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got a small part sorted ....the EFI ....i was on the hunt for a falcon 3.9 CPI and i remembered JWG had a plan for some that are no longer needed so i grabbed one.

as you can see they are pretty close to the Weber 32/36 and a mate has done this before using some adapter plates..

i just made a 8mm steel drill guide to the weber pattern and just redrilled the holes....bolted straight on.

just need to make a turbo hat for it

 

 

Hi all.

been a bit slack lately ...due to little motivation , family life , work and the 1.3........mmmmm1.3 xflow thats been bugging me a bit more than i thought it would. I have found a few 1.3 motor to buy but i know ill be disappointed.... but i also wasn't keen to make it a bigger project than it actually is ..so by the time i put a 1.3 in the hole i could spent a couple of hundy more and get a cert......but i dont want to cert just a 2.0 ...so made the decision last week to go for a cert for a pinto turbo...(have motors and most of the bits to do it....

so this gave me some motivation and i got a few things done 1.. got all the heater bits and bobs together and went threw them all .cleaned,fixed and just made better the lot even down to foam around the heater core so no air is wasted....i then got it all in the car (not as easy as i thought as the car was preface lft and now face lift  and its not a bolt in job) but its all in there ..2..got the dash loom in and all everything pluged in ..(even the glove box light)... cleaned all the dash parts and got it all back together .

so the motor setup ive decided on is a pretty easy setup that i have thought of for a while and not tried.

so for now a standard 2.0 pinto the manifold is one ive had for agers now a mate had made to take an evo turbo (plenty to chose from now).its a evo4 turbo on there now...internal wastage ...an intercooler to fit without hacking the front apart...3.9 falcon CPI (adapter for bolt to standard weber manifold).make a turbo hat for the top of it ...hale effect dizzy for trigger ..link atom x ecu. and coil on plug with built in ignitors.... then build a motor later on..

got a few things done  .....painted the guards and bolted them on properly ,  found a horn (that worked ) and bolted that on..got the grill and lights from the rusty wagon and cleaned them up ..painted the grill and light mounts..straightened one of the bumper brackets and bolted that on.....starting to look like a car......oh and some indicators  

thought i would pull the front subframe out and go over it .....glad i did.

it was only held in with 3 bolts ..NO NUTS and 2 out of the 4 subframe to chassis bushes ...also found the steering rack to be held on with 2 bolts (same side)    and 1 cut brake hose..and no sway bar mounts......just the sway bar

so found 2 new bushes and 2 pretty good ones...bolted the rack on ...put some better hoses on ..found all the nuts and bolts to bolt the subframe back in and sway bar....to be honest all feels nice and tight.  even bolted the brake lines on.

rear end next

got a few small things done today...the car is missing the battery tray and washer bottle bracket..  luckily i still had them from the white mk3..the tray wasnt in the best condition but i gave it a hammer and dolly,,wire wheel clean and a coat of paint.

 

grabbed some rattle can gloss black and flicked in a few places (95%of the engine bay was already cleaned and gloss black)..also got the wiper  mounted and the heater box mounted and sealed.

also flicked the front valance in

 

managed to arrange a mate to dig the other mk3 out and bring it home

i cleaned out all the parts i pulled from the rusty wagon and had a huge cleanup in the garage

its not to bad....small bit of rust in the rear valance ..not going to look to hard had it up on the forklift and the underside looks good....so the plan is to put it together and just rattlecan the bits that arnt black ........black and try and get it all legal and on the road for the new year...... miss driving a cortina or i should say miss having a cortina i can just in any time and go for a drive...so i might just start with checking the nuts and bolts in the rear end and front subframe.....then put brakes on and get them working.....then put a loom together and put that in.

on a side note ...i bought a new daily driver to replace the mk5   (wanted one for agers we almost bought one brand new when we lived in the uk).... kinda glad we didnt as i would have been disappointed with the check engine light coming on everyday lol.

but its a mk1 ford focus st170 ..and its fun as fuck to drive....huge brakes front and back (going to pull off and try on the cortina 300mm front 280mm rear)...quick rack steering ..recaro seats...factory 17s ..close ratio 6 speed and a cosworth played with 2.0 zetec with 170hp....the check engine light never puts it into limp mode so its cool...ive fixed most things but got one more to do...  ...make you want to drive like an asshole. 

Discussion here

 

ahhhhh the other mk3...

as some of you know i bought a parts car for my 4.1 mk3 im building ...this one when i got it.

i stripped every part i needed from that car done to the loom ,nuts and bolts and even the pre facelift dash...

i did put the facelift dash back into it tho.

i then added some seats i had sitting around and some random wheels and sold it off to a mate as he just had to have it......it meant that i got most of the parts for my 4.1 build for nothingin the end.

as it sat when i sold it. (minus lights and grill....at best it was a good rolling shell) and i did get the bonnet for it as well..

so some weeks later my mate asked if i knew any one that would buy as he just couldn't be arsed having a car around that didn't run....i knew it was a good car and just needed a facelift mk3 or a mk4 or a mk5 parts car and it could be put on the road pretty easily....as reg on hold.......(origanal black plates) registered with the mighty 1300 xflow tho......not the big block pinto....bugger...

i had sold my mk2 to another mate so i bought it back.....and put it in storage and kept an eye out for a parts car..... now i had seen a few around but they had been parts cars for others and i didnt want to have to find screws ,missing nuts and bolts ect ect....i wanted something complete   that had never been pulled a part..........so i could pull it apart and then i found it on trademe the almost  perfect parts car for my parts car  ...i say almost because it doesnt have a 1300 and manual box......its an auto pinto..

 

so i won the auction and the car was in invercargill i had 20 days to collect...and we did that yesterday... a mate bought a fwd fiat ducato (ex ambulance) converted to transporter on tuesday and we decided to drive it to invercargill on Saturday....so we loaded up a vc valiant to take done for his mate got up at 5am and hit the road....the lights died just after asburton ...fixed that. the auto played up going into dunedin.....fixed that (kinda) .got to invercargill and droipped the vc off....drove back out of invercargill to pick up the cortina that was 3 feilds deep off the road in a barn....no tracks just knee lengh grass and massive mud holes where the 2 hedges we had to pass were.( the guy had a tractor but it was broken down next to the cortina 

we only just got the fiat in there we had to gun it threw the mud full on duke of hazard style ...he showed us where it was and asked us to shut the gate and buggered off.....justb then it started pissing down we tried to air up the tyre and only got 3.....winched it onto the truck and then backed the truck under cover to strap it down....had to strap the bonnet down as well and the rear door..as well as the passenger sided doors.....then we tried to leave....but wet grass,pissing down rain,fiat fwd ,,,,no lsd or locker just the 1 tyre fryer ...took us and hour to get threw the 1st feild and didnt stop till we hit the road....broke a head light,,ripped the sump guard off .....shut the gate and headed home.the auto was having a fit....by the time we got to gay old gore we had it sussed flick it into neutraland back into drive and it would select the next gear......down shift worked ok ish.. so after 1200 ks 17.5 hours door to door its back at my mates place and here is the little sweet heart. 1 careful lady owner  ..never been raced or rallied rolled bowled or arseholed...has been on the road since 84 i think

i know right ...what a wee darling .but its all there on the inside and what all i need....even put a battery on and all the lights work the motor turned over but wouldnt fire....sorry about the long read but cheers

 

 

 

 

was having a big clean up today and making room for the wife to park in the garage (1st time in 20 years lol)..

put the diff in and slapped some rims on to roll it around but this is the closest its been to being on wheels in the past 2.5 years.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh winter ..strange time of year. work slows down and so does the extra cash....that and its bloody cold Leeds to me having a massive lack of motivation.

but in saying that i got heaps down in the lock down and have had parts arriving from time to time so i have got a few things done today.

calipers stripped , cleaned , painted and rebuilt with all new seals and pistons as well as a spacer kit.

all bolted up to the cleaned and painted hubs and axles with all new seals and bearing (spacer came with washers to move the caliper over a wee bit but had to drill them out to fit.)

bolted to the cleaned , painted and re bushed front end with new upper and lower ball joints..(used the old shocks and springs as they will be the very last thing i do when all the weight is in the car and i sort out height)....just need some tie rod ends and maybe look at doubling up the front swaybar or getting a bigger one made..and thats the front

i couldnt find a good set of XF injectors so found a cleaned set of BA XR6 ones ...fit really and same plugs..

i have also been thinking of going coil on plug ..so i grabbed a set from the same BA XR6 ..they fit well and with a mount made and a heat shelf i think they will do the job...the only issues i can think of so far is if the XF TFI dizzy (hall effect) isnt a good enough trigger for the link atom ecu.(might have to sort another trigger out.)

 

made a start on the clutch and brakes today.

the mk3 has a pretty big booster much like this in my mk5

but i decided to ditch the booster and just run the master by its self. once you remove the booster from the mk3 it has the mounting face complete with captive nuts to run just the master (think the early mk3s were non busted.)

for the hydraulic clutch setup i decided to use a nissan skyline setup including master slave and braided hose...once i decided where the master wanted to be i trimmed a small area and drilled the hole.

i made a small bracket to hold the bolts and make bolting up easier.

bracket in place and master bolted up.

i needed to trim the corner of the pedal box to clear the clutch master but figered the 3 other bolts and 2 up under the dsah to hold the pedal box was plenty.

the push rod for the clutch lined up right on the bend in the clutch pedal so i just drilled threw on a angle and welded a captive nut on.

all on and working as well as slave cylinder on (had to slot the holes) hose on (ne) also need a release bearing and thats that done.ed to make some clips to keep the hose out the way

now for the brake master ( removed the push rod from the booster as it matches the brake pedal) cut it down to work with the master cylinder.

the master cylinder had a clip holding a washer stopping everything falling out

so i found a washer same size but smaller ID so it just fits the shaft ...also put a slit in the shaft so i can put a circlip on the end and put it back together and used the factory master clip to keep the hole thing captive.

both mounted

all 3 pedals level and working as they should

now its just a case of do i clean and rebuild this master or find a newer mk5 one .

 

 

 

so i decided to make an accelerator linkage ..found a factory bmw one here in nz and it was $420 ..............wow.

thats more than what i payed for the ITBs ...it sits in the middle of them (what im after ) but the cable would have been over the rocker cover (not what im after ........and screw paying $420 for some steel bracket ..

the bmw one

i wanted to use a factory cable ...easy to replace and already fits the pedal...........one end sorted 

so i bought some m6 rod ends and some other random crap in the garage and made my own.

all in all works well.....sits in the middle of the ITBs ..the bracket and cable are hidden at the end of the motor ..the hardest part was making it all work with the 45mm of movement in the cable the full travel of the pedal allowed.....but i got there in the end....still needs 1 more small brace welded in and a small tune....but it owes me $20 and im happy with that. 

 

been a bit shit lately..getting back into work and sorting my inlaws out so they can get back to the uk..(and i can have my house back)

but in the past few weeks some parts have arrived.

i managed to swap some chrome i had for 2 sets of tail light lenses ...both pre facelift and facelift ....not mint and a few cracks and chips but better then the ones i dont have for this and the black mk3.

managed to some new upper front ball joints (still need lower)

havd to go hydraulic clutch so i grabbed a master and slave with hose from a Nissan of some sort.......will have to find room and make it work with the pedal..

front disc..... i ended up keeping ti simple...(.over thought brakes in the past and had issues  )...my mk5 has solid discs and ive had a trailer on that with another cortina on it and not had fade .also the aussie 6 cylinder cortinas had solid discs and later on a vented disc...the old type16 calipers arnt that bad its just the solid discs that are the let down...

so i went for 2.8i capri v6 vented drilled and groved discs and a caliper spacer kit.

and last but not least the link ecu.....its a pretty basic motor setup ..fuel and spark and i bought a new link (first ever for me all ways 2nd hand) atom x with loom air temp semsor and 1.5 map sensor....still need to grab a o2 and temp sensors ...it will be wasted spark  and the atom has enough to do batch fire on a 6 cylinder so that will work fine.