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The more I have learnt about cortinas the more interested I have been in keeping this car looking semi period. Hoping to create a modern classic you may say. So I got some preformance superlights and got rid of the TSW Apex. This has completed my final look I was going for. They are 16" and run 205/40/16 tyres these wheels set off the car I reckon. One thing I forgot to mention is that I have air shocks and two inch blocks in the back. It sits higher than the photo of just the wheel suggests

The boot holds a very tidy set up of surge tank and fuel pumps and battery aswell.

my friend who has helped with this car has an escort wagon and we painted its engine bay black with purple metal flake. It looks real nice. So before the engine went it I cleaned up engine bay and gave it a spray of black with green metal flake. I wanted something different but subtle enough to go with the exterior of the cortina. Its good because you would not expect to lift the bonnet and see this.!!!! Also the diff and calipers got the treatment to. Pictures dont do the green metal flake justice!! Looks real nice in the flesh, especially in the sun. glows

So halfway through last year (2008) after a bit of research with costs of rebuilding the 1600 xflow I decided I should just spend a little bit more and put in a RWD 4age with K50 box. After a while I found a suitable a motor that was in an AE86 that was getting wreaked so I got all the parts that I needed, Engine G-box Radiator Driveshaft Mounts I would have liked to get the diff but ran out of funds!!! The next mission was figuring out how to mount the engine. In the end I got mounts put onto the chassis rails and put the engine to them. Fits rather nicely

So here is a disscussion page if anyone wants to ask/talk about the cortina!!!

While the car was in panel in paint I had put a sierra five speed behind the 1600xflow and discovered cheve orange paint. engine, gearbox, calipers, back brakes. everything possible was painted. Provided a nice contrast with the holden green , no one else seemed to like it though!! Engine was put in and started up, but smoked a hell of a lot. Off to the mechanics, to find out that the engine needed rings etc so a rebuild or re power was then put into the question. This was at the start of 2008 and I was about to move to Auckland to start uni, so the car sat in the shed for the next few months, while I was off trying to educate myself. The hardest thing about doing this car is the fact that I live 3 hours away from where it is kept so only get to work on it when ever I have a chance.

when I first started this car it was always a question with what colour to paint it. I want my big 17" rims with an eye catching colour! Bright blue, that light holden green colour, ford purple. The longer I owned this car the more I learnt about the history of mk1, and started to want something closer to original/period colour. I ended up painting it Holden Racing Green. Its very much like british racing green but has more depth to it One picture is with my friends mags that were chrome. Looked a tad to gansta for me

Over the rest of that year I keep working on the car and never made any progress. Year finished and school was over for me. Not knowing what I wanted to do with my life I went and worked at doing pest control. This was good because it enabled me to pour money down the endless throat of my car. It was off to the panel shop for a cheap paint job!! This turned out to be the turing point in my car rebuild!!! What was meant to be a quick 1 month cheap paint job turned in a 8 month total over haul. Soda blast all rust cut out new doors new bonnet Donor shell for new panels and roof primo paint. It was not what I had planned but it never works the way its meant to!!! While it has sucked alot of money (I could have a nice house deposit) it does look good.

So in march of that year 2006 I took my car for a warrent and it failed (it still hasnt got one yet)!! So I took it home and started trying to get it fixed up. But as the story goes it was just to bigger job for me to do on my own, one problem lead to another etc etc. worst problem one night doing skids in the paddock and this horrible knocking started it me engine. After pulling the engine apart I found the problems!! 1 Snapped con rod 1 twisted con rod broken cylinder head cam shaft snapped into 4 pieces broken bits of metal floating around in the stump bent push rods a hole smashed through the block not sure what the sequence of events were but wasnt good, A few months later I got the courage to pull the engine out and attempt to put another one in, so i brought an escort and started. I had had no experience on cars before I got the cortina, I have just learnt as I have gone along It was also at this time I decided that the matt black and interior werent going to do it for me so I started to pull everything out

A few days after the nats I come across a guy who was wanting to swap some modgies for A set of TSW Apex 17". These were the wheels I had always wanted to have on my cortina, so a deal was quickly struck. As it was nearly time to head back to boarding school this was all that was done over those holidays. Car come back with me to school and I drove it every chance I got while the warrent lasted. I quite liked the look of these wheels on the car, they suited well with the matt black

Of course being still only 17 and at school I didnt have much money to do a real paint job so had another mate give it a classic Matt Black paint job so we could take it up to Auckland for the 4&Rotor Nats. Colour was horrible looked like absolute scum with the modgies. (sorry if thats your thing) But hey we were young and this was all the rage What ya think

Hello all. Discussion page http://www.oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=20334 The story begins back in 2004 when I was in Whangamata for new years. I saw my first Mk1 Cortinas there was a red and a blue one. I fell in love imediately!!! At the end of my yr12 year (aus yr11) I broke my femur while riding a motorbike. Lots of spare time on my hands I convinced my parents that it was time for me to finally get my cortina. 1963 Mk1 four door. 1600xflow Mild Cam 2.0ltr mk3 webber carb Capri 4speed Austin princess 4pot Mk2 Front strutts 13x7 modgies It was 80% complete apparently just needed the rust in the sills to be fixed!! It was painted primer grey. My mate and I set to work getting it fixed up and sanded down ready for paint

cheers for that. Wont beable to try for a week or two until im next at home. It makes sense tho because the push rod has next to no movement!! Hopefully this works, its all thats holding me up for going for a cert!!!

Hello I have a brake problem. Brakes are rock hard!! they are not boosted because its an old cortina. I bleed them up this arvo, seemed sweet and then bleed all nipples once more now they are hard as rock?? What to do to fix this?? Any help appreciated.

Hello I have a brake problem. Brakes are rock hard!! they are not boosted because its an old cortina. I bleed them up this arvo, seemed sweet and then bleed all nipples once more now they are hard as rock?? What to do to fix this?? Any help appreciated.

Hello. Maybe a bit of a side track sorry. In my mk1 cortina iv got AP 4pots. it used to run off the standard 5/8 master cylinder sweet. But im wanting to change it. I have a 15/16 m/c would this be better to use?? seem as it is bigger. cheers

Yea it will fit straight in, mk1 and mk2 are the same chassis shape and components,just different shape. Or if your real keen there a uk croud that could help http://www.oldfordautos.co.uk/phdi/p1.n ... ent∂=6

Yup use the hillman clutch plate(way cheaper) or you can get special ones mad up. No need to mod the tunnel with the 1600 xflow engine, it just fits (could gently massage with a hammer if needed anyways ) I would use the sierra x-member bolted through the floor, way easier. Use a single piece driveshaft (cortina/anglia) would be way easier, but the you gotta change the nose so it fits the g-box I did the convo to my mk1 cortina and my mates mk2 esky wag. Engine runs real nice with the 5 speed

I have heard through various grape vines that it is no ideal to run and escort radiator with a 4age?? The problem being that escorts copper and the 4age head is alloy so you get a problem with electrolisis or something. what is the story with this?? Yarn or serious advice

yeah i got the alternator plug luckly, just got caught by the trap for young players. yeah I'd be real keen for the plug. I gotta go to whakatane tomorrow, then travelling up to whitianga on fri. are you from around those ways?, or could you post it over?? thanks Greg

Yeah pulled this all this out in sep last year, so dont have a chance to get back to the car, got stolen. That makes sence that i would have missed it because I tried to get it all with out cutting wires hahaha. That would be sweet if you would have a look in your shed, cheers. If I went to a Auto electrican would they have the 14p plug you think??

yup plug looks exactly like that one, its the 14p one that dont fit. So you reckon that this is usually connected to the dash wires and doesnt have any bearing on the engine running??. Yea I took out the set up, took everything i could, all plugs etc. Nah Auckland for uni, Reporoa, just south of Rotorua for my car.

i dont know much about these whole EFI set ups but are doing a 4age conveersion in my mk1. I got the loom and engine all from an AE86. I also got a standard computer and the computer that the engine was running with! but only two of the loom plugs fit, the 3rd plug doesnt fit. its the same with both computers. plug numbers are 10p 18p and 14p one of them dont fit, yet the engine was running sweet when i brought it. how normal is this, should it be like this or do they need all three plugs or did i miss something when i was pulling the car all apart???

Hey if anyone needs a speedo cable made up. In the end i went to Robinson Instruments out in Onehunga. they did a mint job, all new fittings looks real good. www.robinsoninstruments.co.nz is there website

sorry speedo cable