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Old 5 Dec 2010, 16:58 (Ref:2800005)   #126
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It's the sort of name that trips off the tongue .... and then stumbles and falls badly. Especially if you try to say it quickly.
Also Johnny 'Two Jags' Prescott.
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 17:12 (Ref:2800012)   #127
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Eric "three floors" Falce. Now there's a name that might stick, along with "Arthur two sheds" Jackson
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Grant, accepted date for Escort MK1 launch must be '68 as 40th was in 2008- the year I built the Canary. Certainly hope 50th is worthy of celebration- Roll on 2018!

Robyn, Group1 RS2000 is good bet for race series- CTCRC, CSCC and Top Hat over here and lots on mainland Europe. Or go for Cossie power, big wheels etc and Classic Thunder / Blue Oval / Heritage GT.
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 18:37 (Ref:2800037)   #128
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Hmmmmmmmmmm so may be i will stick with usuall Delta Blue then.BTW people i ordered front wings from rang me Saturday and they recon shipment stil before Christmas.Im still going to have them as spares. They also said that they will have Mexico front wings.£350.00 each!!!!!!
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 18:46 (Ref:2800042)   #129
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Robyn, Group1 RS2000 is good bet for race series- CTCRC, CSCC and Top Hat over here and lots on mainland Europe. Or go for Cossie power, big wheels etc and Classic Thunder / Blue Oval / Heritage GT. [/QUOTE]


How about a twink replica?
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 18:58 (Ref:2800049)   #130
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Hmmmmmmmmmm so may be i will stick with usuall Delta Blue then.BTW people i ordered front wings from rang me Saturday and they recon shipment stil before Christmas.Im still going to have them as spares. They also said that they will have Mexico front wings.£350.00 each!!!!!!
Genuine NOS RS wings if they ever come up for sale are a lot more than that!
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 19:02 (Ref:2800051)   #131
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Now the snow's melted I found my winter project again, wondered what the lump was in the drive. Being the proprietor of Kerbside Racing does have its problems, when the temperature falls so does the motivation....

Mike I see why you're rewiring your 924. I took a handful of wires out, it still looks like spaghetti, and now it won't start. Heigh-ho.
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 19:13 (Ref:2800053)   #132
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How about a twink replica?
Nice but what's it going to race in- being low volume (and 60s) TC not homologated for Gp1. Raced in Gp5 in period but doesn't really fit in to anything nowadays. Like a few interesting cars it is stuck in the middle betwen AppK Lotus Cortina era and RS1600 / RS2000 era. I think Masters allow into Touring 70s but has to retain 60s spec which would be some way behind the last (1975) Gp2 RS1600.
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 19:29 (Ref:2800057)   #133
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Now the snow's melted I found my winter project again, wondered what the lump was in the drive. Being the proprietor of Kerbside Racing does have its problems, when the temperature falls so does the motivation....

Mike I see why you're rewiring your 924. I took a handful of wires out, it still looks like spaghetti, and now it won't start. Heigh-ho.
Bad enough in the workshop let alone in the driveway!

The only original bits left of my 924 loom are the rear end lighting bit and the ignition mudule wiring. The latter has ballast wire for coil so need to keep that intact- apparantly the Bosch electronic ignition doesn't like any other coil setup. Although car was already a racer the more I looked at wiring the more I disliked it. Eventually decided to start again!

Re your non start- Injection has cold start air bleed and extra injector that are wired in. Maybe you have disturbed that. Also coil has voltage boost while cranking. Or maybe car doesn't like being under 2ft of snow...

Have been lying on back under dashboard sorting out bits and pieces today. Glad that's over. Now need to get engine in to finish off all the underbonnet stuff.
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 19:31 (Ref:2800060)   #134
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That my dilemma,i want to build something "interesting" but cant figure out whats the best spec for racing.
It was origionally a 1968 1300 super. Its been on the back burner for about 6 years.
Fancied building a twink replica as ive got most of the major parts lying around.
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 19:43 (Ref:2800062)   #135
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That my dilemma,i want to build something "interesting" but cant figure out whats the best spec for racing.
It was origionally a 1968 1300 super. Its been on the back burner for about 6 years.
Fancied building a twink replica as ive got most of the major parts lying around.
What type of twin cam are you thinking of doing?
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 19:50 (Ref:2800065)   #136
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Lotus twin cam ,what others are there?
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 19:52 (Ref:2800068)   #137
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Don't some of them have BDA or Gs or whatever they are? RS1600s
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 20:16 (Ref:2800075)   #138
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>>>>>>>Re your non start- Injection has cold start air bleed and extra injector that are wired in. Maybe you have disturbed that. Also coil has voltage boost while cranking. Or maybe car doesn't like being under 2ft of snow...

I'll go the snow and rubbish battery route ;-)
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BDA would be nice but i havn't got one holding the door open.
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Old 5 Dec 2010, 23:00 (Ref:2800129)   #140
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Hmmmmmmmmmm so may be i will stick with usuall Delta Blue then.BTW people i ordered front wings from rang me Saturday and they recon shipment stil before Christmas.Im still going to have them as spares. They also said that they will have Mexico front wings.£350.00 each!!!!!!
Dont do thet we already have two identical cars in that colour its so confusing I thought I was being lapped by one and let him trough only to find out after the race he had started from the pit lane and it was for position!

Twin Cam Escort cannot enter CTCRC Post Historics or Gp1. I had two of these cars in period one a completly standard minter the other Rally Prepared and went like a rocket.
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Thinking about that, quite a devious way of lowering th CoG and adding stiffening .... weight penalty probably not too great - or did it mean that different section of the floor represented several different originals? In which case 3 saved again I suppose!
The London-Sydney Marathon Austin 1800's (land crab) had double skinned floors for that reason. Story was top speed of 90mph but on any road!

Loving the Escort stuff, Robyn mine is a 1300 also but a standard (don't think trim levels matched exactly out here). There is one out here running as a 1300GT, others as RS2000 and RS1600. Bit of a mystery there as some have the bubble arches - supposed to be standard bodywork, do they come under that description?

Lancsbreaker that is an elementary thing, the local Falcon GT crowd can distinguish one month's production from the next by little differences in the shell!
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Old 6 Dec 2010, 02:28 (Ref:2800168)   #142
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The Twink ran in Group 2 and there are a few around. They'd also fit in Classic Thunder.
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The Twink ran in Group 2 and there are a few around.
Yes, up to end of 1970 but only 1594cc and tuned within an inch of their lives 185bhp at most then.

At the end of the day, Robyn, if you want a twink then build a twink. Enjoy building it, then have fun using it. (You will )

John, Bubble arches were homologated but certainly not standard. Maybe the way your rules are written and interpreted? The shell differences on Escort TwinCams, Mexicos and RSs are well documented in the AVO Club and are very necessary when rogues try to pass off standard shelled cars as AVO ones......... Your Australian built cars were different again!
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BDA would be nice but i havn't got one holding the door open.

So buy a complete new engine,off the shelf!
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Mike i thought all the Escorts that were shipped to Austraila were type 49 shells .So Castrol colour is out! what about blue with silver roof
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Mike i thought all the Escorts that were shipped to Austraila were type 49 shells .So Castrol colour is out! what about blue with silver roof
Blue and silver combo sounds good.

Some Escorts were built in Oz, and that is where the differences happened. Yes- the AVO cars were based on H/D 'Export' shell that would have been used on mainstream models imported to SA, Australia, NZ etc. Then individual mods for each RS model.....
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1300 downdraught

and a rev limiter to keep it above 8000 rpm !!!

maroon with silver roof . . .
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Does anyone remember the series that CCC ran on the 1300 Escort. I think it was called something like the 'Clubmans car' They built one and had a few hotshoes drive it in some rally's I remember it got into the top 10 at the Manx. They had the like of Tony Pond driving it, or Andy Dawson, or Brookes or someone IIRC.
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1300 downdraught

and a rev limiter to keep it above 8000 rpm !!!

maroon with silver roof . . .
Funny you should say that Joe .We have the model downstairs of the two 1300 Broadspeed cars at Nurburgring.Just told Martin and he said " he likes that" So thats sorted before i change my mind.Thanks Joe.Good call.
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