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Vintage race small sedans.
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"Eagles Canyon is north of Fort Worth, Texas. See http://www.eaglescanyon.com/2008/home.php"
"Escort has the Quaife axles & full floater bearings, no problems with them so far. Back when racing the LoCort in 1969, I lost a left rear axle, brake drum, wheel & tire on the back straight in an IMSA Under 2 Liter race at Montgomery, AL. Got it to…"
"Turns out that gearbox wasn't Leeson, it was a Cortina 3 rail box with new Quaife straight cut synchromesh gears installed. Nice box, will probably race again in a friend's Mk2 Cortina GT vintage B Sedan.
I'll post some more photos of the Escort…"
I'll post some more photos of the Escort…"
"Stephen,
Congratulations on standing up the VRL web pages.
On the new member sign up, the choices are only for formula car, sports racer, production car, and street cars. Need to add a category for sedan racers like myself. In order to sign up, I…"
Congratulations on standing up the VRL web pages.
On the new member sign up, the choices are only for formula car, sports racer, production car, and street cars. Need to add a category for sedan racers like myself. In order to sign up, I…"
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It looks wonderful and fun! plus it has that green stuff around it.
Not loke willow springs.( ROCKS )
Haven't seen or heard from him since...After my crash I was in the new car in six months...as fast as a fat old man can crawl around inside a Mini with a mig welder.
I posted a few more photos.
Rod
I was a little worried about the cars axles, OEM and use a set of Quaife full floaters...I'll post a photo of them right now....Nice setup, requiring only an hour or so on the lathe to make them fit...I was not too pleased you could say...not for a thousand plus.
Still have Detroit lockers in 3.9, 4.12 and 4.44, could use a 3.7 or 3.55 if they are cheap enough. I'm not sure with the vintage type Hoosier radials they will ever be needed.
Rod
I've meant to call you a dozen times(still have your number)...I'll get to it one of these days. I hear you got the Leeson from Clay's car...I always hated that gearbox...never could shift it properly especially 2nd from 4th.
We should have our Locor together by next week and perhaps have it back on the dyno by July. Cracked the cylinder head on first try, but now have one of John McCoy's heads in place...Hoping for something close to 190hp with a tq curve suitable for this aero brick...fingers crossed! I know what you mean about selling the Locor. I tried to sell it in '74 and couldn't. Brought it back as a GT-3 (later 4) in '80 and finally sold it in early '90's for $15k with spares. My son found it while he was in Germany and bought it in 04 for $24k and now, after another $50k it's about ready for vintage. Racers are nuts!
Rod Davis (Evelrod)
Looked at your photos, would like to see a few more closeups of the Escort, though.