evel Posted August 13, 2017 Author Posted August 13, 2017 Now I need some guidance/help. When I rebuild the 1600 I want it to come out as a nice engine to run about town in, not a scream machine but for it to have abit more guts. My plan is to take it out to 1700cc, get some compression in it, put a hot cam in and bolt on a set of sidedrafts. As im a child of the fuel injection age, what kinda compression ratios are these engines happy with? Also what's a nice torquey cam? Quote
pusherman Posted October 21, 2017 Posted October 21, 2017 save yourself the hassle and sell me the car............ looks awesome ive gone all dribbley over it Quote
Jafa Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 Nice start. The place where you have the car to work on looks HUGE!! Plenty of room is always such a bonus. Hate to burst your bubble, but those "AP 4 pot racing brake calipers" look suspiciously like standard Austin Princess front calipers. It was a semi popular upgrade "back in the day", and a cheap ( if heavy ) way to get 4 piston calipers with bigger pads. I have a set of these calipers on my MGB, and I made a spacer to go between the caliper halves so they fit over the Nissan Skyline ventilated discs I have on the front. 1 Quote
escorted Posted November 9, 2017 Posted November 9, 2017 Marcus, I hope dassy passed the workshop manual on. Get started here http://www.burtonpower.com/tuning-guides/tuning-guide-pages/ford-kent-crossflow-tuning-guide.html also put minilites on it and do a sweet single pegger skid. Quote
evel Posted January 7, 2018 Author Posted January 7, 2018 On 11/9/2017 at 22:34, escorted said: Marcus, I hope dassy passed the workshop manual on. Get started here http://www.burtonpower.com/tuning-guides/tuning-guide-pages/ford-kent-crossflow-tuning-guide.html also put minilites on it and do a sweet single pegger skid. He sure did Matt, thanks heaps for that! Quote
ajg193 Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 Looks like the car has provided you with at least a few cents in one of those pictures, should almost cover the cost of rust repairs. Quote
Mr Vapour Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 What are we looking at an the photos. I just see rust. 1 Quote
evel Posted May 6, 2018 Author Posted May 6, 2018 The photo is of the passengers footwell. The drivers side has similar holes. Iv had a panel beater take a look and he thinks putting new floor panels in will be the go. Quote
oldrx7 Posted May 22, 2019 Posted May 22, 2019 wow talk about a can of worms, sorry to see you dig a little bit and end up with more and more work. Looks like you're well on the way though so good luck! 1 1 Quote
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