i love this car, looks like one i had my eye on in Redcliffe used to get around a every now and again, very elderly lady driving, cant be too many of those around same colour, wouldn't be the same car would it? great work.

Yes this is the car from Redcliffe. Ronnie was the previous owner. She mentioned about notes that were sometimes left on the car, people making offers and so forth. It sure is a little gem [:I]


Regarding my problems with the starter motor/ring gear...
I have spent a considerable amount of time measuring what I can through the starter motor aperture and have discovered that there is a 4mm difference between the rear of the block & crank face on the 681F and 711M engines. So what I'm now trying to find is a "crank spacer" about 4mm thick, that will set my drive plate back into the converter housing by 4mm allowing the ring gear to spin without fouling on the housing, and the starter motor to function as it should.

Man, it sucks to be having so many problems with little things, hope you get on top of them soon.

I'll have it finished on Sunday, it's all sorted now. Many thanks to the guys at Yesterford. Their knowledge and advice has been amazing.

It's judgement day lol. The screeching is all sorted now,, so I have everything installed & ready to go. The battery's on charge for the night and I'll be picking up some of that foil matting from somewhere??? to deflect the heat away from my selector and kickdown cables, they are only a few inches away from the extractors. I'm pretty happy with how the Ford blue turned out on the rocker cover. And I've just placed an order with Weber Performance in Melbourne for some alloy ram tubes and stainless mesh filters because the redline filter makes contact with the engine bay once the motor is running. A K&N filter would have been okay too but the ram tubes have a much larger bling factor [88]

Here's a pic from tonight

That's looking very neat. Well done. And fingers crossed its all smooth sailing from here.

I'm very interested to hear how it goes with the single sidedraft on there. I am thinking of doing the same kinda setup on my 1600. Let us know how it goes once you get it out on the road.

Thanks a lot. Well it all went very well this evening. I've had it out for 2 runs. The power difference from the 1300 to 1600 is so much fun! And it really does sound great. Because the kickdown cable is buggered I've been shifting with the T Bar surprisingly no problems and I like it because I have control over the revs in each gear (except first to second which is automatically shifted by the transmission)

The temperature is all good, no oil leaks, no funny noises. So all that's really left to do now is re-adjust the tappets when it's hot and put on the ram tubes which should be here this week. Then it's just drive and enjoy [8)]

Great, glad to hear it! Always a good moment when you can drive your Scort once more.

Cheers Timmy. Yeah I've been driving it heaps, it's hard to resist
I ended up having to send the ram tubes back to Weber on Thursday because my DCOE has unusual auxillary venturis that won't allow the tubes to fit. So I've used a slimmer K&N filter instead (44mm wide compared to the 51mm redline)

G'day. Here's a couple of snaps of the engine all finished for now. As mentioned previously, the kickdown cable needs replacing at some stage preferably with a stainless one so it won't melt again lol. But the car works fine without it just using the T-bar.
And a little bit of rust repair still needed below the heater bubble. For the rest of it (which wasn't that bad) I used a wire brush & 3M rust converter then touched it up with some yellow acrylic.
It's all running great, I noticed there's a lot more odour with the breather cap and PCV line running to the atmosphere. But the look, sound and power improvements have made it all worthwhile [8)]