Dude...holy sh!t. I want some of your skills...and your Hollinger!

WOW! Just read the whole thread. It must have taken some guts to start this project; your Cossie looked pretty sweet to start with Lincoln. Well congratulations on your results so far! You sure have some skill. I will hopefully need some of your inspiration soon as I have an XR4TI shell sitting in the shed begging to become a race car :)

Cheers Matt

Some people may not like this but I have been scrubbing and prepping the whole underneath of the car - took ages (24hrs total I reacon) and got it cleaned all up. However instead of white that I have to keep clean I used a satin black solvent based stone guard. The whole underneath is satin black and I think it looks The stone guard remains flexible whilst still being tough.



Also fitted the front suspension and some of the rear (still need to fit rear gpa ARB). Some may not like the colour combo but sick of all black and white and wanted something to offset all the braided fittings coming. The whole car is being assembled from new cap head socket screws - incl. new arp cromo studs fitted in the hubs










































































Also my mate Paul has almost got his Fraser (seven style kit car) almost done too! So many custom bits on the car all fabricated by his oen hand!!!!!



10" wide centrelocks.

Offset engine mounting to fit a big driver.

Throttle bodies.

Extractors and muffler.

Wide track suspension arms.

Coilovers.

Dry sump system.

So many detail bits and pieces....

Man the photo's are killing me - why can you see blemishes in the satin black only under flash photos???????



Fark more work to do.

Engine home getting ready for dyno



Final Spec;



New old stock late sapphire 2wd head ported.

New 200 block 6 long studs.

New Mahle pistons with valve reliefs.

7.5:1.

Solid Lifters.

WRC gasket.

Harvey SCS cams.

Quaife alluminium adjustable pulleys.

Shot peened standard rods.

Standard crank.

Mountune oil under piston jets.

Peterson dry sump.

All holes blocked/tapped with releif valve in side of block and vacuum reg in rocker cover.

2wd exhaust manifold (hpc coated).

T4 maram shaft/wheel (hpc coated rear housing).

RS500 gen intercooler.

RS500 gen manifold.

Modded fuel rail centre feed.

2000cc Injectors Dynamics.

E85 fuel.



Just got mount the new 140a brise alternator nice and low and fit the manifolds.











Hope it holds together!

Looking good Lincoln. I bet it has given you a big boost of enthusiasm to see it starting to all come back together. Looks like it will have the go to back up the looks too! I have a question for you. I happened to notice the rose joints on your rear trailing arms & they've got me interested. I have some modified rear arms myself which have been converted to take ford motorsport rose joints. The difference is that your rose joints are mounted vertically, whereas mine are mounted horizontally. Just wondered if you knew the reasoning behind this & whether there are pro's & con's for each option? I have attached a couple of pics of my arms, the second is incomplete but with special jig to correctly position rose joint tube during fabrication.

Cheers Matt

p.s. sorry I'm not trying to hijack your thread.

Thanks for all the comments guys - appreciate the enthusiam and love the discussion.

Hijack away.

And about the ridiculous build - you been speaking to my wife? [B)]

Set the turbo up with the ceramic coated housing and manifold. Cannot believe how close it all fits.
Those cosworth engineers must have breathed a sigh of relief when it all just missed.










Had to grind the lug on the head to fit the compressor housing - I assume this is standard practice??