Thursday 18 September 2008

long time coming


FORD FOCUS REAR WHEEL DRIVE










the ford focus of robin wilkinson suffered with terminal steering problems the car would not turn in would not steer round corners more than 15 degrees the car brought to rally world for baz cannon to work out some solutions to cure the problems . the steering rack position was completely in the wrong position but the way the car had been constructed it posed lot of problems to get the rack in the correct position as you can see from the photos extensive alterations were carried out to make the car work the car turned out for its first event on sunday 14 th oct at bradwell air field a apprehensive robin not driven for over a couple of years did not know what to expect but after a couple of runs he was back in the grove with comments like it drive like my old escort now and it turns in and it goes round corners robin finished a respectable 2nd overall another success story for rpm rallyworld
full story and details will be on the rally-world.com web pages later this year