2013/05/03 21:42:49
yellowfiregt
I know of Mick's Bold Blue car. Its a very nice V6. The NSW car Im referring to is a Blaze Blue car with white interior (same as mine). I saw the photos from the NSW All Ford day at Eastern Creek. Ive inserted the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/pho.../set-72157627790551348



v4capmad

Bold blue capri from Nsw is Spajic's, he his involved in the NSW capri club, his details are on the NSW capri site. if you cant contact him let me know as I have his number...O
Bold blue is rare, but they all are, i sold a bold blue v6 last year ( had been painted red).. so they are still about, looks like the car is in good hands, i look at the add several time while it was for sale.... if only i had bought it ( im sure we have all said that ) cheers O
2013/05/03 22:00:52
v4capmad
yellowfiregt

I know of Mick's Bold Blue car. Its a very nice V6. The NSW car Im referring to is a Blaze Blue car with white interior (same as mine). I saw the photos from the NSW All Ford day at Eastern Creek. Ive inserted the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/pho.../set-72157627790551348



v4capmad

Bold blue capri from Nsw is Spajic's, he his involved in the NSW capri club, his details are on the NSW capri site. if you cant contact him let me know as I have his number...O
Bold blue is rare, but they all are, i sold a bold blue v6 last year ( had been painted red).. so they are still about, looks like the car is in good hands, i look at the add several time while it was for sale.... if only i had bought it ( im sure we have all said that ) cheers O


the Car in picture is in the Small Ford Car club,
http://www.smallfordcarclub.com.au/
Try their forum for details about the car.. hope that helps O
2013/05/05 19:42:03
yellowfiregt
Thanks for the lead. I'll see if I can make contact with the owner. If my car ends up looking as good as that I'll be very happy.
 
I checked on the panel beaters progress yesterday and he has completed at least 50% of the work in about 3 days. I've updated photobucket with some shots. He's almost finished removing the rolled profile on the front and rear guards. In the engine back he has replaced the damaged gusset bracket, repairs front RHS accident damage, prepared the battery tray and indent area as well as a number of other repairs. At this rate he will be finished this week coming and the car will be ready for the spray painter (just need to secure my spot with him now).
 
 
v4capmad

yellowfiregt

I know of Mick's Bold Blue car. Its a very nice V6. The NSW car Im referring to is a Blaze Blue car with white interior (same as mine). I saw the photos from the NSW All Ford day at Eastern Creek. Ive inserted the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/pho.../set-72157627790551348



v4capmad

Bold blue capri from Nsw is Spajic's, he his involved in the NSW capri club, his details are on the NSW capri site. if you cant contact him let me know as I have his number...O
Bold blue is rare, but they all are, i sold a bold blue v6 last year ( had been painted red).. so they are still about, looks like the car is in good hands, i look at the add several time while it was for sale.... if only i had bought it ( im sure we have all said that ) cheers O


the Car in picture is in the Small Ford Car club,
http://www.smallfordcarclub.com.au/
Try their forum for details about the car.. hope that helps O


2013/05/05 19:48:56
yellowfiregt
Was just looking through some earlier photos when I was stripping the car and came across some photo's of the 'winged sump' on my V6. As you can see from the photos the sump has a custom baffle system with gates which prevent oil surge when cornering. Has anyone seen these on other Capri's before?
 
 

2013/05/05 21:33:26
Capri Carl
The sump is similar to the one I use on my Mk3 3.0S Group C Capri.
My motors are built by Bo Seton, he also made the sump, the baffling is a bit more than yours, but very similar. I think the wings maybe a bit bigger too.
See pics below...

 

 
Cheers, Carl
 
 
2013/05/06 18:47:38
yellowfiregt
Thats a tough looking engine!

Bo Seton may have built my winged sump as John M confirmed that he didn't.

Talking engines, has anyone used Competition Coatings in Brisbane to ceramic coat their extractors? Similiar price to Jet Hot ($300) but minus the 100 bucks freight.
2013/05/06 21:12:25
hotboostgt
Yep Anthony they did mine awsome job and good service
2013/05/08 14:17:56
yellowfiregt
Thanks for the feedback Matt. Given that I'm running K&N open filters on my triples I'd like to keep the intake air as cool as possible. It's a shame the capri's didn't come with some form of cold air induction via a duct or scoop etc.
 
On another note, at last night's QLD Capri Club meeting the topic of sports road wheels came up whilst I was providing a project update (my car was optioned with option 52 - sports road wheels). It was suggested that the sports road wheel in 1972 was the ROH 'minilite copy' wheel (the wheel with the alloy centre and steel outer). I've attached a picture from a period advert. I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts/understanding on what factory optioned sports road wheels were used between 1969 and 1972 and was there any difference between wheels fitted to 4 or 6 cylinder cars?
 

 
 

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2013/05/08 18:57:56
Flighter
Slightly OT, but love seeing period advertising material.
2013/05/12 17:26:19
ronsmallford
Performance coatings on headers realy do work. Within a few minutes of turning off you can touch them and not get burnt.
The capris did come with a variable induction. The extension of the air intake would swivel down towards the extractors for hot air during winter and forward for cold air during summer. This probably worked a lot better in europe than here tho. I have removed this bit and the choke completly and it works fine here in qld.
The advert above applies to 70 and 71 models (low back seats). The mirrors are xy type, the72 models had the xa type. For 72 the standard wheels were steels with a chrome dress ring and centre chrome dome.
Capris were becoming very expensive due to the import duty on the ckd kits, so were trying to fit as much local stuff in as possible.
My car which was one of the last capris finished was cobbled together with whatever was left at the factory and because of the uprated mechanicals, was fitted with 13 by 6 rostyles. These wheels were available on capris from 1969 (might have been narrower tho) and were superseded in england with a four slot rostyle. Mine were the older style eight slot.
For 1972 the seats were updated to cortina tc shape. This was an improvement and also incresed the aussie content but by the time november  came and with the last few cars being made mine was built with the older style seats ( factory must have had some left).
 
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