MK2 Escort & AE86 Sprinter

1976 Mk2 Escort 2 door

1600 X-Flow
2 4 Speeds
4 13x5 jelly bean mags
4 13x6 Bathurst globes
2 13x5.5 performance alloys

wouldn't be complete without rusted out spare wheel well.

this was the first car i ever bought, it cost me $200 dollars, which is a lot of money when you're 14.
i bought it with the intention to build it into a tough track car. however with the attention span and dedication of a teenager it sat in my back yard wasting away.
over the years a few rust spots have presented themselves, some nastier than others but nothing that i cant fix. will be happening soon.

i was originally aiming for some 2.0 zetec power but the difficulty of the conversion has ruled that out.

I now have 2 different ideas for the power plant, which are.

Option 1. Pinto 2 Litre. Cam, Bored, High Comp, Flat Slide Carbs.

Option 2. Toyota 4AGE 16V, Toyota Sprinter 5 speed, Cams, High Comp, Flat Slide Carbs.

the route i take will all depend on what presents itself at the right price when I've got the money.

UPDATES GO HERE

just got these KEIHIN CV-K's for a good price. i am going to ghetto rig them up to my 1.6 X Flow until i can afford a 4age + T50 gearbox and some decent r1 carbs.

nah haven't done either engine swap yet, i only just edited my o.g post.
i was thinking of selling the escort to get a ke25 but the corolla sold so i've decided to fix this up.

looking for some cheap bike carbs and a 4age + T50 gearbox at the moment and as soon as i find some space in the shed i will start cutting out the rust.

anyone on here know how easy it is to extract 100rwkw from a pinto 2 litre, and roughly how much money id be looking at?

Just do a mild 2 litre build, maybe just leave the head, warm cam, standard pistons and rods (have heard a pinto rev to 9300rpm on standard internals!!) may have been point bouncing a little but thats what it said on the tacho. lol

Just don't go too overboard with it, otherwise you'll just lose money and interest.

If it were up to me, I would just freshen a pinto up, get a warmer cam, extractors, redline airfilter (get rid of the old mother) and you'll be laughing.

Should produce more than 100bhp at the flywheel, thats more than enough to do some burnouts!! Should cost you around 1,000 i should think.

Cheers

true true, i understand that figures are fairly irrelevant and most dynos read differently. i'm only asking as i know that if i go the 4age route i could make that kind of power pretty easily.

R1 Carbs
Raised Compression
Toda Cams with about 288 inlet 272 exhaust duration 9mm lift.
Extractors/exhaust

there is also the benefit of the 4age being about 30 kilos lighter than the pinto.

i'm setting this car up for the street with the occasional bit of dori dori.

8kg/mm front coil overs, -3 of camber, 13x8's with stretched rubber.

is converting the rear to a coil over and 5 links set up both expensive and difficult or just expensive?

as for burnouts, i can do them in the stock 1.6 but they really aren't my thing.

pinto's can do good burnouts - even on rally tires!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK0EOK2qet0

dont blink as you may miss it, but it is producing plenty of smoke

the motor is just shy of 100 rwkw on a very harsh dyno, motor produces around 190 bhp

i am a bit of a purist, stick with the pinto or a more modern ford motor