Gravity Fed Alex Staidle Senior Moderator Location: Δx = ħ/2Δp Join Date: 08/21/2009 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,719 Rally Car: Various Heaps |
one day ill do something stupid and try to buy one of those off you john, one day.
First Rally: 2010 First RallyX: 2004 (a bunch) Driver (0), Co-Driver (7) Organizer (3), Volunteer (3) Cars Built (2.5), Engines Blown (2) Cages Built (0) # of rotations (3.5) Last Updated, Apr 9, 2023 |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Ultra Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
This is an Escort doing what GAWD intended them to do: These cars, in MkI and MkII form --built 1968 thru 1980 are the coolest and most winningest cars the the whole parsec of the Galaxy.... They have brought Ford fame and admiration for 4 decades... The disgusting lame POS sold in North America was sorta related to the thing called "MkIII" Escort but are nowhere near as good as the real MkIIIs, therefore they are not fit to wear the Escort name. Thus being lame limp-dick things, we can only call them "Ex-squirts". By mid 90s Ford did make a good fwd Escort, but of course we never got them... it had a unique engine that was said to be a productionized and improved 2.0 version of Fords fantastic "Cosworth BDA" from back in 1968... BDA was 1.6 and made---way back then 210bhp---at 10,000 rpm. BDG came in 1975, and was BDA with bigger bore and aluminum block, and made in '75-76 spec 252 bhp--at 10,000 rpm again and by 79 was doing 262@ 10k.. Shit like that breeds long term loyalty---who else has offered such performance for so long? But we never got them and our roads are not narrow things barely 5 feet wide...and that's way I push Volvo 240 so hard. It really is just a big Escort and sized for the US and Canadian roads 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. |
John Reed John Reed Elite Moderator Location: Portland, Oregon Join Date: 06/09/2012 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 176 Rally Car: Toyota AE86 |
See I am infatuated with those Escorts. Never see many of them stateside, too expensive I assume to get one here and all that fun red tape?
John Reed John Reed Racing www.johnreedracing.com johnreedracing@gmail.com |
acrane adam crane Elite Moderator Location: Seattle, WA Join Date: 01/28/2006 Posts: 382 Rally Car: corolla GT-yes |
The only axle I had a problem with, and we've done ~4 for corollas, was the 740 axle. don't try it.
The ring and pinion break on the carrier is below 3.54. I don't think there are very many stock volvos with this ratio, so grab any axle you see. The stock GTS ratio is 4.3. we race the 1.6l engines with a 5.38, which is the business. https://plus.google.com/photos/107360747547936712553/albums/5193618192222738913?banner=pwa the axles I pick have the two ribs on the right when viewed from the input flange, and the two ears on the casting. "I put the hurt on dirt" - adam crane http://CraneRallyCrew.com corolla gt-s "Patches" Op: S.S. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Ultra Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
The import thing isn't all that bad. It's the cost of a prepped car. I think its do-it-yourself-income-redistribution with the working class guys who make things counter themselves the British right-wings wage policies that have led to a huge income gap much like here. So they say fuckit I'll charge this much for building a car cause the market will bear it... And it'd be a real shame to buy a prepped car and find the cage doesn't meet the rules for cars Homologated after 2007, and have to chop it out like the poor guy in Idaho.. If I had to have an Escort, I'd call myself and find a road car in Northern Sweden that has never seen salt, maybe with a 1.3 or maybe a 1.6 in it, drive it to Gotheburg and send it on Wallenius Line to Tacoma. of course I'd shove in 2 extra front windscreens, extra grill, blinkers, tape a extra hood on the top, then when it got here i'd have some of the most annoying things you might need here already... Then I'd build it like a Gp4 car but do as they have been doing for a decade now in the North and use a Volvo axle, and like we've done, Volvo front bottom knuckles. Engine I'd do a n.a. 2.3 Duratec, a Tran-ex 5 speed close ratio---but synchro cause it shifts just fine even being synchro (cause they don't have to brake the gears hardly anything when you have a proper close ratio) and call it good. God knows what the build would cost but it's only money... Thing is there's no advantage to a car like this that can't be found and done on a Corolla if you're fixated on short cars in the Escort or Corolla size.... Of course a 240 Volvo built to the same specs would be better here on the comparitively wider and faster roads and cost millions less and be no problem to patch up when the inevitable happens. For example here's todays inventory at Pick-n-pull Pick-n-Pull - Portland North [More Information] 9635 N Columbia Boulevard Portland, OR 97203 US 503-286-6262 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Volvo 240 91 0034 11/20/2012 Volvo 240 91 0048 10/29/2012 Volvo 240 90 0037 10/04/2012 Volvo 240 87 0032 10/24/2012 Volvo 240 87 0049 11/07/2012 Volvo 240 87 0049 11/12/2012 Volvo 240 86 0033 11/02/2012 Volvo 240 83 0045 12/07/2012 Pick-n-Pull - Portland South [More Information] 6241 SE 111th Avenue Portland, OR 97266 US 503-760-5820 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Volvo 240 90 0035 12/07/2012 Volvo 240 90 0042 11/09/2012 Volvo 240 88 0036 12/10/2012 Volvo 240 87 0030 12/05/2012 Volvo 240 83 0032 11/28/2012 Volvo 240 83 0038 12/14/2012 Approx Distance: 147 miles Pick-n-Pull - Sherwood [More Information] 19135 SW Pacific Highway Sherwood, OR 97140 US 503-625-6141 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Volvo 240 90 0042 08/23/2012 Volvo 240 85 0030 11/13/2012 Volvo 240 85 0031 11/20/2012 Volvo 240 83 0042 08/29/2012 And up here: Pick-n-Pull - Lynnwood [More Information] 18306 Highway 99 Lynnwood, WA 98037 US 425-778-3147 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Volvo 240 87 0042 11/13/2012 Volvo 240 86 0020 10/24/2012 Volvo 240 85 0016 11/26/2012 Volvo 240 84 0017 11/28/2012 Volvo 240 84 0020 10/24/2012 Volvo 240 83 0021 12/12/2012 Approx Distance: 24 miles Pick-n-Pull - Tacoma [More Information] 2416 112th Street S Lakewood, WA 98499 US 253-588-1775 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Volvo 240 86 0033 12/05/2012 Approx Distance: 47 miles Pick-n-Pull - Arlington [More Information] 6323 172nd Street NE Arlington, WA 98223 US 360-403-9505 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Volvo 240 88 0015 12/04/2012 Volvo 240 87 0010 11/13/2012 Volvo 240 87 0018 12/12/2012 Volvo 240 86 0003 10/10/2012 Volvo 240 86 0012 11/19/2012 Volvo 240 84 0010 11/14/2012 Volvo 240 84 0012 11/21/2012 Volvo 240 83 0003 10/15/2012 Volvo 240 83 0016 12/06/2012 Here's Corolla: Pick-n-Pull - Lynnwood [More Information] 18306 Highway 99 Lynnwood, WA 98037 US 425-778-3147 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Toyota Corolla 85 0038 11/02/2012 Toyota Corolla 84 0039 11/06/2012 Approx Distance: 24 miles Pick-n-Pull - Tacoma [More Information] 2416 112th Street S Lakewood, WA 98499 US 253-588-1775 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Toyota Corolla 86 0024 11/12/2012 Approx Distance: 47 miles Pick-n-Pull - Arlington [More Information] 6323 172nd Street NE Arlington, WA 98223 US 360-403-9505 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Toyota Corolla 86 0009 11/08/2012 Toyota Corolla 86 0014 11/28/2012 Approx Distance: 125 miles Pick-n-Pull - Vancouver [More Information] 9605 NE 76th Street Vancouver, WA 98662 US 360-892-8906 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Toyota Corolla 86 0007 11/28/2012 Toyota Corolla 85 0009 12/06/2012 Approx Distance: 131 miles Pick-n-Pull - Portland North [More Information] 9635 N Columbia Boulevard Portland, OR 97203 US 503-286-6262 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Toyota Corolla 83 0037 10/03/2012 Approx Distance: 139 miles Pick-n-Pull - Portland South [More Information] 6241 SE 111th Avenue Portland, OR 97266 US 503-760-5820 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard Toyota Corolla 85 0040 11/06/2012 Approx Distance: 147 miles Pick-n-Pull - Sherwood [More Information] 19135 SW Pacific Highway Sherwood, OR 97140 US 503-625-6141 Store Layout Map | Part Pricing Make Model Year Row Date On Yard ZIP A guy can drive a lot harder and stoooopider knowing he can patch a car back together easily... The car is just a tool after all. 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. |
ryanfay guess Ultra Moderator Location: hayward hills, ca Join Date: 05/26/2012 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 87 Rally Car: 1983 volvo 242tic |
I'll take the green monster in the back thanks. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Ultra Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
What? This one? With the steel billet cams? Now waht would you want that for? 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. |
alkun Albert Kun Mod Moderator Location: SF Ca. Join Date: 01/07/2008 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,732 Rally Car: volvo 242 |
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