cortina-mk1

im sorry these 'heads' you talk of?

you mean engine cylinder heads?.

escort diff centers will fit into cortina mk1 housings

MK1 cortina's are leaf spring

....unless its from a early 'a' frame lotus cortina (1964 ish) the only mk1 model to have coil overs factory

as for differences between mk1 and mk2

it depends on years

MK2s had salisbury type diffs (tin plate at rear for crown wheel and pinion access) so centers are not interchangable

MK1s had 'banjo' type drop in centers

overall length of a MK1 diff to a MK2 diff (i think from memory) is different MK2s are wider track.

MK2s are leaf spring also but use different hand brake assembly and brakes

...SR20's would handle power more than the CA18 as the turbo version of the SR was built to be a turbo engine...

the CAdet is a specially built turbo engine

NA models are very different from the turbo variety

the sr20 also has NA version as well

just as it has a turbo version

both again differ internally from each other

Nice. So what revs does boost kick in and what revs do you limit at? Have been told the standard crank is good for 9200RPM you take it out there? Also would you recomend o ringing the block with it being so expensive?

Do you use the car as a street driver also if so what is the traction like and how have you set it up? Mini tubbed or anything along those lines.

Sorry bout all the questions ima nosey bugger

the car is driven regularly its fully registered. just over the christmas new year break we drove it down to the beach for a bit of a cruise

it can be a bit exhaust loud but we have a device we can fit that reduces exhaust noise

as fer the crank, i have never heard of one braking yet .. as for revs well if you are still running the hydraulic buckets you are restricted in revs as they dont function well high in the revs

if you wnat to rev them this high you must convert to a solid camshaft and solid bbuckets with shim adjustment

we have still retained standard hydraulic buckets so rpm is about 8500

boost about 4500 i reckon

the car is certainly NOT mini tubbed or squared up it still retains factory size wheel wells.

i think its way cheaper for you to fit a cometic MLS head gasket. they are pretty cheap part number found here

traction is pretty good. we race using drag radials and have so far done a 1.62 60 footer hoping to improve on this soon

Methodz100,

theres no problem id rather know if ppl were having some problems viewing or finding ther way around

it will indeed take a while if you are on dial-up

im sorry that it was frustrating you

the javascript menu will take a while to load before you could navigate around

i didnt think there was to many ppl left on dialup

its no drama to change a little line in the code

as fer the turbo is just an internal wastegate garrett roller with a .7 comp cover

diff info can be found here

just like the CA18 better

its compact size

valve train arrangement

nice sounding engine

and weight

we have an SR20det fitted to our lotus super 7 .... if we could change to a CA we would

have you looked here

ive posted some other pics from magazine here in australia

of anglias on this forum

http://forums.turbosport.co.uk/bbs/show ... hp?t=97280

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what sort of further info do you require?

im the person to ask

Is it just me or is that website a bastard to navigate around. Trying to read the old engine specs and it reloads to the new page every so seconds. Even with stop button pressed.

That was a few days ago when i read it. That engine in there would be an expensive one. Cant remember if i did or didnt say the turbo size its running? Any info there?

hello meth,

that page you speak of is meant to reload to the newer page thats why i have refresh set to 8 seconds..i will change that today for you ..so you can read it without interruptions

its just that it is old stuff and im gradually removing it

im sorry that it annoys you where else have you found it hard to navigate? i will look into it

oh ok

we have not raced since middle of last year.. so the 11.5 @123mph still stands

but sometime this month we will be back into again

dyno time next week.....we shall see

no its jewels

but geoff is here

not far away

nps

i thought you would have found it

as there was a link posted ...

i spose you have had a look at our mk1

from

http://www.cortina-mk1.com ?

ca18det powered

Name: jewels

Location: Victoria, Australia

Cars you own: Mk1 cortina's, GTR skyline

Mods to them: GTR is basically stock, but Cortinas are modified some very

Link to pics: you can get details and pics from my website http://www.cortina-mk1.com all pics are 56k friendly

How you found out about oldschool: a link from a forum and my stats page