Currently have a SHED of a MK1, planning to recreate the good old days of Hoy, Cleland, Tarquini et all by carrying out numerous stupid and ill thought out modifications, this will continue till I kill the car or find a 850 T5 estate I like,

Watch this space?

toddle pip

 

Rock on

 

Hurry up then.

 

Sounds like a kool idea, pics? what lump u thinking of using?

 

nothing special, just what is in their at mo (1.8TD) all show and no go. it's my daily hack from rhyl to halewood for work!

will be taking some before pics, when i can get at my car in daylight!

 

theres already a guy (birmingham area i think) who has done the mk1 mondeo touring car replica thing. its a 2.0 zetec on throttle bodies and is done in the ICS livery. heres an old pic of it (before it had the TB's)



theres also someone in scotland doing one of the later mk1 valvoline replica's.

i've got a set of the genuine mk1 mondeo (works) 18 x 8J white dymag's on one of my mondies, converted to group A fitment. a very nice find indeed!

wouldnt you be better off starting off with a petrol mk1, or are you keeping it diesel? its a PITA converting a diesel mondeo to petrol. there is stuff you can do to the 1.8TD engine to make it much quicker, on my old one i put a big saab front intercooler on it and some other bits. you can also put a bigger turbo on with an adaptor plate, but its always gonna be a very heavy cast iron 8valve single cam 'not very revvy' lump...

 

that looks shit.nothing like a replica.blue mondeo with some wank stickers.

a replica would be lowered to the ground some mad wheels tucked up in the arches and big spliters on the front bumper.

 

bump.......
hows it going then mate???
any more piccys/plans? would be kool in the old rapid fit colours
there was nothing like the good old days of touring car lol

 

mine is gonna look quite tourer-esque when i get the coilovers on, i've already got the genuine touring car rims and the back arches rolled so its gonna be decked right out (although mine is a black car and i dont want stickers on it)

already got the coilovers here ready to go. i was also gonna get a half-cage.

i nearly had a genuine carbon mk1 BTCC front splitter last year but the guy stopped replying to texts and phone calls, after we'd agreed on the deal

p.s. the rapidfit livery was on the mk2 mondeo, not the mk1. i have seen a very poor mk1 touring replica on ebay last year, done in the mk2 rapidfit colour theme, with lexus rears, wood and yellow dash panels and all sorts of terrible mods on it

 

Sorry to resurrect this old thread that refers to my car, two points to raise, firstly the car at that time was as it still is work in progress, at the time I did not have the funds for coilovers. Secondly the regs for the year that had that livery required that the silouette of the car remained as a production car and big fuck off splitters or other none standard aero devices were not allowed. I am in the process, as I now have the funds, of fitting coilovers these allow me to drop it around another 3 inches over what these new pictures show.

Just a few shots of the suspension preliminary set up, still need to balance heights between front to back, sump and exhaust/manifold alterations next, to give some ground clearance before it is dropped further.





How it was on previous set up



..............and how it started

 

I come past your house all the time and have seen it in various stages. you have a red one to dont you? or used to.

i like it, you done see anything else round like it anyway.

 

I think it looks well mate.

 

Yep I do, there are certain restrictions on what I can actually do to the car as I use it for sprints and hillclimbs so have to abide by the MSA regs for the class in which I compete. If I am out tinkering give us a toot.

 

Cool will do mate

its mostly in the evenings though when i come past, my nan lives on Raddlebarn rd so i go past on the way to see her.

 

Mondeo looks great!! Wanna see some of the volvo pics! Volvo S40 rep would be mint, spesh a T5!!

 

There is a bodyshop about 200 mtrs from where I live that has a lookalike of the 1994 BTCC Volvo estate

There you go:-

 

ive known of your car for years mate through the mondeo forums. peter, on our forum, has a MK2 rapid fit livered touring car rep

 

I'm always dubious of refering to these type of cars as "replicas" that is something they will rarely be in the true sense of the word. If they were it would be cheaper to buy the real thing than try to reproduce one, I always tend to refer to mine as a "lookalike"