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around $200, ring your local cam supplier and ask em. you can get away with using your old followers if they are in very good order. Look closely for any pitting or wear, and you'll have to blue the cam lobes to make sure they wipe in the correct place. If you decided to get new followers don't buy the 'long pad' versions. These are shit and are designed for both the 1600 and 2L without working properly in either. Standard ones from Ford are best or similar.

$130-150 bucks for a Kelford camtech regrind in chch...I don't know your local cam outfit. Makesure you get a relatively high lift, short duration camshaft. Don't buy secondhand or old ones and you need new cam followers ideally too.

With a standard 205 block and a lightened flywheel you can rev to 7500 but this is entering danger zone after that. Although I rev'd my cortina block off the clock many times for a few years without much damage. I mean totally off the clock! I took it apart and the only damage was no.3 piston ring had blown. Always a gamble of course, but the pinto can take abuse man

The cortina is handles worse than your escort cos it's heavier and uses wishbone suspension rather than Mcpherson struts. But lowering it with stiffer springs and replacing the wishbone bushes will change this As for power, the 2L pinto can make as much power as you want to spend money on it really....to a limit of course. For cheap a set of extractors and a 2.5" exhaust and straight through muffler is the first thing to do. Next I'd put a fast road cam and a 32/36 DGAV weber carb if it's not already got one. Quite possible it does and it so out of tune it's not doing much... Get the carb tuned with new plugs, leads, and electronic dizzy from a serria. Make sure you're not running one of those naff ramflow airfilters cos they're shit. Get a K&N or something that's not foam to filter the carb and some cold air duct. As long as your engines in reasonable health this is about all you can do without taking you engine out. If you want to do this then the options are endless mate! head work, porting, rasing compression and twincarbs, lowering compression fuel injecting and turbocharging will get you the numbers! Or put the 2L into your escort

Quite possible the coil, those standard lucas models are fuckin shit. Get a MSD blaster and fire some decent spark in there.

yeah you can..if you can find vented capri discs..if you have some hook me up! yeah you have to get a flange cut to space out the caliper but you can get a engineer to lasercut one or get one from burton in the UK.

the Serria will be metric thread and the escort is imperial so the brake lines will have to be changed. The Serria strut also uses a different offset then the escort and this is likely to screw you. Your wheels won't fit.

hehe I remember my dodgy spring games, once my mate told me the cheapest way to lower the rear leaves was to turn the middle leaf upsidedown and clamp it in the vice...and put the bolt through it....and release it slowly. The idea is that one leaf pushes against the other and makes it flat... but no. you undo the vice and it forces against the other so strong it shear's off the nut and fire's it into the garagewall like a bullet! fuckin nearly killed myself. Now I've learn't not to be a cheap cunt when it comes to modified cars.

yeah it was a 2 door. got pics but I can't put em on here unless they're aready on the web, so that sucks.

I had a 1100 esky and it was slower than a fat lady running. Put in the 2Lt. It's was actually my GF's and I crashed it fuckin gutted bout that cos it was sooooo mint even had the receipt from 1969 $3000 from Ford.

my mates RX3 moddies fit on my capri but they've been slotted.

What ever you start doing up is likely to stay for a while. That's why people end up pouring heaps of money into small engines. They don't plan on doing that it just ends up that way. You do a bit here a bit there and a few years later you've got this wickedly expensive 1300 haha. Been there done that. Really the 2L is not more complicated than the 1600. And the extra 200cc's really helps to start with. Plus being a solid lump of Iron they can handle pretty big power. However, there are good reasons to stick with a 1600. They rev better, they are much lighter and make for a fun poke in an escort I reckon. Plus you can make decent power out of em and in a light esky it can go pretty well. My mate had a mk1 2dr and with a 1600 with a capri carb on it, a cam, higher compression and a port job it used to haul ass!

I'm not God but thank's anyway. I'll see what I can do.

....I saw a '70's lancer with a Evo engine squeezed into it in Zoom magazine once. It was a real sleeper weapon cos it looked completely standard. I wonder if I've still got it lying around...

hehe I am a nob. don't even know what year it is! Time go's so fast I get confused sometimes. 2004 still sounds way to futurama to me.

at 24 years it's definately getting there!...but I kinda know what ya mean. It's funny all the 80s jappas like Cordia turbos and Pulsar EXA's are old school now.

oh I assumed we were talking about a pinto..? anyway it was in his capri. Did it go a lot harder than what...? a turbo? no...but it definately went a lot harder than n/a considering his internals were basically standard. You could ram it down a carb but at the time he used an adapted toyota 2t efi. Power was 140hp at the rears.

My mate put a SC-14 blower from a Toytoa 1G-GZE on his, making a adapter plate to drop down the alternator. Pretty easy and worked a treat.

yeah the 18's looked stupid in my opinion...just too big. But still a pretty cool car, I liked the colour. It had a n/a pinto in it with the injecion of a Granada. It wasn't a exact fit though he had to modify the runners. It looks just the same as the Serria item. I'm pretty sure it was an OZ car cos we have less Granada's here than injected Serrias! Dude, the easiest thing to do if you already running a pinto is get a Serria efi manifold from the UK. Unless you manage to get all the sensors, loom etc forget the factory computer and get an aftermarket one... Or, my mate managed to use a toyota 2tgeu setup on his, but it was pretty hoarey. You have to chop off the runners & graft them onto the ford flange. Can work though.

Actually Rminoz, there's been a lot of debate about the 205 cosworth block thing. I was at a engine specialist once who showed me that the cosworth block was in fact different to the 205. The frost plug on the 205 is a lot bigger than the cosworth, he had them side by side. Anyway, yeah I know the 205 rods arn't anything special I wan't comparing them to forged items, but they are better than a standard pinto rod, and if you're using them for a turbo application like mine that doesn't rev over 6,000rpm they're fine.

Yes, here's a complex physics diagram from my website I use to explain the relationship between power and torque. [/img]

ummm, no offense but your mistaken. The 205 block is the best. It has stronger rods with thicker webs, and thicker cyclinder walls, and generally 5kgs of strengthening. They also feature a oil drain well for those inclined to turbo their model. And no tappets on a Pinto?? well,..don't know what i've been adjusting all these years!