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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/02/11 07:16:37 (permalink)
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Nix means nothing mate.

You have to freight though.
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/02/11 09:49:25 (permalink)
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Thanks for the advice, it's good to hear from someone who has gone through these headaches, I just want to clarify some points. Who machined up your gearset for you, and how were the old ones failing, stripped teeth?? How did you go about put the pinto ring gear on it, admitingly it has been a while since I played with the flywheel, but it looked that the pinto gear couldn't go on the front in the stock pinto spot becuase of the bigger pressure plate, it could go on the back but there would be a flange created infront of the ring gear! Which set up are you running??? The other problem I have is I have machined off the inside of the flywheel weight, so I can't knock that diameter down anymore

...One of my machinist I use at work who happens to be a rally driver machined the standard cossie flywheel. We heated the ring gear and dropped it on the same place as the original. It is only a few mm off the outside to be removed.
Send me an email with specifics, I can answer from there...Might take a phone call. Would not agree to the use of a pinto block for big boost.
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/03/11 09:29:48 (permalink)
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Thanks Lincoln, sounds good, can we email or something (I'm new to all this) and work out the details. Does anyone know if the 4x4 starter has the same bolt pattern as a standard pinto. It seems the pinto blocks cortina, escort, 205 are basically the same and can crack bores under high combustion pressures, the long stud conversion on the 200 blocks would be to take the tensile force off the bores, minimising the fatigue. This is what they ended up doing on the bathurst sierras to keep them hanging together for the race, but even then they where custom blocks from ford with massive bore thickness and solid iron from the bottom of the water pump hole to the mains.
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/03/11 13:17:27 (permalink)
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Yes bolt pattern is the same for pinto and 4x4 cossie starter. Long studs are not necessarily the beez neez to holding the block together. There is more to consider than that...I know many examples without it and not trouble, it helps if the block chosen is a good one...
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/04/11 17:50:45 (permalink)
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oh yeh sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I was going to long stud it, I agree, it's not needed for my application. Thanks for the info on the starters, I'll do some scrounging and sort something out. I got all my window trims back from the anodizers finally, that was a two and a half month wait, but there not to bad, got all my door handles and locks back from the chrome platers to, heres a photo just after I bonded them in. sorry about the fuzziness!

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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/11/15 20:11:33 (permalink)
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Here is the centre console I have been making, the wood is Jarrah and will be clear coated. The woods only roughed out at this stage. Headunit is going under the gauges and the hole below will have another jarrah panel with 4 shiny push buttons, and a clock





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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/11/15 20:24:01 (permalink)
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love the clour mate. its sexy
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/11/16 15:51:48 (permalink)
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Thankyou, yeh I'm really happy with the leathers colour, The console is trimmed with a single piece of leather, what a unpleasant individual to do, lots of water and swearing to get it trimmed up. I decided I didn't want any stitches so went this route, I seem to create a lot of work for myself [x2x]
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/12/29 16:26:52 (permalink)
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I've finally finished that jarrah panel, plus i'm getting some vinyl stickers made up for the speedo and tacho, also just measured up my mountune cams because you can't get the figures out of mountune!?! By the way, I'm looking for some decent door glass for the car as mine have some vertical scratches that are to deep to buff out, anybody got some good glass lurking about that they would be willing to sell???

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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2009/12/30 00:04:29 (permalink)
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Really nice work there king cossie. I like the jarrah panel. gives it some class. It come up looking the goods too with the clear coat etc.

Looking forward to the progress.
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2010/02/01 21:03:49 (permalink)
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Thanks Mr 550, yeh i'm trying to get a classy kind of look instead of the racer type of interior, hopefully it turns out the way I picture it in my head, fingers crossed. The clear on the Jarrah is the same PPG clear that the car is painted with, bit of a gamble on how it would show up the grain and colour, but i'm quite happy with how it turned out. I still have a lot of work to do on the car, but I'll keep plugging away, I basically have all the purchasable parts I need, it's just a matter of making the custom bits and pieces I need to as I'm going through, but I will keep updating as I go, and thanks again for the interest!!
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2010/02/01 22:02:05 (permalink)
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How did you go about makeing that console? Looks sweet.
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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2010/02/01 23:02:57 (permalink)
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The main console was made from 2 pieces of 6mm MDF, reinforced with fibreglass. Where the curves are in the wood I cut multiple slits 4mm deep and about 7mm apart, wet the wood, then bend into shape, I had to make a temporary frame to hold it in shape whilst it dried. Once dried I put on a single layer of fibreglass to keep it strong where the slits where cut. Once the basic shape had been made, just used bog to get the finer details right. The leather required heavy wetting with water and shaping, and had to be glued down bit by bit. The Jarrah panel was made by getting a block of wood and making the basic shape with a chisel, then used the dremel with a HSS cutting tip, then finish by hand with sandpaper. A couple of cracks where present in the wood, so I made the crack edges parallel with themselves, made some thin wedges out of some of the offcuts with a simiiiar colour, wet the wood and tapped them in with no glue, did this before sanding with 120. last sanding should be done with 800 with the wood wet. Then I sprayed it with a 2 pack clear, sanded out the peel with 1200 then 2000 and polished. Hope this is some help

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RE: Cosworth Mk2 Escort build 2010/03/01 01:29:12 (permalink)
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Thats awesome. Thanks for the info mate =)
Has given me idea's lol. Really want a 2din head unit and get rid of the ash tray and have the gearstick thing further back. And making my own console didn't occur to me.

The car will be awesome when your finished mate. Kudos
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