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2010/08/17 13:28:25
KIZZA

Kizza's Escort (In Fast Fours Magazine)

Well its about time I did abit of a write up on my Escort. It's a Mk2 2 door thats taking me around 18 months to complete (if they ever are complete that is). Heres abit of a run down,

ENGINE
2 litre, trw forged pistons 10.5-1 comp
Twin 45 webers
kent rl30 cam and kent vernier
Big bore pacemakers
ported head with oversize stainless valves
All hoses bar the bottom radiator are braided.
PWR radiator with twin SPAL fans

DRIVELINE/SUSPENSION
Grp4 bilstein struts
2.4 turn quickrack
bias pedal box with wilwood masters
Ebay big brake kit
concentric strut tops
sierra type 9 5 speed
excedy heavy duty clutch
Falcon ED XR8 diff with 4 pinion LSD and 4.11
ED rear brakes
King rear springs
Koni adjustable rear shocks

INTERIOR
Retrimmed RS Scheels/ back seat retrimmed to match
RS dash with white dials
Custom mounted autometer guages into old ash tray space
New carpet/headliner ETC
Custom trimmed boot and Airbrushed mural inside of boot.

Anyways enough of the boring bits heres a couple of pics and make sure to buy Fast Fours and Rotaries on January 19 its a feature car. Cheers


Thats how it looked when I got it.

thats not long after it was painted, at this point it was decided to do a full resto and thats when it became a big job (as it always seems to do)

So the engine had to be bare metalled, this was done by Geelong Soda Blasters.

Another pic of the bay

Strut pic

Just a random pic at home on the hoist.

Now we skip a lot of the work due to me being to stupid to get more pics.[:o)]
But here we are at how it is today.



Cheers Kieran
37 comments Leave a comment
LINCOLN
Cool - wheels and colour look great together!
2010/08/17 13:39:19
2lt_Scort
About time we saw pics.

Very nice Kizza. Good work.
Will keep an eye out for the mag.

Rhys
2010/08/17 13:40:42
KIZZA
Cheers Lincoln ,Loving your 3 door too mate.

And yeah your right Rhys been massively slack. still gotta get some pics of the interior and boot and possibly some engine bay pics.
2010/08/17 14:02:51
mud
Nice stance, nice colour, love it.
2010/08/17 17:08:44
HYPO4D
I saw this at SFS this year and it was absolutely stunning and the sound it made was wicked ! If I were to build a mk2 this is the car I would build !
Great work KIZZA !
2010/08/17 18:55:30
KIZZA
Cheers for the kind comments. It wont be making that noise for too much longer. I will be pulling the engine/box to make way for a Yb Turbo in around 6 or so months. Just got the word the engine has arrived at the Melbourne docks. Also, have a w58 supra box waiting to go in.
2010/08/17 18:59:22
Sterling
thats is just stunning!!! ive been waiting for a while to see this car [:I]

man ive never seen any wheels like those, but damn do they go well with the car!

engine bay & struts = sex!!!
2010/08/17 22:09:32
escort racing
Kizza The car looks great ,love the cragars, it suits the car. It would make a great track car.!!!!!!
2010/08/17 22:20:53
KIZZA
Cheers. It WILL be making a track debut at some stage. Hoping to enter Cams Carnival in October just gotta sort out a few things first.

And I hope the wait was worth it Sterling?
2010/08/17 23:07:48
escort racing
Kizza Is that carnival at echuca.
2010/08/17 23:41:44
pj
Kizza that is a top looking escort nice clean lines and good choice of wheels love it
PJ
2010/08/17 23:58:23
KIZZA
quote:
Originally posted by escort racing

Kizza Is that carnival at echuca.


Yes, i'm hoping to get my act together in time but just moved house and its taken up my time/money at the moment.
2010/08/18 09:30:09
KIZZA
quote:
Originally posted by whooligan

Nice one Kizza. Love the colour. All you need now is a blacked out bonnet, orange rally pack stripes and a zetec and it will be perfect.


Cheers Whooligan, it has the 2 seats I bought from you in it. (i'm the bloke with the jacked up patrol ute). Dunno about the blacked out bonnet and stripes but all going as planned I pick up the cosworth engine this weekend.
2010/08/18 19:54:15
fordsy
Very nice job Kizza. Have you given it a run on a dyno?

One thing to watch is that the Cams carnival is on hold til May 2011.
http://www.camscarnival.com.au/media_release.asp
2010/08/18 20:02:06
krt10
love the look of it kizza. very tough stance.
2010/08/18 21:19:25
KIZZA
Thanks for the heads up about the Cams Carnival Steve. Got plenty of time now. Had a short run on the dyno but had big issues with the rear brakes at the time. Turned out to be a combination of wrong size masters and handbrake wasn't fully releasing. Then I did plan on taking it to the dyno day thru RSOC but that got cancelled.

Cheers KRT10 big fan of your build to mate.
2010/08/19 12:09:11
turbodrs
kudos on a nicly presented escort
2010/08/19 17:39:29
Chippa666
Kizza you've done an amazing job on the Escort. Looks incredible mate. Well Done.
2010/08/19 23:27:36
esc-078
Very nice kizza. Very, very nice.

Now... when are you going to install that SR20DET that's in the background? [:x)]
2010/08/20 16:18:29
KIZZA
The SR20DET is going into my other escort at some stage (in the distant future), My other escort is already 6 linked, tubbed, etc all the mounts and that are done for the SR just kind of lost interest along the way with it. My dad and I build these cars together and he recently bought a Super Sedan to go Speedway racing so then I had to have 1 (now we have a team of 2 cars). So the upcoming race season has kind of put the pressure on to get them ready, and that plus work has put the Escorts off for now.

This car will be 'PURE' with Cosworth power! [:p]
2010/08/20 21:20:19
escort racing
Kizza I was going to do carnival also,it has been cancelled. Your car does look great,well done.Good to see you spend time with your dad ,good kraft,great to see you will spend the passion with your dad. All my son wants to do is spend time on his f*ck*n computer!!! Well done.
2010/08/20 22:32:03
BryanS81
Me's thinks i spied this beast driving in Melton today....spotted it a fair distance away!! Looks great mate...

I was the guy walking the Husky on Barries Rd that stared at you as you passed!!!

Bryan
2010/08/28 21:49:57
KIZZA
Hi bryan yeah that was me and yeah I did notice you walking your dog. Small world hey? good to see another local.
2010/08/29 08:39:55
Timmeh
Very nice, I love it! Top dogs.
2010/02/09 19:38:21
KIZZA
Cheers Timmeh. I have been meaning to get a couple of interior/boot/engine bay pics for ya's just been slack and I dont keep the car at home so could be a while! [:I]
2010/02/09 20:12:56
3sc0rt
WOW, very impressive KIZZA... Very tidy, i bet she moves aswell!
2010/07/09 15:52:34
KIZZA
Cheers Rhys it goes alright, nothing to write home about. Will go alot harder once I get my cosworth motor in.
2010/07/09 19:13:18
KIZZA
Just 1 pic from the boot install. Also ordered my intercool/adiator tonight. After lots of research ended up going with the Pro-alloy kit from the U.K. Heres my boot hope you all like it. The airbrushing was done by my missus.


And heres a pic with some of the other family cars (including mums new xr5 and dads BF xr8)

2010/08/09 20:59:18
Bacca
Love the airbrushing. Burning money hey! your missus is not the suttle type then?
2010/08/09 21:43:16
COS086
That is one sweet looking Escort Kieran! Once it has some cossie power under the bonnet it will have the go to match it's looks! I immediately thought the same as Bacca when I saw the airbrushing! Great job so far & I can't wait to see the progress. Cheers Matt
2010/08/09 23:15:39
KIZZA
Cheers for the kind words Fella's. Yeah the missus isn't too suttle .
Whooligan, we will be racing at Redline Speedway in ballarat and possibly Avalon also. The Radiator is a PWR item. Its just a generic one. Wouldn't have a clue as too the part number etc just found it cheapish and the measurments were relatively close so made it fit. It runs 2 9" Spal fans on the front of it and never gets close too over heating. I had some Davies Craig fans previously but they didn't have the cooling capacity of the Spals. Cheers Kieran
2010/11/09 17:07:57
KIZZA
The car is much the same as it hasn't really had much attention lately due to getting ready for the speedway season and buying a new toy (BF F6 tornado ute). however the cosworth engine is in a half cut and mocked up fairly well so far, but sort of lost direction for a while so has kind of became stagnent. Also, the car copped a hit in the C pillar from a big bale of hay which has left a sizeable dent. This happened in my parents back shed where I usually store it so that killed my motivation.
2011/01/19 15:52:56
Chippa666
Hey Kizza,

They did a nic write up on your car in this months Issue of Fast Fours. Nice job mate.

Chippa
2011/01/21 09:46:48
BryanS81
quote:
Originally posted by KIZZA

...Also, the car copped a hit in the C pillar from a big bale of hay which has left a sizeable dent....



didn't notice today mate when i saw it down the street!!

Bryan
2011/01/23 20:29:04
KIZZA
Thought that was you mate, Got it fixed by a paintless dent bloke this morning. came up 100% im wrapped. going to take it to Tabcorp park car show on Wednesday you should come up if your not busy mate. bring your car too.
2011/01/23 20:34:30
BryanS81
yeah if im not doing anything ill be there(what time is that on?)...need to wash it and give it the once over again...

Yeah looks good as gold!!

Bryan
2011/01/23 22:19:56
KIZZA
Not sure what time its on mate. i'll probably head down around 9.30-10 o'clock.
2011/01/24 10:46:05

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