1975 Ford Taunus L and 1975 Escort MK2 RS2000 Page 9

Cant believe no one has replied to this yet, what a beautiful car, I'm truely jealous that they were not released over here! Get some pics up of it when its had some fresh paint, will be watching this one closely! ;D

how cool is the back end compared to our corts! like a baby chev nova. dished rims ftw!

Thanks mates, this MK1 Taunus was only released between very late 1970 and 1975.
In 1976 we got the Taunus MKII what you know as the Cortina MKIV. They are alike in almost every way. Great cars



The back end makes it fun to be overtaken by one



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I had 215/40/16 on them, but the local five-oh was on my back wanting to give me a ticket, so I went for a bit wider and taller tires to get them to shut up

When I get done with the rot-removal I'm going to roll the arches and lower it some more, I think maybe 2-3 cm's more.

I forgot this picture from the technical approval before going out on the track in 2006.
Here you can clearly see that it needed a coat of paint.
The Decals on the side was from my tyre sponsor. I got 80% off on the tires if I had the "superdekk" decals on the side of the car
The tires was expensive, almost 120£ a piece for Nexen N3000 225/45ZR16. The tires were legen... wait for it... dary in the wet.



I painted the car shiny black (colour name?) two strokes, to get the paint to cover properly. This was done in 2007 a couple of weeks before the trackday at ACR in the autumn.

Here is between the first and the second stroke of paint.
The colour really made the shapes of the body show, and at the same time gave the car a totally new look.









This is taken a couple of days later on the way to the track.
The painting was complete, and the car looked really nice



This is taken on the track on the long straight



Sadly, that's the only pictures I have of the finished paintjob before I started welding the rust a couple of months after the trackday.
More on the scorpio/granada 2l efi conversion next post

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Missed this one though now bookmarked

Very nice indeed. I like both colours though poss the orginal more, great body shape on these Taunus

Black has made a huge difference.

Loving that, such a good looking car, such a shame we didn't get it over here that transit looks pretty useful as well. A proper tat hauler

The transit is very usefull, and it was alot better to drive when we got the 2.5 turbodiesel and the 5 speed in it



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Black is beautiful

Well, I thought I'd tell about the efi-conversion now.
Some years earlier I had a 1977 bmw 320I E21 that was rebuilt from carb to kjetronic.
It was a constant hassle when may tank level dropped below quart.
It would draw air in every bend and almost stop because of the lack of a swirl pot.
To avoid this in the Taunus I decided to install a proper swirl pot.

This is the easy way to get a swirl pot in the stock Taunus/Cortina fuel tank:

Split open a scorpio/granada fuel tank.
Here you can see the fuel line, and the fuel return.
I cut off and removed the fuel return from the swirl pot,
because I used the fuel return through the tank level sender, as it was where the original went.
I just used the old fuel return line from the engine


Bend the tabs holding the swirl pot, lift pot off from the tank after I cut off the feed pipe.
Imagine where to cut swirl pot mounting plate off from tank:
(making sure I left enough metal for later)


Make a template of the position of the swirlpot and cut hole needed in cortina tank. Make sure hole isn't too small for the swirl pot to come through.


Roughly scratch circle where the outlet is going to come through the side of the tank:



Place swirl pot on mounting plate from granny tank, drill hole for feed pipe, and test fit:



Weld properly, making sure I've got good penetration and no holes:


Feed pipe was quite close from where I thought it would be eh?


Benefits from this mod is that the original fuel tank is in place, looking stock.
No other mods was made to the car other than drilling a hole in the boot floor for the fuel line to go to the fuel pump, and through to the front of the car.

Fuel pump in the boot.


The fuel pump in the boot is going to get relocated to under the car this summer, cause I can't seem to get rid of the smell of petrol


Next came the engine.
Out with the old pinto 2litre carbed engine.


Next step was to swap over engine mounts and stuff like that:


Checking the output shaft length from the 4speed to the 5speed.
They were spot on, same length and all, the gearbox mount was slightly further back than the 4 speed,
but that sorted itself out with modding of the stock 5 speed bracket from the scorpio/granada.


Useful tool when working on old fords :


This is where I put the Granada/Scorpio engine wiring loom through:


4-2-1 manifold waiting for install:


Engine bay ready:


Engine complete with mounts and all ready:


Engine manhandled eased gently in:


All mounted up, propshaft and gearbox and all.
All that was left to do was to sort out the exhaust and the air flow meter/air filter box.


Good clearances:


Awesome room for exhaust:



The only thing that bugged me was that the gearbox had an electronic speedometer sender.
I got used to it by using the rpm to tell me the speed.

Maybe I'll install a sierra gearbox later on.

I also thought about installing this:


But that would require a v6, or a v8, so that idea was put on the shelf for the time being.

Many other mods was also during my ownership.
Things like Capri 2.8i vented disk brakes, complete set of polyeurethane bushes front and rear, Koni adjustable progressive oil dampers, 2" lowering springs, and so on. I can't remember them all.

Then in 2008 as the crustiness of the sills, and the overall appearance made me want to start removing rot.
Oh boy was I in for a surprise.

Both sills were rotten, through and through front to back. Inner and outer.
The fendermounts were rotten, the bracket for the bonnet hinge was rotten, the bottom of the a-pillar was rotten and so on.
I started this in autumn of 2008.

I removed the right side fender and found that the bonnet hinge bracket was almost all gone, along with a bit of the inner fender:



Then I went to my 1982 Taunus parts donor to drill out all the spot welds to get the bracket free.



All done:



Me in action:


This was where the bracket was going.
I already replaced the edge where it was to be spot welded to the inner fender because it was rotted as well.
The shiny edge that is:



This is after the spotwelding, and the ground down welds:




And after a layer of Isotrol bare metal primer:



Here you can see the repair plate I had to fab up for the bracket to weld on to:


Here was the next challenge, the bottom of the A-pillar:


Bigger cut made:



This piece was cut from the donor car:


Made to fit:


The fit was so good that I just placed it over the hole, and it sat there.


Welded:


Welds smoothed over with the angle grinder:


Starting to drill out the spot welds for the Sill:




I was having a rough time trying to get the damn spot weld drillbit to stay in one place.




Here you can see the old sill.
The sill was so rotten I made the dents by hitting it with my hand


This is the inside of the rear quarter panel. (is that the right word?)
A lot of rust from a bodge wheel arch job done many years ago:




The end of the sill inside the rear wheel arch:


Found more rot under an inch of filler. I have to replace this panel as well when I'm done with the sill:


More on the rust welding later

Edit: spelling

its even easier to fit the later intank pump as this only requires the swirlpot fitting in through the top & then the top of tank/mount with pump welding in,any efi (not single point) can be used escort/fiesta/sierra/mondeo etc.

We moved, renting another house till the insurance company stops f*cking about and pays up