massivewangers

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I'm going to be a bit lazy here, as I don't fancy going through 90-odd pages, but where were your TCAs and compression struts from Marc?

M K

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First off Andrew Gallacher made me custom ones but I then sold them and went for MK Motorsportwrc billet items

massivewangers

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Thanks chap.

I was wondering what the steel ones were, as am interested in something for my RS2000. Trying to keep the budget down a bit for this one so didn't want to go all-out with the billet stuff ideally.

Might see if a mate can knock me some up, as he's a dab hand with the TIG.

M K

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Not yet mate, need to pick up some more ally sheet but can only do that if I get an early finish, hopefully will before the weeks out though, then I can get on making it up

djryan25

well that took some reading. excellent work mate. looks amazing.

M K

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Cheers

massivewangers

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Marc, sorry to bombard you with questions.

I don't suppose you have any more pictures of the old fabricated TCAs? And also, what compression struts are you using? If you had fabricated ones it would be good to see some pictures of them.

Think I might go down the route of making some for my RS2000.

M K

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Both were fabricated by AG

massivewangers

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Bob on, thanks mate. I think fabricated probably makes the most sense for what I'm doing at the moment, seeing as I know someone who could do them for me.

Out of interest, what type of TCAs are you running now? I know you said they were billet MK ones, but are they the WRC "gold" tarmac ones? Would be interested to know some dimensions as a starting point, just for bearing/rose joint sizes, and rough positions of compression strut pivot and ARB drop link mounting.

markk

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WRC escort arms are not gold they are black. The gold ones are wide track grp a, longer than the wrc black ones.

massivewangers

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Oh are they. I thought the gold ones were tarmac WRC. That would perhaps make sense, as they're the same as used on the Group A RS2000, which was made before the WRC Escort.

M K

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Started on the air intake today but only had a few hours but least it's started













Should be back on it to finish it in the week

Richie.

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Nice one

Can't wait to see finished item

smiley

Nice work looks great

little bram

Great work ��

Cossy Mike

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Good work as always

M K

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Cheers people

whizzisat114

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Stunning work as always marc

M K

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Couple more piece cut and tacked in

Glenn_

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That looks bad ass.

Caddyshack

Now you can see inside it looks huge. Are you going to colour it?

M K

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Yes mate, outside will be done satin black and inside left bare

Sonic Boom

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What filter have you gone for?
I got an K&N 33-2640 for mine looks about the same size as you have left in yours.

Rich

M K

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Gonna have 1 custom made by ITG

M K

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Bit more done and struggled a bit with the panels either side of where the filter will slot in, not afraid to admit I didn't make it easy to do for myself as making a full length T joint weld along a 400mm long strip that's only 2mm thick and 10mm wide was asking for trouble, and even in short sections it warped a fair bit, it will still work but just isn't as neat as it should be, I should have made a folded edge top and bottom to make for an easy lap weld

Anyway all part of the learning process and something I will now bare in mind for any future fabricating

Only getting a couple of hours each Nite but hoping to finish tomorrow night as got all night on it










Thanks
Marc

Caddyshack

Looks brilliant in metal....I must learn to tig.

I found mig easy to get started, I assume tig is so much harder to get started or can you just get stuck in like mig?

Cossy Mike

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Still a nice job Mark, don't put yourself down

M K

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Not as easy with Tig with aluminium but practise makes perfect, been doing a lot lately on this but still a complete novice with not much skill yet but I will get better eventually

Cossy Mike

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Your a bad influence on me, I'm now looking for a cheap lathe

M K

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Great thing to have mate, couldn't be without 1 now

Gadget

Sooo much admiration for this project Marc, so much thought / done / fabricated by yourself.
You should be proud mate, awesome work as usual and outstanding finish!!

M K

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Thanks Gary

Twins

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Looks fantastic Marc

M K

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Well other than the small cover plate where the air filter slots into its pretty much completed

Got it looking nice on the outside purely for asthetics but as said before in places inside is not so pretty where thin parts warped or i had to much penetration with the filler ect but that's all part of learning and it will not affect how it functions so i can live with that, ideally 3mm would of been a lot better to work with but would of been too bulky even though there is only 1mm difference

Anyway here's a lot of pics













Fitted to the car













Gonna paint it satin black when we get a good days weather and i had emailed ITG about a filter but not heard back so i ordered some universal air filter foam from RamAir today which will do the job for now

I will make the small top plate over the weekend if i get a chance

Thanks
Marc

COLEYST200

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Very nice work mate

Minirotty

That is good, the best thing I have seen you fabricate yet!

Looks brilliant, not got round to sorting them bits for ya yet but I will!

Caddyshack

That looks soooo cool

Fudgey

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Excellent!

XRT_si

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That looks great!

M K

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Cheers