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    Talking Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    After being interested in old escorts for a long time i finally bought a mk2 a few weeks ago. I previously owned a 106 rallye which i used on night events for the past few years but the temptation of RWD finally got the better of me. I remember seeing this car advertised about a year ago on here but i wasn't in a situation to buy, but when it came back up again i went for it. It looks like its been a little unloved by the last owner but is very solid overall, just needs a tidy up. Here are a few pics from when i picked it up -







    Current Spec

    SHELL
    4dr with 6 point saftey devices cage
    Rad cut out
    Gp4 strut top plate
    Gp4 strut brace
    Chassis gussets
    Large gearbox tunnel
    Tank platform (all RIX enginering parts)
    Heated front screen

    ENGINE
    2lt Vauxhall Redtop
    DTA S40 ECU
    Proffesional wiring loom
    Uprated cams
    SBD verniers
    Bespoke intake to Road Rally regs
    4-2-1 exhaust manifold
    Gp4 Alloy radiator

    TRANSMISSION
    5 Speed TRAN X sccr witn 2.39 1st
    SDB Alloy bellhousing
    AP Racing paddle clutch
    Rose jointed stick
    Gp4 single piace propshaft
    Baby Atlas - fitted with ZF Motorsport lsd, Semi floating Gp4 18 spline shafts with Gp4 flanges and bearings, Alloy Brace

    SUSPENSION
    2 1/4 Gp4 adjustable Bilstein front struts
    Genuine FORD roller bearing topmounts
    Twin Cam anti rollbar
    Double width kit
    Rosejointed adj T.C.A
    Alloy hubs
    Group 4 wheel studs all round
    Gp1 Bilstein on rear with single leafs
    Anti Tramp Bars
    Panhard rod
    2.4 quick rack

    BRAKES
    Pricess 4 pot front calipers
    Vented discs
    Hyd handbrake rear discs
    Bias pedal box with dash adjuster and group 4 throttle pedal
    Copper lines inside the car
    Braided front and rear brake pipes


    The drive home uncovered some problems which included a midrange splutter and a very tight bucket seat. the seat was easily sorted with a corbeau pro2000 from peter lloyd and the car was then booked into mosley's for a tweak on the map to sort the splutter. Unfortunately the car blew the headgasket on the rollers so i've spent the past week repairing the head gasket and giving the bay and wing a freshen up with some rattle cans.






    And my final little niggle to sort was the addition of a group 4 throttle pedal as the standard unit had little travel with the brake cylinders in the way and the pedal sat very high. Its now booked back into moselys next week to finish of the mapping, hopefully thing will go better this time.


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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Managed to get the car back up to the rolling road this week and after another 3 hours of torture on the rollers the mapping is finally done. The car produced a very healthy 151 BHP @ 6000RPM at the wheels and 184 at the fly. Apart from a dodgy ICV which is stopping the car from idleing it drives very well, but i am stuggleing with a 5.1 CWP as i don't have a trailer.





    Leaving the rolling road under its own power this time



    A quick picture of freddy68's van who also came up for a tweak




    My converted minilites which i had done at a local machine shop

    I've just ordered a set of super oscars, so after i re-wire for the spots and sort the idle control valve, i shouldn't be far off doing a rally.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Did you have grp4 inserts put into
    The wheels or are they standard taper seats
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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by mexicotait View Post
    Did you have grp4 inserts put into
    The wheels or are they standard taper seats
    Yeah the wheel had to be machined to fit te grp4 inserts in.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Got some goodies in to get the car rally ready, just need to find the time to fit it now, hopefully i'll get it out before the end of the year for a spin



    And a quick pick of our Marshall camp at the wrc

    Last edited by lukem30; 21-09-2012 at 17:35.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Hello mate

    Sure Ive seen that car about before???? Bet It moves eh? that had a crossflow In It for sale on ebay or here not long ago I think?

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by evans2822 View Post
    Hello mate

    Sure Ive seen that car about before???? Bet It moves eh? that had a crossflow In It for sale on ebay or here not long ago I think?
    She can't get away from this scabby blue van i've seen driving about ;-P

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by freddy686868 View Post
    She can't get away from this scabby blue van i've seen driving about ;-P
    ha ha lol that scabby blue van has got 190 gee gee's tho lol

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by evans2822 View Post
    Hello mate

    Sure Ive seen that car about before???? Bet It moves eh? that had a crossflow In It for sale on ebay or here not long ago I think?
    The cars been on this forom before,used to belong to a member called stone4dr. Uve got a good car there
    4 doors for the lanes........and shopping

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by evans2822 View Post
    Hello mate

    Sure Ive seen that car about before???? Bet It moves eh? that had a crossflow In It for sale on ebay or here not long ago I think?
    Hi, yes it was for sale on here with a pinto, then the xe, but at the time i didn't have the funds to buy it, but when it came back up again i went for it. Now its been mapped properly it goes very well fair play, i managed to get away from john (freddy68) twice when the tow rope snapped

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by jon jkd View Post
    The cars been on this forom before,used to belong to a member called stone4dr. Uve got a good car there
    Before i bought the car i looked it up on here and found the thread by stone4dr, but since he owned it, it was a little unloved by the look of things. I've been trying to find out what cams its running if anybody knows the car at all?

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    I've made a little progress over the past week, i managed to modify (drill and tap to fit a fine adjustment screw) and fit a vauxhall idle control valve which has sorted the idle out. I've also fitted my new wheels and got the spots on and wired up with relays. I saw a half done dash on ebay so I picked it up over the weekend and i'm in the process of wiring it all up, hopefully it won't take too long but i'm not great with electronics so i expect there will be a fair bit of trial and error.













    Last edited by lukem30; 04-10-2012 at 19:26.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Any idea where the clock came from ?
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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    picked up the lot second hand on the outskirts of london

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Got 1 in the end then looks abit of kit m8

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Looks tidy mate! iv seen that car about somewhere... Rwd = Awesome fun! i used to road rally a 106, iv now got a RWD mk3 escort much more fun and just as competative!

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by lee edwards View Post
    Looks tidy mate! iv seen that car about somewhere... Rwd = Awesome fun! i used to road rally a 106, iv now got a RWD mk3 escort much more fun and just as competative!
    Thought you'd get the hang of it in the end ;-P

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Cracking little car you have got there

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by mexicotait View Post
    Any idea where the clock came from ?
    think its one of the circuit innovations ones

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by lee edwards View Post
    Looks tidy mate! iv seen that car about somewhere... Rwd = Awesome fun! i used to road rally a 106, iv now got a RWD mk3 escort much more fun and just as competative!
    I picked it up from Lampeter, I think the previous owner done a few events up that way. Can't wait to get out in it, good fun so far. I put an entry in for a mini night event at the end of November, just need to get some seat time and get used to it, I haven't even driven it in the dark yet.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    She's looking good Luke

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    I haven't updated in a while so here's a quick one. I finally got out in the car at a gymkhana organised by Kidwelly motor club down at pembrey, was a great fun and well organised, even the car ran great, but all didn't go well. I started off very steady, but soon got carried away and this happened

    Luckily all the inners and suspension were fine, and the car is now booked in to zakham for some repairs and a few little modifications.

    Santa left me a nice new brake kit which cheered me up


    A few pics from pembrey




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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    looks good mate i once did the motokhana in a mx5 great laugh i remember when i seen the car before it always sounded like it had a miss under a certain revs was it suppost to be like that or is it sorted now ?

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Shame about the little tap In the front mate but hey ho your having fun In It and that makes up for allot eh??

    Nice brake kit there to help the front stay whole In the future....Keep the updates coming good stuff!!

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    Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    I followed the build thread of this car when Dan owned it. Nice to see it out rallying :-)

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by rhodrievans View Post
    looks good mate i once did the motokhana in a mx5 great laugh i remember when i seen the car before it always sounded like it had a miss under a certain revs was it suppost to be like that or is it sorted now ?
    I really enjoyed the motokhana, will definately do some more up there when the cars sorted.
    When i picked it up it had a bad mid range miss/flat spot which turned out to be the lack of an idle control valve (the TPS was was set on 60% throttle just to make the car tickover), a poor map and possibly a weeping head gasket. When the car first went on the rollers it was over 30 ponies down on what it was after the changes, it also drives so much better now.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    It is a shame, but these things happen, unfortunatly i dont expect it to be the last either, but thats the risk with these sort of things. The brake kit is a "preventative" measure - well thats what i told the mrs
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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    What tyres are you running on the minilites ?
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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Well the car has finally gone to zakham engineering for some repairs and upgrades so I should have some tidy updates over the next few weeks. I've also bought a genuine ford 4.6cwp and blasted my RS alloys ready for paint.





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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    I was sitting in with someone in a blue sunbeam on that Motorkhana and it was very slippy in places and quite tight, good fun events though. Good to see the cars getting fixed, where is Zakham located out of intrest? Lewis.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    I remember seeing the sunbeam, looked very tidy. It was a fun day out down there. I think he is down your way, havn't actually been there yet as the car went on a trailer.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Nice to see another valleys escort

    I used to see this car in Bristol outside a Vauxhall garage on my way to work, I also bought an exhaust of the previous owner

    keep up the pics and updates

    where is Mosleys Rolling Road? is it near will need mine setting up if it ever makes the road

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Here is Moselys postcode SA19 6UH. It's a bit of a drive but lovely roads on the way up. he does o load of classic fords, I would highly recommend, done a great job. I think he is "dynoman" on here.

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Quote Originally Posted by lukem30 View Post
    Here is Moselys postcode SA19 6UH. It's a bit of a drive but lovely roads on the way up. he does o load of classic fords, I would highly recommend, done a great job. I think he is "dynoman" on here.
    Vince Mosley is the guy to set up an escort engine, gets my vote Luke

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Called in to see how the escort was looking today, it's all stripped down ready for the work to commence, and what started as a small job is quickly turning into something bigger with the extra bits I'm fancying having done. It does require some patches, mainly the wing tops but overall the shell is good. Here are a few pics






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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Looks very good shell mate only a few small repairs

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    A little more progress


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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Vinyl roof has now gone

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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Alwyn has sent me a few photos of what he's been up to and things are going well by the look of things, shouldn't be much longer now






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    Re: Road Rally MK2 4 Door (XE powered)

    Some nice work there,loving the firewall
    4 doors for the lanes........and shopping

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