2nd escort wrc rebuild
Mar 10, 2013 | 02:42 PM
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2nd escort wrc rebuild
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Mar 10, 2013 | 02:51 PM
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Access denied to the photos?
Mar 10, 2013 | 03:03 PM
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Mar 10, 2013 | 03:09 PM
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Whats the plans for this one? Do you still have your ash black escos that used to run 600 bhp?
Mar 10, 2013 | 03:14 PM
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this one will be a customer rally car,the r5fmc wrc is for me and the 3rd one we are building is r16fmc rally car for rally renting.
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Mar 10, 2013 | 03:51 PM
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Mar 10, 2013 | 05:56 PM
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Very nice Romain, love seeing these getting rebuilt.
Mar 10, 2013 | 06:04 PM
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Mar 11, 2013 | 11:01 AM
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Oppliger Motorsport
this one will be a customer rally car,the r5fmc wrc is for me and the 3rd one we are building is r16fmc rally car for rally renting.
Was all 3 used to be works cars?
Mar 11, 2013 | 11:23 AM
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From: either at work or on way :)
Mar 11, 2013 | 01:58 PM
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Look forward to the updates, was speaking to Tommy Field the other day and he said you must have 95% of the wrc parts ever made in your workshop
Lucky man
Mar 12, 2013 | 11:53 AM
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Is that Tommy's old shell Marc?
Mar 12, 2013 | 12:34 PM
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Mar 12, 2013 | 12:39 PM
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Very nice mate
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Mar 12, 2013 | 10:40 PM
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Was all 3 used to be works cars?
we are doing 3 wrc now,but i'm sure that the only ex work car is my r5 fmc
2 car are on xtrac gearbox and 1 with ffd 6 speed sequential
thanks
Mar 12, 2013 | 10:42 PM
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Look forward to the updates, was speaking to Tommy Field the other day and he said you must have 95% of the wrc parts ever made in your workshop
Lucky man
we have many 909 parts in the workshop because we bought 909 job lot parts around europe but many parts are also coming from my Uk mate Mark Thompson (MT motorsport)
Mar 12, 2013 | 10:42 PM
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Mar 12, 2013 | 10:52 PM
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What colour is this one going to be?
Mar 13, 2013 | 10:30 AM
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hi,
Mar 13, 2013 | 12:34 PM
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Very nice, think the escort is the best WRC car ever!
Mar 13, 2013 | 01:08 PM
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Mar 13, 2013 | 08:12 PM
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no it sin't,this one come from Germany
Mar 13, 2013 | 08:12 PM
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Mar 14, 2013 | 07:01 PM
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the engine is also nearly ready
the one with the IHI turbo fitted is for this car
the other 2 without heads are for the other 2 escort's
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Mar 14, 2013 | 08:20 PM
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Any reason you use those 2and3 belts crank pulleys?
Mar 15, 2013 | 09:59 AM
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Thanks for posting Romain, I love to see all the details in these shells.
Mar 17, 2013 | 05:17 PM
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Was this car rafael ramonat's. we had yellow wrc car go over to Germany. Ran on j99 wrc reg.
Mar 18, 2013 | 12:47 PM
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Looks like an awesome project!
Mar 18, 2013 | 09:29 PM
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Oct 18, 2013 | 07:34 PM
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Was this car rafael ramonat's. we had yellow wrc car go over to Germany. Ran on j99 wrc reg.
hi,
no sorry its an other one,i know the one you mean
Oct 18, 2013 | 07:34 PM
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Any reason you use those 2and3 belts crank pulleys?
yes one is alternator water pump
the last is for MPC pump
cheers
Oct 18, 2013 | 08:51 PM
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Stunning just stunning nice to see it coming togever
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That's one lush collection of spares. Amazing cars.
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