Rolling Road Today

Had a good result at Novatech in Slough with my Escort, Chris Todd did a great job on the rollers   

Nuff respect! Great output for a n/a 1700! What kerb weight does that have to shift?

Thank you, yeah I was happy with that too   it weighs 910 kg, I am hoping to get to the pod and better my time, so far I have run 14.3 @ 97 mph

Car looks great as always kerime .... wbat is the bhp as standard ????

Thank you Lieghton, it was a 1600 engine originally with around 70 bhp, so lots done to the engine by a well known engine tuner in the Ford world   

I think tuned up 1700 Kent lumps were what went in a lot of Caterham's, back in the day. Does that graph show 145 lbs/ ft around 2500 rpm?

I just went on the Torque stats website & your figures predict a 0-60 in 5.3, 0-100 in 15.8, quarter mile 14.29 @ 95! Pretty close!

yeah caterhams used the 1700 kent lump and most ran twin 40s or 45s

driven a couple of them and they go very well and make a nice induction noise too   

that's a lovely car kerime, not a fan of the anglias but love the mk1 escort and love the colour too

MartyMG wrote:I just went on the Torque stats website & your figures predict a 0-60 in 5.3, 0-100 in 15.8, quarter mile 14.29 @ 95! Pretty close!

That's pretty good then, I am hoping now its been on the rolling road to run a high 13 sec, with a good 60ft time its possible    I am not sure if that torque figure is at 2500rpm, I was really happy that, the Torque figure is now 144 Ibs, it used to be 128 Ibs before I had a bit of work done last year  

GTI-R US wrote:yeah caterhams used the 1700 kent lump and most ran twin 40s or 45s

driven a couple of them and they go very well and make a nice induction noise too   

that's a lovely car kerime, not a fan of the anglias but love the mk1 escort and love the colour too

Cant beat the sound of twin 45's barking Bob   

Thanks Bob, you hardly see any that colour which is nice