Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

The disks have had 1kg of weight removed from a standard pair.

[jason33]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Thats a good saving

[cossie matt]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Top work as usual Graham You have the patience of a saint to do the wiring mate

[Adam B]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

You know what I never even throught of that idea!

Ive seen the heatshrink label printers and the pre made heatshrink letters/idents, but just writing on the heatshrink before you shrink it! Simple obveous ideas are always the best!

you can do that when you make my loom

[Adam B]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

p.s. graham, loom and rear discs look sweet

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Back on terra firma

[Graham]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

nice work on the rear beam,

hopefully nothing will flex, the reason 99% of brake calipers are mounted at 3 and 9 oclock is that those points minimise pad knock off due to things flexing, mounting at 6 or 12 oclock will have the opposite effect

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Never experenced pad knock off. These pads are located by pins, would they be susceptible?

[Graham]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

what happens is the hubs/spindles etc etc bend under hard cornering which pushes the caliper piston back, if everything is rigid enough you wont experience any issues, if its not then your notice a longer brake pedal after a hard corner

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Does anyone know the brake pad type I need for the HiSpec 76 x 65 x14mm brake pads?

The nearest equiv I can find in the Demon Tweeks catalogue is for the one on page 329, Mitsubishi EVO-VIII rear also Lotus Elise Front, at 76.7mm x 65.2mm x 15mm.

Most of the calipers in the HiSpec catalogue just shows 76 x 65 x 14mm.

I'm after Ferodo DS2500's for the HiSpec rears.

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Bugger! I emailed Quaife asking if they could invoice me for the sequential box, so I could avoid the VAT rate rise in 2010.

"Many thanks for your email. We are still having problems in getting this product into production at the moment due to the high increase in other products we manufacture and unfortunately the Fiesta sequential has been put back more and more.

If you could come and see us at the Autsport Show on our stand E133, we can discuss our plans then."

Does anyone have Tractive's contact details? I've emailed the contact on their website (June 2009) but never rxd a reply.

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Chatting to Elite Racing Tranmissions about their sequential offerings, and Sadev has said "no can do" regarding discount, other than offering to pay P&P.
May well stick with the IB5, and rebuild with Quaife internals, then progress to sequential when it eventually sees the light of day. Keep thinking I should change for another manufacturer, but would most likely make the Tony Law system scrap, and other stuff I've done to accomodate the IB5.

[Retromotorsport]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Was that Steve at SADEV that you spoke too Graham ?

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Was that Steve at SADEV that you spoke too Graham ?

Maybe, swr motorsport or something like that.

Trade price would've been nice. Says margins are too small. My heart bleeds....

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

I'll take whatever discount I can, of course, but just discounting the P&P is a bit of a piss take.

Hell, if you dont ask....


Fitted the carbon battery box to the floor last night, and soldered the terminals on to the ends of the battery cable, and the -ve terminal is now connected to the foot of the roll cage (as before).

Will work on the isolator and +ve connections tonight.

The web camera is back on-line now. Still flashes all the time, because of all the bot attacks, but its working.



The radiator is now fitted, as is the grill and front panel modification. I will also wire up the twin Spal radiator fans over the hols.