smray Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Here's my Mk1 Escort, I have owned it for a couple of weeks, and the plan is to get it back on the road for summer, It's running the 1600 pinto ohc with 2l cam and carby, and standard escort box. So far I have stripped out the seats, wire brushed and painted passenger's footwell, fitted drivers side mirror, replaced the back brake shoes, flushed the cooling system, adjusted hand brake, hooked up vacuum advance for the dizzy. //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/38213-smrays-1970-mk1-escort-project/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smray Posted May 12, 2013 Author Share Posted May 12, 2013 Here's a photo of the engine bay for anyone who's interested I also got the tacho mounted and wired in, and the fire extinguisher, and fixed the hole in the boot but forgot to take a photo of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smray Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 Been a while since I updated this, Bought some high temp paint, so painted the back drums while I had the wheels off Polished the lip on the wheels Painted the manifold while I had it off to replace gaskets Flange which had exhaust leak Chopped the exhaust and welded a flexy join in: [ Exhaust back on the car Took it in for a tune, to find out why it wasn't running right, needed new points and condenser. Pulled the thermostat housing to check the thermostat, cause the auto choke was coming off to early, and found a crack in the thermostat housing so that had to go, also the thermostat was nowhere to be seen. Ordered a new thermostat housing, but couldn't find a thermostat clip in NZ so made one, I could only get a cortina housing which meant the top hose had to be modified, planning on running an electric fan anyway so put in a water temp adaptor to join two hoses work in progress shot of covering back panels, I still need to take some of the finished panels, and the one door card that I have made so far. Also have electric fan which I need to finish wiring and mounting. I'm sure there's some stuff I've missed as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smray Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 I probably should get better at updating this, it's been nearly two years. 20150502_160641 Currently this is how it looks, but it's soon gonna change again. It's geting new flares, a front air dam, and possibly rear ducktail spoiler 20141016_120907 20141016_122152 Been about a year since I painted it, pretty much got a bare bog respray. IMG_20140421_160556 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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