Danny Mischok
Brisbane Australia, 1978 Ford Escort 2L 3J Club
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Hmmm, the pinto seams to have "evolved"! |
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I originally bought the car from a friend Andy
Cannell to replace another 1978 Rally Pack which I inadvertently
slid into a Falcon on a dirt road in March 1992. The car when purchased
was painted white and had a set of 13-7 Magnums fitted and was in
a rather crappy state but it was rust free. So my brother and I
set about doing a quick restoration on the car as I didn't want
to go overboard as I already had a restored 1970 Escort Twin Cam
off the road for an engine rebuild so it was down to a new paint
job and tidy up and transplant all the decent bits out off the written
off car, and as these thing usually happen I went overboard. When
the car emerged 7 weeks later it was repainted in PPG 2 pack had
the alloy cage transported and the race seat, engine, Webers, quick
rack and 13-6 RS 4 spoke wheels as well as what was left of the
suspension. Due to the right front strut being a little bent I had
to buy another Koni Sport shock as well as have a new set of struts
assembled and that’s where everything got out of hand. The
car emerged with a new set of shocks 63mm threaded height adjusters
and some adjustable fabricated strut tops all set up to do some
hillclimbs and sprints as after the accident I thought I might give
rallying a bit of a miss. So before I knew this car I put together
as a road car to go to and from work in was pressed into action
and the development hasn’t stopped since. But after a couple
of years it got to the point where I had a road car that was getting
out of hand all the while I also had the Twin Cam so I got rid of
the Twink to concentrate on the MK2 and I went out and bought an
RS2000 to go to work in. Before I knew it I’d done it again
with all the cast offs making their way to the RS. So back to the
white car, after doing hillclimbs and sprints for a few years the
car progressed to the point of getting a bias adjustable pedal box,
Lsd, factory trailing arms gained from a German RS a friend and
I had wrecked, a Quiafe close ratio rocket box, 4 spot front calipers
and 260mm vented discs with accompanied rear ventilated discs and
hydraulic handbrake, Sach’s clutch, 45mm Webers on a standard
bottom end with one of Peters cylinder heads and an Emerald phase
5 camshaft.
After some success in hillclimbs and sprints my
partner in crime Peter Herlihen finally talked me in to getting
serious and do some circuit racing so at the end of 1995 it was
decided to build a new engine. Transferring the cam, valves and
clutch into a new engine with steel Datsun rods, forged TRW pistons,
a 1600cc pinto head, harmonic balancer, a pair of 48 DCOE Webers
and what ever other developments Dave Walker from Emerald Cams suggested
and other things we wanted to try. What we ended up with was an
engine that I’m still use today albeit with all the development
that has gone into the rest of the car to make it work best. These
have included a 5 speed professional Quiafe close ratio gearbox,
shorter diff ratios to keep the engine on song depend on where I’m
competing, a chrome-moly tailshaft as I started to twist the regular
items, Gartrac panhard rod, World Cup crossmember, a revised oil
system with a remote oil pressure relief valve, an RS500 windage
tray with crank scrapers, an aluminum bellhousing, a revised instrument
cluster to suit the engine, an Emerald 2 stage shift light, a full
steel roll cage. And the development is still going as we’ve
done so many things that I’ve even forgotten some. But this
is going to change as I’m sick of getting tangle up with those
wally’s in their rotaries I’m going to have to build
myself a 16 valve 2 litre with a Sierra head so stay tuned as I
think we’ll have a bit of fun developing that into something
competitive.
Facts and Spec’s
1978 2 dr Escort Rally pack painted DSM white
1989cc SOHC pinto engine with a 1600cc pinto head
Horsepower- 218BHP @ 8560Rpm & 168ft Lb’s
of torque
12.8 to 1 compression
Emerald P5 Camshaft cross-drilled with Iskendarian
springs and retainers
Adjustable cam pulley
Ferrea Stainless valves
Ford inlet manifold with a pair of 48 DCOE Webers
an K&N air filter box
Mandrel bent extractors and 2.5" mandrel bent
exhaust with the muffler under the boot exiting the back
Standard block with the welsh plug grub screwed
and lock wired into place
Standard crank offset ground to 75.62 mm of stroke
and fitted with an Aluminium-Steel Harmonic Balancer
Steel L series Datsun rods and forged TRW .030
pistons and Total Seal gapless rings and ARP 3/8" bolts
3 Core radiator with standard 2lt tanks and brackets
and an electric fan
Steel 10Lb flywheel with 215mm Sachs clutch and
pressure plate
Baffled and winged sump with an RS500 Windage tray
crank scraper
High volume oil pump oil with a Peterson remote
oil pressure relief valve set at 85psi
Serck-Marsten 19 row oil cooler and Peterson billet
aluminium filter mounts and Speed Flow –10 lines and Fram
Competition filter fed with Pennzoil GT Racing 50 oil and 6.5 LT’s
of it
Bosch distributor and Luminition ignition system
and Magnacore KV85 plug leads
Remote VDO oil pressure switch (preset at 50psi)
and a VDO pressure gauge connected with Speed Flow –3 lines
Standard water pump with a Datsun FJ20 pump pully
Carter 100gph fuel pump and 3/8 lines with a Holley
Red Regulator (preset at 2psi) and a fabricated Alloy 36lt fuel
cell
Quaife Professional 5 Speed close ratio gearbox,
Quaife Rose jointed shifter and a chrome-moly tailshaft
Escort english diff with steel Lsd’s or locker
(depending on event) fitted with diff ratios from 4.44-4.71-4.9-5.14-5.28
depending on what’s required
Capri front strut legs cut and shortened fitted
with Koni externally adjustable shocks (revalved) and 63mm threaded
adjusters as well as gusseted and fitted with stub axle stiffeners
and fabricated strut tops to facilitate camber and caster changes
and a set of 250lb 65mm I.D. Kings springs
A Twin Cam 20.8mm front sway bar and Ford Group
2 Anti Dive kit with double width bushes, TRW control arms and poly-urethane
bushes (the rules don’t allow me to fit spherical Rose joints),
a 2.2 turns lock to lock quick rack, Group 4 steering joint and
a World Cup crossmember
Front wheel alignment is 5.2 degrees Camber, 4.7
degrees Castor, 2.5mm of toe in, 126mm of bump travel and 27mm of
droop
Rear suspension consists of Koni Sport shock absorbers
(revalved) Kings rear leaf springs (custom rate) fitted with poly-urethane
bushes which been modified, set of Gartrac 2 link trailing arms
and Gartrac panhard rod (the rules won’t allow a 5 link) and
a factory German RS2000 diff housing fitted with Escort RS Turbo
vented discs and 5lt Commodore front calipers and Speed Flow –3
lines and QFM brake pads
Front brakes are 260mm vented discs and Volvo 4
spot vented Calipers with QFM pads and Speed Flow –3 lines
as well as ducting for circuit race events
Fabricated pedal box with a Tilton balance bar
and a Tilton remote adjuster and Girling master cylinders and AP
remote reserviors and Speed Flow –4 lines and all out going
lines are Speed Flow –3 (there are no steel lines at all)
13x 7 Rebel wheels (4 sets) fitted with 205/60/13
Yokohama A008RS or A032R tyres
Drivers seat is a composite OMP Champion and the
passengers seat is a MOMO Rookie
Sabelt 3" 6 point harnesses
VDO oil pressure, oil temperature, water temperature
and 100mm 10,000 rpm Tachometer and an Emerald 2 stage shift light
(the bang light)
MOMO steering wheel and hub and a fabricated aluminium
spacer Sparco pedal pads
Full steel rollcage fabricated and Tig welded by
Gary Manning and myself
Hawker Energies SBS15 battery (5kg’s)
Results
1996-97-98 Qld. Hillclimb Champion for Club Cars
3rd in class for Australian Hillclimb Championships
1995-96-97 behind Jeff Unwin’s Hellbug
3rd in 2 LT for Qld Club Car Championship (circuit
racing) 1996-98 (never bothered to do the whole season)
Lap Times:
Lakeside Raceway in 1.01.32 (1.02.91 with a 93
kg passenger)
Queensland Raceway in 1.25.83
Mt Cotton Hillclimb in 47.43 sec (Record)
Bathurst Hillclimb in 30.89sec
Willowbank Raceway Dragstrip 13.62 @ 99.63 mph
and 2.46 sec to 60ft (It went .61 of a sec faster to 60 ft on the
3rd run but tore the trailing arms out of the floor and blew the
axle and diff to smithereens!)
Next development will be to fit some full floating
hubs to the rear axles and develop a new YB Cosworth naturally aspirated
2lt engine so I can stir up the rotary’s at Qld Raceway as
their horsepower advantage shows there compared to Lakeside.
- Name: Danny Mischok
- Birthdate: 9th of May 1969
- Birthplace: Brisbane
- Occupation: Uni Student
- Goals: To keep having a good time
- Favourite Music: Jethro Tull, Van Halen, Pearl Jam and just
about anything within reason
- Favourite Food: A Breakfast Creek Pub Steak!
- Favourite Drink: Southern Comfort and swig of Coke
- First Race: February 1996 MG Meeting and finished 9th (started
hillclimbs 1993)
- Current Car: Escort race car, 1972 Escort Twin Cam(GT1600 in
Wild Plum with a Tan Interior), 1992 Falcon Ute, 1965 GT500 Cortina
- Sponsors: PJH Motorsport, Accurate Suspensions, Escort &
RS Spares, Emerald Cams
- Best Result: 4Th Outright and 96-97-98 Qld Hillclimb Champion
for Club Cars
- Biggest Thrill: Spearing off at the kink at Lakeside at over
170kph in the rain backwards with the passenger next me shitting
Besser Bricks! and me saying don’t worry there’s no
fence in the rear view mirror, Damn it was funny!
- Favourite Story: Tearing the exhaust system off of a Formula
Ford at the kink at Lakeside and then looking at the tacho and
it’s doing 9600rpm and realising I’m still in 4th
gear, afterwards the Ford driver came over and I thought he was
have a go at me but instead he said that was great fun considering
I destroyed his exhaust system!
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