#1: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:58 pm ---- Might not be every bodys cup of tea but i know in my newbies thread couple of people liked it so thought id put a couple more pics up for you lot to have a look at!!
I brought the car for £1900 knowing there was a few bits wrong with it that needed abit of tlc but this obviously went to abit more then i hoped. Whilst driving the car back i thought it was abit slow but i was comparing it to my last 320bhp escort rs turbo so didnt think much of it. about a week later i went to lakeside and got slaughtered by another standard rs turbo so it was time to take the car for a mapping session at torque of the devil. first run = 88bhp and 3psi of boost lol at standard rs turbo suppose to run about 10psi. whilst mapping it on the 19th run it spun all its bearings DOH!! So finished the day off with 170bhp and and buggered engine.
so rebuild commensed ive been building the engine with parts so once its finished i can hopefully start running around 250bhp
Next winter its coming off the road for its zetec conversion which will give me around 400bhp
Little spec and price list for you first:-
Forge accralite pistons 1mm oversized £650.00
New engine mounts £125.00
heavy duty main bearing set £65.00
ARP Headbolts £110.00
High pressure oil pump £95.00
Thrust washer set £15.00
Water pump £45.00
Thermostate £15.00
big end bearing set heavy duty £55.00
Full bottom end gasket set £35.00
Main bearing cap bolts £80.00
ARP conrod bolts £65.00
Full head gasket set £50.00
-31 Actuator £95.00
Forge sump valve £65.00
bored block by 1mm £160.00
4x standard conrods £250.00
Conrods shot blasted £180.00
crank polish £20.00
Heat paint and halfords paint used £120.00
This weekend coming up is going to consist of rebuilding the head which also is going to cost around £200ish
Bits to come
Payday MIGHT BE consisting of a tubular manifold £299.99
New exhaust system £450.00
Stage 3 head + kent cam with vernier pulleys £500.00
and now for the more interesting parts
Sorted sunroof had a few bits of rust and serious paint fade lol.
Chromed few parts
The broken parts lol
far left bearings check the shape out compared to the rest
Few pics of the car!!
Would love your comments ladys and gents like i said i can understand it not being every bodys cup of tea Last edited by ersturbo on Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:02 pm; edited 8 times in total
#2: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: Danny., Location: PeterboroughPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:02 pm ---- Gorgeous mate love these escorts
#5: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: Mrs_Howey, Location: WorthingPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:08 pm ---- I can't wait for my test drive when it's all run in
And the fact i've got dibs of first passenger
#6: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:18 pm ---- lol yep AFTER its run in and set up you and james can have ago lol and ye you can be first passenger lol
#7: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: Matt, Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:05 pm ---- its beautiful
#8: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:07 pm ---- cheers mate got a few body work bits that needs sorting but she'll get there
#10: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:23 pm ---- They are awesome when there working properly and not being towed by an as van lol so easy to modify aswell!!
Nice I was looking at getting a black one before this one, I've had a grey one wanted a white one but one of my mates have a White but ended up seeing this one instead
#11: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: E5GDM, Location: EssexPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:56 pm ---- I like this cup of tea a lot, despite how 'buggered' the engine looks in the first photo. Keep up the good work fella.
#12: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: meady, Location: basingstokePosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:09 am ---- Looks loke a very nice car. Wish i had the time and money and effort and patience and knowledge to do something like this
#13: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: kieron, Location: in the housePosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:39 am ---- love it! anyone that dont must have a screw lose
i had a FRST about 5 years ago with a T3 turbo it was a mint car little later i found out it to be a 1.6s converted i was gutted but i think it was a re-shell as it was mint!
#14: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: Kersh, Location: Bridgnorth, Nr WolverhamptonPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:48 am ---- saw a fiesta rs turbo at the scrapyard a few weeks ago.. nearly wet myself in excitement only to open the bonnet and see it was a 1.1 replica
#15: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:59 am ---- Cheers for the comments people i have to admit didnt think id get this sort of come back
meady wrote:
Looks loke a very nice car. Wish i had the time and money and effort and patience and knowledge to do something like this
The knowledge just comes in time and practice mate to be honest
T3 is the standard turbo for rs turbo's, its not to bad really having a replica cheaper insurance but ye you yourself know its not an actual rs
I'd love to go to a scrap yard and see an rs turbo id end up buying the whole car.........literally lol
#16: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: TheUniqueOne, Location: High WycombePosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:07 am ---- cant wait to get back into ford shows, really missed being part of the RS OC, but thats a nice motor mate, cant wait till mums got her rs2000 4x4 back into show condition
cheers
paul
#17: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:11 am ---- Cheers mate, me too got all my tickets booked already through west sussex rs owners club cant wait gonna be a awesome show season this year ive heard :D.
your mum lol????? she do shows then ford fair etc?
#18: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: Southall, Location: Warwickshire, UKPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:55 am ---- Lush mate, how long has it taken to get to this beauty?
#19: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:59 am ---- 5 months so far lol still got another year till it will be mint lol
#20: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:32 pm ---- Started the head rebuild today will get pics up soonish
#21: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *head rebuilding* Author: vanman_foci, Location: Barry, South WalesPosted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:37 pm ---- love it!
#23: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *head rebuilding* Author: 180tomtom, Location: West YorkshirePosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:37 pm ---- Take Ages dont they engine rebuilds, you just want them mint !!!! But its finding the time to do evrything and fit it all in.
Keep at it mate, looks sweet!!
#24: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *head rebuilding* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:03 pm ---- I know tell me about it I need to finish off rebuilding my head but working flat out this weekend grrrr.
I made the engine bay as good as possible without sanding it back and respraying!!
But cheers dude I'm trying trying not to loose all enthusiasm with it aswell it's getting hard :/
#25: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *head rebuilding* Author: 180tomtom, Location: West YorkshirePosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:34 pm ---- I have been Turboing a Corsa B 1.6 engine for over 2 years now..... STILLL not finished it, it has just taken sooo long
You need Time, Money, Tools, and Space.
If you dont have them its T**s lol
#26: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *head rebuilding* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:21 am ---- lol ooo yep you need the time space and money and tools lol
turbo'd corsa b that sounds quite cool my mate wants to turbo his corsa c sri lol
#27: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *head pics* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:21 am ---- pics of the head couldnt get a decent pic due to light but basically looks like the head has been skimmed not that long ago to be honest the gasket surface is soo shiney
Also my bro replaced the valve seals for me to so no more smoking
.........obviously need to fit clutch flywheel and gearbox that will take half hour. BUT ITS FINISHED ill let the pics do the talking...........
.............you wouldnt beleive how happy i am lol
OPINIONSSSSSSS
will be running sat night
#31: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *ITS FINISHED FULLY REBUILT* Author: Howey, Location: Kings LynnPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:46 pm ---- Awesome mate! Cant wait to see and hear it running!
#32: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *ITS FINISHED FULLY REBUILT* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:45 pm ---- Might be down sat night if I'm lucky and it works when we start it sat
#33: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *ITS FINISHED FULLY REBUILT* Author: Ali_H, Location: Chichester, SussexPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:16 am ---- Looks cool mate. First picture of you in the engine bay brings a whole new meaning to a flintstone car.
#36: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *clutch flywheel gearbox fitted* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:10 pm ---- ok so its 2am and i have literally just walked in from the garage from finished the engine some more fitted flywheel clutch clutch housing and gear box stabilizer bar and engine mounting.
pics............
engines going in tomorrow and bros gonna come down sunday check it all and start it up for me
#37: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *Engines fitted and connected up* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:29 pm ---- News hell ye, Its all connected up now apart from drive shafts bros gonna connect them up for me in the morning hes done one anyway just need to do one more
ITS GONNA BE STARTED TOMOZ
But for today got some pics
who ever had the engine out last snapped the engine mount bolt inside a nut and decided not to do anything about it and just leave the car with one engine mount bolt!!!
Also had to take a trip to ford today for a couple of new lower arm bolts £5.09
All electrics are connected up
Here we go got up this morning first thing on the agender was to grind the old nut away and basically sort something else out
After i grinded it all out i had to sort some other mounting bolt so this is where a nice long bolt couple of washers and a nut came in handy then a bit of paint to stop it rusting
Then on to fitting the rad
After the rad then came the intercooler this was a b***h as terry might remember the twin fans arn't slim line so they stick out quite abit so when i went to fit my standard bumper months ago i had to cut the back out of it so the fans would slot in to the bumper, but now ive got a bigger actuator this was erm even more tricky i couldnt cut any more of the bumper so i put the bumper in to place best i could fiddled around for about 2 hours then managed to get enough space to tighten every thing up
got a gap about an inch maybe bit more between the actuator and the rad now hoping its gonna be enough.
Then just spent the rest of the night doing hoses and finishing electrics putting now bonnet cable on.
And finally the new forge dump valve
#38: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *Engines fitted and connected up* Author: Howey, Location: Kings LynnPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:41 pm ---- Cant wait to see this!
#39: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FINISHED AND POLISHED UP* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:31 pm ---- AND ITS FINISHED
#41: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FINISHED AND POLISHED UP* Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:34 pm ---- Looks absolutely amazing well done
#42: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FINISHED AND POLISHED UP* Author: Bailey, Location: Finding Dr. RobotnikPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:18 pm ---- What a beauty. The ferrari aint too bad either
#43: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FINISHED AND POLISHED UP* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:48 pm ---- lol cheers guys....ferraris my bros lol
#44: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FIRST FIRE UP :D and its worked* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:24 pm ---- www.youtube.com/watch?v=iddENUkE7Wk
#45: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FIRST FIRE UP :D and its worked* Author: Rich196, Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:49 pm ---- wow your proper local to me
#46: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FIRST FIRE UP :D and its worked* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:09 pm ---- where abouts you from mate?
#47: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FIRST FIRE UP :D and its worked* Author: Rich196, Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:21 pm ---- horsham
#48: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FIRST FIRE UP :D and its worked* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:01 pm ---- o cool not to far then
#49: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *FIRST FIRE UP :D and its worked* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:02 pm ---- was night time we finished so vids very dark but shes aliveeee
#50: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:52 pm ---- Is this one of the rare RS Turbos where the Lucas belt driven ABS system still works
#51: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:56 pm ---- lol na dont work at the mo need to bleed the abs system BUT before i renewed the brake fluid THE ABS DID WORK
i wanted to take all the abs off all together just seems a b***h to do it
#52: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:07 pm ---- Its very rare to find one of these wonderful Lucas mechanical ABS systems still working
#53: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:12 pm ---- bit of bleeding and shell be fine
#54: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: RedHDI, Location: Northern IrelandPosted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:08 am ---- Don't know how I came across this. Great work. Pity it wasn't a series 1 but that's just coming from me considering I'm in the middle of restoring one that's roughly 250bhp. Would love more but torque steer from 250 is enough and suprises a lot of todays cars
#55: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: MattyP, Location: PlymouthPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:35 pm ---- looking gorgeous mate and a rare sight these days
#56: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:48 pm ---- Unfortunately guys the car has now gone, sold it at the beginning on 2012 to fund building and racing an Alfa in the UK Alfa Romeo Championship and the European Alfa Challenge.
How ever I am looking to go back to some Ford madness with something bigger and better.
#57: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:02 pm ---- Some Pictures of how she was when I sold her.
#58: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:04 pm ---- And my current toy......Also for sale
#59: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: MattyP, Location: PlymouthPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:12 pm ---- Thats a shame mate, s1 rs turbo next or cosworth engined mk2 escort
#60: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:17 pm ---- I'd love an cosworth powered escort of an escort cossie but insurance comes in to play with these lol!!
Looking at getting a low mileage mk1 frs build it to 400bhp ish restore the underneath fully powerful ex etc! Will be looking at a long winter project! And abit of an investment as there going up in money at the moment and the real last breed of the "rs"
#61: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: RedHDI, Location: Northern IrelandPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:25 am ---- Mk1 escort! You won't be dissapointed. My girlfriends dad has had 500bhp silvias and real nice mercs even a coswrth mercedes but he continues to say he regrets selling his Mk1 escort mexico
#62: Re: Escort Rs Turbo S2 *VIDS OF THE FIRST DRIVE* Author: ersturbo, Location: crawleyPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:30 am ---- They are very nice but are getting very expensive to buy lol.
Plus im wanting something a little more reliable than the old skool stuff now
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I know tell me about it I need to finish off rebuilding my head but working flat out this weekend grrrr.
