Escort Mk1 RS2000 Historic rally car

Escort Mk1 Historic Rally Car (1973)

2007 Championship winning RS2000

V5 as RS2000

AVO chassis number

Historic spec

Stage rally log booked

Major mechanical overhaul and upgrading by Motoscope, Northallerton, August 08, receipts for £11k

Only 1 road event since overhaul, no forest use, although all ready for forests

Very little use, only 4 historic road rallies this year,

Taxed Dec 08

Will be sold with 12 months MOT

For sale due to change of plans for Sons rally car

Specification

Body shell

Partly seam welded

Underbody chassis skids

Group IV sumpgaurd

Group IV radiator cut-outs

Works polycarbonate headlamp covers

Post wheel carrier for 2 wheels

Laminated film to all windows

Alloy tank

Twin lamp brackets and PIAA 80 lamps

Suspension

World cup crossmember

High ratio steering rack with group IV steering knuckle

New track control arm

New anti roll bar and polyurethane bushes

Bilstein shock absorbers

Roller bearing top mounts with anti-roll bar and double width kit

Polyurethane suspension bushes

Baby atlas axle, new Dec 07

RS anti-tramp bars

Panard rod and turreted Bilstein shock absorbers

Heavy duty multi-leaf springs

Genuine New Minilite wheels with Gp IV inserts fitted with good Kumho gravel tyres

Brakes

New master cylinder

Adjustable biased pedal box

New Mintex 9 vented discs

New M16 2-pot callipers

New Mintex C-Tech pads

9 rear drums, new Dec 07

Cable handbrake and separate fly-off hydraulic handbrake

Group IV wheel studs

Braided flexible hoses throughout

Engine

2 litre Pinto with lightened flywheel and balanced crank shaft

205 conrods

Carl Smitt pistons

Brand new Dave Brooks head, only one road rally

New Brooks inlet manifold

Tony Law Exhaust Manifold

Tony Law complete exhaust

Alloy radiator

Header tank

Alloy oil breather tank

Electric fan

Megaflow air filter

Armtech rev. limiter

Lumenition Performance ignition kit

Twin 45 Webbers (road rally legal with dispensation)

Rolling road tuned to185bhp, 162lb.ft torque, print out available, can reach 195 but tuned to 185 for driveability

New twin fuel pumps

New Battery

Transmission

4-speed straight cut clubman gearbox

All the following new Dec 07

Heavy duty clutch cover and ceramic paddle drive plate

New single piece heavy duty prop-shaft

Baby atlas axle with 4.6:1 final drive

ZF Motorsport limited slip diff

2 piece steel half shafts

Semi floating hub assemblies

Interior

Twin pod works dash

Cobra side-mounted bucket seats

In date 4-point Sabelt harnesses

Racetech gauges, Dec 07

Brantz rally trip

Electronically operated plumbed-in fire extinguisher

AFFF handheld extinguisher

Twin main switches driver/co-driver

Alloy foot rests

Peltor intercom

Other Bits

Range of spares

5 RS alloy wheels with new gravel tyres

6 new Gp IV Minilites with new Kumho tarmac tyres

4 new Gp IV Minilites with good Kumho gravel tyres

3 new spare Colway gravel tyres, not fitted

Spare inlet manifold

Single carb for road rallies for economy

Plugs, cables, belts, lamps, bulbs, etc, etc

Will have 12 months MOT

Son’s rally car project forces sale

Faults i am aware of:-

Leading edge of front wings has slight paint blisters

Seam on inner/outer wing gutter under bonnet starting to corrode

Other than that there's nothing else to do

Complete, ready to go, even warning triangle included

Can deliver car up to 100 miles free, above that will have to charge mileage

Please email me for pictures as they are to big to fit onto the advert.
emersonhousefarm@aol.com