a few pics from years gone by.

 

what engines power did these have?

 

iirc about 300bhp mazda 2.0 v6, theres a really interesting website about these cars somewhere on the net..

 

Loved them days of the touring cars...........

And the Volvo 850 Estates

 

They were sleeved down Ford V6's! Made into 2ltr's basically with about 300bhp!

Quality pics mate, from the good old days of BTCC!

 

 

In 1/43 scale

Nigel Mansell has signed his No5 Car, that is the one he binned











Remember Charlie Cox's privateer car which he rolled at Thruxton in 1995

 

Obvisouly you aint watched it in a while then! Cos it's all fuckin Honda with that cunt Matt Neal now!

Don't blame you though, it is boring, think Plato is the last PROPER Driver left out there now!

 

if i remember right they were to add more downforce to the rear of the car

 

Proper close racing. Me and me dad used to go all over the country to watch these. Volvo estates were awesome to watch and the Alfa's were very competitive. Fords sounded great

 

theyre High speed discs , an aero device for longer curcuits or for particularily high speed straights ,all sorts of different things were tried - the 98 Mondeo had a fake rear wiper on , it actually gave another 50 kilos of downforce at full speed .
Ive owned all the 98 cars and a couple of the '97 cars now , most are in Germany but the Mansell car is still about

 

There are a couple more manufacturer's mate, Honda are in with Halfords, MG are in with the RAC plus a ton of vauxhalls and a few seat's!

Still no fords!

 

so did i, they looked








here's a few others from over the years

 

cool as fck them mondeos especially the mk3/4 ones

Who said BTCC cars are v6 there 2.0 petrol units between 290-300bhp

 

I have a 1997 BTCC vid has most of them on

 

Smart cars...

 

I know someone who I think owns that car, it could well be another drivers old car though.

Awesome bit of kit, engines don't weigh fook all

Tony will probably know if this was true or not but didn't they actually drop the shell over the chassis on those ?

Some amazing little tricks they put into those cars.... and loads of others I would assume.

 

Proves how little you know about the Fords then mate, I've picked one of those engine up and its no 4 cylinder

 

Great pics

 

they did run v6 for a while aswell fella, if you look under where it has mondeo splattered down the side of the car in these pics, it says v6 24v underneath

 

Not a Ford but I just love the sound of Rydells ex Volvo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvcv3gtYFp4

 

mansell in the mondeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bM5ua_bz5Y

 

incorrect mate

read above and your see why

the mgzs also run a sleved down v6 as well

 

cool vids

 

All the mondeos used the Mazda V6 ( the KL block ) the early ones were coded FCA up to FCD , then cosworth took over the project , they cut the block into 26 sections and re-welded them to lower the crank postion , the heads wer also cut to buggery ,infact the engines looked like they had slug welds all over them - still cost Ł50 k each tho . The 97 -2000 motors had the cross shaft going through the V of the block to lower the centre of gravity !

 

Good bit of info that

I had been told they were Mazda blocks.

I'll try and grab a pic of the one I know of when i'm that way tomorrow.

 

Prob the best ever BTCC driver

 

Alfa romeo 155 WB is the best imo

 

The Radisich mk 1 which won the world championship is owned by a real nice guy who lives by me, keeps it in his workshop. he also has in there the Anthony Reid 2000 model year Rapid fit mondeo super tourer and en ex le-mans tiga. all of which he uses in anger

Got pics of them but having trouble posting them

 

Brings back the memories! Used to LOVE touring cars although i was too young for the RS500s

Tarquni in the Alfa won EVERYTHING for a little while, i remember those sun strips that covered half the screen as well.

Joe Winklehock was class in the E36 BMW too.

Nest looking were the early blue/white mondeos and the older GSi cavalier with the gold wheels cleland used to drive

 

Here you go...............

 

loved watching them,used 2 go 2 knockhill every year as a boy 2 watch them,and touring cars im sure were limited 2 300 ish bhp and a rev limit of 8500rpm,cossies were the best tho,never been same since !!!!

 

What the fook is that

 

Its a Tiga and is fitted with a cosworth DFV. Run at le-mans twice in the ninety's.

 

If i wasnt doing my S2... Id do a mondeo

 

Bump for this thread from back in the day as requested, thanks to broadmoor for being able to find it, as my use of the search function is terrible