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few Qs for those who have done a the ca18de escort thing


d.p.n.s

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yeah i will be changing the radiator/fan around shortly, i am putting a better rad in and swapping the fan to the engine side of rad, then moving the whole lot foward, i will have to modify the water outlet off the engine slightly to get better flow into rad, was in a bit of a rush to get it going again after the front conversion,

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the tape is against the cas bolt head, the top rad panel is the one i smoked in there from the other car, so it may be a couple of mill either way, but grill and everything lines up bang on so it must be fairly close

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Sweet cheers heaps fo that, I will compare to mine in weekend.

As for rad, I want to buy one of the Civic alloy ones but want to know it will cool the engine first.. My guess is no as they are bloddy small, smaller than standard CA.

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i am not to sure what mine is out of but it seems to cope....just! the temp sits on 75 when tooling around but start to feed it the fat for a while and she creeps up, around 90-95, i think with the above mentioned changes it should be fine though, why the old owner put the fan in front i'm not sure, if this don't work out i will get a custom one made, i know on the drift cars i have built (nissans) you cant go past the dirty old engine fan and shroud, so maybe i will go that way, room may be a issue

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so to do this converstion i will need

ca18det (flywheel,p,plate if it was auto)

gearbox

driveshaft

loom,ecu

radiator

intercooler ,piping

fuel pump

return fuel line

and make some engine , gearbox mounts

anything im missing

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Is this for the van? noticed you were selling the full 2L conversion from it on TM

yeah the xa i was going to buy got sold yesterday for $4500

so fucked off.

and i burnt out the wiring in my van last week

so its sitting in my garge stripped down for a

full re wire and now i have some money in my pocket

im going to ca18det it and soend some cash on it lol

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Woah, woah, woah!

No XA Coupe?! :cry::cry::cry::cry:

na man so pissed off

was getting it for $8500 and had till next month

to get the cash

half way there and he rings me yesterday to say that some

dude walked off the street waved $4500 in his face

and he took it.

fucking p heads

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