Petes Mk2 Escort 1600 Sports

[Petes mk2]

One of the last things to sort out is the exhaust for car. Started out by cleaning up extractors that came with car but on a 1300 motor.  I think they are coby's and cleaned up really well. Winner I thought until fitted. They are hard up to firewall and very close to washer bottle. Not going to work, so onto the next option. A set of Ashley extractors which were not much better. Not sure why these are not working for me . After a 6 week wait for a set of Pacemakers which are now in place I'm very pleased with alignment and clearances from other componets. Will hookup to old exhaust for startup and get it replaced later. Just have to sort out what size pipe I'm going to use.

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Just slowly picking off jobs as time allows. Fitted the carpet and cut all holes for seats, seeatbelts, gear stick, brake handle.  Installed gearstick and rubber gaiter. Next put in seatbelts and also fitted door cards. All looking pretty good. Next in was the seats which took a while as quite hard to line up holes I had cut in carpet. Starting to look like a new car. Next put badges and number plate on rear also mirrors on doors.

Time to put some petrol in the tank in anticipation of startup but it all ended up on the ground. Didn't see that coming and had to take tank out to find hole. Rust never sleeps. Luckly had another tank which I checked more carefully. Cleaned, painted and installed. No leaks Result

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Nearly ready for first startup. Just a couple of jobs to do, one being to attach old exhaust to new headers until i'm able to get a proper system made. Don't laugh but I cut both ends out of a baked bean can, slit it down the side and with the help of some hose clamps, made a sleeve and clamped over both pipes. Should be ok for a while.

Checked all fluid levels and filled radiator with hot water as mechanic suggested as been sitting for a while since build. Removed plugs and cranked motor until oil pressure light went out. Replaced plugs and turned key. Motor started straight up and sounded really good. Ran it up to temp and checked for leaks of which there were none. Time for a trip around town. Goes well but needs a tune. Brakes are good and everything else works except fuel gauge. If anyone has a suggestion of where I could get my 32/32 weber carb tuned  around Christchurch could they leave a message on Project Discussion page. Cheers

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We had great weather in the weekend so decided it was time to take Jenny, my long suffering wife out for a drive in the escort. Things wrer going really well until I noticed a change in the exhuast sound followed by metal scraping on road. Quick stop and inspection shows that they don't make baked bean cans like they use to. Managed to remove exhuast from under car while jen was busy taking photo's and letting family and friends know how her first outing in the escort went. Needless to say it was a very noisy 8km trip home. Lucky we live in the country so left exhuast on the side of the road to be picked up later and booked in to get new exhuast fitted.

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Car back on the trailer and off to Christchurch to have exhaust fitted.  Corey from Elite Exhausts has got the job and after discussing what I wanted he sets to work. We are going with a 2" system with standard oval muffler before diff and a Coby after. I really like watching someone working who knows what he is doing. He has it all mapped out in his head. No tape measure, just a piece of wire to help form curves.. He cut off end of headers to start 2"pipe and fitted V-clamp, welding in place.  Next placed muffler in place and bent up pipe for first section. Welded  in place and fitted mounting bracket.

Next put Coby in place and bent up section over axle and welded to first muffler. At this point Corey said we should see how it sounds. While he held Coby in place, I started car. Perfect, has a nice throaty note but not to loud. Welded Coby on place and mounting bracket. Finally put on tip and all done.

Just a few more things to do. Wof, Wheel alignment and tune. Shouldn't take to long ???

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Escort back on the hoist again for its first WOF in approximately 18yrs. Have gone over everything and hope it will pass first time. Well, that went really well. Paperwork completed and sticker on windscreen.  Quick trip home and now cars registartion done. Will feel more at ease driving around now. Tune is the next next thing to get sorted

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Hi all, Haven't posted for a while so thought I better update you what's been happening since last wof. The motor was running a bit rough and would hesitate when you put your foot down. Decide to get it tuned by someone who knows what they are doing. We started by checking all the fundamentals like plugs, points, timing and then took for a run with AFR attached which showed very lean under power. Decided to fit bigger jets to primary and secondary circuits. Primary went from 120 to 130 and secondary went from 105 to 110.   Road tested and got AFR down to 13.0 -13.5 under load which is where we wanted it to be. Runs much better now with no hesitation. 

Also had the sports decals put on and wheel alignment done. Really starting to look the part.

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[Petes mk2]

Next on the list of things to do is reduce the rpm to get 100km highway speed. When I got the car it had a 4.1:1 ratio diff in it. To drive on open road at 100km/h you were doing 3900 rpm. To reduce this I decided to change to 3.54:1 diff head. Retrieved old axle from yard and removed diff head (4.1:1). Diff head looked pretty good considering it had been sitting out in paddock for 15yrs. Had this rebuilt with new 3.54:1  crown and pinon. Put this in and road tested. Now we get 100kmh at 3100rpm which makes driving on the road much more pleasant. Speedo not so accurate now. Not sure what to do about this. At the moment using phone as GPS speedo

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