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Pe-arce's Mk1 Ford Escort Beams Powered Race Car


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Treated myself to a new oil tank. Welded in some mounts and a wee bracket in the floor to keep the fittings somewhat protected above the floor line leaving only about a foot of hose exposed running from the floor to the oil pump that will be easily replaceable.

Got an oil cooler mounted in front of the radiator but going to have to redo a few things in that corner to make the catch can/breather fit and increase amount of air available to the radiator not that the oil cooler is taking some.

Don't want to put anything on the other side of the bay as I want a nice clean area for a cool air feed to the throttles.

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So I mentioned briefly in a previous post about modifying by the tension strut.

What I ended up doing cause it worked was taking an escort rally tension strut kit an flipping the bar to go over the rack/tie rod ends rather than under it as is normal.

Because I've done this I'll need to weld a pickup on the rod for the sway bar drop link to attach to. I haven't done that yet as I'm still waiting for my bar to turn up. Standard one in the kit is only 16mm.

I'll also have to use a lock nut on top of the control arm 'bush' bolt that holds the rod as its threaded for the bolt to go through from the top in normal configuration or I'll drill out the threads and drop the bolt through from the top but either way I'll need a nut on it.

Because I've got a low car and the rods upside down it sits way more level than it's designed to be so has pushed the wheel back in the arch. I ended up cutting about 15mm off to pull the wheels forward again and get some decent castor. Will see how much there is when o get it in for a wheel alignment soon.

Mine. Minus the sway bar bits.

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Standard rally kit. (Tarmac ones are different (shorter and less angled) but still go under the steering so no good for me)

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Fitted as its supposed to be.

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Car has had wiring finished, tested and removed. Now I'm stripping for paint.

Have to mount the new Tilton Pedal box and that should be the last of the fabrication finished.

Also got the rear brake bits made up. I think I have all the puzzle pieces now.

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Been fiddling round with last few things that have been shunted down the list for ages.

Got the anti roll bar from Palmside finally. They kept getting sent the wrong one over from the UK (not palmsides fault) Been waiting since about November/December for the right one to come in.

Chucked it on and due to all the front end tension strut kit stuff being used wrong/modified it doesn't fit. So will have to have a new shorter version made up. However I have Rangi'd this one up running under steering rack instead of over tension strut so it will work for now.

I lopped about 25mm off the end of the bar. Just need to thread the hole again now cause turns out the thread didn't go all the way down the hole. Also shortened the drop link by about 25mm to try gain some ground clearance due to running the bar down under the steering arm.

Ok for now but only 75mm ground clearance and less once on lower profile slicks so not ideal.

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Better drag this back from the dead. Been a slow few months but making progress.

Got the shell basted and primed out at Hendricks in Belfast. John out there is a bloody good bugger. Hung round after hours when I dropped it off and helped me strip out all the suspension and steering stuff.

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Then got a panel and paint at Burkes metalworks. Not the cheapest but had plenty of hours go into it. Pretty happy how it's come out.

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This is a bit of a longer term project part. Still needs a heap of work. Used some polyurethane expanding foam to start shaping an airdam/splitter. Will work on a whole aero package for the car before it goes on probably. Under trays and wing, diffuser etc.

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Rears also through residual pressure valve then runs through hydraulic handbrake in series.

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Rear brake pressure sensor after handbrake to pickup handbrake usage in data logs. Brake pressure sensors will be used to trigger the brake lights, also will be used in the motec dash to calculate brake bias.

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Have got bias adjuster mounted just left of the gear stick hole. Everything's sitting in real good places for easy reach while strapped in but not in the way of a comfortable driving position or at risk of being hit by accident.

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Some of the extras I got added into the loom when it was wired up.

Permanent transponder wiring.

Front wheel speed sensors for some traction control.

Also shock pots in all corners. Will be good for data logging and fine tuning suspension later on once I'm looking for some more tenths. Shock pots should also be good to data log the effects of aero parts added later on.

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Nipped up all the brake fittings and thought I'd have a bit of a test bleed to see if pressures were reading properly. Don't have the diff in so just bled and plugged the line where it would attach to the diff.

Mustn't have the fronts bled properly cause they don't have any residual pressure like the rear does. Either that or the residual pressure valve is no good.

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Foot on the brake shows both sensors working. With bias calculated.

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Getting plenty of pressure out of the handbrake. Warning lights going cause ecus in limp mode as it's not getting the right info due to no engine in or running.

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Needed to get the wheels re-done as the gold was a bit weird and shit looking so got centres blasted and then spent a bunch of hours with a file cleaning up the castings as they were a bit average. Had lumpy bits and issues with some of the spokes.

Wanted a more authentic classic gold as per the zakspeed escort and fortunately Burkes metalworks had the zakspeed there to copy for the replica that Gary is having built. We got all the colour samples that were close and matched them up against the wheels in the workshop. Got it pretty close I reckon.

Also needed new inner front barrels for brake clearance. So pine got me some made up and then polished up all my outers for me and put them back together after doing a small bit of machining to spigot the barrels onto the centres for a bit of added security.

Looking so good now. Time for some slick rubber.

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Car and wheel colours should look pretty good together.

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Started work on an airbox. Was just using some alloy sheet and bending and shaping it by hand/hammer and dolly but was becoming a bit shit. Then i cut my thumb on the meatsaw so thought I'd better trade it in for some scissors and make a cardboard mockup first.

Will make it up out of alloy. Pretty tight to the bonnet so not as much clear air around the trumpets as I'd like but can't do much about that. Will use a panel filter in diagonally to get as much surace area as possible.

Will have a lid panel to enclose the box. Wanted it to open up to give easy access to the Stuff that has to bolt inside.

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The offending cutoff wheel /meatsaw. Lucky it was just a nick. Could've been a shocker.

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