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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by SnappyRacers View Post
    Those new mods have transformed the can Nick. That was about the best I've seen you drive if I may be so bold... Good work chap.
    Thanks Jon I really enjoyed myself but what's a can got to do with it? I drive a car Any chance of a freebie added on here? Did you get any of my pass on Gary Chappell? Or any more of me and the 20v turbo'ed Seat Ibiza?

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by graham bahr View Post
    no reason you cant make one i have in the past

    you will also need a second fuel pump,

    the very bottom pipe feeds your main fuel pump the one thats feeds your carbs

    the pipe above would be the return from your engine bay if you have one,

    the next pipe up is the feed from the tank via your new additional fuel pump,

    finally the top pipe is a return to your tank

    if your main tank doesnt have a return like most, use the breather as a return and drill and tap the filler cap to take a breather pipe

    effectively what you now have is a small fuel tank to feed the engine topped up via the extra pump, most contain a litre or do of fuel which is enough to see you through the longest periods of fuel surge your ever encounter
    HMM,seems like a lot of work and added weight,wouldn't a decent fuel tank do the job?

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    its only a couple of kilos of weight and the best way to do it by far

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    I have the swirl pot you showed on the last page and it is a lovely bit of kit, well worth it. And the weight added is nominal

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    Hmm,decisions,decisions,I'm being told one thing by my main man (professional race car builder) who I 100% believe in and another thing by Graham who I also trust 100%. I've given the carbs a once over and found that the float level is way too big on one of them which could cause the problems that I've got as too large a gap won't allow enough petrol into the float chamber in the 1st place,the only problem that I now have is working out how the hell it was set wrong in the 1st placeI'm going to give the reset float levels along with new banjos and pipe work a try and if that doesn't work I'll go down the route of fitting a swirl pot

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    the only ithing i would add nick is inmy view the carb problem alone cant be that severe as the car worked ok over sprint distances and runs ok on a rolling road

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by graham bahr View Post
    the only ithing i would add nick is inmy view the carb problem alone cant be that severe as the car worked ok over sprint distances and runs ok on a rolling road
    I occasionally had problems whilst sprinting too,my thinking is that with the float level not allowing a full float chamber there's nothing in reserve should there be any surge as a full chamber will allow approximately 30 seconds running before running out,that's more than 1/2 a lap of brands at the pace that I was travelling on Sunday so should of been enough time to keep the chambers topped up.

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Nick, just looked through your thread and not one pic of your boot / tank area .. so i'll assume that you have a rally style tank and fuel tank stand, this is raised above the level of the boot floor, now what you do cheaply is get something to stick under the tank to raise it a bit more, and get a fugging huge fuel filter, diesel or something like that, plumb that into the line from your tank to the pump, you now have a small tank thats fed from the main tank, for a couple of quid you'll find out if its fuel surge.


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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Gary,I've got a square 4.5 gallon alloy tank mounted on the boot floor.I have thought of tilting it forwards as that's where the pick up is.
    Quote Originally Posted by Retromotorsport View Post
    Nick, just looked through your thread and not one pic of your boot / tank area .. so i'll assume that you have a rally style tank and fuel tank stand, this is raised above the level of the boot floor, now what you do cheaply is get something to stick under the tank to raise it a bit more, and get a fugging huge fuel filter, diesel or something like that, plumb that into the line from your tank to the pump, you now have a small tank thats fed from the main tank, for a couple of quid you'll find out if its fuel surge.


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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    i'd still fit a large filter ... or get the the fab gut to open the tank, fit a sheet inside with a 2" swaged down hole in the center inside .. about an inch above the bottom, and get him to fit an outlet in the inch space .. hate using push pumps as vacumn pumps..they are not designed to lift

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Not that I know much about Fords but are you sure this problem is fuel surge. I run the same foam filled fuel tank with a red top pump, no filters and a max of 10 lts of fuel and don't get fuel surge.

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    It may be a silly question, but how much fuel do you put in the car


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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by andypipe View Post
    It may be a silly question, but how much fuel do you put in the car
    I brim it to start with and it takes about 2 gallons to refill after a race
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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    PM sent Nick

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Well another week-ends racing over with no real dramas
    Apart from only completing two laps in qualifying (due to a broken throttle cable)which gave me 3rd to last spot (25th)on the grid for the 1st race.Race 1: A dry start so we all went out on slicks,made up a couple of places in the 1st 4 laps and then the safety car came out due to a three wheeled Skyline parked at the bottom of paddock hill the safety car was out for 4 laps by which time it was pissing down on the restart I made up three places,overtaking a scooby,a mini,and cossie,for some reason I was able to keep up a good pace and actually passed another four cars to finish 13th overall and 3rd in class DSo for todays' race I lined up in 13th spot ahead of some much quicker cars/drivers,I got beaten by the cossie of Peter Taylor and 20V turbo'd Seat Ibiza of Nick Young into the 1st corner but held my own against the other faster cars into Druids but tangled (he turned in too early)with Paul Goddard in his bda powered zakspeed replica mk1 which ended up with him sideways across the track in front of me which let the rest of the field get away so I spent a few laps getting back on terms with the little pack that was ahead,managing to catch and pass the silver Mini of Steven King setting a fastest lap time of 55.5 secs but unfortunately he managed to get the place back once we were caught and lapped by the leaders (only three of them lapped me),I ended up finishing 15th overall and 3rd in class D and sustained a little "kiss" dent on the front wing in the process!! I'm happy to say that the misfire has now gone. Roll on the next round on the 10th of May.

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Well done Nick, great result

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Well done Nick , good lap time aswell hope to see you at the next round ,sending my app form tommorow,

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Thanks,worrying thing is that Alex and Bill were doing mid 54s and dipped into the 53s on one lap!

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Well done Nic.impressive time for an unarched x-flowed escorti would say that was paul who done that?roll on the next round
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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by tom burgess View Post
    Well done Nic.impressive time for an unarched x-flowed escorti would say that was paul who done that?roll on the next round
    Correct Tom it was Paul,he did to me what I've seen him do time and time again to other people but got spun out for his trouble,I half expected to be dragged up infront of the clerk of the course at the end of the race but didn't hear a thing! Paul's not talking to me now. videos of race 2 here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISpxiHr-1BIYouTube - DMN 29th March 2009 Brands Hatch (1st half).. and here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-uelkqYurUYouTube - DMN 29th March 2009 Brands Hatch (2nd half). (not mine) If you look carefully you can see how much time it cost me at the start.

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    Race report May 10th Brands

    The day got off to a bad start for me on the friday prior to racing.... I woke up in the early hours with the worse tooth ache I've ever had and due to work commitments I couldn't get to see a dentist until Monday so I took loads of pain killers and rubbed Bonjela into the generally painful area for two days leading up to sundays' meeting
    Anyway, sunday morning came and I drove to Brands hatch,arrived at 8.25,signed on and then parked up unloaded the car and took it to scrutineering where it was scrutineered by the head honcho and eligilbity scrutineer,who although clearly not impressed with my Led headlights passed the car and gave me the sticker. PHEW!!

    Qualifying came and still feeling pretty sh*t I drove over to the assembly area only to be met with a bloody queue for noise testing which A: wasted loads of fuel ( I nearly ran out at the end of the session) and B: didn't do the clutch a lot of good as I was stop starting for at least 15 mins
    Despite having to take to the grass to avoid a white Seat that moved over on me as I was passing it along Cooper straight I managed to complete the session and qualified 23rd on the grid and most importantly 2nd in class D.

    Race one:Made quite a good start but was baulked by some of the "faster" cars that wouldn't push on cold tyres at the 1st corner,had a good race with Graham Richardson in his Nova for a couple of laps before making a break and eventually finishing 19th overall and 2nd in class.
    Race 2:Feeling really sh*t by now,the race was much the same at the start but Graham managed to get infront of me whilst I defended against a yellow Seat Cupra and Paul Goddard in the bda engined mk1 Graham stayed there until his engine blew going down the hill after Druids (I'd like to think it went because he was pushing so hard to stay ahead of me) I was then able to make a break and get away from the cars that were behind me having a good race with a class B Seat,I eventually finished 18th overall and 2nd in class D.

    My favorite pic showing how close class D is:http://www.snappyracers.com/album/10.../IMG_0590.html

    I just need to learn how to drive properly as I drove like a prat for most of both of the racesMind you as I type this the whole of one side of my face is swollen and my tooth is still agony I've been on 1500mgs of anti-biotics a day since I saw the dentist on monday but they've not really started to work yet

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    sounds like you had a good weekend

    every time ive taken antibiotics they've made me feel worse than the thing their supposed to be fixing, cant imagine they help much when your trying to race

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Well done on the result Nick ...

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Hi Nick im guessing from Garys post all went well ,i will be awaiting your write up

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    Quote Originally Posted by Retromotorsport View Post
    Well done on the result Nick ...
    Thanks Gary,it's not the way that I like to take a win but I won't complain too much

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toymex View Post
    Hi Nick im guessing from Garys post all went well ,i will be awaiting your write up
    I took the class win in the second raceI'll do a write up in the next couple of days (when I've worked out how many laps that I led Graham Bahr for in the 1st race until the misfire returned)

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    i had to let you have some of the glory nick you were certainly pretty quick early on i know we swapped places a couple of times before my tyres came to life and i started to push a bit more, but to be honest with the second part of the race getting more hectic for me against 1st nigel then barry in the rover my memory of the early part is rather vague, it was good fun thou
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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by Pushrod King View Post
    I took the class win in the second raceI'll do a write up in the next couple of days (when I've worked out how many laps that I led Graham Bahr for in the 1st race until the misfire returned)
    sorry to dissappoint nick but as a result of me finding mr ushers oil you only lead me over the line on lap 8

    but bring it on, as i said i was well suprised at the turn of speed you had early on
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    Quote Originally Posted by graham bahr View Post
    sorry to dissappoint nick but as a result of me finding mr ushers oil you only lead me over the line on lap 8

    but bring it on, as i said i was well suprised at the turn of speed you had early on
    Nah,lap 8 was when the engine went sick,I overtook you into paddock on about lap 3 and was slowly pulling away,looking at the lap times I led you until 8 when it went sick.
    Full write up from my perspective later

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    mmm you need to have another look at the lap charts, you are looking at the right car numbers? i was driving 46 yours is 71, the only lap you lead me over the line on was lap 8, as my lap times on laps 7 and 8 had slowed by 1.5 seconds, i can see where your lap times really slowed as by lap ten you were lapping at over a minute a lap

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by graham bahr View Post
    mmm you need to have another look at the lap charts, you are looking at the right car numbers? i was driving 46 yours is 71, the only lap you lead me over the line on was lap 8, as my lap times on laps 7 and 8 had slowed by 1.5 seconds, i can see where your lap times really slowed as by lap ten you were lapping at over a minute a lap

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    Sorry Graham,you must be looking at different lap times here are the correct ones: lap 3: #71; 56.905, #46; 56.981,lap 4:# 71; 57.864, #46: 57.115, lap 5: #71; 56.575, #46; 56.730, lap 6: #71; 57.676, #46; 58.290, lap 7: #71; 59.221, #46; 59.504, lap 8: #71; 59.081, #46; 59.533. You were only faster on lap 4 ! Lap 9 isn't available as that's when I was lapped by Rod.

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Looks like one of you is talking about race 1 and the other race 2


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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Quote Originally Posted by Pushrod King View Post
    Sorry Graham,you must be looking at different lap times here are the correct ones: lap 3: #71; 56.905, #46; 56.981,lap 4:# 71; 57.864, #46: 57.115, lap 5: #71; 56.575, #46; 56.730, lap 6: #71; 57.676, #46; 58.290, lap 7: #71; 59.221, #46; 59.504, lap 8: #71; 59.081, #46; 59.533. You were only faster on lap 4 ! Lap 9 isn't available as that's when I was lapped by Rod.
    a harh andy spotted it you said race one, that what i was looking at, clearly your talking about race two, but im afraid i still have to dissappoint you you might of been lapping faster but never were in front over the line, checkout the time behind the leader

    lap 1, #46 8.334 #71 9.326
    lap 2 #46 11.682 #71 14.531
    lap3 #46 14.308 #71 17.6
    lap4 #46 17.768 #71 21.492
    lap5 #46 21.198 #71 26.258
    lap6 #46 24.754 #71 30.754
    lap7 #46 27.234 #71 35.131
    lap8 #46 29.781 #71 42.819
    lap9 #46 32.160 #71 50.310
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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    Does it really matter. I would have beaten the pair of you


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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    get your lid, and your gearbox and throttles and oil tank and and and cos im up for it

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    Later in the year


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    Later in the year

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

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    a harh andy spotted it you said race one, that what i was looking at, clearly your talking about race two, but im afraid i still have to dissappoint you you might of been lapping faster but never were in front over the line, checkout the time behind the leader

    lap 1, #46 8.334 #71 9.326
    lap 2 #46 11.682 #71 14.531
    lap3 #46 14.308 #71 17.6
    lap4 #46 17.768 #71 21.492
    lap5 #46 21.198 #71 26.258
    lap6 #46 24.754 #71 30.754
    lap7 #46 27.234 #71 35.131
    lap8 #46 29.781 #71 42.819
    lap9 #46 32.160 #71 50.310
    Nah twas race 1,but I have to admit that although my lap times were faster I must of been behind you apart from lap 8 which is when my bloody car went sick,I was certainly infront for more than a lap but I spose passing you on the 1st corner after the start of lap 7 would make me think that. I'm going off for a sulk now

    Mind you when you compare power to weight ratios (mine 188bhp/tonne;yours 216bhp/tonne with drivers),size of tyres,(mine 8" rears,7"fronts,yours 10" f+r?)brakes( mine 260mm with princess 4 pots,yours HUGE) and driver experience (me 1st full season on circuits,you 5+years ?)you SHOULD be in front.I'm still going to sulk tho

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    Later in the year
    Which year

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    Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

    whats your car weigh nick? mines a very portly 931kg even with the passenger seat out,

    oh and my tyres are too bloddy hard!

    my discs arent actually that big at 300mm disc size is overated anyway, pad material and temp is far more important than disc size

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