Hayden I haven't read your thread for a while. I noticed you were going to use the sump off your 1300 on the 1600 engine. I did that once and it was a bad move. The longer throw of the 1600 crank brought the rods into contact with the sides of the 1300 sump. What it resulted in was not evidence while turning over the engine by hand. Once it fired up though was a rather loud (and embarrassing) banging noise. I had to remove the engine, take off the sump and relieve the sides of it to allow for clearance. Just make sure you don't fall into the same trap I did. You might be better off getting a sump off a 1600 engine. It may well be that on the later 711M engines the same sump was used for the 1300 and 1600. Just make sure of things before you put the engine in the car.

At least it's a different sound so maybe not the sump? Keen to hear how this one goes, hope you get it sorted with minimal hassle...

Hayden, It is unlikely to be the sump if you have a screeching noise. The sump problem I had was more like banging a bit of tin with a hammer very rapidly. As I said previously, I don't know whether the later 1300 and 1600 711M engines share the same sump. If they do, then you're probably safe. Perhaps someone can advise in this regard. I used the 1300 sump from my 1970 Escort on my 1600 and had to take the engine out again.

I took the starter into the local auto leccy today, ends up the starter was okay, but hahahaha, the clearance to ring gear has changed slightly. So I spaced the starter with spring washers and wallah! No screech. What a relief. So I'm gonna run the gauntlet tomorrow over to macs mufflers to put a 2" system and triflow muffler on. Then old mate Wayne at Perry engineering (the guy who did the head) will check the timing for me.

Well done Hayden. Glad you got things sorted.

i love this car, looks like one i had my eye on in Redcliffe used to get around a every now and again, very elderly lady driving, cant be too many of those around same colour, wouldn't be the same car would it? great work.

Man, it sucks to be having so many problems with little things, hope you get on top of them soon.

It's judgement day lol. The screeching is all sorted now,, so I have everything installed & ready to go. The battery's on charge for the night and I'll be picking up some of that foil matting from somewhere??? to deflect the heat away from my selector and kickdown cables, they are only a few inches away from the extractors. I'm pretty happy with how the Ford blue turned out on the rocker cover. And I've just placed an order with Weber Performance in Melbourne for some alloy ram tubes and stainless mesh filters because the redline filter makes contact with the engine bay once the motor is running. A K&N filter would have been okay too but the ram tubes have a much larger bling factor [88]

Here's a pic from tonight