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Sadly, it's something a lot of cars go through. They get cheap, so a lot get scrapped. Then prices start to go up, along with prices of parts, so the rough ones that are left start to get broken, which pushes prices up even more and, before you know it, people are complaining that they're now...
Don't get me wrong, if you're really into sim racing, I can see why it might appeal, but I just want something plug-and-play.
I would kind of expect the companies making and selling the stuff would do the setup work for me, rather than me having to figure it out myself. They're the computer...
Yeah it's just superficial really as, in reality, they handle and stop perfectly well. It's just the "cool" factor of having bits that make the car feel a bit more bespoke.
It's stupid in a way, but I think bits like the Brembos make the car way more desirable. It makes it look and feel more special. If these had come with more bits like that from the factory, they would have had more appeal IMO.
That said, as they get older, I do like them more.
Funny, I've also had a couple of 2.0 Zetec swapped Escorts in my day :LOL: Had loads of Escorts, lots of good memories.
Yeah it has the slide-throttle Mountune engine. Needs a rebuild, but is complete. Even got the original Pectel ECU, but will probably swap that out for something more modern...
That one was just a home-brew clubman car. Had a standard engine, slightly pikey wide-track suspension and a close-ratio gearbox. I did one (disastrous) event in it, then sold it. It's now been converted into a road rally car:
I do own a proper F2 car, but it's missing a lot of bits...
And a picture of the wiper motor plug, just to help illustrate how fucked it is :ROFLMAO:
Black is earth (obviously), the small green wire appears to be a permanent live, while the orange and brown wires are both dead. f**k knows what's happened to it. If they both go to the fusebox, I might...
I'm having some issues with the wipers in my 197. Basically, they don't work properly, and someone has fitted a little rocker switch to bypass the existing wiring. I've removed the motor/mechanism and cleaned it up and, with the Heath Robinson switch, they work, but they don't work on the stalk...
They seem to have gone up a bit, just like everything else I suppose. I remember seeing base models for around 1600 a couple of years ago, but they are all north of 2k now. I still quite fancy building a rally car out of one using the panels from the R4 car that someone built. Like this, but...