x pack?

[groulder]

hey all,

has anyone heard of an x pack and know what they are? are they essentially just bodykits and who made them?

i've heard a few things like buldged out front guards, vents in the rear quarters?

are these kits desirable on escorts?..i ask because i wonder if it's worth butchering an rs 2000 to put this kit on.

thanks.

[Mark Cogan]

Some info I posted in response to a similar question on another forum, hope it helps

"There seems to be some confusion about the different Mk2 Escort body kits, so I thought I would join in with what I think is right.

People (me included) usually call all the boxy kits x-packs; this was because Ford offered them as an option under their "Series-X" list of performance accessories.
They also offered polyurethane forest type arches as a Series-X fitment for Escorts as well, but nobody refers to that kit as an X-Pack
The box style arches as far as I am aware were developed for the Zakspeed cars first, Ford then used this style as one of the options for Series-X cars, and altered it to suit the RS2000 Nosecone. Ford did refer to this kit as being styled like the Zakspeed cars.

The original Ford kits (with the logo embossed in) were actually made by Fibresports in Basildon Essex, so if you want one exactly like Ford made it that is where to go, although they are reluctant to put the logo on now, I do know some people that have got them to do this though.

Series-X was a huge list of performance options for all current Ford cars, not just body kits, and it was most popular with the Escort MK2, when these parts were fitted by Ford the cars would come out with a Series-X decal attached, but they may not have had a body kit at all, many cars had suspension, GP1 motors and carbies, GP1 fuel tanks, vented disks etc etc. all fitted under the Series-X program, but never had the body mods.

The term X-Pack seemed to start with the way the public described the cars, as far as I am aware Ford didn't describe the cars as "X-Packs" so it was usually used to describe the box arched RS2000's as these were the most common and obviously modded Series-X cars.

There are a few different fibreglass companies in the UK offering both X-Pack kits and the rounded Zakspeed arches, there are also variations on these such as the doubleXX kit which is wider and was seen on Thunder Saloon race cars in the UK.
None of these are genuine except the Fibresports one as they made the originals.

Hope that info helps, as far as I know it’s accurate.

BTW - any kit made the same way as the original is a pain in the arse to fit, there is a huge amount of bogging needed to blend them in, some kits are available with a reverse flange and these are much easier (especially good for race cars)."

This car below is my RS2000 with X-pack kit

[Simon]

[Mark Cogan]

[Roger Miller]

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[Roger Miller]

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[Neville Bertwistle]

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[Mark Cogan]

[Roger Miller]

Pics

http://www.fordescortclub.ch/inhaltlink ... e/rene.htm

[banishit]

heres Marks ongoing resto on a Series X car

http://www.147gta.co.uk/rs/xpack/Album1.htm

[REXY]

This is pure sex, anyone got pics of a white one?

[Roger Miller]

[banishit]

what like these Rog, got a couple LOL, is this enough to be getting on with

the Series X Press pack 3mb

http://www.rs2000.plus.com/technical/fo ... ssinfo.pdf

and the series X press photo pack 10mb

http://www.rs2000.plus.com/technical/fo ... sspics.pdf

[Roger Miller]

[Roger Miller]

I recon this looks better.............

[Gary P.]

This is pretty tough too!

[alfablack]