Wul Young Members Car of the Month

Wul served his time as a mechanic in a coachbuilders 14 years ago and has worked at Honda, Peugeot, Fiat, Falkland and Renault.
He was foreman at Fiat when he was 21 and worked there for 5 years.
He then moved to Falkland where he spent 8 months.
His last 3 and a half years have been spent at Renault, again as a foreman.
(He thinks he will be changing his job soon.)
He says that he has "been about and has had his own wee place for 5 years, doing allsorts".

He is mostly self taught, with a City & Guilds etc, but his journeyman at the time left in Wuls second year.
The owner decided that Wul could do it alone.
Wull says it was good then, better than these days anyway. "It was old skool back then."
Cars, in fact anything with an engine has always been his passion.

The MTX75 mod was a fair old job and took 4 months with no info from anybody!
He has made every single thing himself, (along with his mate who happens to be a blacksmith) and has enjoyed it all.

Wul has owned the Series 1 for ten years and tells us that he feels like he needs a change.
"There's nothing more can be done to the car", he says.

The reason for working with Fords?

He built a C plate Nova when he was 17 - a 16-valver and it must have been one of the first.
"It was a good wee car".
Then someone offered him a straight swap for the standard Series 1.
The rest is blood, sweat, tears and MONEY!
"It turned me into boost junkie. I'm just daft: fullstop."
He says he has done crazy stuff over the years, but his motto is "anything is possible!"

Anyway here's the Spec

Engine
2.1 Zetec with Mahle Pistons                  7.5:1 Compression ratio
Cam                                                                Kent CVH35
Balanced Bottom End
Turbo                                                                T34 Stage 3
Injectors                                                                Green
Cylinder Head                        Stage 3 with a multilayer gasket
Intercooler                                        AVA Custom made
Airbox                                Modified and re-positioned
Management                                    AVA fully mappable
3" full exhaust from 63 external housing on a T34 blower

Transmission
Gearbox                                                MTX75 from RS2000
Differential Unit                                        Quaife
Driveshafts                                Custom made
Clutch                        240 mm Paddle Unit
Mounts                               Vibratechnics

Suspension
Shockers                                                Koni adjustable
Ride height                                        Lowered 60mm
Bottom Arms                        MEF adjustable
Strut Brace                                OMP
Polybushes and RS1600 Anti-Roll Bar

Brakes
Front                                                        330mm AP Racing
Pads                                                Pagid Race Compound
Rear                                        280mm Disc conversion
Braided Lines

Wheels & Tyres
17" X 7.5" Ford RS seven spokes with Toyo 888s

He is forward (what you see is what you get), genuine, honest,
laid back, a complete petrolhead and a bit mad(some would probably say).
He is single, live's in his own house and is debt free,
(apart from a mortgage).
Everything he's got is bought and paid for!!

How does it perform?

0 - 60                                   6.11 seconds
0 - 100                                   11.71 seconds
1/4 mile            14.19 seconds @ 112.94 mph and has run a 13.8
Top Speed                                          157mph @ 6000 rpm

Power 262 BHP at the wheels @ 6000 rpm

He's been into "crossers" from an early age
and has had loads, currently he's got a Honda CRF450 which is good fun.
He works a lot!!!!

Future plans? His new project is 95% complete,
and he knows we will like it.

Stop Press

263 at the wheels

Feb 17th 2008

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