Stacov Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 Well picked this up yesterday from bulls body not too bad. Seems to be all oringal very happy with the interior tidiest ive had in a escort so far. Will put up pics today, Plans get it rego/wof put my 13x7 hotwires on lower it try keep it as orginal as poss and when i got the coin rebuild the 1600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted October 8, 2011 Author Share Posted October 8, 2011 It seems the bonnet is the worst thing wrong with the car that i can see atm. Heres some of the interior More pics to come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted October 9, 2011 Author Share Posted October 9, 2011 Just put in brand new ball joints so should pass a wof now hopefully Also put my hotwires on just deciding now if i should take off the rest of the plastic trim around the car or put the rest of it back on lol hmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted October 9, 2011 Author Share Posted October 9, 2011 viewtopic.php?f=18&t=29649 now u can chat about it gogo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted October 10, 2011 Author Share Posted October 10, 2011 Tidy the bonnet up, Was just surface rust where the paint had faded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted October 11, 2011 Author Share Posted October 11, 2011 Took it for a wof today passed with flying colours, The guy that did the wof couldnt get over how well the interior was looked after and had no rust in the chassis. he even wanted to buy it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted October 14, 2011 Author Share Posted October 14, 2011 Well was driving home today had just finished raining, just about to slow down and brake to go around a corner and over the raliway tracks. Next thing i know is the car not turning heading towards a fence front brake had lockd up all i could do is enjoy going towards the fence lucky. Before the fence was quite abit of dirt which brought me to my stop!!! Just missed a pole thing it took off my wing mirror and left some white paint on the side of my car. Honestly have no idea how it happend drove past the same spot for the last 8 years im putting it down to wet/slipy road hopefully not some problem with my brakes somewhere!!! Lucky noone was around reversed out and drove on my way lol very very lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 Not much of a update just put new shocks in the rear the ones that came out were pretty poo'd! Now to do the front and put some 2" blocks in the back and lowering springs in the front Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Will be putting these in today along with new shocks for the front! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 All finished this is how she looks pretty happy how it is 50mm in back 38mm in front, rebleed the brakes now they work super awesome. tomorrow will be the circle headlight conversion and take off the tow bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted November 13, 2011 Author Share Posted November 13, 2011 Changed to circle headlights and stole my panel vans front spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 scored a 1600 crossflow off RotaHolik5 its only a early model tho going to rebuild my good 711M 1600 block next year some time in the process of putting it in. Put a 5speed on it so spent the day doing all that stuff. got it in the car gearbox in driveshalf on etc.. still heaps more to do lol Gearbox on Inlet ports look better damn smooth looks like someones tidy them up at some stage dellorto carbie not sure on the size either 40mm or 45mm Has brandnew exedy clutch, meant to have a hot cam, rest of the motor is unknown just hope it goes when its ready to start lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 Got it all running now, Had a few problems 1 fuel pump was stuffed on it had to replace that and carbie liked to leak petrol got those fixed was running abit lean so gave it some more fuel so will keep tweaking intill it runs even more awesome. my 5speed isnt the healthiest wines abit so that sucks, 5speed just touches inside the tunnel little bit of viberation on idle seems fine when driving tho did the basic sparkplugs condenser, rotor, points etc.. She goes pretty well specialy up in the revs, i dont know what the cam is so cant really push the motor too much. I totally didnt expect the 1600 to go aswell as it does, seems to fly along Will definety get it on the dyno and it everything tuned properly and make sure the carby is all jetted properly etc.. Just running factory extractors/exhaust will defintey have to get my bigger extractors on and get new exhaust made up prob wouldnt wanta go any bigger then 2" id say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 oh yea and for the love of god the throttle cable omg what a mission to get it working on the sidedraught ended up buctering it. Will definitey have to go get one made up properly for it atm its just giving just over 3/4 throttle so not quite all of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 ended up having alot of issues with the sidedraught mainly car was running out of puff / breaking down at 5000rpm and couldnt drive it normaly say like 50k or slower without it being extremely jerky put on my 32/36 webber still had the issues ended up being some dodgey wiring on the dizzy got that all sorted now it seems to rev / pick up speed slow mainly over 4000rpm its got heaps of fuel and if i advance the timing anymore it pings. while it still is slow above 4000rpm it still reving out 6500+. But take it time getting there and with the sidedraught it was really quick to rev up id say the cam its got prob revs out to 7200? power band comes on over 2000rpm i had this 32/36 on a worked 2L and it worked fine anyways anyone got any ideas? cause it should be a nice smooth reasonably quick revs it is running on 91 gas atm not sure if that be the issue or not or plugs or leads? any ideas are welcome Over option is to put the sidedraught back on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 just changed leads to some old ones i had seemd abit better i guess ill start with new leads/plugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Was bored today whipd off my 32/36 carby that came off my 2L, Forgot there was a rebuilt 32/36 sitting on my old 1600 Chuckd it on no more flat spot or surgeing up in the revs really really smooth. It is a pig to drive when ur trying to do 50k or slower slighty jerking if u dont have the revs high enough but im guessing thats to do with the cam in there. Cause its done that on the past 2 carbys Hopefully in the near furture i can get it to someone who can tune it and get everything 100% to where it should be!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacov Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 not much of a update chuckd abit of paint on to tidy it up http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/63 ... ed001.jpg/ Once its dry will clean up any over spray and tidy rest of the car up still gotta paint front spoiler/bonnet didnt come out too bad only 2nd time i tryd to paint haha Was only after a nice tidy finish not some show car finish cause its just gonna get chipd etc..!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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