craigb78

Its a Rocket i think.

r.s.2000 ginger

It looks nice that colour i would do the wheels gun metal gray.

CosKev3

Looking very nice with the bits back on it

Rally cars need to be bright colours IMO.

Another vote for a dark colour on the wheels from me Gun Metal grey

Ah right.

My m8 has built a MEV Sonic7,hes put a Fiat Uno 1.3 Turbo engine in the back.

MEV build quality is terrible,not a easy kit to build.

If he wants some info/help on the build my m8 is only in Gobowen,PM me and I'll pass on his number.

-beefy-

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looking well lee,

id of swapped out the door but can see the reasoning in not bothering


good luck with the build

beef

WongRS

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I think you may of met Lee, beef, was probably with me when i've met you at pod, scrawny little runt

matman

that colour looks amazing!!!!!!!!!!!1

Lee_edwards

Still making progress "slowly". a lot of little jobs done and out of the way now...

Wired up my new heater, as the heated windscreen wasnt coping. So i have one of these in there...
http://www.t7design.co.uk/index.php?...roducts_id=180

Made some brackets to shift the side mounts further forwards... can reach the pedals tidy now

Clipped all wiring and fuel line throught the car

Fitted the ally tank and the ally surround.

heres a few pics that iv grabbed along the way

Lee_edwards

Few more pics... keep getting stuck in and forgetting to take pics...

CosKev3

Looking really good

When did you say you were hoping to get it in a rally?

Whats up with the 205?

WongRS

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205 is greg's rally car Kev.
Poor things gets absolute death!

CosKev3

Ah right

Go well round the lanes the little Pugs!

SMILER258

making some great progress. Are you going to do an underside update after you have had some fun with it this year?

Lee_edwards

I'm hopin to have it all ready for early march now!

Yea the 205 is greggs... Poor thing does get neglected... I'm halfway through making electric pas for his. All underside has been wax oiled... So it's not posh under there

RyanML

aw was hoping there was some pics from saturday night on here then, oh well looks good!

Lee_edwards

Saturday night..? The winter challenge?

Lee_edwards

few more pictures as its nearing completion ... hopefully were off to collect the engine next weekend...

craigb78

Looking decent now its all back together mate

its crying out for a wheel refurb with nice shiny bodywork

WongRS

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Looking well chief, fair do's
No McDonalds next weeked, or pizza hut, from what i've heard :P

Lee_edwards

Yea Gunna sort the wheels out soon, have a set of wellers at home. Will mainly use them! Yes wong lol.... I can't wait for a mcdonalds down there

SMILER258

this is looking good, awesome car!

WongRS

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Your buying then :P

And, revolutions...............needed.

Lee_edwards

Your round this time! Wish I could pal

WongRS

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Seeing as Lee's a lazy/busy twat, i'll update it for him.

Got the engine back, had a bit of a mad rush to get it all ready in time, it didn't quite make the power it was built to do, but wasn't bad, he's still having issues with the distributor playing up and advancing it too far, i think?, but it managed to work on Saturday night, which was the cars first event out since its reincarnation!
Ended up with a 13th O/A out of 48 finishers.

Here's a couple of pics i took of it just before it went to the rolling road, the first one anyway



And one i found on british rally forum

Lee_edwards

Cheers for that wongy...... I have got a few more pic which il get up soon

WongRS

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Video's of him today,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9ur...5&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf8yU...4&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJmBj...3&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXfYf...2&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pik8N...1&feature=plcp

RAPID 3DR

looks good
never seen a L reg mk3 escort though

WongRS

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I'm sure it's explained here somewhere, it was originally mk1 that was reshelled into a brand new mk3 shell that had been converted to RWD, because it took so many parts with it into the mk3 (isn't it something like rear axle and engine?!) it carried the ID across from the mk1.

WongRS

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I'll update this again, after the pinto got rebuilt, it did 2 event's and did this......... a certain rolling road tuner advanced it a bit too much and it spent most of a rally pinking, which we think may be the cause.............





After that, and the fact it was about 4 bhp, Lee lost all faith in Pinto's and decided something else was needed, so.......



after a bit of thought and weighing up of the options (and constant moither from me) he decided on...........









that's more like it

Only problem we came across today was the oil filter hitting the ARB, so a quick trip to tweek's was needed..........





More soon.

SMILER258

This is awesome! Great engine choice too

WongRS

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Yeah, shame it'll be banned in 6 months!

0150carmac

Looking as though is going to be good fun

WongRS

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Few more.............
Box with XE bellend housing


Mostly plumbed and wired




Swirl pot and fuel system....

WongRS

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I popped round to see Lee yesterday and today, to see how he was getting on/hinder him.

Here's how it is now

Exhaust manifold on and rest of the exhaust "fabricated" from all kinds of bits, carnation one.......









However with just the 1 box in, it was too loud and would of caused issues with scrutineering...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vevBr...ature=youtu.be

So, added another box at the back of it......



And.......
That's a bit better.
We're not sure why it's smoking all of a sudden, wasn't when we viewed the engine, but it had been in and out and at some fair angles so could be oil in places it shouldn't be.

Anyhow, he also found a power cap, so i played around and got the airfilter in the best place i could with what was lying around....



And 2 general bay pic's

SMILER258

This is looking good. I assume this car did the moonbeam this year? as i found a little footage of it. 3:20

WongRS

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That's him.
Had another 10th place on the Meirion last night too.

SMILER258

Nicely done!! What rules are excluding the xe in the escort? By any chance are they saying ford engines are ford only and vauxhall engines in vauxhall cars only etc?

WongRS

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it is the CC has to be the same as whatever the largest capacity engine that was available in that body shell, so 4 door mk2's can only have 1600's.
Also, they must be in the correct configuration (ie, mk3 escort FWD). something along those lines anyway
Lee's not sure how they effect's him, as on the logbook it's a mk1, but the bodyshell may cause issues.

SMILER258

Does this nean my 2.9 4x4 will become eligible? Or are they stil banning the v6s? I would have thought this car would be 2 litre. As my dad was telling me when they brouht out the mk3 escort nt many people wanted them as they were now fwd so a coupl of companies brought kits out for which they let you use the mk1 base with a brand new mk3 shell and they were then a popular rally car. Some mk4 escorts had the conversions too

WongRS

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Still 4 cylinder and i believe a cap of 2l, although not positive on that.
This was built from new using a kit as mentioned, out of an original mk1 mexico that was damaged i believe, hence it has the mexico ID on it due to taking all the bits off and putting them on this.

gjh

Another road rally car in passionford!!!! Bit of a bummer with these new rule, some are starting to say they might get away with it till 2014 as its such a large change, so fingers crossed. Also, it states make and model, so, try and argue a ford escort is a ford escort, (the rule doesn't metion what mark, trim spec, door number etc) to keep it as a 2.0, I think a few others will try that too. How was the Meirion? Spoke to some friends of mine who were running in semi expert class, didn't like the event at all.