Escort Mk2 Rally Car Build Modern Spec
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Nice build! Watching with interest.
Which Agila (Wikipedia says there is an 200-2007 'A' and 2008+ 'B')?
And is that "the same" ECU as in it takes the same inputs or identical (and to which Corsa, B,C etc).
On a related note you can now get proper speed sensitive signal generators for them now so it's no longer the generic turn a knob to vary the (faked) speed and pick which map.
mighty kitten said:
Vauxhall agila column is much more compact than the corsa and is clutch drive so no drag if you don't use any assistance , I've done a few conversions but they work best if you ditch the eBay box of tricks and feed a proper speed signal in to get proper speed sensitive assistance . The agila has the same Mitsubishi ecu so will work with the eBay signal generator .
Interesting... Which Agila (Wikipedia says there is an 200-2007 'A' and 2008+ 'B')?
And is that "the same" ECU as in it takes the same inputs or identical (and to which Corsa, B,C etc).
On a related note you can now get proper speed sensitive signal generators for them now so it's no longer the generic turn a knob to vary the (faked) speed and pick which map.
Got a few updates:
Done a bit of work on the rear axle, mounts for the canisters, brakes lines, etc.
Fitted the front fog for no real reason apart from board waiting for the engine!
Drum roll! First the gearbox is here:
AND THE ENGINE!!
Test fitted with the gearbox, Millington 2.5 Series 1 and Quaife 60G sequential.
Got a Tony Law manifold to go on and then can sort out the engine mounts.
A little behind on the technical write ups on the website, busy with Christmas coming up. But will have a detailed write up on the axle on Motorsport Parts - Motorsport-Tools.com soon.
Edited by Work-Shy-Wanabe on Friday 6th December 10:02
Fantastic... one question.
On this:
is the shock basically the top pivot? So when you turn the shock turns each time? What are the benefits of this and how come more 'modern' cars have a hub system? I assume/guess as you can take it to bits quickly and treat it as a replaceable/serviceable part it doesn't matter.
On this:
is the shock basically the top pivot? So when you turn the shock turns each time? What are the benefits of this and how come more 'modern' cars have a hub system? I assume/guess as you can take it to bits quickly and treat it as a replaceable/serviceable part it doesn't matter.
joe_90 said:
Fantastic... one question.
is the shock basically the top pivot? So when you turn the shock turns each time? What are the benefits of this and how come more 'modern' cars have a hub system? I assume/guess as you can take it to bits quickly and treat it as a replaceable/serviceable part it doesn't matter.
Its a common MacPherson strut setup, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPherson_strutis the shock basically the top pivot? So when you turn the shock turns each time? What are the benefits of this and how come more 'modern' cars have a hub system? I assume/guess as you can take it to bits quickly and treat it as a replaceable/serviceable part it doesn't matter.
Work-Shy-Wanabe said:
Its a common MacPherson strut setup, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPherson_strut
Ahh, I kind of always assumed that in a Macpherson struct the damper was attached to a top pivot, not direct.. ThanksLordbenny said:
I probably shouldn't be asking this but.....how is this being funded? What is the estimated build cost?
Centurion07 said:
I'm going to take a punt and guess that the lucky guy won't be seeing much change out of £80k. That gearbox alone must be close, if not well into five figures on it's own I would've thought.
It the demo car for http://www.motorsport-tools.com/ so we sell pretty much every part that going on it. :-) That helps with the costs! It will be rallied for many years once complete. But if you added it up, it'd make your eyes water!It mounts up pretty quick on things you might not budget for, this setup for example:
http://www.motorsport-tools.com/escort-mk1-mk2-rix...
Pretty close on the Quaife 60G
http://www.motorsport-tools.com/catalogsearch/resu...
..... *passes out*
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