Well heres my very first post on this great site. I wish the internet was around when I had my Escorts... Anyway great work 2lt_Scort, I've just read this whole thread and you've done well. Have you had your dizzy regraphed to suit your cam? That will help you get more timing down low so it doesn't feel as boggy down low although with the much shorter runners, you will always have this issue. A regraph will help this a bit anyway. Something that I remember when I put ram tubes on my old MK2 was the sheer lack of room between them and the inner guard. Perhaps you could take your custom inlet back and get them to angle your set up a few degrees so you can fit a custom airbox a with a more room to play with?

Your car makes me want to go and buy the old 4 door Ghia down the road. You have a very tough looking car both outside and under the bonnet!!

PS. Where would I be able to get the fibreglass bubble from? Great work!!

looking fantastic Rhys. a real credit.

just a quick question. what's the fuel consumption like compared the the EFI. just curious

Scott,
As far as fuel consuption goes, I don't really worry about it when driving this car. If you mean consumption on new setup vs old setup then I'm yet to tell as I've only done around 150-200km and haven't been gauging it. Once I've ironed out all the little issues I'll do a full tank test.

Paul,
Yep went with EMS, can go coil packs in future but no plans to yet. It's all time and money. My aim is to finish it as it stands and get some km's out of it and to also do a few suspension changes.

Rhys

Nice mod job on that manifold. Looking forward to hearing what the dyno has to say.

that manifold came up great Rhys, hows my old engine going? good luck on the sale of the rs too

Nice work, I had considered doing something similar.. but i have been annoying the people that I know who work in machine shops too much over the last year or so, so i thought I would give them a rest for now [}:)]

Is that a fitting for 5/8 hose ? Just a small word of warning (although I am not certain if this applies in every case) I had some problems with having breather lines that were too restrictive and it was causing oil to blow out the top of the dipstick tube, so just keep an eye out for that. I now have a 19mm hose coming out that side of the block.

lookin good

woah! that must sound awesome!