DW's (new?) Sierra 3dr YB race car

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

remember 555??? just in case you thought that I don't follow what you up to with your car. checking it from time to time. after all still would like to see Escort running. how you doing guys? say hello to Aiste. peace

Hi Simon, good to see that I have followers all over the world.
Escort is living a new life with a new owner and now has a mega powerful cosworth engine.
As you can see i'm just finishing the sierra ready to race asap

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

We finished fitting the whaletail today and made a brace for it to stop the tailgate squashing in the centre as it has no internal strenghtening. We also got the rear window in, held in with M5 bolts and managed to get the curve on it nicely. There are three 2" holes cut on each side of the window to stop pressure build up trying to pop it out.

Andy also got the sun strip fitted to the front screen

[alladdin]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

stick at it, looking good now
did you form the rear window yourselves ? if so whats involved ?

[angliaant]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

nice work lads, has diff arrived yet ... tis getting there now

see you tommorow

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

stick at it, looking good now
did you form the rear window yourselves ? if so whats involved ?

Cheers mate, the rear window is flat and by pulling it down tight with bolts in the right order it slowly takes shape.
It is from plastics for performance and i'm sure they do pre-shaped ones for most cars including the sierra but for a racecar they said this one would be fine as a sierra doesn't have a large amount of curvature. Plus i never intended to use the rubbers

[Graham]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Cheers mate, the rear window is flat and by pulling it down tight with bolts in the right order it slowly takes shape.
It is from plastics for performance and i'm sure they do pre-shaped ones for most cars including the sierra but for a racecar they said this one would be fine as a sierra doesn't have a large amount of curvature. Plus i never intended to use the rubbers

i've fitted them to several different cars like that,

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

The diff's back, and its in Cheers Tom.
Also fitted Gary's solid diff mount which all goes in a dream and means there is no more play in the back end now

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

I've now fitted all of the championship sponsers decals, well all apart from door sqaures (cos you need the doors to do those ones )



Fitted a set of new plug leads. These are Champion ones to fit an early Ka. They are a little long but I'm not worried as I made a bracket to hold them in place away from harm

[Graham]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

its looking great

[Pushrod King]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

VERRRY NICE.......You should get the best prepared car trophy

[mervhill]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

That really is superb Dave, looking forward to seeing you race it!

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Cheers chaps. Today we filled all of the fluids, engine oil, brake fluid, coolant, diff oil, gearbox oil and so far no leaks

Brakes bled up nicely and Andy has got the throttle cable and pull cables all fitted
Just need to find the doors and fit them up now and sort out the exhaust and the car can be put on the rollers. Steve should have a base map for us so we can get it running in the garage and check for leaks or anything loose before it goes up there.

[angliaant]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

good stuff

car is looking absoultely spot on

give me a shout when it is on the rollers please mate, ill try and come down thanks

[dangerousdave]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Looking nice mate not long now

Is the solid diff mount not going to just tear the floor where it mounts or is that strengthened too?

[david_white]

Re: DW's (new?) Sierra N/A PINTO race car

Looking nice mate not long now

Is the solid diff mount not going to just tear the floor where it mounts or is that strengthened too?

Its mounted to a xmember that seems pretty solid, I'm by no means the first person to do this though. If it does need strengthening it wont be the end of the world, there will no doubt be a few things for us to learn running a sierra rather than an escort.
The main advantage we have over all of the other sierra runners is that we are not trying to put 500+bhp through the back end so everything should be a bit less stressed.