Simon's KF TX3

Has the engine been rebuilt at some stage ? I am curious as to how long one of these engines is supposed to last under normal driving conditions.'

Looks like a bit of cheap fun, what mods have you done to it and what does the future hold for it ?

Hi Damion,

It's still on the original engine and gearbox! As far as I know the head has never been off and it recently ticked over 325,000km.

After DECA I thought I would finally take the plunge and start doing sprints. I had wanted to for years but always thought my car(s) weren't up to the task.

So I set my sights on the Melbourne Cup Day Sprint at Sandown in November, run by Ford Four Car Club. But before I did anything, the standard springs had to go and were replaced with a set of off the shelf Kings (thanks Wozzah!).



I also had a 2inch cat-back exhaust fitted, bought a basic bucket seat and four point harness, fitted some bonnet pins, and picked up a set of second hand 16x7.5 inch DTM Fin rims with Falken Ziex tyres.

The seat of course required custom rails, so I made these up to solid mount it:







Four bolts and it's out. I use the standard seat for daily use.


Some pics from Sandown:









The springs made a huge difference, but the Falkens were horrendous! [xx(]

Still not up to 'current spec', but I won't bombard you with it all in one go. More updates to come (if anyone is actually reading this! )

Is that one of Just Japs seats? Have been looking at getting one of these for my car but don't know anyone that has one, what are they like?

Nothing wrong with a newer car to take the strain off of an escort

Alastair

Thanks for the replies. Most people cringe when they hear the name Laser, but I don't care!

Stairsy, I bought the seat from eBay. Highest bid was $51, and shipping was $72! Still a cheap seat in any case. I don't have any complaints about the build quality, but the back height is possibly a little low. Still, for the odd sprint it's fine for me. When I win Lotto I'll throw a Sparco in.

By the end of 2007, the monsterous dent in the rear quarter was starting to annoy me, and there was a little rust in the lower section of the front left guard. With Small Ford Sunday fast approaching, there was no better time to look into getting them sorted out.

I sourced a good second hand guard, had a chat to the panel shop across the road from work, and for $500 they repaired the rear quarter, fitted the new guard, resprayed the entire left hand side of the car, went over the whole car with a touch up brush, and resprayed my front wipers black! Bargain.


So it was looking pretty good for SFS, but my luck ran out the night before when I arrived home with a side wall puncture in one of my 16s. Bugger. Ahh well, they were crap tyres anyway.

So Niscort, who was over from Tassie to attend SFS, drove the TX3 on stockies to SFS for me (I drove the X Pack), and kindly swapped the 16s back over for display purposes.





Yes the air inlet in the front bar looks d!ck!e, but function took precedence over form at the time. It is currently being modified and integrated into the bar a little better. I'll post pics once it's done.

Thanks again for all the feed back!

Wow, you have done a great job of cleaning it up. Looks great.

Good work Matey! Car looks a million bucks compared to the original images.

Who would have thought your TX3 would rival the Mk1 on this site. I'm thinking this new TX3 thread will be longer than the Mk1's very soon[(#)]

naaa just shove a turbo Ztech in there thats the way (cept for the $$$$[8~2])