looks nice, i'm loving Escorts with front lips.

Well thanks to Smacka and his super fast shipping I now have some Gaz adjustable front strut inserts keeping me company in bed =P (I should really put them out in the garage)

Now If im reading the dyno graph thing that comes with the shocks properly it says that they range from a min of 211 lbs to 597 lbs I guessing thats per inch yeah? And the springs I order do they need to be around the same rate?
My brain just switched on lol. 10.5" 275lb springs would need ~ the same force applied to them to compress them all the way, as the shocks would when fully adjusted? But that would mean I would lose the soft end of the adjustment on the insert yeah? I really don't know and im just making it up.

haven't been able to get her running proberly since i replaced the points. Will spend tomorrow trying to sort that out. I think its just a timing thing. Timed it when it was at operating temp (went for a 30min drive) but then it wouldn't keep running in the morning when i tryed to go to work. Just backfired and carried on like a b!tch.

The joys of owning a classic or as my friends say a sh!tbox/bomb =P
Sorry for the essay posts, I just love to ask questions lol.

hows the esky going lately? sounds like ur not on the best side of luck as far as reliability goes.

owell, means youll get the zetec in sooner [:x)]

Not going Zetec anymore... well not at this time. Was just going over the fine details with the place i was buying it off and the price had risen since last time. What the engine had with it became less. The amount of stuff i had to buy/have made/import was going up and with my ruff calculations it was going to be well over 7k and thats just the obvious stuff i could think of. People seem to do it a lot better than that. And If i was going to spend that much i would just spend a bit more and get the complete kit from eurospeed for the duratec and have more power!

But anywho...

The pinto has done the head gasket... probably did it ages ago... never relised what the symptoms where... always been like that so thought it was the norm, the norm for my tired crappy engine. Had the whole car checked over and there are many more problems. So i need another engine to do up and drop in ASAP.

Got all my coil over parts here need to get them done and in and put my single leaf springs in.

Will try to update this when i can.

Thanks man.
Yeah i'll stay with the pinto for the time being. Way i see it they are cheap if you don't go stupid. They are men't to be in my car so ease of install and they sound great =P

Update time. With pics =)
Well im pulling the whole car apart and fixing everything so i hope i dont have any problems with the car while I'm at uni. I will be doing as much as i can myself and the only thing that scares me is the wiring... and the cost of the rebuild LOL =P

Took the plastic cr@p off the heater bubble, expecting to see rust.


Woopwoop just a lil bit of dirt. But I took a look inside and...


=( it made me sad. Tho I was pretty sure it was going to be like that before i looked. Can anyone advise me on the best way to get the bubble off? Do i just take an angle grinder to it and weld it back on when fixed?

This is the ammount of room I have to work. A very cluttered double garage.


Extractors Before


Extractors After


Gotta love having access to a grit blaster.

The head would have seen better days


Lyndon Arnel is the guy doing my engine and he looked at the head and told me that one of the valves is burnt out. One is recessed into the head and another isnt seating properly. There are signs of deternation and my cam is screwed LOL. Rebuilt engine should go much better =P

Thats it for now. More updates in a weeks time. (I'll try to make it a habit =P)

Cheers Guys
JCB

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Originally posted by JordyCharlieBoz

One is recessed into the head and another isnt seating properly. There are signs of deternation and my cam is screwed LOL.

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pfffft hahahahahahahaahha

and this was ur daily?



those chambers look like they were experiencing serious blow by... was it still running on all four? or was it loosing a cylinder sometimes?

and where did you get those rims? what are they called.. look sick!