Fostek's R&D department

[Escortfan_111]

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Great job guys! Looking Awesome!
Where are those bonnet catches from? I need a set like that.

[Fosworth]

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Well its almost time to go testing. Here are some photos of the now very complete car sitting on its own wheels.

[Fosworth]

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And here is some detail. The finished engine bay and a shot of the pedal box with fly by wire actuating rod and the hydraulic and mechanical switches on the cluth pedal for the gearbox / launch control sytems

[Joe-Tait]

Fostek's R&D department

Bonnet is a bit extreme but looks the part otherwise. What's the finished weight?

[mexicotait]

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hi john

where is the catch tank from?

[Fosworth]

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Luke. Pro Alloy I seem to recall but we altered the fittings. The pipe from the dry sump tank isn't the final one and looks a bit shyte right now but does the job.
Joe. No final wieght yet but I won't know for a while as we are testing with an Iron axle in just now and then the All Alloy one will be fitted. It is going to still be around the wieght on the earlier post showing the corner wieght readout.

[mexicotait]

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Is it just an off the shelf one apart from the fittings or do they modify them to size ?

[GavinR]

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Sorry folks, I know we are overdue on updates but just not getting much time on the car. Here are few recent bits.
Main thing is that its down on proper 9 x13" wheels and the spoiler, doors, boot and bonnet are all fitted.

Hi,

Very impressive build

I'm curious why you've gone for 9" x 13" wheels?

Thanks

[Fosworth]

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The 15" verses 13" wheel debate is discussed everywhere else so I'm not going there but Ford designed it on 13" wheels and we have carefully engineered everything to work on 13" wheels.
As for the width, despite stupid MSA rules about tyre width, we are using what we think will work best for testing but are prepared to experiment with different widths and then decide what type of competition we may or may not try.

[Fosworth]

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Oh and while we are talking wheels we are using the latest offering from the reborn Compomotive wheels and I have to say they are superb. When I ordered them I was a bit worried they would be like some of the other poor quality stuff on the market but Phil Squires promised me they were good and they really are and still a very reasonable price.

[anthony2.1mk2]

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who does the wheels??have u a link?? cheers
love the work

[Fosworth]

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Phil and Mick Squires at Rally and Competition Equipment in Stoke. - www.rallycompetition.co.uk Top blokes who really know there stuff and don't sell shyte.

[GavinR]

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The 15" verses 13" wheel debate is discussed everywhere else so I'm not going there but Ford designed it on 13" wheels and we have carefully engineered everything to work on 13" wheels.
As for the width, despite stupid MSA rules about tyre width, we are using what we think will work best for testing but are prepared to experiment with different widths and then decide what type of competition we may or may not try.

Thanks for the reply, makes perfect sense

[FOSSIE]

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hi john

where is the catch tank from?

Sorry to butt in - the catch tank was from Zakham Engineering (Facebook or google it).

It's an off-the-shelf body but Alwyn fitted threaded bosses at my request. The breather cap was from RS components, and pipe fittings are pneumatic pipeline elbows in plastic.

Yes the car was built around 8x13's, but if the car gets used for anything other than UK rallying, which is quite likely, then we can run 9's on the back.

[mexicotait]

Fostek's R&D department

Popping round your dads tommorow to get one off him
I like the idea of the swivel fittings