Specification
Last Updated on March 09 2010

My XR2
Chassis

Ford Fiesta XR2 Mk1 (First registered as A269FEJ May 1983)

Body Shell

Steel bodyshell, with MC Rallying GRP rear door • Carbon honeycomb bonnet • Airedale 4mm acrylic windows • MC Rallying fibre glass wheel arch extensions and front spoiler • Seam welded and strengthened throughout • All sound deadening and underseal removed • New sills and front wings • Painted in two-pack Ford Sunburst Red (Resprayed: August 2000) • Removable steel sunroof from Fiesta Supersport • Fiesta Mk2 tinted laminated windscreen • Underside of car painted with Dinitrol 4941 wax rust protection

Engine

Ford Duratec 2.0 16V DHE420 4-cylinder in-line 1998cc, alloy block with alloy head and sump, featuring oil-cooled pistons • Brise 'Powermaster (Denso) Race' single wire 93mm 49A alternator, with Poly-Vee alternator drive belt • Zetecinside alternator mounting brackets • M-Sport Group N gearbox, and engine mounts • Varley Red Top 15 battery (Weight 5.5Kg)

Exhaust

Tony Law Exhausts full race system, with 4-2-1 manifold featuring equal length primaries. • Single rear silencer • 2.5" tubing • Zircotech coated

Gearbox

Quaife sequential IB5+ gearbox with 4.3:1 final drive, with 0.96:1 fifth gear

Differential

Quaife patented Automatic Torque Biasing limited slip differential

Drive Shafts

Reco-Prop Group A specification (custom length) passenger side, competition drive shaft • Fiesta ST Mk6 Trilobe/Tripod inners (20 spline), and XR2/XR3 outer (20 spline) CV joints

Clutch

AP Racing 220mm heavy-duty clutch and drive plate

Carburation

Titan roller barrel throttle bodies, with Titan fuel rail (New 2009) • Titan 100mm air horns

Engine Management System

DTA S80Pro ECU • Featuring Full throttle gear changes, Launch & Traction Control, and 16MB capacity data-logger • Innovate LC-1 wide band lambda sensor and controller • Zetecinside custom made wiring loom

Dashboard

Stack ST-200 Clubman tachometer, 0-4-10.5Krpm, with tell-tale switch • 5 x 14.5mm Ultrabright warning LED's: • 2 x RED = Low oil pressure • 1 x YELLOW = Alternator charge light • 2 X BLUE = ECU Gear shift light • Stack (New 2008) 52mm stepper motor driven digital instruments for Water Temp, Oil Pressure and Battery Voltage, housed in a Hansell Composites custom made carbon fibre dashboard. • Rotary 11 position switch for Traction Aggressiveness

Engine Lubrication

76 Racing 10W60 synthetic oil (4 litres) with remote mounted Capri 2.8i (HOF202) oil filter • Earls -8 stainless steel overbraided oil pipes (Perform-O-Flex) and JIC anodised aluminium fittings throughout. Hose lengths are 61cm and 65cm. -8 to 1/2 BSP adaptors connect the hoses to the oil take off plate and remote reservoir housing.

Gearbox Lubrication

Silkolene 75W90 Synthetic gear oil (capacity 3.1 litres)

Cooling

Radtec alloy radiator • Twin Spal 9" suction fans, computer controlled (VA07-AP12/C-58A) • 26cm (w) x 66cm (h) with 40mm core and 32mm pipes

Steering

Momo Race 80 suede steering wheel with Momo boss • Fiesta Mk2 XR2 steering rack • Fiesta Mk2 steering column

Front Brakes

Halfords DOT 5.1 Synthetic brake fluid • HiSpec Racing 114-4 four pot alloy race calipers with 285mm lightweight disks • Ferodo DS2500 pads • Rally Design Mk2 Escort adjustable brake bias pedal box (hydraulic clutch version) featuring • 0.625" (front cylinder) and 0.7" (rear cylinder) • 7/16" cupro-nickel brake pipes and M10x1mm fittings throughout • Master cylinders fed by two fluid reservoirs, using -4 flexible Rallydesign RD1424 24" reservoir hoses with 7/16" fittings • Willwood brake pressure regulator restricting the hydraulic pressure to the rear calipers

Rear Brakes

Focus Mk1 solid disks with HiSpec Ultralite 2 rear calipers • Ferodo DS2500 pads

Front suspension

AVO alloy gas adjustable 2.25" coil-over shocks [adjustable spring platform] • 275lb springs (changed from 300lb when the Duratec was installed) • TAS(UK) spherical bearing top mounts, giving adjustable camber, caster • Kustom Engineering adjustable rose jointed TCA's, tie-bars and mounting brackets. • Setup in May 2008, by Northampton Motorsport, to give -1.5° negative camber, +3.5° caster, and 0° toe-in.

Rear suspension

SPAX gas adjustable rear shocks • 450lb springs • Kustom Engineering adjustable rose-jointed aluminium radius arms with alloy rod ends • Kustom Engineering adjustable rose-jointed aluminium panhard rod with alloy rod ends • RPV powder coated Fiesta Mk1 rear axle, modified to accept Focus Mk1/2 rear hubs, allowing adjustable camber and toe-in, currently running with -1.5° negative camber and +1mm toe-out on both rear wheels • RPV powder coated rear anti-roll bar giving from 4x to 8x the stiffness of the original Fiesta Mk1 XR2 anti-roll bar

Seat

Motordrive Pro2 Tall Highside composite seat with Motordrive 5mm alloy brackets

Seat Belt

Sabelt Pro 6-point with quick release, and 3" wide belts

Fire Extinguisher

Lifeline 2.25L AFFF (Electric) with polished alloy cannister (expires 2010)

Roll Cage

Safety Devices full cage with fixed rear diagonal brace (38mm CDS [cold drawn steel] tubing) • 38mm CDS Welded X door bars • 38mm CDS removable lateral brace running across the car, behind drivers seat

Wheels

15" x 7" OZ Superleggera's, ET37, silver

Tyres

Michelin N00 compound 19/57R15 slicks

Fuel tank

ATL D108S D-Cell (30 litre) with integrated collector and foam filled

Fuel system

Weber competition fuel injection pump : WFP503 • Weber fuel filter : WFF042 • Weber 3 bar fuel pressure regulator • Earls stainless overbraided fuel hoses with alloy fittings throughout • Titan fuel rail

Miscellaneous

JXD solid state video recorder • Sony 480 line bullet camera • Maplin Electronics Electret microphone • Race Technology DL1 GPS datalogger and Dash 2 display

Power Output

240 BHP

Max Speed

TBD

Vehicle Weight

715 KG (1574 lbs) May 2006 with 63:37 split front/rear and 50:50 split left/right
670 KG (2009) with Duratec engine, alloy radiator, and Carbon honeycomb bonnet