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Cheers Dylan, it's good to see these beast getting abit of attention.

No sorry i didn't bother to weigh them. I would of thought they may of been a fair bit heavier than std though, was thinking of finding a after market V8 push rod as they are made of good material and just aboat come in every lenth you would want. Cheers

Hi karl got your text the other day, got no money on the cell. Still keen as to swap those wheels for interior parts. Cheers

Discussion page //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/23185-beans-mk2-cortina-efi-mk1-cortina-efi-turbs/page__hl__%2Bbeans+%2Bcortina I bought this back in 02 as a bare shell {rolling}. It was originally going to be a pre 65 race car. So it came with the six point cage in it. I fitted my frount struts and double sway bar into it and my engine i had just built. Seats are out of a WRX 1600 xflow, Ported cylinder head, 41mm inlet valve, 32mm exhaust made from mazda Fe valves Block was bored to +60 and fitted with 1300 pistons to get comp up to 10.5-1, new cam bearings Crank ground and balanced, new mains ,big ends and small end bearings Cam shaft was ground to F12 spec about 440 thou lift can't remember duration Lightened flywheel,balanced Twin 40mm delortos Regraphed distributor Set of flows and two and a quarter exhaust Mk3 xflow gearbox with a anglia bellhousing to keep hydraulic clutch, had to modifiy gearbox tunnel slightly was happy with the power for about 6 months but carbs where going out of tune all the time work mate and i would play with them every night. We had his wide band O,2 sensor in it,fuel ratio's where all over the show After driving the mk2 with 122hp i guess this may of made 85hp on a good day if i was lucky. I built this trailier and sold it for $1800 still feel shafted aboat it, the joys of paying bills. It was very handy as you will see in next photo, as the cortina became a little unrelaiable. My girlfriend [wife now] didn't like going anywhere in the cortina as it use to have a isuse everytime we drove it. but shit was it entertaining. As you can see dellortos fucked me off. At work there where a few sr18 inlet manifolds lying around so i made a addapter manifold to go from the head to the sr plemem, toyota 4a fuel rail and injectors, sr20 throttle body and i put a toyota 4y electronic distributor internals into a xflow dizzy Link lem5 ECU, commodore fuel pump. I made the exhaust manifold out of steam pipe, the one that is in this picture is the second one i made, bigger primarys where needed as it had no problem reving to eight grand, as soon as this was fitted engine temps dropped 10degrees. I had also fitted a number of turbos to it. I started with a rb20 turbo was real good for low down but tipped over up top so we thought we would give a Vg30 turbo a go but it was shagged, then we came across a single scroll CT26 turbo off a toyota Land Crusier, perfect it started making boost aboat three and a half grand and didn't run out as it was quite big. My work mate [allan] use to tune it for me on the road using a wide band O2 sensor. Then we relised it is basically impossiable to tune, having no detonation gear and trying to do the fuel, not being able to load it long enough to fine tune. In saying this we estimate it made close to 200hp this is only a estimate i never managed to get it on a dyno. These pictures above where just taken before i sold the engine to a guy with a mk2 escort. Can't even remember how much i got for it now, i think around $2500. So i went and bought a CA18det loom and computer. The engine has been sitting around while i have been working on the mk2 cortina over the last year and ahalf, but lately ive managed to get a small amount of progress done. Engine mounts are half made still need to be trimed up and gusseted. Now there will be a few people thinking why didn't you put a SR20det in it as you can just aboat get any after market performance part you would ever need and they make good power. But im not real keen on the cylinder heads on them. I think the CAdet has good potential in the cylinder head with some porting. Im also doing a solid lifter conversion as ive got sum GTR cam buckets and retainers i will need to buy some manley stanless steel valves as they will need to be a fair bit longer to make up for the missing lifter. The pysical size size of the CA was the main reason i chose it though, they are a quite compact light engine which is always a plus. My workmate [allan] as mentioned above has built a CA20det that made 400hp on 15psi, so that was enough convincing for me.

Yeah Gaz im a engine reconditioner at Caraid in Christchurch. Ill get some photo's and info on the mk1 up soon, i orginally had a 1600 xflow efi turbo in it. Its a little rough as i built it up aboat five years ago. I have now decied to to put a Ca18det in it for reliability.

Discussion page http://oldschool.co....+beans +cortina This is the day i purchased the beast for $300. The next day with plenty of enthusiam ditched battery mount . Not much happening on the cortina as ive got the evo in bits. Its in needs of abit bog already cut most of the rust out, most of it was in the sills . Got sum primer on the beast finaily, it's been a while cuming as im not much of a panel beater. I got the car primed at my mates panel shop so cheers to the boys at RO Jones in Christchurch they are also going to paint it once ive rubbed the guide coat off as you can see its all painted now, im quite eager to get it back together Here's a shot of the cylinder head im going to run it's a 1600 xflow head with a combustion chamber machined in to it, doing this will enable me to run a 3sge rod with a Sr18 piston, this combo is alot lighter than the standard factory piston and rod and gives me a better rod to stroke ratio. Flow tested the head in the previous photo, flowed really good at high lift[600 thou] but not so good at low lift due to the massive ports, so ive decided to machine up another with smaller ports to get some verlocity this will help to build torque at lower rpm which is in my oppion better for the road. This is when i was working out where to weld the air filter backing plate, i am on a budget so i have found some cheaper options for filters, i am going to use honda XR400 dirt bike filters. I made these trumpets using one of the orginal 1600 pistons as a former after abit of turning in the lathe. Dumbing up on the bench things are coming along nicely. Took abit of turning to modifiy the sr20 distributor to fit into the block and fit under the inlet manifold. Front veiw, I have finished building the engine I am using my mitsi alternator from my mk1 cortina, alot of parts have been used on the mk2 cortina project as i have given up on running ford engines in my mk1 cortina and have opted for a CA18det This photo shows Honda starter motor addaption one of the best things if made for the mk2 those interia starters give me the shits, i used to run one on my mk1 1600 EFI turbo. The adapter One year later i have finially got the engine in. I was a little dubious to see how much hp it would make as i have changed alot of things internally from the original set up. It made 122hp on NZEFI dyno in Christchurch with quite good low down torque which was surprising, as it's running a agressive cam in it 460thou lift and a fair amount of duration. Also had to make a custom tappet cover as rocker shaft was lifted 6mm because of valves being resess into the deeper combustion chamber and also had to make my pushrods 6mm longer. Had to make a new tappet cover as lifting the rocker shaft 6mm ment the rockers stated hitting the orginal tappet cover. I have decided to run RB/CA coils Just need to sort the interior out now really need new carpet, ive had alloy door cards made up so that sorted that area up im also running a GT dash pad that houses Volts, Oil pressure, Water temp, and a Tacho. So thats a small briefing on the mk2 theres heaps of boring stuff ive left out as im shit at typing and up loading photos. Im hoping to get my mk1 cortina 2door ca18det build on here shortly as this is my favourite cortina, but i have to say the mk2 has definitly grown on me over the last year and ahalf. Abit of progress on the mk2. It's been over two years since if had it on the road as i sold the engine to pay a gst bill i had, so looking forward to driving it again, ive decided to fit a sr20. I bought the sr20de off my work mate for $300, he had already pulled the head off and was going to do a plus t conversion. So i decided to do the rings and check the bottom end out. This engine must have done low K's as it was in mint condition. So i done a valve grind and surfaced 20thou off the head to get the comp up. Set the squish to 40thou, thats the piston to head clearance. So hopfully it should go good with these small mod's. Here's Martin woking his magic on the gearbox tunnel These are the engine mounts Martin and i made, we got a few riggers of finest lager,and got in to it, we had a mount off, he made the passenger side i done the drivers, on the 3rd rigger in things whern't going as good as we would of liked, but they cleaned up good. Motor siting on engine mounts