Description:

The time has come, after 23 years of ownership, to pass my immaculate Mk1 Fiesta XR2 on to a new owner. I've spent many thousands of hours preparing the car, and have campaigned her for the last decade in the Midland Speed Championship, running in the Sports Libre class.

Over the past few years I have been developing the aero package, and I've added a BERG Cup VW Polo front airdam, splitter and undertray, and the aluminium running boards along the sides of the car. These are included in the sale. The rear wing and mounts are also included.

She has won numerous Best Prepared Car awards at events.

In 1992 I bought the car as a stolen recovered shell, and ran it with a 1372 X-Flow.

Soon I desired more power, and I had the idea of installing a 2.0 Zetec 16V on injection, and pioneered the conversion, which today is the most popular modification to the Mk1 and Mk2 Fiesta's.

In 2008, to make the Fiesta more competitive, I decided to replace the heavy Zetec with a new Duratec 2.0 DHE engine, replacing the entire injection system, exhaust etc in the process. Once again I was the first one to perform the conversion. With the 200BHP 2.0 Duratec, I have several class wins, and today hold the class records for Castle Combe and Cadwell Park.

The shell is MSA Log Booked, and is ready to race.

I have removed the Duratec engine, Exhaust, Driveshafts, and Quaife QKE38Z sequential gearbox, and these are now sold.

The full specification of the rolling shell is listed below. Equipped with probably the best performance parts money can buy (for a Fiesta anyway) in summary, the shell features: HiSpec brakes, fully adjustable race suspension all round, carbon bonnet, grp tailgate, aluminium running boards, 4mm poly windows, Motordrive seat, 6pt harnesses, and a Mk2 Escort adjustable bias pedal box, as well as many other modifications.

Race prepared lightweight 1983 Mk1 Fiesta XR2 rolling shell

• Rare US Specification removable/tiltable steel sunroof
• Seam welded and strengthened throughout
• All sound deadening and underseal removed
• Replaced sills and front wings
• Painted in two-pack Ford Sunburst Red (Professionally resprayed: August 2000)
• Original steel drivers and passengers doors
• GRP Tailgate
• Performance Trim Carbon honeycomb Mk1 bonnet
• Custom made lightweight Aluminium grill
• Berg Cup VW Polo front splitter and undertray
• Radical 64" wide carbon fibre rear wing, brackets and end plates
• MCR wheel arch extensions
• Motordrive Pro2 tall highside composite seat
• Motordrive alloy mounts
• Sabelt 3” wide red 6pt harnesses
• Momo steering wheel
• Safety Devices 6pt cage, with welded X door bars
• C shape aluminium running boards, fabricated by Altiss Engineering
• Laminated Windscreen, clear
• Single wiper conversion using VW Scirocco rear wiper motor
• Polycarbonate 4mm acrylic windows, clear
• JAZ 22 litre fuel cell, foam filled
• Aluminium firewall over the fuel cell/rear spare wheel well, featuring lockable access panel to the fuel cell for refuelling.
• Goodridge HL836-06D hard lines (8mm ID 10mm OD) with compression fittings [inside car] (supply and return)
• Kustom Karl race front suspension featuring:
  • Lightweight tubular steel, alloy heims, fully adjustable, with front chassis braces
  • Aluminium adjustable rear trailing arms, with alloy heims
  • Aluminium adjustable panhard rod,with alloy heims
• HiSpec 4pot front calipers
• Ferodo DS2500 pads all round
• Rally Design Escort pedal box, with adjustable bias, and hydraulic clutch
• Rutland rear ARB
• Rutland rear axle, modified to accept Ford Focus Mk1 rear stub axles, allowing adjustable rear camber/caster and width using Puma rear spacers.
• Focus Mk1 rear stub axles
• Lightweight rear disks
• HiSpec 2pot rear calipers
• Braided brake lines
• Cupro nickel brake lines inside the car
• Kiley Klinton Mk2 quick steering rack
• AVO adjustable front shock absorbers on 2.25” 250lb springs
• 275lb, 300lb, 325lb springs also included
• TAS aluminium strut tops, allowing adjustment to caster and camber
• SPAX adjustable rear shock absorbers
• 450lb rear springs
• OZ Superleggera 15" alloy wheels (7J x 15”), ET37
• 200/580R15 Kumho Ecsta C03 K11 Extra soft tyres
• Duratec Engine wiring loom, switch box, Varley red top, and full carbon Stack dashboard included.

Most parts are new, and the car has probably only driven 500 miles in the past 10 years, such is the limited milage on sprints and hillclimbs.

She has been driven at Blyton, Castle Combe, Lydden Hill, Mallory, Donington, Silverstone Stowe and the new GP circuit, Croft, Ty Croes, Snetterton, Llandow, Cadwell, Harewood, Santa Pod, Barkston Heath, Shelsley Walsh, Epynt, Loton park, Prescott, MIRA, Curborough, and Bruntingthorpe to name but a few.

She has appeared in Fast Car, Performance Ford Magazine (Cover car), Retro Ford Magazine, Classic Ford, Car and Car Conversions, Grass Roots Motorsports (US Publication), Retro Cars (Cover car), Max Power, Fast Ford etc.

I will genuinely be sorry to see her go after 23 years of ownership. But the time has come for me to try something different, and the sale will fund the purchase of a Mygale EcoBoost single seater.

For the last twenty years, I have maintained a highly succesful Blog, at www.zetecinside.com and every detail of the car's evolution has been described and illustrated with countless thousands of photographs and words. This little Fiesta is known throughout the Ford world.

The car is currently on Ebay, and the auction ends Friday 7pm.

 

Website:

http://www.zetecinside.com/xr2/forsale.shtml