After owning many escorts in the past and not having one for over 10 years last year i was lucky enough to get hold of a 2 door mk1 shell to restore .

Some progress pics of the build to follow
All built in the shed. Plan was tidy paint . Run a 2 litre turbo . bw diff get on the road and enjoy.

Gorgeous. The paint looks amazing, as does the rest of it! Pinto turbo or jap?

Beautiful mate, great work
 

Great job, looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Thanks guys.

There is not alot of guys left that like pintos alot of the escorts on this site seem to be nissan powered

Good work mate, I'm pretty interested in seeing the results with the turbo set up as Id like to go this way with mine sometime soon!

This is a modded pv i done its a bit agricultural but done it just as an experiment.

Converted to open under boost instead of opening earlier as your vaccuum reaches the set point of the spring









Getting a strong signal to force the pv open is needed as the pressure in carb bonnet is usually higher than the pressure in the intake manifold .
For this one i used the back Pressure from the turbo to Force it open under boost.

The wendy Wong spec turbo in action.

A couple of small videp clips of it running