Simon has owned the 1988 Escort RS Turbo S2 since April '97'. The car has now covered over 140,000 miles. The colour is metallic mercury grey with de-locked doors, de-badged bonnet and chrome bumper inserts, clear indicators and tinted rear lights other than that standard '88' spec outside.
Interior
Inside
it has white dials, Mocal boost gauge, water temp oil pressure, water temp,
volts, air charge temp gauge, some strange switches that do stuff, sparco
pedals,
and '90' spec Recaro’s, with six point harnesses, Sparco wheel and rear
cage.
Suspension
poly
bushes all round, rear strut brace welded and cross
braced, a PJ motorsport front strut brace, adjustable rose jointed track
control arms, all round fully adjustable coil over shocks And a few more
rose joints and adjustable bits!
Brakes
Cossie 2wd rear calipers and discs, fronts are Willwood 4 pots and 285mm discs with ABS in the bin all brake lines stainless over-braid run through car with brake bias valve.
Engine
Completely standard well nearly standard…
Apart from slightly ported head with piper 285 T2 cam C57c spark plugs
Standard Ford head gasket (the best),
K&N 57i filter,
Bailey evo dump valve
Modded turbo (works well to over 25 psi anyway),
Bailey oil separator with K&N vent,
Swirl pot,
BIG Pro-alloy intercooler,
Water injection,
Fully lightened and balanced bottom end with Vandervall bearings,
Mahle pistons,
ARP bolts,
High flow oil pump,
Apexi AVCR boost electronics controller with a boost limiter switch on gear stick
-31 actuator
Collins chip and fuel ECU modified for higher revs.
Scorpion exhausts to let the flames out.
215BHP @ 15 Psi (runs 9 Psi to a safe 21 but will take 25 or so for short bursts)
Silly engine coming soon?!?!?!
It also has some wheels-
Standard RS Turbo 15 inchers and some 16 X 7.5 TSW Imolas painted black, these have 215 40 16 Kumho’s
South
Lincolnshire RS Owners Club