Paul Alex's character building, pain-in-the-ar5e, bufty money pit

[FOSSIE]

Re: Paul Alex's Honda-powered tarmac rally Escort

Paul, I used to think the same about Jersey until i went there last year! Proper tight nadgery lanes, seems to suit a neatly driven mk2 Great event for the craic as well! Have a look at some of Mauger's in-car from 2010 on youtube...

[smiffy1972]

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Come on alex you slacker, get some pics up

[para144]

Re: Paul Alex's Honda-powered tarmac rally Escort

Paul, I used to think the same about Jersey until i went there last year! Proper tight nadgery lanes, seems to suit a neatly driven mk2 Great event for the craic as well! Have a look at some of Mauger's in-car from 2010 on youtube...

Agree with that, I've done it a few times Its a great event with lots of driving. 2 full days rallying with night sections, its like welsh lanes but with closed roads & better weather!

[cossie matt]

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Any updates mate? I know the weather was crappy yesterday so I didn't think you'd be out in the rain?

[Sideways]

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And before anyone asks, the camera is now fully charged and will be put to good use soon

Cheers,

Paul.

C'mon Paul, about time we saw these piccys
no good just teasing us with a picture of a sexy steering rack!


CheeRS
Steve

[cossie matt]

Re: Paul Alex's Honda-powered tarmac rally Escort

Yea!!! What Steve said

[david_white]

Re: Paul Alex's Honda-powered tarmac rally Escort

Yea!!! What Steve said

DITTO

Come on Paul it is Christmas.....

[105Ian]

Re: Paul Alex's Honda-powered tarmac rally Escort

Come on Paul we need pics , get out in that garage and take some pics it's not that cold out there

[Paul C]

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Come on Paul, i am getting very close to an update after a few days on the car! You must have loaded some pics up by now?

Paul

[PaulAlex]

Re: Paul Alex's Honda-powered tarmac rally Escort

OK - some more pics will be on this weekend guys - its just that I've currently got the car to such a position at the moment that I can only get it out when there are a couple of us here.

The good news is that its all running again, and I havent been totally ignoring it during a busy December - as you can see by the latest Gucci offering below







The only downside to this and the funky new steering rack is thats its creating even more work!! (and a dent in the wallet obviously).

Plan is to have them both pretty much installed before Autosport Show, where I need to talk to a few people about suspension upgrades - then she's ready for the start of the season

Pics at the weekend

Cheers,

Paul.

[Cyco]

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Hi Paul
Are you planning to mod the floor pan or change the seating position and lengthen the steering rack?
You might struggle to get that to fit with your seat remaining in front of the main hoop on the roll cage.

[PaulAlex]

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Modded floor, moved seat, relocated battery and (probably) steering mods

Oh yes - I'm a short-arse too

Cheers,

Paul

[Toymex]

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Nice pedal box Paul ,looks slightly different to mine ,i had to use ap short cylinders on mine to get the pedals far enough forward, thats with Gary having moved the seat etc .I will look forward to see how you get on with the throttle cable as i havent tackled mine yet ,i think i will have to buy the linkage you have as mine didnt come with it

[Paul C]

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Looks very nice Paul. Are there advantages using the floor mounted pedals over the standard pedal box? I think Rob Dennis has got this in his car. I was speaking to one of his team at the Rally day and they said something about a different one is now available with angled cylinders so you can mount it further back. But i think he is quite a tall guy.

Whats your first event for the season then? Epynt?

[Sunbmw]

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I had a floor mounted pedal box in my Sunbeam when I put the BMW engine in, due to the bulkhead mods I had to do. To be honest, it turned out to be a proper pain in the arse, the fact that the cylinders were slightly lower than the Calipers, the fluid would tend to run back, and I ended up having to fit in-line residual pressure valves. It was a Tilton box too. The brakes never seemed just as good as they should have done after that (AP 6 pots front and 4 pots rear) and they took a dogs age to bleed. I hope that you don't encounter the same issues Paul.

Take care, Lee.