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1) R17 which was the work on a Lola Sports 2000 to convert it into a Skoda. and 2) R16 which was some work (not sure exactlly what) on the Imp-BDA. |
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Both R16 ( the Imp BDA ) and R17 are listed on the Pilbeam website as 1975 projects .
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the Dickenson Lola skoda was not 1975 that was 78 purchase for 79 or 80 racing
Chris meek/alec poole cars was steel shell car circa 73 build for 74 racing when TD bought the complete T290 as race dby Cloud engineering at LM he got a heap of parts 1 tub uprights gbox wheels blah blah blah so he had pilbeam modify the tub to narrow it for skoda body used all his spares to make a roller the tub sits in a yard with roll hoop ( well 2 yrs ago it was!) Honda did not enter F2 until 1980 with the V6 motor BMW M12 was the motor to have in F2 until Honda turned up Harts normally fitted to Chevron cars Ernie Woods escort was that Eddie ?? ( i want to say Glass) car who raced at Lydden odd brands race car was white he wore glasses older chap re lola 911 I hope to have it ready for June 2009 when there will be no rain COWARD !!!! Re Rob doing a 50.8 on a test day- some may want to dispute it but only a brave man or a fool would want to argue with Doris doing the time keeping! |
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Above: 1979 Oulton and Tony Dickinson is leading Walter Robertson (VW DFV) and Derek Walker (Skoda-Ford) |
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yes Clive thats the man only raced Lydden and the odd Brands race motor may have been 1850 bde type thing poss FVC?
re the skoda running in 78 maybe it was 77 purchae i need to look up the LM entry for cloud engineering |
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what is a coloured slide?
where they around when these black round things called records where used? |
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Eddie Punt's Escort was a BDA 1840cc IIRC. |
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yes i recall ed punts car as being odd engine size hence why i "thought" 1850 bde type thing
why is it i retain such useless info yet failed my maths exam ( i was top in history though!) |
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28 Nov 2008, 13:55 (Ref:2343274) | #363 | |
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Lola t290 Cloud engineering le man 1978
see foto http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...-06-11-033.jpg info on the race entry http://www.racingsportscars.com/phot...-11-photo.html also here a foto http://www.motorsport.com/photos/pop...44170&S=LEMANS |
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Why is that post in here and not in the Lola T290/2 thread Drifty??
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28 Nov 2008, 18:17 (Ref:2343448) | #365 | |
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So if Tony Dickinson was racing an Escort with a 2 litre BDA in 1976 , the engine from that car must presumably have been disposed of at the same time as the Escort , since we are told that his first Skoda (the ex-Alec Poole/Chris Meek car ) was powered by an FVC .
As far as the Eddie Punt Escort is concerned , I was sure that it was powered by a BD-series engine of some sort , as for some bizarre reason , I can distinctly remember the metering unit being on top of the cam cover , driven by a toothed belt off the front of the exhaust cam ( see pictures of Derek Walker's Escort for clarification ) , whereas the FVC had it installed below the throttle slides , driven off the back of the inlet cam . I still think it might have been a full two litre , as to be frank , a number of people at the time did rather think that such a good motor was a little wasted on someone of Eddie's , shall we say somewhat mdest , talents ! Curiously , Cosworth BDEs ( built on an iron block ) were always listed at 1850 cc , whereas the engine in the stock Mk. II Escort RS1800 , which was alloy blocked , was always listed as 1840 cc . That particular block , though , was not strong enough for racing use . Does anyone still have Lydden Hill programmes for the period concerned - that should list the nominal engine capacity of the Punt Escort . |
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a blast from the past peter days fiat 500 which was powered back in the day by a ????? nice to see its still about
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They both raced Daren Mk2 sports racers including a few international events - Targa Florio, Nurburgring 1000, etc. There was a German bloke trying to sell one of the Daren Mk2 chassis not so long ago without a plate on it but which had apparently at one time had run with a Skoda silhouette body on it. |
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Powered by half a 1700 BDA ; alloy block if I recall , originally blown up as a four-pot by someone else , Gordon Allen EN40B crank and general engine machining to match it to a s/c c/r Mini gearbox . Originally used in Peter's 850 cc Mini , I recall him saying that it was rendered useless in that form because the RACMSA introduced in their wisdom a regulation which specified that the exhaust of any race vehicle had to exit to the rear of a point equidistant between the front and rear axles . " Hey guys , there's no problem here , let's go and create one ! " Good ol' RACMSA , eh ? Plus ca change .... Anyway , exhaust length was critical to Peter's twin cylinder BDA , and thus the Fiat 500 came about .
It made a most peculiar sound ; rather , in fact , like a BDA running on only two cylinders . I can't recall if it used a 180 or 360 degree crank , but it did have the vibration problems inherent in four-stroke vertical twins ; the fastenings on the car used to work loose , and most of the studs on the alloy parts of the motor had to be helicoiled . If the package did have an obvious shortcoming , it was that the weight of the engine and gearbox was very much towards the rear of the car , and moreover , because the ( fairly tall ) BDA motor sat atop the mini gearbox , the centre of gravity at the rear of the car must have been quite high . Nevertheless , this and other ( I can't very well say similar ! ) cars of its era epitomise just what it was that made Special Saloons so , err , special ! The last I heard of Peter Day , he was still running his eponymous tuning firm , Daytune , somewhere up in Cambridgeshire ; I believe he used to specialise in Lotii . At that time , Pe |
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clive you no your special saloons!
do you no what power (bhp) it made |
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Unfortunately , no . Certainly , according to someone who used one of my 850cc Imp motors , it pulled quite strongly out of corners , so torque probably wasn't a problem , as one would expect from an 850cc motor with such a comparatively long stroke . In hindsight , as an overall package , it might have been a better proposition in the Fiat mounted inline , coupled to a Hewland Mk. 9 ; this would have both reduced the polar moment of inertia , and lowered the centre of gravity of the car , although the rear end of a Fiat 500 is so truncated that a Hewland might have stuck out of the back of the car !
I guess if it did get tested , it may well have been on the rolling road at Marshalls of Cambridge , which was run by one Peter Baldwin - ever heard of him ? Most Special Saloons from the flatlands of East Anglia and thereabouts , and even some from the Garden of England , found their way on to Peter's rollers sooner or later . I did wonder myself about the possibility of building a conceptually-similar motor based on the 420R lump for the 1 litre class ; I guess that would have made it a 210R . I gave the idea up because I didn't want anyone to accuse me of being half-Harted about my racing .... |
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there was a fiat 500 special saloon that raced at ingliston a few times in the 80's it had an A series 1300 engine, I remember it used to spin a lot of the time, wonder if its the same car? cant remember who was driving it...
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