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I got my car from New Zealand recently. AVO sent some knocked down RS1600's to NZ in the early 1970's to support the works cars at the 1971 Silver Fern Rally - they won. My car is one of those - it's a RS1600 with BDA with a Quaiffe Dog Box. It's got all the usual rally mods - 4 link, bubbles, Billies etc. etc.
The car was recently rebuilt to original specs when it was built by Ford NZ so it is set up for rallying. It's running a 5.14 CWP in an Atlas diff. This is great for rallying - but at 110 m.p.h. its far too slow for racing. I got a 4.1 CWP from Fossie - we'll install it over the winter and should get about 140 m.p.h. from it.
We had the car out this past weekend at Mont Tremblant, a very nice 2.8 mile track just north of Montreal. My son drove it in the middle of a rainstorm - you can see the in car at:
The track was flooded, so the fact that he was running the wrong CWP didn't really matter. You can see he won - the conditions were difficult, but as it is a rally car after all, it really comes back quickly from skids!
Enjoy the movie
Wallis
The car was recently rebuilt to original specs when it was built by Ford NZ so it is set up for rallying. It's running a 5.14 CWP in an Atlas diff. This is great for rallying - but at 110 m.p.h. its far too slow for racing. I got a 4.1 CWP from Fossie - we'll install it over the winter and should get about 140 m.p.h. from it.
We had the car out this past weekend at Mont Tremblant, a very nice 2.8 mile track just north of Montreal. My son drove it in the middle of a rainstorm - you can see the in car at:
The track was flooded, so the fact that he was running the wrong CWP didn't really matter. You can see he won - the conditions were difficult, but as it is a rally car after all, it really comes back quickly from skids!
Enjoy the movie
Wallis
Gary
Would look more "period" and (from my experience) probably handle better too... Might cock up your plans for ratio changes though!
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