Dingy

OMG a tuner has spoken

Where is your car mark ?

At least martin's is his own and not a paying customers LOL....

Mark Shead

They are a 4088 and a 4094 and 2 diff size exhaust housings, The 42 is way to big to fit with the first manifold so that was a no go for now .

Mark

Mark Shead

Mine is in pieces to busy doing everyones work, Maybe thas why some other people have time to do there own or maybe they dont have as much work as I do .

Mark

Martin-Hadland

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Not wrong!! The manifold was indeed made by PD but is a loose copy of the godfrey design, I have that from the horses mouth Not scared to run at full power but what's the point ? Hell my Rover would give it to Rods car on track but if he beats that maybe I will run the Escort at 20 psi

Dingy

Guess business is booming since you moved out your mums garage

So you aint got a car worth talking about LOL just your customers......
Rods car is fast on a strip and not to fast round curborough for example....

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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Smells a bit fishy in here...

Must be "Tuna" wars

Martin-Hadland

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Dingle, that is not a fair example Curborough is suited to small turbo cars... T34 would be king there..

Mark Shead

Yes wrong a PD desgin and sold to JG ask Pat, Then a PD desgine made the way I wanted on a car at my workshop with tubes and wastegate routed the way I wanted again ask Pat by one of his guys
Maybe you should change the way the mag wrote your last feature saying this car will do 200mph as I belive you will never try it as you are scared to run at full power,
SO heres the challange We will be at a top speed shoot out with rods and no Nos and run against you, But I guess thats a no as you keep saying the tracks where its at for you .

Mark

Big Will_

My moneys on you favouring the 4094 - i know Clive was astonished with its performance

Are you and Kev coming up to Knockhill for TA R3?

Mark Shead

Yes I would have to agree with you

Mark

Mark Shead

Yes I will be at Knockhill with Kev.

Mark

Martin-Hadland

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You daft bell end, track is always where it's been at for me Just because my cars have done good top speeds in the past.. it was always secondary to track performance... So why don't we get Rod's car on Combe with me and see how many laps it takes for me to lap him... I reckon ten at the outside

Btw... don't bother replying to this as I have to be up at 5am to got to a track (with bends) and am now off to bed.. night!

Mark Shead

Rod doesnt claim a 1.10 lap of combe but you allow claims of 200mph with yours but guess who's car will be at the end of brunters 1st

Mark

Rab

I love all this fighting

Rod, good luck!

Physio

Good luck with it all Mark & Rod

Mike Rainbird

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Rod / Mark,
Good luck for the engine doing what you want it to . Everyone has their favoured discipline and concentrates on this, so fair do's concentrating on top speed, because if you didn't, we would not have a car that could do well at this in the TOTB team . We want cars that can do well at each event to put the Ford team back on the map .

If you look at the front of the last issue of Redline with Martin's car in, he has made a VERY bold statement, in that if his car does not hit 200mph, he will run naked up the quarter at Santa Pod (check the small print on the front cover ). I bet he's hoping it will - BIG TIME .

Miller 3

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Fucking funny

ryan_belfast

Mike, since when did you become the Nato Peace maker?

Deano

But whats the point exactly ?

He gets to max the car out once in a blue moon and has to hire the whole run way for the event plus timing gear etc and due to his age/health needs to get you to drive it

Martin can do god knows how many laps on god knows how many track days to the equivalent cost of one max speed session and actually gets all the benefits .

Seriously am I missing something

MikeR

Dingy you are a grade A cunt at times, Did Karl not used to work out of a household garage ?? and do you know how many engines Mark has made for his Evo only to have customers buy them of him, he is a buisness man first and for most so would be foolish to not give there customers what they want,

Why oh why do magazines allow claims like that to be printed, so it may well do 200mph but why say it and not prove it, is it for the shock value on a front cover, why not say it will lap what ever in what ever time, but then not all can associate with that can they


Mike

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Captain Mike,




(No disrespect to Karl )

Mike Rainbird

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Stupid comment, as you can say that about all the cars built to just do drag racing . IMO, totally not my thang, but I wouldn't start dissing the engineering prowess that goes behind getting a 8s car . I don't see you dissing Keith Cowie's Skyline, which is even MORE narrowly focussed than Rod's car .

Deano

Mike , First off I wasnt "dissing" ( God your so Gangsta ) anything you pleb so shove your little cap smileys

I was just asking that , is building such an extreme top speed car that Rod himself doesnt get to drive in that environment very often worth all the time and money invested for something that gives such a relatively short enjoyment span or is it just the kudos of having the worlds fastest sapphire cosworth that motivates him ?

Secondly , I dont slag off ANYONES cars , I may not understand their motivation hence the reason for my first "dissless" comment or I may not like the body styling / colour etc but i keep any comments that arent complimentary to myself ! and I think people who do make negative comments are just wankers to be honest as who has any right to say whats good and whats not

As for Keiths Car , I dont understand that either him being a normal working guy and ploughing all that cash into his car .... if these were Tuner cars I would understand them a lot more as they are essentially mobile adverts for what said company can achieve but as these are two normal blokes then yes my understanding as to why lacks a little and if Rod or Keith would like to explain it then that would be great and maybe I could understand better but Im not going to lose sleep over it if they dont .

Now was what I wrote really such a stupid comment ? I dont think so

MikeR

I dont think Keith is a normal working guy and the true sense Deano, because i do not know a normal working guy that can afford a truck to transport there 1000bhp skyline around that seems to get rebuilt fairly regualy, I would class he more as a fairly well of buisness man to be honest and there in lies the difference affordable decadence.... rich boys and there toys,


Mike

Deano

Ok thats fair enough , but with Keith at least he gets to use the car to actually set the records and Im not having a go at Rod but why plough all that cash into a car and not be the one who reaps the rewards persay

Thats all my first original comment was about

Jay,

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moved back as mark couldnt read it

saph4be

lpl at martin and rod fallin iut funny as fuck

Chip

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Martins car just came back from a successfull trip to Gatebil

Rods just blew up on the dyno


So does martin have the upperhand now?

But on the other hand martin still hasnt in anyway justified the "this car will do 200mph" claims he made so publically, so maybe he doesnt


Oh the drama!






My opinion is they are two fantastic cars, each owned by very likeable blokes and both built with a good level of commitment and each pushing their own respective boundaries, Im amazed they dont get on far better, but its SO much more entertaining when they dont.

AlexF

Go on Chip - you stoke the Tuna wars!!

foreverwhite

looking rather 'useful' lol

COMEDY DAN

That turbo looks big enough to live in..

Fingers crossed and good luck.

Porkie

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Errrr Dan??? keep up mate... its already blown on Dyno!!!

The pictures were from the 6th....

Chip

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for dan

Kevin Atkins

Rod's not too suicidal about the engine letting go, he can see what it will do when it comes together. He in fact stayed on late last night to finish some wiring on my shift light etc.... thanks Rod much appreciated.

As for Mark only having a straight line car available in his stable............err no !! he has access to mine any time he wants it and it goes round corners


Kev

Kev.H

about time you cossie boys started using primary designs manifolds quality gear us focus RS owners have been doing it for ages mine freaking glows on the rollers even when ceramic coated martins must go freaking bright orange never didnt understand why he didnt coat it

Mark Shead

I have them already but mine are split pulse and divided housing and it was ready to test but the liner developed a fault so it could not be tested yet.

Mark

Mark Shead

Chip

I would not say blown up as it did not what we had was a liner that distorted which caused the head gasket to fail.

Mark

Kev.H

i have no idea what the hell that means so one of these for me <-- all I know is PD manifolds are fit and forget unlike alot of other FRS manifolds which crack they may cost more but worth every penny IMO i hope you boys get your glitch fixed soon and break more of ya own records

Mark Shead

I have 2 PD inconel manifolds for the Cosworth already these ones are a work of art and they are the white one shown on this thread.

Mark

Kev.H

inconel they do those for the FRS but its abit overkill for my bhp so i went for the normal one but coated we did a group buy with Pat he had about 13-14k off us FRS boys in one hit but it meant we saved a few pennies