Jonny Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 ok i got the escort back from the garage and went out for a lil drive. Was running like shit. Idling like a dieing rot@ kept stalling. Shit all power(1.3 is shit all anyway but it was worse). Had a play with the timing today and about 5 hours after starting finally find ouy its the wrong dizzy. Just buy chance whack the 1600 FoMoCo out of the cortina n strts first time runs like a bueat. Arent they all meant to be Motorcraft?? the car has the motorcraft stickers on it, anyone had anything like this?? Will running the FoMoCo do damage or will it be sweet seeing how its runs mean now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteretep Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 as long as the timing is right then theres really no damage it could do. maybe ford made their own dizzys in the 60's and changed to motorcraft when the escort came out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esky boi Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Nah you shouldnt have any problems with it bro, pretty sure Motorcraft is made by Ford anyway?.. someone correct me if im wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kris Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 These engines have used: Lucas, Bosch and Motorcraft (Ford) dizzys. They rebranded FoMoCo as Motorcraft sometime in the 70s. Sounds like your's was simply knackered - they do wear out, and the top bearing gets all floppy which makes the points impossible to set. You set them while the engine is off, and then when it runs, the gap closes up. No worries now I would think. Did you try the usual things like changing the condenser? It could also have been that - low power, hard tp start. K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Posted September 25, 2005 Author Share Posted September 25, 2005 Thanx. i couldn't get the points to just be opening when the rotor arm was facing no1 inlet port then with the cortina one went in was a bit off but better than the other one and runs nice as now. I didnt change the condensor didnt have any lieing around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kris Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Get an electronic one off a Hond City - COMBAX engine. Swap the skew drive to the Escort one, and use the Escort clamp. Easy, then just 2 wires to the coil. http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~kris/escort/ignition.shtml P.S. after 3 years experience, the Honda one is the slightly better choice. No more worries with crap ignition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Posted September 26, 2005 Author Share Posted September 26, 2005 Might try that once the cortinas sorted. Thanx for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WESTCORT Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Get an electronic one off a Hond City - COMBAX engine. Swap the skew drive to the Escort one, and use the Escort clamp. Easy, then just 2 wires to the coil.http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~kris/escort/ignition.shtml P.S. after 3 years experience, the Honda one is the slightly better choice. No more worries with crap ignition. so all u need is the dizzy and swap the skew? nothin else needs to be done to it to make it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kris Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 You will need the clamp off the escort dizzy, the coil off the Honda and the condensor (easy to find, small black rectangular box with 2 wires bolted to coil). The original coil may overheat, as the electronic dizzy will run the coil harder. You take the two wires from the Honda Hitachi Dizzy to the coil (keep the polarity the same way around as on the Honda). The only wiring change is that you will need a switched +12V to the coil. On the Escort, the loom has a built in ballast resitor (fat pink wire buried in the loom). You can either run a new wire from the ignition switch, or tap into the loom near the firewall like I did. It's just an easy afternoon playing really. In any case, you'd have to make athe wiring changes no matter what electronic ignition system you used, because electonic dizzys never use a ballast resistor, it's just there to stop the points burning out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kris Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Just relooked through that old article - I should take some more photos. I've done this conversion on a 1.3, 1.6 and of all things an MGB - so yeah, it works and is piss easy. I did have to shorten the shaft and housing on the one I fitted to the MGB, so if you have clearance problems you can do that pretty easily. You shouldn't have to on an Escort though. If you do: 1. remove the dizzy shaft 2. knock the bottom bush further into the housing 3. hacksaw off the excess housing 4. shorten the shaft 5. fit skew gear. K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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