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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    looks nice and tidy

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by RETRO_AL View Post
    looks nice and tidy
    Cheers, that is the aim now, to keep everything as simple and neat as possible. The new control box is very small and light and does the same job as a large centre console

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    getting there dave,good work m8

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    God that thing looks awesome hey is there any video footage yet of is it too soon for that?


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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by Snickers View Post
    God that thing looks awesome hey is there any video footage yet of is it too soon for that?
    Video footage of it would look much the same as a photo at the moment I'm affraid.
    Watch out for the vids next year when I take it out to play with the big boys

    Oh and there will be rolling road footage after xmas

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    oh god im so excited cant wait i love that body kit so much were did you get it by the way?? and how much if cost if you dont mind me asking you?

    oooo and David who in turbosport do i contact about the back end kits from the Retro site?? i been trying to email and no responce yet?


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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by Snickers View Post
    oh god im so excited cant wait i love that body kit so much were did you get it by the way?? and how much if cost if you dont mind me asking you?

    oooo and David who in turbosport do i contact about the back end kits from the Retro site?? i been trying to email and no responce yet?
    Bodykit was one off from a company called fibresports and took a LONG time to get to fit anywhere near right. Plus you need 13-15" wide 16" wheels to fill the rear arches
    They also do a slightly narrower kit which is still wider (10" wheels) than a normal x-pack. Their number is 01268 527331.

    Gary at retromotorsport can be contacted on 01279 452799 or send him a private message through turbosport
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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    This car really is special

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Had a little play with the car today as I got home from work early and the Pipes were beavering away on the van giving it more mod cons and better decoration than my flat

    This is my boot floor showing the exhaust housing in the boot for those that hadn't seen it;





    Anyway I needed to make a small incision for a couple of suspension mods i have planned;



    Yes that is the floor of the garage on full view now
    Oh well if you're gonna modify something do it properly eh?





    There is still more to cut, a fair bit more, so I'll update it with some (decent ) pics as the week goes on

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Gary loves working on them when they are freshly painted

    She's built like a Steakhouse, but handles like a Bistro

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by RChambers View Post
    Gary loves working on them when they are freshly painted
    Absolutely, but I do have plenty of spare paint now.
    I haven't even started on the blue bits yet though

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by RChambers View Post
    Gary loves working on them when they are freshly painted
    Its called evolution


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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Did a bit more cutting today
    All I need to do now is remove the origional ford damper mount section (bra?) and tidy up the edges of the firewall ready to fit a neater one.


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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    You taking the Mickey out of me calling the damper x-member a " bra " ?????

    its like a bra, its got two bumps, some fastenings, is an interesting shape.... but far more interesting when its taken off.

    See....a Bra

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by Retromotorsport View Post
    You taking the Mickey out of me calling the damper x-member a " bra " ?????
    No, I just assumed that as you called it a Bra then that was the industry approved standard description

    Was going to leave it for you to remove as you seem to be able to get 'them' to fall off quicker than me

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Now thats a hole

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Dave, your watts thingy looks a bit loose!!

    I assume you will be getting busy with aluminum sheets pretty soon then??

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    There will be a new watts tower/crossmember which will incorperate a tank mount and yes Tel the rest will be an ally panel

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    I remember drooling over this in GP2 Zetec form in Practical Performance Cars a while back.Its came a long way and is lookin top notch!

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    It certainly has come a long way since then!!
    mainly on a trailer to different garages!!

    I look forward to seeing it in action 2007 tho!


    & I thought we had got rid of those bloody thundersaloon escorts!!


    Happy New year to all

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Great work dave, i cant believe your doing this work after its been painted tho. your mad but if you going to do something, do it right keep the pics coming

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Who's doing the work?


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    good ole Dave!, Taking all the credit as usual!!

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Pressed on with a bit more cutting today in preparation for a bit of fabrication from Gary. I've now cut the entire boot floor between the chassis rails, the damper x-member, firewall and a load of strengthening Gary had welded in to stop the whole lot flexing around.

    Looks fairly neat now and i've cleaned up all the edges alot better since taking the pics;





    In the meantime Andy carried on with the wiring and completed the Dash and switch box. All looking very smart now and the black ally bracket on the tunnel is what I've made to fit the driver's two pull cables (not riv-nutted down yet).





    Oh and Andy did a couple of laps of the Brands Indy circuit to check all of the gauges and lights were working on the dash




    Thanks to the Pipes for all of there help and hopspitality this week, can't believe how much we've got done

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by mike105e View Post
    Great work dave, i cant believe your doing this work after its been painted tho. your mad
    Mad, yes. It's worth it though just to see the look on the painter's face when I take it back and say 'it looks like some more of your paint has fallen off, can you fix it?'


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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    You dont even know how bad i wanna see a clip of this car when its finished
    if god forbid i die and didnt get to see this run ill die very unhappy hehe


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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    awesome looking car dave, a hate to think how much it's cost you so far, all credit to you and the boys for having the vison to create a monster of an escort ,it looks too good to race but the buzz your get went lining up on the grid for it's first race will fantastic ,now hurry up and get finished so we can swamp the grids old escorts

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    I spy with my little eye something belonging to DW











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    I cant see nowt


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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    oh dear, it'll be scantily clad chicks on the bonnet next!!

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by Tezza2 View Post
    oh dear, it'll be scantily clad chicks on the bonnet next!!
    That was the other night ... and apparently when Matt was doing the graphics he spotted some sticky stuff on the boot ....

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    Andy and David picked up the car from Matts today .....








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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Pure sex wee

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Very nice,could do with lowering a bit

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Looking very nice!

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    What a fantastic looking car very well done m8

    Cheers. Rick.

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    that definatly looks to nice to race now.

    dunno about lowering it though,
    with a race car i feel its more important to let the suspension geometry set the ride height than any other consideration, and with large diameter wheels its often not possible to run cars a low as road counter parts because of geometry issues

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Could'nt resist :





    That car is

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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    saw this at the UKSC + FUEL meet...................PHWOOOOOR!!

    absolutely gorgeous!
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    Re: David White's - Mk2 Escort - Cosworth V6 Turbo

    Cheers guys. The front of the car is a lot higher than normal to aid all the moving about on the trailer etc but the back is already a lot lower than you might think. Ignore the arches as they are cut up really high, you simply need to stand next to it and look down at the roof or the bootlid to realise its much lower than a normal car.
    As Graham says we have to be sensible with the geometry in order to make the thing handle and steer correct so that takes priority over the slammed look I'm affraid.

    Was nice to have the car on display in Fuel (was Extreme in Harlow) for a while but now I need to get on with building it as I have another £2k worth of bits to go on it over the next couple of weeks

    Big thanks to sticky Matt from Image Worx for a great job on all the graphics and numbers. Pop in to Fuel and see him for all your vinyl needs Thanks to Graham also for sorting out my number 98 which I should have all the time now (or until I get number 1 )

    Lots of pics on me computer at home too, just need to get internet now (only on line at work )

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