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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2009/09/15 22:47:10 (permalink)
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Nice video, looks like a good hillclimb circuit, pretty tight in places!
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2009/11/19 21:52:47 (permalink)
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Ran at a slightly modified Baskerville hillclimb event on the weekend co organised with a Porsche car club, so it was good to see some expensive machinery put though their paces. Came 1st in class (under 2ltr) by a poofteenth and 13th overall (out of 48) - so very happy with the result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqAd7Xpysvw
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2009/11/19 22:05:35 (permalink)
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Nice work. You have the same colour interior as me :) If you ever strip out the interior to save weight, i'll buy it off you.
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/02/02 13:20:34 (permalink)
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did a little work over the chrissy break;

sealed the boot from the cabin, as our scrutineer was hassling me to seal it up because of the fuel pump is in the boot - and fair enough. Not entirely happy with it, but it was a good learning experience;



Installed some kmac 'race' strut tops, have a max of -1.5 camber now and some positive caster. has more direct steering feel now.



Bought a deep dish omp corsica replica (i recon) steering wheel off ebay (came from thailand). the wheel is now much closer to me and now I can heel & toe without my knees hitting the wheel. I like the look, and the quality is ok if you can look past the fact that the yellow straight ahead stripe is a little off centre.



the next job is to install a 6 point bolt-in rollcage that is coming from bond rollbars. ordered it with side intrusion and harness bar. I went with bond as I was put off by some local cowboy operations down here, and the custom cages (UK) one I wanted was far to expensive to post.
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/05/03 11:05:05 (permalink)
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had a blast at Baskerville super-sprints last weekend, hitting the low 1.09's now, around 1 sec faster than previous best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMRbCawvwF0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTWY3j4ylYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5m-qrl_WqI
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/05/03 11:20:08 (permalink)
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hey, mind me asking where did u get those filters from??
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/07/06 09:09:02 (permalink)
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I measured the max space avail and ordered the filters from my local bursons store

finally installed my bolt in roll cage from bonds- yay! feel a little safer now






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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/07/06 11:53:36 (permalink)
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Got any pics of the rear bars and mounting positions Michael?

Does it just bolt through floor with re-inforcement plates on the underbody? Was it relatively easy to install?

Cheers,
Rhys
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/07/06 14:01:58 (permalink)
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hi Rhys, I fixed my post as it was not showing the first pic. I can take some others with more detail if you want.

yup, it bolts through the floor with 3 bolt plates.

It was pretty straight forward except for the drivers side front leg plate. My esky has the factory reinforcement? plate, which the bond supplied one did not fit. I ended up putting in some crush tubes for two of the holes and had a piece of tube welded in for the outermost bolt. probably not cams legal, but I'll cross that bridge later. The other tricky part was cutting the rear bars to the correct length.

If I had to do it again, I would place the rear legs higher on the wheel arch to increase the angles of the cage and harness bar. Also, As I am quite lanky, I had to place the main hoop a fair way rearwards, this meant that the front legs are not as close to the front of the doors as I would of liked
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/07/06 15:47:26 (permalink)
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Hi Michael

Was it the roll cage guys i advised you to go to?? DOn't want to name them here in case!! Just out of interested, what sort of dollars did you pay for that cage?? Also, how much was freight??

What meeting are you going to be competing in next?? PLanning to have some changes done on mine for historic baskerville. Will be great to see another escort out there!!

Cheers
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/07/06 16:21:31 (permalink)
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Hiya fpv, nope I did not end up contacting the guys you recommended.

The cage to my door was approx $1600 inc freight (from NSW I think).

I'm planning to do the CMI regularity next in mid jul. I'd love to do the historic, or even the historic regularitys in the tas super series, but sadly my esky is not eligible (to young - 78 model).
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/12/09 20:18:31 (permalink)
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had a blast at the Hobart domain hill-climb today. Was coming 1st in class, except a pesky datto 1600 beat me on his last run, grrrr:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxrB9CynbOw
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/12/09 21:14:42 (permalink)
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Thanks for adding the last bit, it looked hairy for a second.

Looking good Michael, you will get the dam datto next time.
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/05/10 12:10:04 (permalink)
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picked up some new set of challengers off fleebay;



Anyone tried khumo v70a's and how they compare to toyo r888's?

cheers
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RE: Wattos MK2 2 door 2010/05/10 23:04:47 (permalink)
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Can't say I have tried them yet myself, but all the Nb and Nc guys use the Toyos. I have oredered a set to go on the Cortina, along with a set of Dunlop d93j's for the wet.

Also, the sons' project mk2 is the same peppermint green metalic as yours, just about to get it's new coat of paint.

cheers Ted
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