Does anyone know the owner of the really light-weight wide arched MkII Escort that was at Central Day a few years ago?

Wanted pictures and specs if possible. White with blue stripes (plus a Ring sticker on back ) and had a normally aspirated Cossie lump in IIRC?

 

Mike you might be better off asking on Turbosport

 

do you mean this one Mike?
if so, belongs to a guy called Adrian Hall i believe....

 

That is the one!

Do you know anything about it, or is their a resto section on Turbosport?

 

Was that the car at the Performance Ford day at Brands?

If so it kicked ass and sounded the tits.

If not my bad

 

i've heard a few things about it... i think it's been through several evolutions to get where it is now. from what i understand, it wasn't initially built like that and has kind had bits and pieces added on over the years. has definitely been NA cossie and i think cossie turbo, and i'm pretty sure at some point it had a BD of some description...

here's the stuff on turbosport...

http://www.turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77567

as you can see, pretty substantially different from it's current guise.

HTH

 

Quality picture of it sideways on the grass at Brands!

 

I really wanted to know about it in it's current guise? Perhaps Dingly knows more - I'll send him an email .

 

Don't think it was planned though

 

This was the one various people were getting very excited about at the PF day at brands, if you find the orginal thread, there was a few people they seemed to know quite abit about the car ?

 

probably worth a go mate.
failing that, i think Gary at retromotorsports (retromotorsport on here, but don't think he logs on that much)knows a fair bit about it too.

 

it was featured in the march 2001 issue of classic ford my 100E was featured in the same issue..
the escort is on the front cover.

steve

 

 

Did I say it was!

 

Can you dig it out and dish the dirt on the specs?

The last pictures are amazing .

 

its seriously quick round brands :O

 

Looks awesome in last pics!!


Was meary making a point....

 

i would love a spaceframed MK2

 

awesome looking car

 

what weight is it,and what engine is in it,looks the bis

 

That is what I was trying to find out as well .

 

A few years ago it was at the pod and its not space framed from what I remember.

I'm sure he said back then it had a 250+hp atmo yb in it which at the time didn't impress me that much.

Mike, are you concerned that a NA car could actually beat you round a track now ?

 

fookin awesome car when i see it at brands. it was bending the bonnet own the pit straight

 

I know Adrian quite well, he has had the car some 20+ yrs now and has been in many differant forms of power plant from the original 1700 crossflow to a full blown cossie turbo engine, he used to race in the vectra challenge i think so does know the Brands circuit very well( not taking anything away from his driving talents), he does his own carbon fibre and when at Brands he was sporting a very nice carbon floorpan and i dare say soon the car will be completely carbon fibre.

Steve

 

Couple of pics i took at Brands

Steve

 

we need pics

definatly was flying at brands

 

So what engine, someone must know?!?

 

Last time i saw it had a BDA type engine with a Zakspeed rocker cover and some type of injected throttle bodies but all period looking not modern if that makes sense.

Steve

 

Its either going to be a Atmo YB but I'd think he has seen sense and put a alloy duratec in it considering the cost of them and low weight compared to a YB

 

This looks very much like it.

Steve

 

That looks like my old Mk1 Escort at the side. Any more pictures of it?

 

I know the shell was originally built years back by Kevin Wood @ Milton Race Preperation who does all the Anglia stuff

 

Last time I saw the car is was running a naturally aspirated Cossie motor on slide injection and as Russ says it was built by Kevin Wood of Milton Race Prep when they were in Maidstone.

Bit of a testament to Milton really that the car handles like it does, considering it was built many many years ago but at the time they were building Thundersaloons and the like.

But Kevin gave up building cars a long time ago and only does Anglia stuff now, has no interest in Escorts so please do not bombard him with e-mails begging him to build you a car because he wont.



Why you so interested Mike... has Adrian blown your doors off recently ?

 

Looks amazing

 

The only one i have sorry.

Steve

 

indeed they did...


380-460 bhp (variable boost settings) out of a 1427cc engine, or so i'm told.

 

one of the best threads in ages

 

if you want spaceframes, you should check out the zakspeed gp5 cars
funnily enough i was just lookign at some pics of these yesterday... not looking too healthy now, granted but i bet these were awesome to drive!

 

That is an amazing picture!

Wicked thread!