> Has anyone ever rallyed a Capri??? Thay came with a V6? V6
>in H class???
> Has anyone ever rallyed a Capri??? Thay came with a V6? V6
>in H class???
Hey Dave!
Sure, and not just here in the US. They even rallied at the world level (der Röhl at Monte? and Safari?)
In the mid-late 80s I had a bunch of Crapi guys here in Sleezattle having me ask about rally gooodies for their MkI and MkIIs especially after they would go for little rides in my_FORD V4_ powered Saab 96 (well after the ride they would go home and change their shorts, their low compression 2600 and 2800 V6s made about 100 bhp and maybe revved to 5500, my V4 made about 165bhp and revved past 7500; their cars had like 3.64 rear end ratio, mine at the time 5.83! Shocked the hell out of them!)
So I did what I usually do: tracked down folks running the things in the hardest arena I could, which was the British BTRDA series, and talked to a guy who was the last guy to win at that level Nigel Worsick. He was very helpful and friendly and pleasantly surprised to hear that folks from way over in the States was actually following British Championship events.
He said that the car is for all intents a big Escort, the longer 100.5 inch wheelbase and the attendant long snout being the biggest difference, and the resultant change of weight balance. Now a well done Escort is just about perfect fr-rear balance and is the coolest car in the history of the world to drive on gravel, so he said he had made big efforts to shift the engine rearwards as much as humanly possible.
All the other things in the whole car were essentially straight MkII Escort Gp4 stuff. Easy. especially if you have the Homologation papers sitting right here, tee hee! Pages and pages of waaaaaay beeeeching brake parts, hubba hubba!
The motor, especially the 2600 V6, are really simple to get more poop out of since the US versions were delivered with nominal 8:1 compression. With nice flat top, zero deck pistons, the motors are happy at 10.3:1 on 90 okt gas, go forged pistons and 93 okt and 11:1 is fine. The real problem is finding good uncracked head cores. And that goes for the 2800 as well. They crack. Way more than the V4 due to length.
There are problems failures of cams again due to length, and the small journal sizes. They wind up. There are cam gear failures as well related to the cam wind up or snaking. But depending on how the rules are read or rewritten, the nice common 2.9 V6 out of Rangers are essentially indentical EXTERNALLY except the spacing of the exhaust ports. Cam journal sizes were upped in later 2800s, this carried over and Ford went to a chain for cam drive to "allow more agressive cam profiles".
There are bigger oil pumps for the motors (I keep them in stock, use them on all V4 rebuilds.) There are off the shelf big valves, the sizes being 42mm intake (vs 37mm) and 36mm exhaust (vs 32mm), and my own motor has the available 44.5 intake and 38mm exhaust. Tee hee.
The real fun chassi and steering and brakes and bodyshell stuff are all straight common Escort stuff. Easy. No need to think, just build the car straight out of this book sitting right here called "How to Prepare the Ford Escort for Rally".
For our US roads, fast and simple, the longer wheelbase would be just groovier than sheeet.
The real question is how to bring some sense to the process of writing the rules since it appears that it is now Mr Smith who is somehow the guy who will decide what happens to the rules, but you will have to write him privately since appearantly this stuff is too sensitive to discuss on a discussion forum. Don't know why.........
Maybe it's the threat of WAR! Them swarthy terrorist dudes, who might be hiding in the desert down there in Arizona, might be waiting to disrupt H class if they knew what was being planned! LOOK OUT! there a terrorist behind you now!
If that terrorist dude doesn't kill you, You might want to grab this car and forget those Misterbitchy things you're thinking about, this would be way cheaper and waaay waay funner, and I could make it as fast.
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
Vive le Prole-le-ralliat
PS
Dave, did you grease him, man?
You owe me, man, I saved your skin.
dammed terrorist are everywhere these days.
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