Toucan

Man why do they have to have it so far away...

Yea I had a feeling it was custom, never seen it on other escorts. I liked that car from day one, must be sweet to be the owner of it

Yea I just checked the haynes manual aswell, 5800rpm for all you 1300's but 6000rpm with my 1600 so it looks like I'm all sweet then, maybe a seirra 5spd later on though... When I can afford it

Yea I put a aftermarket weber twin troat downdraught on it and it made a huge difference, I had to take it off though because its in big need of a recondition. I've got extractors sitting in the garage too, once I put both the carb and the extractors on it should go like nuts

The old 1300 did 135 and it wasnt gonna get any higher than that, havent taken the 1600 past 100 yet.

Ohh man confooosing, everybodys posting at the same time

but mine is a 1600

So is mine now, but it still has the 1300 diff.

1300's have 3.89

1600's have 3.54

I wouldnt have thought there would be too much difference between the two.

Yea so if anyone can tell me that I'm gonna kill my engine by cruising at a constant speed of 100kms revving constantly at 4000rpm, then I'll go in search of a new diff. Otherwise can someone tell me my engine will be sweet an I should just put up with the loudness of it. Cheers.

Best answer i would have thought would be to sit on 100!!!!

Yea thats what I'm on about, when I do sit it at 100km it is constantly revving at 4000rpm, will I kill my engine doing this?

What are all you other escort owners revving at when doing 100kms? It's not just me is it

Well when I first got my esky I had no problem with driving out on open roads at 100km+ revving at 4000rpm+ but after my 1300 died I'm kinda scared to do that as much. I'd like to be able to go on long journeys but I dont wanna wreck my newly reconditioned 1600. I think I've got a 3.89 ratio diff.

So how bad is it for the engine to be cruising at 4grand? It sounds loud an I cant help feeling guilty

Dads first ride was a mk2 cortina... wish I had that, he also had three mk1 capris over the years, one of them would of kept me happy, sadly he sold the last one when I came cause he needed something bigger

Yea I'd wanna turn up an talk car with everyone but its just a pain that most of you are up in auckland. We could set the ball rolling with a Meremere meet sometime? but as kyteler pointed out it would be hard to get a group of young people to arrange a date so we would have to plan weeks in advance an beats on anyone who pulls out And yea a trackday at pukekoe or taupo would be mean sometime.

Hey I just got another idea, we need to have a meet and take a pic of all our cars together, then write oldschool.co.nz on it and post that around everywhere... kinda like [sik26] has her nelsoncars actually...

Nah didnt sit in it but yea its a mint ride. He is a member, he advertised it here but thats the only posts he has made. He hade a mk1/2 cortina with a 2L before the escort so yea he'd be right at home here

Hehehe yea I saw this on trademe an being a fellow Hamiltonian I went and met up with him Its one mint ride thats for sure. Hehehe I parked my esky next to it bet your all jealous

Yea stickers are a good idea to get peoples attention.

How did everyone here find out about oldschool originally??? I saw a link on another forum. If anyone here is a 'respected' member of another forum they could make threads advertising it??? Just an idea...

Yes indeed there are certainly lots of them out there, three of them at our school, all 4dr 1600's now too

What I wouldnt mind having is an ae86 trueno, they are getting very rare thesedays, I dont see enough of them

Hehe yea I thought they were rare as till I got my one, then they started popping up everywhere

I'm also young. I wouldnt bother paying somebody to do it, timing aint that hard aye, but yea if you dont have a timing light it probly would be best to get one. Its a good thing to know how to do and an escort is probably the easiest car in the world to do it on

...Carb tuning... thats when you wanna pay someone to do it for you lol

Welcome to the forums man. Most people with escorts use a 5spd Sierra box so that might be an option, not sure someone else here should know. Is a 72 still a mk1? I love the old mk1 Capris

Haha what a coincidance, same thing happened to me last friday night, rolled through an intersection an into a mobile an stopped right beside the pump I filled it up and it was fine, though my tank was cleaned out not long ago so there shouldnt of been any crap in there. I got told that you foul up your spark plugs if you fully run outa gas??? Havn't had a chance to check mine yet but its running sweet so maybe thats all a load of bull*hit.

From what I've heard you can't run sideys with the brake booster there, and looking at it you wouldnt think so either. Some people like taking out the booster, they say it gives a more "direct feel" for the brakes, aslong as you got a strong leg though

Not worth paying someone else to do it, less fun too.

I went from knowing nothing about engines to know all about engines

Jump in there and have a go, aslong as you label everything as you take it out you wont have a problem.

When I took my engine out i took just the engine, then took the gearbox off afterwards. Though when we put it back in we put both the engine and gearbox in together, i think it was easier this way rather than the first, even though the manual says otherwise. But yea I took out my 1300 recently so if you have any queries feel free to ask while the infos fresh in my mind

You may have already told us but what do they look like, I might be keen.

Did you say how much you got the seats for? And how much you reckon for the custom mounts? Id be keen to see pics and know total cost etc.

I paid $150 for my 1600 with everything but a gearbox. Bolts straight in, same mounts as my 1300, used my 1300 flywheel just because it suited the teeth on my starter and kept with my 1300 g/box. Only thing that gave me a little trouble was the sump but that was mainly because of it being a cortina sump. Its all going sweet now though