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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/19 19:58:55
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/19 20:14:03
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and always with this car the more money i seem to spend the more things break. I had plans of having the car finally tuned sometime in the next fortnight, but on the weekend whilst putting some kms on her the china spec turbo decided that it had had enough. Luckily it was not a catastrophic failure resulting in engine damage but i did happen to notice a slight squeel (which at first i thought may have been a loose belt ) which happened to be the inlet impeller trying to eat its way through the compressor housing. so i limped the car home and its sitting waiting for a new turbo. Kinugawa Td05h 20g  should flow enough air to produce 220+kw at the wheels whilst be very responsive.
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/19 20:23:33
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more updates have been spending alot of time around victoria's drifting scene as of late and have well and truely caught the bug. so without completely ruining the look or usability of the car im going to try to set it up so that i can slide predictably and safely. whilst still being nice to drive when its on the street. a few things i have picked up along the way to fit   if u noticed the coil overs are infact built from capri struts so i will be buying in some repro steering arms and having them shortened to increase the amount of lock generated by the normal steering movement
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/20 00:08:27
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wow, thats some nice work there for that exhaust!!!
Looks great!
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/20 12:30:45
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That exhaust is a work of art be sure to put some pics up when you get her drifting.
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/21 20:48:28
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yes the exhaust is a thing of beauty, thats why i make the 4 hour round trip to get the work done, not sure u'll find a nicer exhaust around.
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/21 20:56:50
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pictures of drifting wont be for a very long time lol. so much work to be done before i can even drive the car let along in full anger sideways.
have to-
Fit new turbo
Buy fittings and braid and make new water and oil lines to said turbo
fit new bigger flow fuel rail
Buy fittings and lines to make fuel lines
install new rising rate fuel reg
dial in new cams
Tune
thats just to get the car running, then i have to
Fit a gearbox with all working gears
fit front coil overs
Buy and shorten new steering arms
fit rack end extenders
Remount seats onto new seat rail to allow them to be further back
fit steering colum extender
mount and plumb hydraulic handbrake
and if i have any money i kinda need a basic cage to be let on the track
fun for me
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/04/25 14:39:03
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hi love your ve hicle love the common direction you have taken  im thinking of doing a similar coversion to my clean as a wissle grandma spec mk1 2 door but with a few more body mods thinking of going hotwires with a9x bolt on flares with torana tail lights with a purple velour interiour with sunroof  with screamer exiting strait out the bonnet with exhaust to exit infront of rear wheels hope you like my plans im all out of wedding pics  cheers
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/05/04 00:29:43
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Great Looking car bud, ill be sure to contact you for a run when mine is done, not many turbo escorts in melbourne(on the road). Ez'
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/05/06 16:50:39
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Mate im sure at the rate im going at urs will be finished before mine.
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/05/06 16:56:19
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well after about 4 years of ownership its happened
ive had to buy speedflow fittings lol.
been trying to avoid this moment for a long time but now have no real choice, and damn i hate those little suckers, yes they look real nice but u pay through the rs for them and you always need so many of them.
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/05/06 17:47:48
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JYE_91
thinking of going hotwires with a9x bolt on flares with torana tail lights
with a purple velour interiour with sunroof
with screamer exiting strait out the bonnet with exhaust to exit infront of rear wheels
That will certainly be in keeping with the type of mods done back in the early 80s when these cars were everywhere.
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/05/06 18:00:25
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i wouldnt worry to much about any of that happening, mate of mine who loves taking the piss.
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/05/06 19:40:05
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Mish
Mate im sure at the rate im going at urs will be finished before mine.
hehe dont worry im expecting to finish by mid next year. cheers. ez'
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Re:mk2 4 door ghia
2012/05/16 19:33:15
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ok so things are starting to move along again with this thing parts arrived  odered my -AN fittings and black braided line, which i will be cutting to perfect size so that the whole install looks neat and tidy unlike the old setup with was for a completely different engine but were made to fit. made a parts offering to the escort gods  and it fits   but as always went to install my new fuel rail which i bought second hand, and not to my surprise it needs to be modified to fit. as it was made for a bpt in a fwd configuration not in a rwd setup like mine  as you can see rear fitting needs to be cut off and welded shut and another fitting off to the left hand side of the rail.
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