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Crispen's 1976 Mk2 Escort


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So.. about 4 years ago I brought this little banger off a kid in Cambridge. He didn't want it anymore as it wasn't as fast as all his friend's skylines and shit.

I thought cool, I'll take it.

This is pretty much how i brought it

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Nice standard and straight. Good little 1.3 that went hard for the first year i had it untill i managed to get hold of a 1.6 to chuck in.

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This is back in 2015. We put the 1.6 straight in, was a cunt of a job without the extractors being on a flange... many a curse word was yelled at me from my brother as he helped me out. The 1.6 went hard for about 6 months until christmas day 2015 where it decided to melt a piston going over the kaimais... So off i went on an adventure to melbourne to work and save money for this engine i wanted to get rebuilt. decided to stick with the 1.6 xflow over a pinto as i felt it suited it better than a pinto and also i wouldnt have to get a cert...

6 months past and i returned from melbourne and the rebuilt banger was ready to be picked up from Stick Automotives in Ohaupo.

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Fully rebuilt with all new internals. 

Bored out and honed, 1300 pistons, lumpy cam, 10-1 comp, Ported and Polished head.. blah blah the list goes on. Was made to have sidedrafts but they were not in the budget so it got the 28/36 dcd put back on it...

Fast forward 7 months, the old twin throat just wasnt coping with the amount and gas i wanted to give it so managed to score me a set of twin 40 delorotos off trade me for next to nothing.. got them rebuilt and chucked on

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Another 6 months went by which to about feb this year. Moved back to tga from auckland, engine started running like a sack of shit so took it into dynopower to get it properly tuned and balanced... Boy what a difference that made. turns out the little banger is putting out 150hp..

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So basically... the 4speed fell apart. I got a type 9 cheap off the fat man at the mount, started ripping up my flooring to make modifications to make it fit. Got told by a few people i should strip it down to get rid of the rust and for some reason, i listened to them.. This is pretty much where I am to date...

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Ripped up the flooring. passenger side has obviously had a leak somewhere. nothing too serious though. drivers side was very nice!

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Got the floor back to bare steel, no holes to note which was pretty sweet

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Started to attack the front guards as they were starting to get quite a bit of acne. Hit some pretty intense bog on the right side of the grill... guessing its been in an accident. all the repairs that had been done have all started to fall away so it will all get cut out and done properly.. underside of bonnet was looking like a bag of dicks so sanded that back as well..

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So thats up to date as of the 21st of june. Please note that im not a pro mechanic or panel beater... so any tips or anything would be helpful. Ive brought a big tin of 440 industrial primer, (along with a tin of wax and grease remover, a roll of 80 grit) which im going to chuck all over everything so its no longer bare metal..

Sorry for sideways pics, also any tips chuck them at me!

 

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Another good day today. took engine out and started to strip down the engine bay. taking out the brake servo tower was a cunt of a job i must say. feel like it took way longer that it should have.. dont even know if i want to put it back in...

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Left side is nice and straight, right is pretty patchy and rough..


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Cleaned everything i could with the angle grinder. pretty much onto hand sanding now... any tips for getting right into the corners?


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right side panel work which looks like its been done by 10 different people..


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also a pic of the painted floor which the dog walked over...

 

 

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Didnt have much free time over the weekend, but still managed to get a good afternoons work in on sunday.

Got the back panels all sanded down with pretty much no issues. Everything is real straight which im stoked about compared to the front.  found 2 patches of filler. 1 is a repair i had done a year ago and the other i dont know of. just gotta leave the filler in its place at the moment.. Also sanded up around the pillars. Each pillar has had a repair at some point. All look in good condition

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Sorry about sideways photos. im taking them all portrait style as i thought that would stop the issue...

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This monday morning I managed to get a couple things done after i got my wisdoms taken out.. Fuel tank was a bitch to get out. couldnt undo the bottom nut to release the fuel hose so just chopped the cunt off and drained the litre of fuel that was in there out. Bottom of the spare tyre well and under the petrol tank are pretty rusted. fuel tank side being worse off than the other..

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Also took drivers door off, disassembled and sanded back. hit some filler so just left it there for now.

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To do list for tuesday:

Removed rest of doors and sand them all back

Attempt to pull pins from hinges (will need to buy a pin remover)

Remove windscreen and rear window and assess for rust.

Remove bootlid and start to attack the Boot floor

 

Also looking for a good panel beater/ painter in the Tauranga area if anybody knows of 1. Pref someone who is all about old school cars.

 

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so didnt really get thoughmy list for today as other "life" things happened.. but did manage to get most done. Found the orginal steelies and pumped them up and chucked them on for a laugh...

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Sanded back the bonnet and gave it a lick of primer..

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Finished sanding up the arse end of the car and threw a load of primer all over that as well


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First day at new job tomorrow so progress shall slow down a bit unfortunatly... still cant figure out why these photos keep uploading sideways... sorry guys. maybe ill start taking them landscape... that might fix the issue...

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