a post about the green shed made me think about these other legend cars ( but please if you wanna discuss what a legend is please use another post, this is about finding frankie )


anyone know what happened to it ???

 

in a skip

 

Im not sure if i still have a photo of it somewhere

 

Dave E fiddled with the boost blew it up/broke it iirc but sure their was another story about why the engine gave up

I remember Dave and you Nige coming to my house after picking it up that day

 

the next post was gonna be wheres sketch as he never posts on here and you never see his old shed about these days


i think that there needs to be a performance ford thrash with the old legendry beast in it, or just a where are they now type read as theres some cars we never see anymore that it would be interesting for em to visit

 

That was the end of Frankie

Had some good times in that car 7k in 5th the night we picked the car up on the motorway on the way home from Scotland being one of them then seeing a copper sat on a bridge as we slowed from that speed to a more normal one

 

ah well, we can count that one off the thrash list then


looking back its a shame people broke all these cars where the shells where not that bad


find a decent erst shell now,,,,,, shame aint the word

any recent piccys of your sketch

 

vroooom ptssssh

Aye i remember we came round to your place!

(and it dropped a valve head after MILLIONS of miles of 7000+rpm hammer!! not cos the boost was fiddled with )


b19bal

Less of the old shed please Its still alive, just! Will be out early next year to see what its got and no recent piccies apart from engine bay type pics as per whats in my sig!

 

Back when RW owned it.........





And what that car loved doing

 

yeah i remember someone showing a video of this running low boost 13 psi or something and it was quick

 

Ah, I was close

Awesome car too, would be good if it was still around

 

Mine's off the clock by then!!

Assuming that's fourth of course.

Dave blew it up at TOTB as far as I remember, trying to beat my top speed!! Back in the days when Keith "It's Evoooooo time"" Taylor was still on the scene.

 

thats a bad place to have an intercooler

 

Its not an intercooler

 

Im sure you'll agree, back then, that was a seriously fast car And yes thats 4th gear on a std ratio box

If i remember correctly, after the 1st set of runs by the RSTs at TOTB that year, Dave was actually the fastest at 147mph ish.... after that i dont know what happened as such, but the engine died / Keith did 153mph and im not sure what you got that year

Those were the days

 

No, that was an EPIC chargecooler. Infact that only chargecooler that I have ever known to be effective.

Sketch, I think Keith and I were very close top-speed-wise that day, but I did come out on top Keith also upped his boost and melted a piston! Dave was well up there until his went pop. Was a VERY good day though, the 3 of us were having really good friendly rivalry, exactly as it should be. That was when TOTB was a great event for privately owned cars!

 

Fair play to that car, it made me make almost an exact copy then added 5th injector, different intercooler and a few other bits and bobs. It lasted, mine didn't It was a bench mark in it's day and gave me the inspiration.......... and lost me lots of money

 

Bonnet lifters are so wrong

 

Awesome car I'm running mine very similar at the moment - 13psi and loads of advance and it LOVES to rev (MF2 is disconnected at mo)

My head gasket went that day on the way to totb 1. Dave only did one run, and wasn't really pushing it. Engine had done a billion miles, and Dave REALLY abused it, and i'm sure RW did too.

The battle for top speed was cool, tape here, tape there lol - that was when C&B and Keith had std heads too. Good times.

Frankie's breather system and rev limiter live on in my car

 

I'm pretty sure i took the last ever passenger ride in Frankie


Was in the passenger seat on the way upto TOTB 1 with Dave after a top night at Daves pad in Leeds wih Rick & Sketch


gutted to fuck it died at totb but it was fun while it lasted


Will add some piccies once my 2nd hard drive decides to re-appear


got the one with the plug with no end on it which hapened at totb

 

LOL class

It was an ace machine. I drove it hard but serviced it at a SERIOUS level of dedication to make sure it was always perfect.

As everyone said - it dropped a valve at TOTB.

what a laugh we had in that car. I fvcking LOVED it for 5 years

Cheers all

Steven RW

 

I remember the car, we was both at Performnace Fords first thrash

I was in my Peppermint Green 2dr Mk5 Cortina with the cossie turbo lump, just stage 1 still on a T3 and yellows.

0-60mph in 5.64

0-100mph in 13.12

and 146.7mph

I think Steve done 149-150ish on the day.

Steve.

 

I also remember Dave/Frankie at the Nobles RR day and the classic photo. Anyone got that? The one that always crops up to haunt me!! LOL.

 

I havent got the pic, but i know a man who will do

I will try and point him this way

 

This one?

 

Thats the one

 

dunt know owt about this car,

so what was done to it??

was it a fast one then??

 

zvhrst

Yea it was. It made around 225 bhp, with 13psi. Had big head cam and turbo, and LOVED to rev - which is what made it very different from most RST's. 150.1 mph with 225bhp proves that.

 

Those were the days!! LOL.

 

so what made it wanna rev so high??

i gotta 2.1 zvh conversion and it dont wanna rev, has plenty of power

but 6 k and it jus dont want any more at all

 

AHHHHHHHHH that pic the pain

 

I tried to find that picture yesterday Lynne but could only find the Matt Bell modified one

 

For some reason Smit, I have got that one too

I managed to save quite a few of the 'classics' from the RSOC bb before it went offline in 2003.

 

I saved quite a few classic piccys but suffered Hard Drive failure last year and lost quite a few pictures

Managed to save about 75% of them. Think the original one must have been in the percentage i lost! D'oh!

Think my favourite was a picture with Tim n Matt in a white Fiat van with 'Gimps R Us' on the top, very funny

 

I had a hard-drive failure too and lost a few of them. Think I have the Gimps R Us one though

 

No, I think the funniest one is the one titled 'Blazin Pricks'.

Anyone got that??!!

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/06..._with_pics.bmp

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/06...e_e_in_wig.bmp

 

I've got that dreadlocks one too

 

God that car felt a lot quicker than mine at the rr day

 

So what made it able to rev, what was needed? and was it on a T3 or T34 and with what exhaust housing? I think I remember someone saying it had a PE head and cam? and the chargecooler. . how effective was it? was it a 2wd cossie cooler with a jacket round it?