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bolts? what bolts? it's cabled tied to the exhaust mounts... na but seriously, I got the universal joint replaced on the original mk3 drive shaft, I felt as that the drive shaft was too important to be messing around with it.

Yep... I tried it, it fit perfectly except the centre mount was in a slightly different place, I got the UJ replaced in the end.

Hey, Basically failed a wof because of a worn out universal joint in my mk3 cortina, I have a complete manual 86 sierra wagon rotting out on a farm, does anyone know if the sierra drive shaft will fit in the cortina to save me from having to replace the universal joint? The cortina has a sierra gearbox in it and both cars have two piece drive shafts Cheers

I have a sr20de sitting in my escort, it looks like a similar conversion if there's anything I can help with

I don't really wanna say at this stage incase something happens and it doesn't go ahead, once stuff does starts happening though I'll put it up in the projects forum

Yea, I have to stretch the budget a bit but in the long run I think its worth it

Cheers for all that, I've since decided to ditch the pinto, I'm going for a more modern engine. I'll let you guys know how it goes Thanks

Hi, I'm going to be getting a 2L pinto rebuild and worked, before I go to the engine re builders Id like to have a fair idea on what and where the best places to spend the money are, I know this has been asked a few times already, except I have a real budget and I'm not asking for 200hp+ lol Anyway, I've got a budget of around 3g give or take, a complete 205 motor + plus a mate has a 1600 pinto head which has been mildly ported with 2L valves for sale cheap apparently. Um it's going into a mk2 escort which is already set up for a 2L and will be accompanied by a 5 speed sierra box also. So the question is where and what should I been spending the money on and a estimate of how much power to expect? Cheers

Really old swing set plus block n tackle It did the job, would have done less damage to the 323 if the swing set been slightly taller lol

That would have been too far out of my price range, I'm not supposed to be spending money on this car, and I've almost spent what the car cost me haha.

That probably was it, I wasn't talking directly to him, I asked about both incase one was cheaper than the other.

Thanks for that, ordered some 4-1's, the guy at coby didnt want to sell me 4-2-1's for some reason, but that doesnt matter.

I'm going to be getting some new extractors for my cortina. Trying to decided which would suit my car best, so far everyone I've asked have had a different opinion on them, with no real explanation. 4-2-1 or 4-1 on a rather standard 2L pinto? Cheers