Watch out lads, Martins back!! Reyland Escort II
14 October 2005, 12:24 AM
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Watch out lads, Martins back!! Reyland Escort II
After last years Gumball incident, Mr Hadland has been a very busy boy.
Surely he cant make the best escort cossie in the UK any faster............
can he???????
http://www.reyland.co.uk/gallery.asp?flOffset=46
This thing is gonna be an absolute weapon once shes done...
sorry if this has been posted previously
Surely he cant make the best escort cossie in the UK any faster............
can he???????
http://www.reyland.co.uk/gallery.asp?flOffset=46
This thing is gonna be an absolute weapon once shes done...
sorry if this has been posted previously
14 October 2005, 06:47 AM
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A weapon for what though?
When people invest this much time and money turning a road car in to a "near on" race car....then what can they do? Be fastest at track days? Hold some crappy records?
....I tell you what....they should go racing or rallying with it!
Dave
When people invest this much time and money turning a road car in to a "near on" race car....then what can they do? Be fastest at track days? Hold some crappy records?
....I tell you what....they should go racing or rallying with it!
Dave
14 October 2005, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by davyboy
A weapon for what though?
When people invest this much time and money turning a road car in to a "near on" race car....then what can they do? Be fastest at track days? Hold some crappy records?
....I tell you what....they should go racing or rallying with it!
Dave
When people invest this much time and money turning a road car in to a "near on" race car....then what can they do? Be fastest at track days? Hold some crappy records?
....I tell you what....they should go racing or rallying with it!
Dave
Thats a bit of a fuking daft thing to say.
Using your logic, why buy a Gallardo? Why buy a 911 turbo? (other than track days or pub talk?)
Why, lets be honest, do anything?
I'm guessing it is because A) he can and B) gets a lot of fun out of building it.
Oh, and duh....I'm also guessing its a rolling advert for his business....or was that just too obvious?
Or can't you see past the fact its a "ford" ...LOL...
14 October 2005, 01:07 PM
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That car was awesome before, but in the year it has been 'away' the competition has moved up a lot.
Will need to be in the early 10's and around 700-800 bhp to scare the Skylines, Norris, and Andy F/Pavlo etc
Will be interesting to see what else he has done to it!!!
Will need to be in the early 10's and around 700-800 bhp to scare the Skylines, Norris, and Andy F/Pavlo etc
Will be interesting to see what else he has done to it!!!
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14 October 2005, 01:52 PM
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I had no idea it was a business thing, that changes it a lot!
Dave
Dave
Originally Posted by Diablo
Dave,
Thats a bit of a fuking daft thing to say.
Using your logic, why buy a Gallardo? Why buy a 911 turbo? (other than track days or pub talk?)
Why, lets be honest, do anything?
I'm guessing it is because A) he can and B) gets a lot of fun out of building it.
Oh, and duh....I'm also guessing its a rolling advert for his business....or was that just too obvious?
Or can't you see past the fact its a "ford" ...LOL...
Thats a bit of a fuking daft thing to say.
Using your logic, why buy a Gallardo? Why buy a 911 turbo? (other than track days or pub talk?)
Why, lets be honest, do anything?
I'm guessing it is because A) he can and B) gets a lot of fun out of building it.
Oh, and duh....I'm also guessing its a rolling advert for his business....or was that just too obvious?
Or can't you see past the fact its a "ford" ...LOL...
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14 October 2005, 03:24 PM
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Sorry to the un-narrowminded people,
I wont post thins kind of thing in future!!
Moley, i think it will be up there with the best of em, its gotta be quicker than steves scotts cossie fiesta for a start and that runs early 10s, possibly even 9's
I wont post thins kind of thing in future!!
Moley, i think it will be up there with the best of em, its gotta be quicker than steves scotts cossie fiesta for a start and that runs early 10s, possibly even 9's
14 October 2005, 04:01 PM
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last time he was mentioned someone said he'd moved, just checked out his site and his wo*kshop is one road away from my business, I drive past it everyday!! Havnt seen Martin for years!
14 October 2005, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by frayz
Sorry to the un-narrowminded people,
I wont post thins kind of thing in future!!
Moley, i think it will be up there with the best of em, its gotta be quicker than steves scotts cossie fiesta for a start and that runs early 10s, possibly even 9's
I wont post thins kind of thing in future!!
Moley, i think it will be up there with the best of em, its gotta be quicker than steves scotts cossie fiesta for a start and that runs early 10s, possibly even 9's
I saw Martin's car once @ Santa Pod, sure it did a 10.8 in the old spec.
14 October 2005, 06:10 PM
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I personally think its madness spending Gallardo or 911 money modding an Escort, but Martin must recoup it through the exposure it gives his company I guess.....
What fast car enthusiast hasn't heard of the Reyland Cossie?
Does the job intended.
What fast car enthusiast hasn't heard of the Reyland Cossie?
Does the job intended.
14 October 2005, 08:55 PM
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Have always disliked the WRC Rear Spoiler... and still do.
Kev Sharpe was in the 10's absolutely ages ago, so to be honest, Martin will have to be in the 9's to keep up the "Wow, thats the Reyland Cossie" thing that he had before.
All the best to him though, hope this gives some of the Jap boys something to worry about at events.
Cheers,
Grant
Kev Sharpe was in the 10's absolutely ages ago, so to be honest, Martin will have to be in the 9's to keep up the "Wow, thats the Reyland Cossie" thing that he had before.
All the best to him though, hope this gives some of the Jap boys something to worry about at events.
Cheers,
Grant
25 November 2005, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by martin-reyland
it's been a long time coming but my new engine is finished and on tuesday a couple of mates and myself bolted it onto harvey's dyno .
because this engine is not the same as your average cosworth yb (read unique or first yb of this spec anywhere!) and has had some some previously untried radical mods i decided to treat it's first dyno session as a running in and fault finding excercise but things went that well (no engine probs) that mapping was started and it at half ten last night we called it a day and because it was getting late and a mod needs doing to my ecu and also because i have a couple of other small mods i would like to do to the engine also the dyno has a couple of urgent engines that need to be mapped. so the engine will return to the dyno in a week or so to finish the mapping i will then rev the engine a further 1000rpm (or so!) as the power was still climbing at 7500rpm
D: .
it's hard to put it into words but this engine is something else, it sounds unbelievably crisp and smooth... with just a sniff more boost or ignition added here or there and it just makes big clumps of power its hard to know when to stop!
no dyno graphs yet but i will give you the max power reading at 7500rpm... in just a moD: don't forget this engine will easily rev past 8500rpm and is going to make more power as the revs rise 
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734hp and 500ftlb uncorrected
702hp and 490ish torque corrected
oh and it makes full boost by 4000rpm..
HAVE THAT!D:
because this engine is not the same as your average cosworth yb (read unique or first yb of this spec anywhere!) and has had some some previously untried radical mods i decided to treat it's first dyno session as a running in and fault finding excercise but things went that well (no engine probs) that mapping was started and it at half ten last night we called it a day and because it was getting late and a mod needs doing to my ecu and also because i have a couple of other small mods i would like to do to the engine also the dyno has a couple of urgent engines that need to be mapped. so the engine will return to the dyno in a week or so to finish the mapping i will then rev the engine a further 1000rpm (or so!) as the power was still climbing at 7500rpm
D: .it's hard to put it into words but this engine is something else, it sounds unbelievably crisp and smooth... with just a sniff more boost or ignition added here or there and it just makes big clumps of power its hard to know when to stop!
no dyno graphs yet but i will give you the max power reading at 7500rpm... in just a mo
D: don't forget this engine will easily rev past 8500rpm and is going to make more power as the revs rise .
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734hp and 500ftlb uncorrected
702hp and 490ish torque corrected
oh and it makes full boost by 4000rpm..
HAVE THAT!
D:
Originally Posted by martin-reyland
ok... for those interested.
from the off i decided i wanted an engine that would rev but still be quite responsive so rather than destroke the engine to get the rod length to stroke ratio right i decided to increase the stroke. now, when you stroke a yb you normally end up with a less than ideal ratio. what you need is a MUCH taller block enabling a longer stroke but also more importantly longer rods...... much longer rods! the millington engine had a 8mm taller block but even that is not ideal for what i wanted so i had to make my block taller. in simple terms i have added a spacer on top of a 200 block and then linered through both parts...ping, tall block! now all that seems simple but believe me it's not, there's a lot to consider!
for the moment here's what i want to reveal about the new donkey....
* it's more than 2200cc
* the rods are just under an inch longer than standard
* the crank has a longer stroke
* the bores are larger than standard and are nicosil coated
* the head has big ports, big valves, solid lifters and spunky cams
* the inlet manifold is made up from an m.i.s. mag plenum, jenvey individual throttle bodies and a jenvey manifold which had to be chopped and welded to get it under the bonnet!
* turbo spec is secret for now as 2 were tried and one was chosen
* the engine misses the bonnet by 5mm
* it has loads more potential for extra power
* the dyno figures are 100% accurate, some might claim more but reyland horses have always been strong!
any questions? (not you philD: )
p.s. can be arsed to spell check this so sorry for any mistakes, pictures will be uploaded tonight too!
from the off i decided i wanted an engine that would rev but still be quite responsive so rather than destroke the engine to get the rod length to stroke ratio right i decided to increase the stroke. now, when you stroke a yb you normally end up with a less than ideal ratio. what you need is a MUCH taller block enabling a longer stroke but also more importantly longer rods...... much longer rods! the millington engine had a 8mm taller block but even that is not ideal for what i wanted so i had to make my block taller. in simple terms i have added a spacer on top of a 200 block and then linered through both parts...ping, tall block! now all that seems simple but believe me it's not, there's a lot to consider!
for the moment here's what i want to reveal about the new donkey....
* it's more than 2200cc
* the rods are just under an inch longer than standard
* the crank has a longer stroke
* the bores are larger than standard and are nicosil coated
* the head has big ports, big valves, solid lifters and spunky cams
* the inlet manifold is made up from an m.i.s. mag plenum, jenvey individual throttle bodies and a jenvey manifold which had to be chopped and welded to get it under the bonnet!
* turbo spec is secret for now as 2 were tried and one was chosen
* the engine misses the bonnet by 5mm
* it has loads more potential for extra power
* the dyno figures are 100% accurate, some might claim more but reyland horses have always been strong!
any questions? (not you phil
D: )p.s. can be arsed to spell check this so sorry for any mistakes, pictures will be uploaded tonight too!
Last edited by ish; 25 November 2005 at 05:09 PM.
25 November 2005, 06:39 PM
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Lovely, although why didn't he take the opportunity to build a Focus Cossie? THere's a couple kicking about in Scotland and they look gorgeous. Should be a more slippery shape for a higher top speed too...
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Originally Posted by Swen6
Pretty , like others i remember the original, it is not the original that holds the record for towing a caravan, about 150mph, think it was in one of the ford mags.
, like others i remember the original, it is not the original that holds the record for towing a caravan, about 150mph, think it was in one of the ford mags.
26 November 2005, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by dazc2
I personally don't like the idea of a Focus Cossie. Unless it's a new product from Ford, not some Cossie donkey and box shoved into a Focus shell.
26 November 2005, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by frayz
Sorry to the un-narrowminded people,
I wont post thins kind of thing in future!!
I wont post thins kind of thing in future!!
Allan