Got a rwd rally car? Might want to have a look at this

Well I was poking around on the internet looking for decent info to aid with prepping my volvo and got thinking "hey there are a hell of a lot of rally escorts out there, and they have solid axle, rwd, rack and pinion steering. its actually pretty similar to my volvo, maybe i should see if i can find some info on these cars. Better chance the info will be in engrish.

Seconds later found this, breezed through some of the categories and thought it was pretty decent. Have a look and tell me what you think.


http://www.doublegmotorsport.com/rsprep/prepindex.html

Had that book before I had a rally car. The book has been referred to thousands of times and has been hosted here since about Day 3.

That book is the basis for the theory "IF the MkII Escort is the best rally car in this parsec of the Galaxy, THEN using the wealth of detail information available on building the best car but scaling it up to whatever we're building,
THEN we should have a car that works pretty similarly to a good MkII Group 4 Escort."

Of course the thing that takes a little experience is "judgement" of what we should just copy and scale up and what we can reasonably depart from...

(Details like Escort is 94" wheelbase---Corollas around 95.5", old Colts about 96", Fox-body Moustang around 100.5", E30 BMW the same, Volvo 240 around 104" so scale up link length and rod end sizes...also, most teams doing good had skilled service crew and a service barge full of spares---most of you guys don't)

Print it out, study it...
It is the key to happiness.

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John Vanlandingham
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why did ford force the pinto on the usa and not deliver the escort mkI and mkII ?

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I would rather drive a slow car fast as a fast car slow!
first rule of cars: get what makes you happy, your the one paying for it!

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tdrrally
why did ford force the pinto on the usa and not deliver the escort mkI and mkII ?

I blame Ralph Nader, perms and disco.

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tdrrally
why did ford force the pinto on the usa and not deliver the escort mkI and mkII ?

Richard Nixon decided to break the Bretton Woods Treaty on Exchange Rates which the Allies had worked out and all signed in 1944 in Bretton Woods Nude Hampster. This pegged all currencies against the dollar, and the dollar against gold at $35/oz.

But Nixon was "smart" and unilaterally abrogated the treaty..I seem to recall Aug 1971

And currency trading and speculation took off

Now those baddie Arabiacs were buying all sorts of Mercedes and big Beemers for all their kids--sometime 40-60 kids and when D mark went up by 30% they were not happy cuase they were selling oil for---yep $3/barrel
So they quadrupled the price---more speculation and dollar sunk D-mark went UP^

So pooor little old Escorts would have been substantially more 'spensive than a Squintoid or Mare-ver-ick..

Also their experience selling--or blundering--with the Capri--which was sold the Mercury dealers---to keep it away from the slugloid Mustang had Ford wary. They did the same thing 15 years later with the poor innocent Xratties. mainline Ford sauid keep those away from our beloved (old hack) Mustang so they invented the stupid and pretentious name "Mare-koooooooor" and sold then at selected Lincoln Mercury dealers who didn't know what to do with them..

Poor old Opels suffered the same stupid corporate blunders multiplied by ever stronger D mark amking the cars just flat too expensive for what they were.

So it was that Republican Nixon's fault.

Wiki:

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Political economist Roger Middleton states that economic historians generally agree on 1950 as the start date for the golden age[3]–while Lord Skidelsky states 1951 is the most recognized start date.[4] Both Skidelsky and Middleton have 1973 as the generally recognized end date, though sometimes the golden age is considered to have ended as early as 1970.
The real oil price was low during the post-war decades, with this ending in the 1973 oil crisis.

The boom ended with a number of events in the early 1970s:

the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971
the growing international trade in manufactured goods, such as automobiles and electronics
the 1973 oil crisis,
the 1973–1974 stock market crash,
the ensuing 1973–75 recession, and
the ensuing displacement of Keynesian economics by monetarist economics.

While this is the global period, specific countries experienced booms for different periods; in Taiwan, the Taiwan Miracle lasted into the late 1990s, for instance, while in French the period is referred to as Trente Glorieuses (30 glorious [years]) and is considered to extend for the 30-year period from 1945 to 1975.

Nixon Shock

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Main article: Nixon Shock

A negative balance of payments, growing public debt incurred by the Vietnam War and Great Society programs, and monetary inflation by the Federal Reserve caused the dollar to become increasingly overvalued.[22] The drain on US gold reserves culminated with the London Gold Pool collapse in March 1968.[23] By 1970, the U.S. had seen its gold coverage deteriorate from 55% to 22%. This, in the view of neoclassical economists, represented the point where holders of the dollar had lost faith in the ability of the U.S. to cut budget and trade deficits.

In 1971 more and more dollars were being printed in Washington, then being pumped overseas, to pay for government expenditure on the military and social programs. In the first six months of 1971, assets for $22 billion fled the U.S. In response, on 15 August 1971, Nixon issued Executive Order 11615 pursuant to the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970, unilaterally imposing 90-day wage and price controls, a 10% import surcharge, and most importantly "closed the gold window", making the dollar inconvertible to gold directly, except on the open market. Unusually, this decision was made without consulting members of the international monetary system or even his own State Department, and was soon dubbed the Nixon Shock.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

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tdrrally
why did ford force the pinto on the usa and not deliver the escort mkI and mkII ?

I blame Ralph Nader, perms and disco.

I could see you with an 80s perm...

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.