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1200 Cortina then? (only one more option if it's not that...) Pinto is not worth it now the Zetec and newer engines exist. It's an old fashioned engine, and in the small Fords it's heavy and tall. Zetecs are a fairly straightforward swap and almost everything is available off the shelf. The only real disadvantage is it's not the cheapest of swaps but when you weigh it up against the cost of a tuned crossflow or pre-crossflow it's actually not that expensive. If you want carbs, I think there is an ECU available off the shelf to do that. There is a manifold adaptor plate so you can use the old alloy 1600 Sport crossflow inlet manifold or for Webers they just have their own manifolds. Pintos a bit like me then, heavy and quite tall..... Nope, not a mk1 cortina 1200, a ST170 might fit the bill, can I fit a retro style BDA/BDG cam cover on it
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Might help to put the car up first, I know its not an anglebox but a few need cutting to get stuff in Btw have you seen the price of a 1600 xflow now ?!😳 We’ve put several different engines in several different old fords, anything from xflow into anglia to boa/bob into capri and Sierra Lots go zetec because of price and availability but rwd conversion bits can be expensive How are your wiring skills? Until the car is tucked up on my drive, its a secret, don't want to be Gazumped, Prices of anything pre 80s ford are getting stupid, Just seen a Lotus Short engine, so thats a front cover, 125e rods, flat top pistons and a pair of nasty carbs, 3k+ complete fresh engines 10k!!!!!, Pintos seem to have fallen off the face of the earth, and what is there seems to be expensive rubbish, ST170s might be an option, I have seen people running them on carbs, and the VVT on a button on the wheel. surprisingly good fun, Zetac, I could go that route, cheap and plentiful, I have an emerald ECU, and a generic loom from Emerald for a Zetec is not silly money, the world is indeed my Lobster
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So a 997 Anglia then! The world really is your oyster, but for me there are only really 2 choices, keep it old Skool and go for a Burton-esque 1600+ Crossflow on a pair of Webers, or, for a more modern take, I think well of the 1700 Puma lump, it's quick, light and very responsive but strong and reliable too. Yamaha really got it right with this one. Maybe on ITBs or bike carbs. With a car as light as the Anglebox, you don't NEED massive horsepower or torque, the fun is in creating a balanced product that handles as well as it goes. Remember Colin Chapman's famous motto, "to go faster, add lightness!" Have fun, Steve Nope, not an anglebox I have had a few,, if it was it would have been a crossflow, its a ford style I have never owned, and I have owned most of fords 60 & 70s lineup, but this one has eluded me, A Twink would be right at home to, but The heads are right out of my budget. The car turns up on Thursday, and then, I will put up pictures..........
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My logic fails me at the moment, Just feeling the water at the moment and hypothetical , I have quite possibly acquired a 60s RWD ford, no big deal really, but, I know from experience that the small capacity pre x flow is not a pudding skin puller, I'm thinking something bigger.... 4 pot, do I go Zetec, or Pinto, , Puma 1700, ST170. 2.3 chain motor, what is worth converting, the torque of the pinto appeals but the heavy weight hanging over the front is less appealing, I may prefer a fully mechanical engine, carbs etc, just for ease of installation.
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May 24, 2021 17:21:52 GMT
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If you bought stuff from Nick, you must have been in or very near the the same Manor as me (sunny Lewisham) , ProSt Cortina was probably Steve Bradshaws, Worked at Streatham Crash Repairs, and that site also housed Eddie Wimble for a while and his array of Fad Ts, BTW Nick is fine and well, I was out with him and another SELondon rodder ,Dave Lowe last Thursday, Yeah, Steve Bradshaw was the bloke with the Cortina. Found these pics of Nick's Standard I think. Must have been Chelsea or Ace Cafe around 1999. Thats not Nicks Standard, I know the the fella who built it, but this is/was Nicks, now sold to another well known SE rodder
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May 23, 2021 21:20:47 GMT
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I still love this build, nutty as a box of frogs
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They were solid the states, Sunbeam Arrow?
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It lives last tax disc says 2002 , so 20 odd years last time it saw the road , went through the brakes , new pistons seals etc , new alternator and it goes down the road , happy days , does need some new tyres before the adventure's start though and a tow bar making to drag the 240z around A good mate of mine has just imported a Dodge Camperwith the same cab as yours, Just stripped it out and redoing the interior, been searching the country for period materials,
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Grew up with modified cars so that’s what you did to them. Nothing stayed standard. My dad is a little bit older than you V8Ian but knew all the people you mentioned and we went to all the same shows so I’m wondering if we were local when I was growing up! Nick Arlett lived just round the corner from us and I bought a load of cross flow stuff off him and the old man Harris for my 100E which was my first car. Forget the name of the bloke with the red blown pro street Cortina who used to park up at his place all the time. If you bought stuff from Nick, you must have been in or very near the the same Manor as me (sunny Lewisham) , ProSt Cortina was probably Steve Bradshaws, Worked at Streatham Crash Repairs, and that site also housed Eddie Wimble for a while and his array of Fad Ts, BTW Nick is fine and well, I was out with him and another SELondon rodder ,Dave Lowe last Thursday,
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May 19, 2021 11:29:10 GMT
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on the unregistered van its 60 on the motorway and you cant use the outside lane, that bit isn't true, it's 70, same as normal cars: www.gov.uk/speed-limitsNot disagreeing with you on that, it says it plainly, but a few months ago, I was on a speed awareness course, Ooops, and I asked the very same question, and was quoted the 60mph motorway bit
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I have a t5 I have just put a Rock n roll in, fully lined, soundproofed, and insulated the interior, I'm not going with a fitted camper interior, so we bought a used drive away awning off Ebay at the weekend, its magic As Paul saiid above, Taxation changes are a nightmare, we were going down that route, but some of the rigmaroles you have to go thru to do this are just plain stupid, but on the other side of that, the resale value increases disproportionately, Speed limit on a campervan on a motorway is 70, and you can use the outside lane, on the unregistered van its 60 on the motorway and you cant use the outside lane,
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Being an older fart, I grew up where the car modifying scene was HUGE and the roads were empty, My first foray into modified cars was buying 2 magazines, Car and Car Conversions, and one of the first issues of Custom Car, Going to the 2nd Crystal Palace Custom Car show, and helping Eddie Wimble push his first Model T onto a trailer. that was quite formative in my pre driving years, 1st car at the age of 15 was a Ford Pilot, that just sat outside the house and rotted even more than it was when I was given it, that bad, the banger racers had given it the swerve, that was scrapped, next was a Mk3 Zodiac Farnham Estate, that got lowered at the front and raised at the rear, a set of Rusty appliance five spokes, and big BFGs on the back, went round corners like a large jelly, that ended up being sold, too scary for me, after that I settled down into the fold, A 2 door Corsair with a Ian Walker built 1500 pre crossflow, lowered on genuine Lotus 6"Special Equipment wheels, (god knows what they would be worth now) that is the only car I have written off. As an engineering apprentice I owned a series 22 105e Anglias, which were powered by various engine from a Genuine ford Cosworth MAE, A F3 crossflow, Lotus twinks, V6s, a Genuine Superspeed Little Red Rooster, every single one lowered on steels. I then thought I wanted to go faster, Brands Hatch, Lydden and Santapod were weekend Haunts, had foray into circuit racing in special salons in the late 70s, fec, that was expensive, still kept my finger in by buying a very clean Mk1 Zodiac from a Certain Andy Harris, then proceeded to fit a 289SBF much modified, a good quick car, offered silly money for it, so it went, its still about today. then a pre airflow Mk1 cortina from Nick Arlett, which turned out to have a Highly specced crossflow built by Ron Harris, a mate begged me for that, and I relented, he chopped it up to pro street it and its still in a garage and will never be done. a 105e appeared on the horizon then, very clean, best looking anglia I ever built, burst a liner on the seriously over bored engine and was sold to a mate who still has that, meanwhile I had bought an Austin Devon Pickup to put in a SBC and go drag racing that was half built and a Devon Woodie Factory Prototype was offered to me, rotton as a pear in the woodwork dept, the steel was MINT, woodwork is not my Forte, but I sold on the pickup and started to fit a Jag IRS 3.9 RV8 etc, got the woodwork very near, and a mate just casually mentioned that he would never take his kids out in a car made of wood, that ruined it for me instantly as this was going to be a family hotrod, A mk1 escort then graced my garage for a while, I gave that to my son as a 16th birthday present, he still has that too, I built a Mk2 Cortina, with a very quick RV8 in it, which ran 11s in street trim, had a serious medical issue, (a burst artery in the brain, which I made a full recovery) That made me think my car days were over, got divorced, had to sell the cortina because I took it out for a drive and scared myself sh-tless, and regrettably sold that too. I then had to move house because of the divorce settlement, Bought a house without a garage, Built a Garage, 6 months on from moving I had started to build a Austin 7 with a toyota 4age in it. the shell was a stinker. more rust than metal, that is now in storage waiting for a better body to appear. still needed to have something else, so I now have an Austin a35 van the the aforementioned toyota engine shoehorned between the inner wings, not far away from being on the road now, my builds have got much less frantic now as I have got older, and I still have an Itch to build a 2door Mk1 cortina or a 2 Door Consul Classic, not a silly build, but I have a set of rare wheels that need to be on a car, I'm Now 64 and am really proud to say owned or I have been building modified cars since I was 15, yep, thats 50 YEARS of fun.
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I love this, I think I had a matchbox model of this truck when I was a pup, Not that long ago, on Holiday in Skiathos, we went down to the famous End of the Runway, where the landing aircraft skim over the fence and your head, Its a Buzz, drove further along that road into the boatyard area where it seems they use Unimogs to drag the boats onto dry land, there were at least 10 in varying states of disrepair, and those were the ones we could see easily, I wonder what useful spares could be reaped from there.
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May 16, 2021 18:12:22 GMT
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Sunday...... Just done East Sussex, Kent, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Wisbech, pick up a bit for my camper, back across to Epping for a cuppa, then back into soggy East Sussex, back home by 3pm
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May 16, 2021 17:45:38 GMT
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The calliper in the pic, plainly shows "EMPI" cast into it, Personally, I think this would indicate EMPI have this calliper made to their spec, and probably unlikely to be available elsewhere.
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Get a set of decent impact sockets, Halfrauds, are probably the best of a budget line, I have seen sockets explode firing shrapnel around the workshop, and TBH there can be weaknesses in any, I have a 13mm snap on deep impact socket that split on me
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May 14, 2021 21:13:27 GMT
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doing a bit of research, it seems the M47 Volvo box from around 84-6 may have been a cable drive
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First question, what gearbox are you running?
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May 12, 2021 20:43:04 GMT
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The question of ground clearance has been bothering me a little, so I have got to work with sorting me a bit of room, I had made provision so I could add spacers under the mounts, that gained me 10mm under the engine, to get to the nearside engine mount I needed to remove the exhaust manifold, no big deal, its 5 coarse threaded 10mm bolts, the have only ever been nipped up, I also took the advantage of cutting a wee slot in the down pipe and angling the pipe up a few mm just to give a better line to get the exhaust together and a little more ground clearance, that 5mm movement at the end of the pipe caused a big issue in getting the manifold back into the engine bay, a little bit of trimming eventually got it back into position, add gasket , goo and new bolts, time to bolt onto head, all good so far...... Mmm that bolt dosent seem to pull up very tight, turns out 4 out of 5 boltholes were stripping, manifold off again, out with the Helicoils, and Helicoil the head in situ, tool a trip to Screwfix to get a right angle drill, but its done, so why did the bolts strip without much effort...... I thought I would check, normally I would use UNBRAKO Allen bolts, but these are near to unobtainable during the lockdown, enter EBAY box of 10mm x 1,5pitch and rated to 8,8, Got my vernier out and measured the thread OD 9.4mm!!!!!!!!!! minimum diameter tolerance for this bolt should be about a smidge under 9.8, makes sense why the threads pulled, theres a call going out for unbrakos tomorrow, and boll-ocs to Ebay hardware
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Well, I now have some FUNKY seats, I know they will not be to everybody taste, But I love them, Genuine 50/60s Mockette from a bus upholster, but I think they will suit the van, Light Green with Cream wheels, Those who know, will understand, and some will not get it at all.
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