TNTRacing - XRCosworth

[pablo]

She still gets out and about when the suns out.

[pablo]

Well that's it. The car is away and when we collect it all the bits will finally be there to allow us to run in the region of 500 bhp, although at the moment we have no plans to do so as we first need to address the gearbox. but at least the engine is done.

[jap.slapper]

Not long to go now until round 1....good luck

[pablo]

We will not be defending our title this season

After securing a new sponsor late last year everything has now fallen through. After months of trying to get an answer or even contact I finally received an email from them last week saying they would not be able to sponsor us this season. We have been trying like crazy with the help of some good friends to raise the funds but with no luck.

We still plan to enter 3 rounds as we will need to test and set up the car in preparation for 2017.

[jap.slapper]

That's unfortunate mate but at least you have time on your side now in order to prepare yourselves and the car for 2017

How does that work with that particular class then, does that mean that the other driver is competing on his Todd this season?

[pablo]

There's a few more entries this year we believe so the class should be bigger. As you say at least we have time to prepare. To be fair with the changes to the front end we could have to re learn the handling of the car. So this year is all about testing and tweaking.

[pablo]

Fluids all changed, cambelt changed and new fuel pump fitted. Tomorrow should see it being checked over for fuelling on the dyno and being treated to a geo set up. Hopefully should see a noticeable improvement out on track.

[pablo]

Finally got round to putting the new sponsors logo on the car. Massive thanks to the guys at Turbo Technics.

[Danny@APT]

The other day I was talking to Mike Rainbird (http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/) while he was over at APT regarding your suspension set-up and what improvements you guys could do. Mike's white EsCos was fairly well known in the Ford scene, as was his fanatical attention to improving how it handled, and he wrote a few magazine articles that are still relevant today. This one caught my eye as it provides quite a bit of info on suspension geometry and some ideal figures to aim for- http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/shop/M ... ension.pdf

He did mention that 2.5 degrees negative camber is about the most you can achieve on a lowered 4WD cossie using adjustable TCA's- any further and it will suffer with the driveshafts being too short and excessive side loads on the dampers. To get to around 3 degree's requires adjustable top mounts in order to tip the top of the shock in first, and then add the final adjustment with the TCA, similar to what he sells here- http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/shop/D ... ductID=452

Ideally for the rear (with a healthy budget, granted) it would benefit from a 6-degree rear beam to correct the stock geometry issues he mentions in the article, but he also can supply some simple shims for the rear that corrects some of the toe-in/out changes that occur through it's travel- http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/shop/D ... ductID=178

[Bart]

hay danny, great information there and mike has a good website.
his escort indeed is well known, so would yours if you got it out sorry couldn't resist mate.
I like the idea of the rear shims as they do tow out a little.
few years ago at ford fair we were out on track with mike and he was in his BMW as I think the cossie was not ready
had a dises with him on track was fun.

as for the front cosworth drive shafts yes they do have issues with being to short and can pop out,
how ever we have XR front drive shafts which are longer than the cossie ones and if you see a cosworth with
a front "driveshaft upgrade" all they have done is fitted XR ones.