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Cheers! I'm in Auckland, in between west and the shore. Does the Haynes manual have a decent amount of info? I've been looking at grabbing one myself, that way I can get it filthy and not feel too bad about it

Looking good mate, i love this thing. Hey do you know of any good books or sites that have standard measurements / dimensions for the essex motor? The one i bought seems to have been pulled apart previously and im interested to see if anythings bigger than standard

Motor turned up aswell so i made the mount for it and sent the rod away to be turned to fit into the motor. Welded the mount on and trial fit that shit i didnt get a pic with the rod in it but it fits, i swear

Righto, got a bit done these past few days. Started on the gas rails, I used a 2mm drill bit, If you do this USE A DRILL PRESS!! The drill press i have at work only takes a min size drill bit of 3mm so i had to drill all of these with a cordless. My wrist hurts so bad its like im 13 again. Idea of the spacing ive done. Theres no holes drilled 100mm from each end either. Then welded them in and also put some tabs in halfway through to help support the chambers.

Haha shit yeah! That's an awesome idea. I wish I had the brain power for that

Next up was to weld everything and make sure the lid and base fit together, After that i rolled up some bits to go on the base that the rod holding all the glorious meat can sit on so that its not rotating on a sharp edge Next up was the legs, their 600 high so it puts the top of the base at a decent height, and thats where its at now. Motor turns up on monday and ill be making up the elements and welding them in along with finishing the welding on the legs. *waits for spit roasting jokes*

So works pretty quiet this week and the next so ive been given the job of making 2 spits, one for a client and one for our workshop. Thought id put the progress of it up here incase anyones interested in the process. Luckily ive got a plasma cutter and press brake at work to make this a shitload easier. First marked out all my pieces on turbocad the cut them on the guillotine and plasma, This is after i folded the lips on the press brake, the holes in the one piece is for the gas elements to go through. Rolled the lid and tacked it together next, Folded the base and tacked those pieces in place...

Cheers! I've got a type 9 5 speed in it now and may have found a bell housing that will join the two but I've read that they don't handle the torque to well unless it's a later type 9 out of a v6 Sierra, so if one ever happens to pop up I'll look into that. Haha your grille still trumps my console. Should be getting stuck into the brackets next week so I'll chuck up a few pics and dimensions of whatever I can come up with

Wooop got the cortina a WOF on tuesday stoked as. Theeeen i kind of bought what i like to think as a 'the cortina got a warrant present' The famed 3L V6 Essex motor out of a Capri! Haven't had a chance to pull it apart yet but im not expecting anything perfect, it was cheap. From the looks of the sump however someones had it apart previously and cut and welded the sump either bigger or to fit into something. Ive also been playing around with the centre console. A while ago i bought a centre console gauge cluster out of a MK3 GT Cortina but it was a bit cracked in places and was missing the piece that went over the gear stick and joins to the piece that goes over the handbrake, i then found a MK5 cortina center console that just covered the gearstick and joins up to the handbrake cover luckily. So with some rivets and plastic putty i came up with this... I used a small sheet of ali to cover the top of the mk5 piece to make a tidy compartment. Along the line someones cut the rectangle holes in there (no one needs that many switches) so i made a cover and used those to mount it. The GTs dash is different to mine and slopes down steeply where mine is more like that of a mk2 escort so i made the cover to also try and fill the gap and bring the console into line with the dash. Painted it all black and used that carbon vinyl crap for my front cover (covers up the rivets and scratches really well i reckon) Now to make mounts to fit it to the tunnel and see if it looks any good in the car.

Cheers mate, I actually changed the springs the weekend after I got the car, it had horrible dobi springs in it I think and they where as hard as rocks. Here's the link to the discussion thread if you wana ask any thing else //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/34512-escortns-74-mk3-cortina/page-2#entry1145299

Go to znoelli man, they can custom make them to what you want

I painted my car with one of those supershit kits and it came out fine, just gota make sure you keep the tip clean. Get some wax and grease remover to get rid of all the grease and shit and use it to wipe everything down after sanding/before painting

Finally finished polishing and got it running mint with the electronic ignition. No more smoke out the exhaust either wooop

I ended up buying this one (I swung by yours yesterday to swap for the Bosch dizzy one) really helpful and easy as to deal with. Thanks heaps man.

Ah sweet many more hoons it is then! Ah very good, I've had my eye on these ones aswell. Cheers for that

Have been cut and polishing this thing in the spare time i have, pictures will be a plenty when i finish doing it and take some. Scored a decent exhaust system off tardme today. It was off a mk4 cortina originally but all i had to do was shorten the pipe where it bolts to the extractors. Its 2 1/4" piping with a flowmaster muffler in the front and a super turbo muffler at the back. Took it for a hoon and sounds heaps better. I did notice that when i had the revs high and foot to the floor it blew out heaps of white/greyish smoke, am i right to think that its all the crud and shit burning out of the 2nd hand exhaust ive just put on??? Ease my paranoia: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/34512-escortns-74-mk3-cortina/page-2#entry1145299 Also ive been looking into electronic ignition, What brands have people here used and whats the price like? ive been recommended this one: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/performance/electronics/auction-645106022.htm but i dont want to pay that much if one of the trademe 100buk jobbys will do the same thing.

Sweet, interested to see how everything goes. Haha have at it

I have insane amounts of jealousy because of that grille! have you decided how your going about your fuel setup? Sweet project

Mind if I slip in on this and ask some advice? My Cortina sounds like an old war plane, a horrible raspy twanging noise the whole time. It's got extractors coming off the pinto into either 2" or 2 1/4" piping then into a 400mm long bullet resonator halfway through, and right at the end there's a 250mm long bullet reso with just a chrome tip welded onto the end of it. What would be good to replace these with? I was thinking a muffler where the middle reso is and a longer reso where the end one is now. I want it to have a nice tone but nothing extremely loud like it is now. Am I anywhere near or just fishing in the wrong pond?

Cheers man. Haha yea i feel your pain, has happened to me way to much. Hey have you done anything with your exhaust? mines got 2" piping all the way but ive only got one bullet muffler mid way and a small bullet right at the end, sounds like someones gutted a muffler and welded it in. Im thinking of putting a muffler in midway (bout 400mm long) and just replacing the end bullet with a new one. any thoughts?

Cheers mate, will give those a go

Got it all back together yesterday after letting the paint dry for a week. Needs a polish tho but im stoked with how its come out. Now its onto tidying up the inside of it and sorting out things for a warrent, starting with the exhaust since it sounds like an aeroplane. anywho pics!!

Hey all were trying to bleed the brakes on my brother's car. the ignition is on so that the abs pump is going, but it's not pressuring the lines and when you put your foot on the brake pedal it fills the reservoir up with fluid. We are getting fluid out of the calipers but is this reservoir filling up something to worry about? Cheers Cars a 88 Sierra cosworth rwd

Got all the black undercoat on on saturday then blocked everything that arvo and this morning then this arvo got the door jams, boot lid jams etc in paint and clear. Now got to block some more, paint the inside of the doors and guards etc then bolt it all on and paint everything. Fuck sanding cars. Body in undercoat. Photos pretty pooey because id just finishing spraying clear, that shit gets everywhere To give you an idea of colour

Finally got some proper car paint on the hussy! Set up a paint booth in the olds garage and is working pretty sweet. Only have the sandable primer on at the moment (3 coats of the shit) then its blocking everything, 2 coats black undercoat, 2 coats colour, 2 coats clear. Its gona be a long process. Got some spacers made up aswell, 30mm thick, keen to get it all back together now and see how it will sit with them