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  1. KRUPTOR

    Ford V8 Escort

    Hi guys i thought i might put my build thread up of my old escort. Hey guys most of you may not know that i was building a V8 escort,and a small amount of you will know i was building one lol. Well i thought i may open a thread and explain alittle bit of what i went through and how it goes. It took me roughly 4 months of weekends and 2 months of late evenings to a completed V8 escort sedan.I did alot of research and also got in contact with mark from MD conversions (not a big help lol).Also my greatest thanks to our forum member and friends PRO250 (David),who helped me through some of the ins and outs,the bloke who had some answers i could not find.So a big thanks to David. Im so proud of myself as i built almost the entire car myself,the only 2 things i didnt make were the tailshaft adapter plate and shorten the tailshaft but the rest i did all myself in my shed. Ok all started with a 1976 mk2 ford escort sedan 2L worked pinto,4spd manual and a ferrera diff with 4.11's. I removed every thing from the inside of the car and engine bay,engine box and diff were sold.I cut out the entire firewall and front gearbox tunnel.Mounted the dirty old clevo into the engine bay and mounted up the C10 auto and refabricated the firewall and tunnel.Solid mounted the engine with a engine plate.Fabricated a gearbox crossmember,heavilly modified and moved the steering column,heavilly modified the standard escort pedal box to accomodate the original escort master cylinder (minus booster). Fitted after market seats welded in new rails,rewired up the dash to suit gauges and ignition,fans,fuel pump etc.Fitted rear commodore springs into the front struts to help lift the front up dew to the weight of the clevo. Mounted the motor all under the bonnet to have that sleeper original look.Also cut out the entire radiator support panel to mount in a 3 core V8 ZK fairlane radiator with AU thermo fans and a tranny cooler,reinforced a new radiator support panel and recessed the lower inner front apron. Fitted a tailshaft loop,fabricated the drivers side extractor and modified the passenger extractor and made up a twin 2.5inch exhaust dumping before the diff with 2 2.5inch sports glass packed muffles.Made up new brake lines for the front and made up a new rear brake line and also fitted a inline ball tap for a hand brake and line lock tap. Motor is a near stock 302 cleveland i sourced from a fairlane i wrecked,only fitted a 2inch spacer and 700 holley and extractors.Gearbox is just a stock C10 with a hurst shifter and kick down disconnected. For the rear end i was lucky enough to get onto a B1800 diff which fitted straight under the rear end,i ran 15x6.5 ranger wheels with 205/65 15 tyres (just rubb under the gaurds under heavy cornering).When i picked the diff up i didnt get wheel cylinders so i bought a pair of nissan/datsun 200b cylinders from supercheap for $5 each,made up a new rear brake line to suit the wheel cylinders and also modified the mount holes on the rear drum back plates.Ran the standard B1800 drums which were 14inch finned drums.Diff ratio was 4.444 and i welded the centre up. I mounted the battery in the boot and retained the standard 34L escort fuel tanke but also ran a electric fuel pump as i didnt have enough room at the motor for a mechanical one.I started with a holley blue but it decided to keep leaking so i just bought a cheap solid state electric fuel pump 4.5psi to 6psi rated and duz the job. I also weled in rhs into where the rear firewall would have been as it needed to be sealed up so i reinforced the rear of where the seats use to be and i also refabricated a new crossmember just in front of the front seats as i cut out the original one. Ok so in my build i decided i would have it finished for performance car mania 2011 september 16th to 18th.Which i made it by the way lol. So i hooked in and did it.I had dramas couple days before winton as i had a major oil leak from the rear main,so 2 days before the start of performance car mania i did the rear main and sump gasket in car.Pulled it off replaced the seal and resealed the sump and havent got an oil leak So i was very happy that i made it to winton race way for performance car mania.The escort went very well,handled well for what it was and also was pretty fast along the straights couple of times i was pushing 140kmph-150kmph.Up at those speeds it felt real good no vibrations and it held the track and wante3d to go straight. Did alittle skid on the friday but all was good except for very low oil pressure but i still drove it hard. Saturday morning i broke the accelertor cable when i went to start it and i only had just under and hour to repair it for the first cruise session,so i hooked in and bodged it up and made the cruise session. Didd a burnout in it for around 2 minutes on saturday and was very good but only could stay in 2nd gear as when i went to D the carby decied to play up for some reason. Also durring the saturday sessions i did couple skids and drag raced. On the sunday i did a burnout for almost 5 mins i think and didnt get hot too much and i also hit the wall in the skid pad only alittle graise. Sunday lunch time the accelerator cable broke and it was time to pack up and go home.Best 3 days, build a car that got heaps of looks and attention and people coming over and asking me about the car,just awsum. Wasnt the fastest thing there but i built it and enjoyed it.sat just below 80degrees before the burnouts and then got up to just over 100degrees during and after the burnouts. Also run it on avgas and went abit harder. So from now i can start with upgrading the front brakes and 5 stud conversion,also start building a cranky clevo for it,tidy up inside and the body work. So yeah thats alittle bit about my escort.....Hope you guys enjoy it,here are some pics. The beginning..........Started life with a 2L,4spd and a farrera v6 diff out of a capri.
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