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also what some people completely overlook is that your shitty lucas temp guage could be on the piss, i have had this issue before cos british

does the radiator get hot? when its running does the top hose feel hot and the bottom hose substantially cooler? if the bottom hose is also hot id say your radiator will need a cleanout etc, if the top hose is cool them your thermostat is likely shit / sticking. could be a few causes, start at the easy / cheap ones and work your way to the hard. i would start with new t-stat, then radiator then if that fails potentially head gasket, ole mate mechanic may not have torqued you head down correctly etc etc

soo no update for a wee while, I have ditched the 3k-b bigport head, the corrosion is too deep and the head doesnt have much fat left on it to mill, the ports are wayyyyyy to big for this engine and it also stripped 3 rocker bolts due to excessively had double valve springs, doesnt need them as my cam only has 260 tho of cam lift, shes only mild. Anyway i have given my engine builder a mint 3k-b small port head, so hes throading under all the valves, porting the exhaust ports a fair bit and just tidying up the inlet ports to try and match them to this - goodbuy single side sucker hello double doort doorts! i have two DHLA 40s to go on here but the mani needs a bit of work before that, its been ported to suit 45s so its getting built up and it has a corner broken off the head mounting flange so that needs repairing, all worth it as i got the manifold with linkage incredibly cheap. it does have a terrible port entry angle, like almost a right angle, but engine builder will port the head to try and reduce this. so yea just waiting for jimmy motorsport head work now and should be doing skids in a month or too, also have acquired a new cool piece of gear for this but i wont post it up until its in my sweaty little paws!

Jesus Christ Neal your worse than me

Starlet lads, anyone have a 4.3 or higher diff they would want to sell? I'm just after the CWP but will buy whole diff of need be, can be locked or open as I'm putting the CWP on a fairy dust sprinkled rocking horse shit centre

Speaking from experience of myself on sparkles drive this thing does good burnouts, even with flat tyres. We pumped it up, but it's stuffed. Thing runs pretty good, just watch out for the sticky throttle cable, sparkle wound up in the fence / bushes because of it.

ha you and 50million other escort piners

I could run over from Feilding on Friday to grab them if needed but I would give cam a txt Al, that's just down from his work and he could grab for you. If he's busy I'll def shoot over and grab for ya

Also can anyone with a workshop manual please confirm that my block is a 4k? Stamped number reads 6307616 Cheers

so im calling on some 4K experts at the moment to identify my head and the spare head i have, its weirdly different, is about 80 thou shorter (may have been planed) has wider water jackets, a much much shallower combustion chamber and little knubby tag bits on the sparkplug protrustion bits. this is my spare head that came with the car, note the lugs- scribing on spare head combustion chamber of spare head - current head combustion chamber - numbers on current head (note the weird place for it to have cracked and been welded where the RTV is, this was leaking from the sparkplug bucket- And another hori fix this car has had, think i may have found why cylinder one is lean, note the weld in the water jackets, this must have corroded and been welded up but not dremeled out, so will be running much hotter than the other cylinders

Yea never did that when we checked the rocker bolt tourqes on Saturday but I'm guessing the damage was well already done

Soo at the event on the weekend the car was using a bit of water, and after about 3-4 rounds started to get a fair bit of temp creep when sitting at the startline etc, was all good when it had a foot full, so we suspected a mildy blown head gasket. Whipped the head off tonight to find this! Some pretty severe pitting in number 4 combustion chamber causing the HG to leak, as you can tell by the rust on the valves this is where our water is going! old fella reckons give it a good skim and bang another HG on and shell be right, so will drop it off to my local head magician. Other areas of concern here are also that numbers 1 and 4 seem to be quite lean and 2 and 3 quite rich, my guess is that this is due to the single sidedraught have much longer runners for inlet ports 1 and 4, dont know how ill solve this problem. Other thing that made me lol a bit is that someone has done some pretty serious port work here, as you can see in the photo below which shows the ported head vs a standard 4k head, but then they had not modified the inlet gasket so there was a massive restriction between the inlet manifold and the head! also concerns me a bit as the inlet ports have been taken out quite a bit but it still has standard sized valves, which reading suggests is actually detrimental to airspeed etc, so may look at getting bigger valves but dont really wanna drop too much coin into it at the moment.

Not a hell of a lot going on lately due to the purchase of rally car, I have starlet stripping the escort and am just doing little bits in spare time, body is looking further and further gone.

this was my father in laws fastest run in the car of the day, about 35 years of rally experience, think his fastest run had 5 seconds on mine. His braking is much later, figure 9 exit much better and confidence on the gas down the hill and around the off camber right hander at the bottom of the hill was much higher https://youtu.be/-EzRFD2MGTA

yes i learned off the thumbs thing when i got a little whack, my co driver here was unable to drive for about 4 years of his rallying career due to a shattered wrist in a rather large escort end for end, that steering wheel is just quite slippery to hold without thumb grip

Had my first event on the weekend, just a wee gravel autocross, car went really well. Had a bit of temp creep at the end of the day so suspecting a mildly blown HG so will whip the head off this week. Things to do before next event are get rid of the bloody locked diff cos it's shit and sledges and makes your butt pucker coming off the gas downhill and to also get a better ratio diff as it has a bonneville salt flat spec 3.7 which is a million times too tall. I didn't realise starlets even came with a 3.7! Anyway vid for lols, yea I come off the gas a bit but it was my first event. Also take it easy on the sweeping uphill right hander before the oil drums as its really easy to get tied up on the in bend and the other side has a lake at the bottom of a short cliff. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CSi0zU4ZU

Just looked at the ram at pram, pramram. Looks very tidy, sign reads "$23500 ONO,1995 Dodge Ram, 5.9 v8, auto, overdrive and hard lid for rear tray. Ph 02108657303

cut the gussets off and make it look like you never had them there maybe? so stupid, gusseting Capri coilover struts is standard standard group 4 escort suspension building trickery, pretty much every good rally escort has had it done, whack LVVTA, you whack...

So i cracked into the rather large amount of rust on the lower a panel last weekend. Shes not pretty but meh, rally car. Cutty cutty ( a lot more acutally got cut out, but forgot to photopotato that) Someone had done the good old sheet of tin and some jbweld trick, yea little johnny! Weldy weldy have since seam sealed and painted it. Im just gunna fix pieces in between events so it doesn't become a garage ornament. Once all visible bad bits are fixed up ill give it a new coat of jam. Currently have front struts out, am banging new brake lines and cleaning the calipers etc, will buff pistons and jam them back in, fill standard shocks with 20 weight oil for stiffies. gunna look into possible strut upgrades soon to get bigger brakes, but i want to be able to still run 13 inch wheels, as i have a constant supply of cheap 13" rally tyres. Anyone have any ideas here, richie? Ned etc also on the look out for some old rims to bang road tyres on for tarmac events, don't want jap spec, just awesome ham 80s nz spec. Anyone got some tridents / turbos / hotwires around they wanna sell? Churrr

That carb looks like it's been part of a twin carb setup, you will need the appropriate throttle "cam" type linkage of your running a single. I would have thought a single 40 would be a bit small for a 1600 crossflow, most run twins, even my 1300 k series engine runs a 45mm single. You will have to get all the jets/emulsion tubes/chokes for what you are running

Maybe try some museums / private collections and see if they want a sweet old unmolested Datsun in the mix?

I would imagine if you wanted cheaper secure storage that it would be far more economical to bring it too a cheaper town where storage is cheaper. Something like wanganui etc that still has good secured alamed storage places

Just saying that KY is a bit of an oldschool good cunt for offering a spot in his shed if your desperate

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