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Look’s like it going to be the best one so far “Cough, This Year” well past 6 month’s. I love bad weather personally, I find it very relaxing as it kind of introduces an atmosphere with the sound and all, and as I am resuming proper work tomorrow it will help me back in.
Brace your self!
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Just got back from CT scan, quiet in Grimsby until I set off down the A16, then felt the Tucson drifting a bit. Was worried until I saw that trucks and smaller cars were wandering about all over the place. It’s settled down now, quiet here, a few miles from the East Coast as the seagull flies sideways.
Richard I think that wind funnel is somewhere near Brighouse, on the M62. I was driving that road about 1974, when a hell of a blast took the Avenger I was driving, across all 3 lanes. Fortunately it was 3 am and there were not the Midnight Truckers we get nowadays, so I had the M62 almost to myself, (and a young lady from Huyton, Liverpool, a whole other story)
True story: when I was a workshop foreman, I drove one of the first Sierras, company car of a local SUDG windows & doors sales pillock person who worked all week and came home weekends. He brought it to me to check out why it wandered all over the road, one Saturday morning. I spent hours looking for steering & suspension faults, found nothing, had a brainwave based upon my Air Tech experience. Got my mate to drive it and stuck lots of woolen tassels on the rear panels, either side of the rear pillars. I watched these tassels and noticed that there were vortices spinning them round, instead of streaming straight out behind.
Came back and sent a message to Ford via a mate at the local dealership. He got an award from Ford for “noticing” this, gave me £50. Look at the first pic: rear quarter light (small window) – no strakes. Second pic – small plastic strakes fitted at the rear of the glass under the seals, to break up the vortices of air. Now, was the Ford design engineer asleep during wind Tunnel testing?
It stopped Sierras wandering across the road. Bob Williams, shouldabinadeziner. I thankyou!
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I'm out.Just been watching the latest Wheeler Dealer with Mike B and Ant Anstead. Their first project was an ’95 Escort RS Cosworth.
The car was originally designed by Frank Stephenson. He designed in an extra wing in between the boot-lid spoiler and the whale tail.
That was canned by the Ford bean counters to keep costs down. So you got this:-
Ant got him to draw his original idea down and made one up for the WD Cossy, and he fabricated one giving them a 30% boost in downward pressure for the rear end @ 100mph – from 69 to 94 iirc..
This is what their version looks like:-
So it just goes to show costs were more important to them than the design ethic. I can understand that with the family Sierra, but not with the Rally Spec RS Cossy.
Edited to re-include first picture.
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