I go quiet for a few months. Well, yes. Sorry. Won’t happen again. Until the next time.
So what’s been happening? Well, I’m on with “Project Rotbox”, my ‘67 Anglia Super that I’ve owned since 1990. The car has been under restoration since about 1995. Then I moved house. Got married. Had children. Restored a couple of other cars in the mean time. But now, it’s Rotboxes turn.
I’ve been out and bought an engine. It’s not a Ford engine either. And it’s supposedly easily tunable to about 200bhp. More of that later.
What else? I had the van rolling roaded at Northampton Motorsport. It hit 152.2bhp @ 6233rpm and 138.5lb/foot @ 4630rpm.
I’m planning on running in the Old Skool Ford Drag Championship. I’ve got a spare set of halfshafts just in case. I’ve only done drag racing before once at York, in a run what you brung. I was in my old 205GTi which did the standing quarter in 17.1 seconds. My van, when it was raced by the previous owner, did it in 14.6. That was with a 137bhp crossflow with a 50 shot of nitrous.
And very soon, I’ll be doing down to Brunters for a thrash with the OSF crew, courtesy of Retro Ford magazine.