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dude it looks fucking awesome ay. you should be proud of yourself

also thinking of taking the fan off and fitting a electric fan and thermo switch...

well had so much planned for this week both working on my mk5 and karls (i500gt) mk4 but man flu had differant ideas and i died from it........all week. so having not been out side this week and it pissed down for the first 3 days i had a look at the mk5 yesterday and found some good news and bad news. bad news ....it leaks.....alot. (kinda think its worse because its sitting higher at the front) . (and not sure where its leaking in the boot.) good news . judging but the amount of water sitting in the car (a good 2") the floors dont have rust holes. now with having water leaks and the carpet all wet the 1st thank that came to mind .......fix the sounds so i fitted a new kenwood stereo some old Carrozzeria TS-X350 speakers .some of these bad boys ...been sitting in the garage for atleast 7 years an amp and an electric guard mounted aerial.......for the wank factor. must admit the speakers sound awesome and no holes were made in the parcel shelf. then its time for some winter maintenance. so drained the water (no anti freeze in site.) ..pulled the thermostat and it was ugly. after cleaning up all the faces and boiling the new thermostat and fully flushing the system including the heater.it was time to go back together. the thermostat housing is slowly corroding away (should last till i build a new motor/slap something jappa in the hole) also cleaned out the overflow bottle and it was thick mud so all cleaned now....added some antifreeze and ran up to temp without leaks. heater makes a fucking noise so had a look and half the screws holding the fucker in are missing (makes me think if water is coming in from under it now) thats all for now.. water leaks will be next on my list.....oh and bearing whine.

i thought the mini and the old vauxhall viva stuff was the same....like 101.6 or somthing like that

all in due time mate..

talk shit about it here....cheers

thanks to Karl a nice set of v6 ghia wheels fit perfectly

discussion here https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/55764-dpns-mk5-cortina-discussion/&tab=comments#comment-1828914 hi all. thought i would start a thread on my mk5 it is kinds daily driver/fixer upper as i go. as title states its a 83 mk5 ghia with 2.0 pinto power house.. its wof reg and all in all it drives pretty nice and starts 1st time..... when i bought it it had 15x7 JBW minilite replica kinda wheels and flairs(very well made) but all thats not my thing...... the inside and engine bay are pretty clean and the body work is ok....ish has a few dents and marks and a lot of surface rust the worst part would be the left front valance where it meets the guard. so 1st thing was to remove the wheels and flairs and get them sold and go back to some form of standard wheels.

Don't do them sorry mate . Only 10ft ones around work is ones we made for storing shit.

looks good man......colour looks close to what i painted my mk1 van.

Pretty sure they are water/light tight...if not easy to fix. But yes they are normally $3200 but I put the person on to the guy at work.. ^those are the prices....pretty good I thought as well

yeah i work for lpc a s a container repairer a mate was asking the other day so i do have up to date price. 20ft $2000 .in high demand 40ft standard $2800 40ft high cube $2900 pm me if you want the guys details. cheers dan

a dude down the line bought the shell for a drag car but i dont know what happened to it from there... was talkng to a dude down that way about cortina parts we got on to old fords we have owned and he some how has the plates , tags and cert for it...got them for 150 bucks

good man.. i forgot all about the mk1 wagon..... i miss my van with the ca18 most days and would do it again in a heart beat

2 things dude 1st ....so glad someone we know got this .....as stated it is a car of legendary status and deserves to be loved and bought back to the road in a daily manor .. and yes mate you have FUCKING plowed threw the work..keep the up dates coming man. 2nd....still got the mk1 ay still got the CA as well?

yes Bart and we have spoke about this so much over the year that im just going to do it and then we can do some fine tuning/fidling with shit once its all there and running.

yeah man.....but i might have enough 11mm left over.

all suggestions are welcome mate ... i should have given you more information the turbo is in the factory position and its threw a decent size front mount into the TB and then into the SC the intercooler i mentioned that will be under the intercooler is a heater core from a old mini reason for this is outlet of the SC is 105mmx105mm and the mini heater core is 107mmx107mm and just under 70mm thick...i was planning on having a trans cooler up by the oil cooler and a smallish tank in the under the guard .(did think about coiling up a meter of copper for the tank and throw ice in there so its kinda like a cooler for a keg).so it is water to air .....oh and also the mini core is nice and fine so air flow dosnt hit bunt edges. did look at mounting the SC on its side like you say but the room in the cortina engine bay is pretty slim

its fucked Bart

been playing with a spear motor at work when its slow.

thanks for the offer mate but ive got some plate to use..cheers

cheers man. i have gone to 12mm plate as the 8 mm i had had way to many imperfections and would need a hole heap of surfacing.. im not going to use the factory m90 vacuum port im going to make a area that i can tap holes for all the vacuum needs. this is on a 1ggte that im compound charging ..im going to make the manifold from scratch and incorporate a small DIY inter cooler under the m90 outlet just to try and get a last effort at cooling the charge..

dude look what just popped up on a facebook page for sale

was just going to say that ^ and also i got mine from BNT

not 8mm but might be able to get 6mm and i think i have 10-11mm at home