centrelock taken from a Le-mans McLaren F1-GTR. The new arches were made by Southdown Aero Services in Carbon Fibre / Kevlar mix, dyed black so they woiuld stone-chip black. They were made in unique moulds taken from the original Gartrac hand beaten thunder-saloon.
That's not a baked bean tin at the back. It's a 6.5" extension of the hollow back box - stainless steel.
That phone holder was a size LMAO. It was for the first Mercury one-2-one handset
At the time, the car was a real head turner and unique. From the comments from some of you it is still a head turner !!
Not bland with body & wheels the same colour. I remember quite a few imitators afterwards ....
Sadly, I eventually realised that I wouldn't get around to finishing it as I had moved on to other cars (getting old, you see
) so eventually sold it to get my new Daimler in the garage .I haven't given up on performance cars yet though, just defected to Porsche's. I might leave the Daimler as standard - 370 BHP / 378 lb/ft
I'm currently doing lots of things to my 944 turbo to try to get close to 400 RWHP. A new project for me. Lots of tuning and no shiny things under the bonnet
Nice to see that the old beast still arouses interest ! I might even buy another one one day
Rick
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