Well ive started another project I wasn't going to do it, but becsuse of my complete lack of self control, & encoragement from other forum users after seeing Racing Jasons Ratter (& also no one wanting to buy it)ive started the cortina. I know I should be doing the escort but I thought it was a waste to just have the corty sit up in the shed doing nothing plus it cant be that hard to get on the road(famous last words). So the project started!!!

The details of the car are:-

Its a 1969 Mk2 ford cortina 440 L, 1600cc with a 4 speed coloumn shift manual, all standard grandads car from Bathurst (complete with sun visor & original hubcaps.

The only rust I can find is just where the paint is thin on top, so it seams to be a good start.

we thought the hardest bit of the build would be that the gearbox has been dismantled by the previous owner for parts, to keep another car going so dad & I got another gearbox from a Mk 1 cortina from the shed & converted the linkages from floor to column shift, which is not as easy as it sounds (there like a mechanical rubicks cube).

After that was done we turned attention to the motor so, rebild the carbie, plugs, leads & harmonic balencer. We then tried to hand crank the motor & it is ceased!!! so off with its head & found the rust!!! #2 piston has water in it!! & the head is rusted!!!

Here are a couple of pics of what I found in the motor








the head has come up pretty good despite rough apperances & the pistons are soaking in rust penetrating chemicals, So we'll see how that goes but we should be able to get it going still[^]

Looks like a rusty GT head...

what's the difference?? cause as far as I know its standard

hey! COOOOOOL! Mine did sell......a long while ago, and now resides somewhere in NSW I think.

You car is basically exactly how mine was when I rescued it from the wreckers. You are going to have a ball with this thing. So much to do....so let your imagination run wild.

Hey what about a twin carb set up? Maybe some velocity stacks poking through the bonnet? How about some 'Lake pipes'?????

Like I said so much potential. Good luck with the build, and I will keep an eye on this one's progress.

RJ

Hey neale, got the whitewalls and I can't believe how good they look!
(even if they are shinyer than the rest of the car)

Next...

Are they flappers or painted?
Shaun

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Originally posted by Neale

what's the difference?? cause as far as I know its standard

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I got told the heads with the combustion chambers are the GT ones...

thats just an early 681 head. They had the combustion chamber partly in the head, then the 711 motors had a flat head with combustion chambers all in the slugs.
The pistons on Neales motor also have the full ring around the bowl where the later ones had valve reliefs.

Hi Shaun, they are flappers from Antique Tyres, I had some red done on the RS late last year and they have faded already[:(!] sop I decided to bar that again.