griffith500user Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 Testing the water a little here, can't really believe I'm contemplating selling my car but think it's proved to me that I'm more of an engineer than a driver, I was actually quite sad when I had finished it as a project! Looking now to fund a Mk1 or 2 Escort build. I bought the car as a fairly raw 2002 SEiW with a 155bhp 2.1 pinto. The chap I bought it from built it as a hillclimb car and it had only got 3000 miles on the clock. It was a nice spec and included a lsd, strong type 9 box, Yoko A048s and represented a good project to me. Since then (over 3 years ago) I've transformed the car into a very track focussed XE powered car. Those that have seen my threads will have seen the XE installation that I've done, I'm very pleased with the packaging of it as the engine was most recently removed from a Mallock clubmans car having been built by Swindon Engines for the Formula Vauxhall Lotus series and still uses the dry sump system from the series which works very well. Whilst the engine was being fitted I took the body off and had it painted Audi Sprint blue with a black nose, looks fantastic now. Vauxhall XE circa 200bhp, 45 DCOE's MBE management, 7 1/4" AP clutch, Skeleton flywheel and offset starter, Dry sump system with braided plumbing incl. anodised catch tank, SBD bonnet exit exhaust system, Brise lightweight alternator, Yukspeed XE g/box adaptor, Type 9 box, XR4x4 lsd, Team Dynamics Race 1.2 13" wheels with 205 A048 tyres on the rear and 185s on the front, Real carbon front cycle wings, Playskool diffuser with strakes and quick release fittings, Silicone hoses, Polo rad, Kenlowe fan, Playskool carbon effect dash with 250mm steering wheel, Indicators, horn and dip/main beam switches on steering wheel, AP brakes, Protech rear dampers spax front, LED indicators, RAC roll over bar, Etc, etc etc. the list is endless! A fantastic car with a great spec. £9995. Durrington near Salisbury Wiltshire.
griffith500user Posted February 14, 2015 Author Posted February 14, 2015 ***Update*** now sold. Hopefully I'll be back in the near future with an equally good car. Thanks for everyone's help over the years. Fantastic car great people.
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