P15UL T Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Looking very nice indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moynesey Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 (edited) So this weekend was set as the big push on the interior, final welding, masking up, primer, flat off and shot the colour.....and we managed to get it all done! The car can now sit and harden this week before the reinstall starts finally. New seats and harnesses on order and dash has gone away for its flock finish. starting to look like a rally car and not a half baked project. Edited December 21, 2020 by Moynesey 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msitpro Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Looks great with the interior all sprayed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodzman Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Looks good, impressed with the cage and its fitting. How far do you expect to travel to find a good tarmac rally? Think there are some good rallies in Europe, the Ypres for example. Only asking as would be nice to see you running on a stage, make a change from all the escorts! Might even venture to say would sound better, provided you have the right exhaust. Might not scream like a BDA or Millington tho. Some great roads around the Scottish borders, can recommend the Jim Clark but that's a canny hike from Kent. Quicker to cross the channel! My boss is big into rallying, has Just got a mark 2 Escort built by Densport, 300ish Vauxhall horse power, sequential box etc. We put it on the weighbridge at the farm the other day: 980Kg. Not sure what it's geared to but he also has a 1600 Swift which I think will max out at around 120mph (used to be a 2000 with nearly 300Hp but it proved to be a bit too much in a FWD, on gravel anyway). My point being choose your final drive carefully, but then you know that anyway. Good luck with the rest of the build and look forward to seeing it on a stage someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moynesey Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, Woodzman said: Looks good, impressed with the cage and its fitting. How far do you expect to travel to find a good tarmac rally? Think there are some good rallies in Europe, the Ypres for example. Only asking as would be nice to see you running on a stage, make a change from all the escorts! Might even venture to say would sound better, provided you have the right exhaust. Might not scream like a BDA or Millington tho. Some great roads around the Scottish borders, can recommend the Jim Clark but that's a canny hike from Kent. Quicker to cross the channel! My boss is big into rallying, has Just got a mark 2 Escort built by Densport, 300ish Vauxhall horse power, sequential box etc. We put it on the weighbridge at the farm the other day: 980Kg. Not sure what it's geared to but he also has a 1600 Swift which I think will max out at around 120mph (used to be a 2000 with nearly 300Hp but it proved to be a bit too much in a FWD, on gravel anyway). My point being choose your final drive carefully, but then you know that anyway. Good luck with the rest of the build and look forward to seeing it on a stage someday. Hi Woodzman, Thank you for the post, I am really happy with the cage install. My friend owns a metal fabrication business and did a superb job for me. My brother runs a BMW E36 328i stage car and we’ve run a few other cars previously, we often do Bovington etc but auK rallies are getting harder and harder to find. We have serviced a fair few times out in Belgium and run on the Monte Berg rally in 2019. We had planned a few Belgium events this year but as we know they all got canned! We did manage a run on the Cotswold Stages but it would have been better in a submarine! The 350z is being built to FIA Regs even if it does get an MSUK log book and is intended for Belgium tarmac events. To be fair I have always wanted to build a 350z after seeing them run in the 350z abroad but it’s only this year that has seen the MSUK create a category for production cars with engines larger than 3000cc multivalve. Unfortunately the Cat 3 rules to limit the amount of mods but that’s also good for the bank account lol. As for final drive, I am looking at a 4.3 with a plated slipper, want to get it into the 115-120mph max territory plus lighten the flywheel etc. your boss has some serious toys, we’ve probably made up the numbers on some of the same rallies he will be at the front of lol Edited December 22, 2020 by Moynesey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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