robevo Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Hi all, (Warning huge post!) Long time lurker, thought its about time I put my project up Here we have my mk1 escort 2 door. Was originally a 1300 auto (yay for big tunnels) this was my first car and I got it when I was about 15. At the time it was in need of a re-build, the engine was not running and trans was Stuffed. So along with the help of my father we got it all running again. 1300 Manuel & a 32/36 weber, the guy a brought if off painted it for me (not the best job but it will do) I drove it around like this for a couple of years, until the day came that my wof man wanted a cert for the raceseats adjustable camber plates etc. it was always the plan to get a decent 1600 in there so it was put in storage until I got the engine built & would cert it all at once. So a few years past, 2 of the engines I got the parts for ended up in dads race car haha. But after driving mitsi evos around for afew years the turbo bug bit. So one day while talking to a mate he had a ca18det and S13 5 speed in his garage. So a deal was done with the wheels I had on the car (the famous rs 4 spokes) and I was now the proud owner of a ca18det So to cut a VERY long story short, the car is now pretty much complete. Here is a rough idea of the specs of my car I like to call my RS1800 turbo Ca18det engine - standard ECU and injectors Front mount intercooler Race pro bov N/A throttle body Adjustable cam gears Standard turbo with 16G 60trim compressor wheel (that's what happens when u give Steve murch a turbo for a rebuild haha) S13 5 speed gearbox Toyota hylux lsd diff Capri bilstein front struts with adjustable spring platforms Adjustable castor camber plates 300zx 4pot front brakes with 280mm front rotors Mitsi sigma rear calipers and sierra discs Jamex raceseats Sparco steering wheel Firbeglass dash with smiths gauges and vapor digital dash Here are afew pics of it So all that is left now is to fix my leaky front seal on the diff, and afew other small jobs and go for its cert!! Of course there have been a huge amount of people who have helped along the way Grant & Brett @ Walker racing Andy & Scott @ RaceFX Paul and Al @ Dunkley racing Steve Murch @ Motorsport engineering Mike @ Motorsport composites Damian @ Skidwest productions Steve @ Auckland speedo services My boss Steve @ F40 Motorsport My dad Peter - cant thanks him enough for all his help Chris, Phil, Russell, Karn - And anybody else I forgot haha And of course my fiancé Justine and my baby girl Keira I could not of done this with out you Like I said this has been a long long road to get to this point. So if anybody wants any more photos of any part or any details on how we did what we did just ask & I will post them up. I have about 200 photos of the whole process from Start to finish Cheers for reading ROB 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robevo Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Sorry guys Can mods etc see why my images are not showing up? I have followed the guide but I can't get it (first time with this stuf haha) Cheers Update: cheers to those who answered. As u can see got it sorted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robevo Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 Hi all Here is a pic of the caliber mounting for those who were asking Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robevo Posted May 18, 2014 Author Share Posted May 18, 2014 Hi all Wow - long time & some huge changes for myself in that time but hey let's finally have an update Firstly the good news - the escort is now fully certed & has a wof and reg - a week over 11 yrs off the road!! Where to start - after getting the leaky diff seals sorted (helps if they were installed in the first place haha) found I had to go down a tyre profile to stop the tyres rubbing on the inner guards (now running 195/45/16) Then we got the car looked for its cert. Clint is a great guy & helped a lot. Major things were: Brake disc width - brain fade on my part there but ended up upgrading the aswell, now running 305 x 28 rotors Struts - was gutted to find out you can no longer weld the strengthening gussets onto them. So,lucky found some struts that my rebuilt shocks fitted & did the coil over conversion So after getting the cert it was time to get this thing running right. First off had a very bad misfire, even under very light load. Ended up getting new nissan coils & messing around with plugs and gaps but found a very bad earth on the ignitor & bingo pretty much 95% sorted. Ended up fitting an innovate motorsports afr gauge. And found it to be running very rich, & still had a large miss right up the top of the rev range. Did its first long run to Hamilton & used 30 liters of fuel - oneway!!! So plumbed the bov back into the inlet system... Helped a little... Found a large air leak from the turbo... Helped more... Then as I was about to think about aftermarket ecus etc found the afm was not playing the game, fitted another one & bingo. Wow it really surprised me the performance of the little CA18 lol - oh yea and found the radiator was stuffed so got a nice alloy fenix one, an AE86 one was the perfect size to get between my intercooler piping. So now just using it as much as I can to find anymore little gremlins & looking forward to my first event. Looking like the Holden club track day at puke on the 16th June.. See how things pan out I cant get the pics working so if anybody can help out I'll get afew uploaded Looking forward to meeting some of you at the meet on Wednesday Cheers ROB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robevo Posted May 18, 2014 Author Share Posted May 18, 2014 Here are some pics to with the previous post 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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