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  1. hay man doesnt sound to good i had a 2lt ford motor that was stuck soild took the head and all the pistons were down abit (none at TDC) and my old man told me to fill the bores from the pistons up with coke and leave it till its all gone get a big bar on the crank and turn it over and that worked. so if all esle fails try coke dan
  2. yeh welcome mate and you have one hell of a car to start with my 1st car was a mk 1 escort.... ahhhhhh i remember the days when we use to ........... yeh good luck mate and keep us posted. dan
  3. was good man a few very nice fords there and in the sun your cortina has a mean colour change bro. shame there wasnt meany escorts but all in all some realy nice ford. well worth $2 haha dan
  4. this sux i think im going to be the only guy to drive a holden to a ford show hahaha
  5. yeh man i use to have a mk1 esky witha 3l v6 and a holly carb went fuck well. realy good mator if its one of them mate.
  6. well your donig a shit hot job so far mate. theres a topic on turbosport about doing the rear panel(you have probly seen it) as long as everything matchs up just weld the sucker in haha
  7. fuck man your cars coming along realy well . the rear panels from palmside are about $265 keep up the good work mate. almost makes me want to go and caryy on stripping the shit from the bottom of mine hahaha .....almost dan p.s your car looks just as good on turbosport aswell
  8. just seen these on trade me http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 235652.htm if any one has a ford 1600 i would keep an eye on these i use to have a set on my old 2lt and they work so well. and the set up on these is pretty mean looking. dan
  9. which day or both? i dont hav a cortina but would like to have a look at my escorts brothers and sisters. and yours is still a cortina (MK1ONP) and fucking nice one at that.
  10. hi mate this may help you a bit.its a guy in the uk on turbosport forum that has takin the shell of his fwd escort and put it onto a sierra frame. have a look it may help http://turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?t=118745 good luck with your project mate and keep us up to date. cheers dan
  11. yeh do it bro theres loads of poelpe that have don it in the uk for the auto cross racing. sticking gsxr1100 in minis and huabusa motors. i remeber reading some where about a guy that put 2 busa motors in his mini one up front and one in back and the thing was so brutal on take off he said it was like hav your face pushed threw your skull how cool is that. oh and you have the bike gearbox for nice clutchless changers
  12. yeh i would have said just re-drill them mate.
  13. where did you get your hands on the baonnet is it crbon film or the full holly shit ive got a carbon fiber bonnet on my mk1 jobby. i dont think it will sute your car man but i am more then willing to take it of your hands if need be. dan
  14. lookinh good mate. was it a bitch to unpick the strut plates? and the bubbles look mean man heaps of room under there now a dan
  15. 63swb..... if your in chch give me a text on 021 2140427 and ill come and give you a hand 1 night this week if you want and if we do smash it ive got 2 at home. cheers dan
  16. All those above steps are what the dudes at novus did to mine...the apprentice was pushing on the corner and i said... "are you meant to be pushing on it like that" and then it snapped........................ aslong as your only pushing on the rubber then it will be sweet. ive even banged the rubber as it goes round with my hand and i havnt had 1 snap yet. it is easy to do once you get started
  17. or you can get 2 poeple and some rope. 1 put the rubber on the screen 2 feed some thin rope aound the window (in the grove that will seal it to the body) and just make sure both end of the rope hang out in the bottom of the screen in the middle. 3place the screen onto the car and makesure both ends of the rope are inside the car. 4 get your mate to push down on the screen from the outside and from the top 5keep the pressure on and pull 1 side of the rope as your mate keeps pressur on it 6keep pressing as your pulling the rope and the rubber will lift and slot into place. just do that all the way around the screen till the top and pull with the other but of rope till they meet at the top and pull them out. and your screen will be in. or you could pay someone to do it but ive always done mine this way. hope that helps.. dan
  18. d.p.n.s

    r1 carbs

    just mount the r1 pump in the engine bay but you will need the r 1 pump other wise they can be a pian in the arse to set up and having the pump would just eleminate one of the set up prob.
  19. SORRY BUT THIS IS A BIT OF A LONG UPDATE READ AT YOUR OWN RISK ok to update on my mk1 well to be honest ive done fuk all i made a rollover jig out of wood and to my amazement it worked. i have completely stripped the shell. it was a pain in the arse to get the doors off but with some heat and a FBH the came flying off. i striped the doors out and started to strip back to bear metal and to be honest the doors are mint. so ill prime them and put to one side. i was going to do the boot and bonett but have decided to sell them in sted. ok so Methodz100 told me of a project he had seen were a guy was done the same as what i was planning so i searched the web and found it. it belongs to a guy called Brad here in chch heres a pic he makes fiberglass panels for cars and does a fuking good job aswell some of the best ive seen his buisness is (PSL)page services ltd 03 3238662 and hes a shit hot guy aswell. so i contacted Brad and he let me come and have alook at his car and pick his brains about a few things. he also told me what he would do if he was starting again. so armed with what i had planed and some advice from a guy wwho has done most of what i had planed heres the plan. well im going to buy a vl cominwhore with the rb30 and 5speed (when i find one cheap) *i will modify the front to fit the vl crossmember and struts,sterring rack ect *next i will take the vl diff and if its drum will change to disc the cut all suspention off till is just the diff and i will tub and turret the rear and make my own 5 or 6like setup *weld some barcing in the car and cut out the fire wall(just abit) *then ill take the rb30 and box and sit it on the vl crossmember(will have to modify mounts to fit modifyed crossmember. *then i will cut out the complete fire wall and tunnel with g,bos mounts out of the cominwhore. *the cut out the same in the mk1 *bolt the g,box to the g,box crossmemberand lift till its the smae hight as the mk 1 floor and tac the tunnel and wall inplace. and then ill go from there but you get the idea. dan heres some more of brads car
  20. look at the escort in my sig it cant get any worse
  21. belive me mate this one will not be on trademe ive been looking for one for so long to do this and now it starts.
  22. so just to up date. i havnt done much just got the doors off with a lot of heat and a FBH i stripped out both doors to just the shells and there is little to no rust in them so ill just strip all the paint and pimer them and put them to one side. ok so the BIG PLAN ive been thinking about motors and looking around with my tape measure and doing some calculations and here it is im going to buy a vl comodore rb30 manual. i will use the complete front end and modify it and the front of the escot till it all fits and use the vl power steering rack so that will be 5 stud front with bigger brakes and the rb 30 will bolt in.(and ill turbo it) next ill take the vl diff cut all the shit of it and if its not disc ill change to disc and make up my own coilover 5 or 6 link setup so thats 5 stud rear with discs all round. then ill cut the complete gearbox tunnel gear box mounts and drive shhaft tunnel out and wield into the escort and just go from there. i will have to drive the vl for a while till i can aford another car so most of this will be later this year. but like i say this is the plan fukin yeha i finaly know what im going to do
  23. i wish mate ive only managed half thats so far. but ive had an idea some poeple will hate this but at the and of the day its my car so i was going to use vl commodore front end and diff so i think ill just buy a whole vl with the rb30 use all the gear i need and use the motor do do the mocking up. then sell the motor and any other shit i dont need and get the motor i want.hahaha then its fuking yeha. i know sound so simple a
  24. its just that in the past when ive been building projects i always had a pick a part on my doorstep and it was so handy to walk in there with a tape measure and and get a heap of differant parts that might fit and it cost fuk all.
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