Pics from Beaulieu yesteday: MartinLabatts awesome RS500!!
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Pics from Beaulieu yesteday: MartinLabatts awesome RS500!!
PassionFord user Martin (MartinLabatts500) awsome ex Andy Rouse RS500 touring car. This is the actual car that Tim Harvey drove in all of the UK touring car series:
Note the belt driven mechanical fuel pump on top of the cam cover, and huge air filter to turbo inlet pipe - over 100mm internal diameter!!
Very tidy....as you might expect, as these cars cost about £ 150 k each to build in the mid eighties
Proud owner Martin, he also owns one of the Texaco ex Rouse touring cars!
Suited up...........
IMG]http://img4.photobucket.com/albums/0803/stirling/BEAU_10.jpg[/IMG]
Note the belt driven mechanical fuel pump on top of the cam cover, and huge air filter to turbo inlet pipe - over 100mm internal diameter!!
Very tidy....as you might expect, as these cars cost about £ 150 k each to build in the mid eighties
Proud owner Martin, he also owns one of the Texaco ex Rouse touring cars!
Suited up...........
IMG]http://img4.photobucket.com/albums/0803/stirling/BEAU_10.jpg[/IMG]
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From: Surrey BUT IF UR A FIT WOMEN
gutted i ended up on the layby on the M3 
after a pipe fault on the oil got shagged and another £4k 
on a engine LUCKY I JUST HAD THE 500 ONE FINISHED 9:1 BD14 PECTEL 8 LOOM AIR 2 AIR P8 
WELL ALL A BIT QUICKER THEN I WAS GOING TO
after a pipe fault on the oil got shagged and another £4k on a engine LUCKY I JUST HAD THE 500 ONE FINISHED 9:1 BD14 PECTEL 8 LOOM AIR 2 AIR P8 WELL ALL A BIT QUICKER THEN I WAS GOING TO
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Re: Pics from Beaulieu yesteday: MartinLabatts awsome car!!
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And the Eggenberger has already made an appearance at Castle Coombe.
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Originally Posted by cossie power
Whats that unit running of the cam pulley? some form of pump?
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Andy Rouse preferred not to use electric fuel pumps, so he fitted the mechanical unit shown, driven off the inlet cam pulley by a toothed belt (looks like a miniture cam belt LOL):
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Originally Posted by Doug Stirling
Originally Posted by cossie power
Whats that unit running of the cam pulley? some form of pump?
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Andy Rouse preferred not to use electric fuel pumps, so he fitted the mechanical unit shown, driven off the inlet cam pulley by a toothed belt (looks like a miniture cam belt LOL):
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Originally Posted by Doug Stirling
Originally Posted by cossie power
Whats that unit running of the cam pulley? some form of pump?
Bobby
Bobby
Andy Rouse preferred not to use electric fuel pumps, so he fitted the mechanical unit shown, driven off the inlet cam pulley by a toothed belt (looks like a miniture cam belt LOL):
They do run proper fuel pumps too, as that pump hasnt a hope in hell of flowing the amount of fuel needed.
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hi,
doug was the one who said get your suit on for a couple of pics,
you would not normally find me wandering around the shows where one, lol
but i am a guy who likes to please so when doug asked the suit came out,
the car runs two low pressure pumps and two high pressure pumps, swichable!
i.e switch on dash for pump one or two, just incase in the race,
the storie goes that andy rouse liked the mechanical pump as it helped maintain fuel pressure as its run of the cam, the higher the reves the more it pumps,
hopefully tim harvey will do some laps at one of the shows, he will wear the original suit (now owned by me) and his original helmet ect,
he is very keen to get back in the car again as he has not raced one since the last race of 1990, and as he said these where mans cars!!
doug was the one who said get your suit on for a couple of pics,
you would not normally find me wandering around the shows where one, lol
but i am a guy who likes to please so when doug asked the suit came out,
the car runs two low pressure pumps and two high pressure pumps, swichable!
i.e switch on dash for pump one or two, just incase in the race,
the storie goes that andy rouse liked the mechanical pump as it helped maintain fuel pressure as its run of the cam, the higher the reves the more it pumps,
hopefully tim harvey will do some laps at one of the shows, he will wear the original suit (now owned by me) and his original helmet ect,
he is very keen to get back in the car again as he has not raced one since the last race of 1990, and as he said these where mans cars!!
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hi,
dont know how fast it is, as i have not been able to give it max,
the only running i have done init was a couple of display laps at combe.
and it was not running to the max, did feal like a big gocart!
people like steve soper did quite well when he drove them, and was allways on rouses bumper!
dont know how fast it is, as i have not been able to give it max,
the only running i have done init was a couple of display laps at combe.
and it was not running to the max, did feal like a big gocart!
people like steve soper did quite well when he drove them, and was allways on rouses bumper!
Rs500's to choose from to take to shows.....
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