I know fook all about rst's so can someone please tell me....

Do they all have non height adjustable drivers seats as i find the seat too low!
Do the speedo's on any go to 170 as mine does and doesn't look modified?

I'm sure there will be more but thats it for now

 

Yes
NO (probably replacement dial if not a sapph' one)

 

as bill said

 

I gather the Saff speedo is a fairly easy conversion and does tend to look factory.

Are the seats standard?? I cant believe you find them too low? How tall are you?

 

as bill. Get a cushion

 

Cheers Bill
The speedo is the same as any other Escort one of that year except for the 170 limit and hasn't had an after market dial kit fitted from what i can see

Why the fook didn't they put height adjusters on the drivers seats as they did on Cossies??? I guess i will just have to either take a cushion or carry out my idea to strip the whole interior and cage it

 

doh you 2 replied whilst i was replying to Bill

I'm 6' 1" Christian and the seat deffo seems too low for me anyway
Maybe it has something to do with the re-working of the floor/ tunnel on the Gartrac? Or just because i'm not used to it yet???

 

I was wondering that.

 

No escort I know of went to 170mph....got any pics?

 

Spadgeroo, I'm sure you're taller than me, and I can't say I ever felt I sat too low in any of my ERST's Is the floorpan any lower due to the conversion?EDIT: gawd I'm slow at posting tonight

I'm pretty sure someone used to do a 170 factory look dial, and it'll probably have a cossie speedo head behind it. Std ERST was 140 max I think, long time ago now.

Spadge, it's deffo wierd driving an ERST after a Cosworth for a while, I had one after my Sapph' and it just didn't feel right, whereas I feel right at home in a Cosworth (and did previously in ERST's)

 

I havn't taken any pics of the dash area yet mate as i need to remove a couple of nasty looking chav gauges before i publish internal snaps

 

Spadge im 5'9'' and i dont struggle with the seat

 

Big Rev counter with shift lights?

<Vin Diesel>
Spadgeroo lives his life 10 seconds at a time......
</Vin Diesel>

 

Ditto.

 

Spot on mate
Someone has removed the standard rev counter and bodged in its place a naff boost gauge and above it stuck a large chrome turbo badge
Along side this attached to the side of the dash is a nasty huge rev counter complete with shift lights

 

i didnt think Joe was going to sell that car NICE car take care of it spadge

Thats the 2nd car you have got off one of my mates The black 3 door you got of ben was a mate of mines car

 

sounds awful Pics pics pics!

 

The reason the seat feels too low is because the steering wheel seems too high! Maybe its just the way rst's are in comparison to Sierra Cossies?

 

Ahh, you GOTTA show us a piccie of that work of art Spadge

 

i didnt think Joe was going to sell that car NICE car take care of it spadge

Thats the 2nd car you have got off one of my mates The black 3 door you got of ben was a mate of mines car

 

Like I said, I never felt right in one again after a Cossie....... It must be post Cossie traumatic syndrome

 

Is the bottm of the recaro ok and not fallen through has it?

 

Its the floor thats rotten and has sagged making the seat drop,

 

As posted above the rst seats tend to rot away and the strenthening in the bottom of the rscaro kinda breaks thru and you end up with ya ass on the floor....check there first!

 

Lol Bill i think i am suffering from that also

Adam the seats look and feel mint mate!

Unlike this dash

 

OMG such a mint car then that dash. Thats deffo a sierra speedo spadge i reckon

 

OOOOOH variable wash wipe, niiiiiiiiiiice!!!! (yes I used to be an RST anorak)

 

Cheers Lee i just needed to know for future reference
The dash will be sorted before Beds track day and i really had to stop myself throwing that rev counter out of the window on the M1 this morning

 

Nice graphic equaliser too

 

The dash , stereo etc....is all coming out i reckon

 

whats that silver thing just above and right of the O in TURBO???

 

Shit....I mean shift light......

 

shit you bought it, you dont hang about spadge

thats defo a cossie speedometer dunno why the owner took out the standard counter though

nice,

Hardeep.

 

spadge does the steering column shake aroud violently in true RST fashion when acceleratin hard ???

or is that just limited to that fookin stupid Fwd

 

I didn't notice anything regarding the column mate so maybe its a fwd thing

 

Spadge the seat in the escort is very low compared to a sierra, I have both mate and when you go from one to the other its a BIG difference.

Markk I thought that all rsts had the scary shaking steering column as an optional extra, well mine has anyway

 

Hardeep yes mate i am not known for hanging about mate

rst88 cheers for that i guess i'll just have to get used to it then

 

spadge, how much for that stupid rev counter

 

what does it handle like with a big yyb engine and gearbox in the front? go well?

 

Do you agree police and theives is a fooking awesome track Spadge?