Cosworth Mk2 Escort build

Daaaamn, will have to keep an eye on this beast

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Shaun

Not bad

What gearbox are you running ? And what are you doing Intercooler, radiator and fan wise ?

Cheers,

Damion

Sorry forgot to mention, I've got a steel case celica box, still haven't rebuilt it, but i'll get around to it, i'll fit it with that beefed up input bearing. I have a dellow bellhousing, i've had to put it on the lathe and clearence it out a fraction to clear the cosworth flywheel, but I still have starter motor issues, I'm thinking of a plate to offset it out and bring it back, but i'm not at that stage just yet.

Thanks for the advice, it's good to hear from someone who has gone through these headaches, I just want to clarify some points. Who machined up your gearset for you, and how were the old ones failing, stripped teeth?? How did you go about put the pinto ring gear on it, admitingly it has been a while since I played with the flywheel, but it looked that the pinto gear couldn't go on the front in the stock pinto spot becuase of the bigger pressure plate, it could go on the back but there would be a flange created infront of the ring gear! Which set up are you running??? The other problem I have is I have machined off the inside of the flywheel weight, so I can't knock that diameter down anymore

Yeah it is very tight in there, I have just gone and modified my engine mounts and trimmed the lip on my firewall to get everything 25mm further back for a bit more room for better fans, fingers crossed it will be worth the effort. I looked into an electric water pump about a year ago and it would definately make way for fan space.. I think the alternator is the only major thing in your road then. I was worried about the reliability of the EWP as a lot of people seem to have trouble with them.

There are a couple of guys up here that have run some fairly serious cosworth powered IP cars with steel cases (obviously power limited by the restrictor) and they have survived. I guess try it with a better input bearing and see how you go. I was told that there are two types of W50 box one of which came out of the twin cam and has a better input bearing. I am not sure of the spec of your turbo or what cams you are running ?

Try to avoid running a smaller clutch, I am not exactly sure what trickery Mark has done to use the cosworth clutch but from my measurements the mounting PCD for the cossie clutch would be bolting into the pinto ring gear rather than the flyweel. I use a custom flywheel with a pinto ring gear/starter etc and I wouldn't recommend it unless you go to a twin plate clutch straight up.. I have had untold trouble with clutches.

Cheers.

What sort of cash did you want for that flywheel lincoln?

Nix means nothing mate.

You have to freight though.

Thanks Lincoln, sounds good, can we email or something (I'm new to all this) and work out the details. Does anyone know if the 4x4 starter has the same bolt pattern as a standard pinto. It seems the pinto blocks cortina, escort, 205 are basically the same and can crack bores under high combustion pressures, the long stud conversion on the 200 blocks would be to take the tensile force off the bores, minimising the fatigue. This is what they ended up doing on the bathurst sierras to keep them hanging together for the race, but even then they where custom blocks from ford with massive bore thickness and solid iron from the bottom of the water pump hole to the mains.

oh yeh sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I was going to long stud it, I agree, it's not needed for my application. Thanks for the info on the starters, I'll do some scrounging and sort something out. I got all my window trims back from the anodizers finally, that was a two and a half month wait, but there not to bad, got all my door handles and locks back from the chrome platers to, heres a photo just after I bonded them in. sorry about the fuzziness!

love the clour mate. its sexy

I've finally finished that jarrah panel, plus i'm getting some vinyl stickers made up for the speedo and tacho, also just measured up my mountune cams because you can't get the figures out of mountune!?! By the way, I'm looking for some decent door glass for the car as mine have some vertical scratches that are to deep to buff out, anybody got some good glass lurking about that they would be willing to sell???

Thanks Mr 550, yeh i'm trying to get a classy kind of look instead of the racer type of interior, hopefully it turns out the way I picture it in my head, fingers crossed. The clear on the Jarrah is the same PPG clear that the car is painted with, bit of a gamble on how it would show up the grain and colour, but i'm quite happy with how it turned out. I still have a lot of work to do on the car, but I'll keep plugging away, I basically have all the purchasable parts I need, it's just a matter of making the custom bits and pieces I need to as I'm going through, but I will keep updating as I go, and thanks again for the interest!!

The main console was made from 2 pieces of 6mm MDF, reinforced with fibreglass. Where the curves are in the wood I cut multiple slits 4mm deep and about 7mm apart, wet the wood, then bend into shape, I had to make a temporary frame to hold it in shape whilst it dried. Once dried I put on a single layer of fibreglass to keep it strong where the slits where cut. Once the basic shape had been made, just used bog to get the finer details right. The leather required heavy wetting with water and shaping, and had to be glued down bit by bit. The Jarrah panel was made by getting a block of wood and making the basic shape with a chisel, then used the dremel with a HSS cutting tip, then finish by hand with sandpaper. A couple of cracks where present in the wood, so I made the crack edges parallel with themselves, made some thin wedges out of some of the offcuts with a simiiiar colour, wet the wood and tapped them in with no glue, did this before sanding with 120. last sanding should be done with 800 with the wood wet. Then I sprayed it with a 2 pack clear, sanded out the peel with 1200 then 2000 and polished. Hope this is some help