Got painting the door mirrors in satin black 2pk , I'm not a real fan of color match Ford mirrors


While I was in the shed I decided to machine off the castings on the steering boss, it lathed up to a decent shine

And to bolt to the boss kit is a cheapo Momo copy

Then I added red LED lights to the dash clocks, this dash was swapped in favour of a tacho dash but the effect is the same..

With the head all bolted down and cam dialled in with the newish adjustable pulley , manifold and 38DGAS Weber it was time to crank it over.. it started almost right away which was quite a shock as it takes a few goes with turning the dizzy.
Once the initial 10min @2500 to bed in the bottom end , I pulled the rocker cover off to reset the followers , with that sorted I hit the brake pedal and the motor stalled... Not good so I diagnosed the vacuum booster has a split diaphragm 😞, after measuring it's dimensions I found a hotrod booster on eBay for $85 , I went for the gold anodized version..

Not much difference between Escort and hotrodder booster , with the 4x mounting holes out by only 5mm and the rod was adjustable, things were easy to convert over


And this is the booster installed

Engine don't stall when braking now plus it looks nice, brake pedal is progressive and not hard. Remembering I'm using a Ford laser master with all STD brakes , time for road test..😁

Awesome mate
 
Well done
 
Matt

Thanks for those kind words guys 👍 , yeah I'm not a real fan of spending money on shiny bling stuff just for looks unless it's all there is available ..

Back to some van time,
Making a tacho dash work with some spares about the place, trying to match up dials and needles with each other ...

Next to remove the blue bulb covers and install the red LEDs

Once happy I found the correct dash wiring plug as they are different to stock dash clocks ... Yes I could've switched pins in the plug but having the correct one about seemed better at the time , next was to give the tacho input at the coil end and plug it in , simples !


Quick test and all goes well, tacho doesn't bounce around and is nearly accurate lol , road test and things going well . Apart from carby being not tuned in the van went well altho the front brakes are iffey , I'll go venteds with new rotors and pads so while waiting for the BMW disks to arrive I done some machining to the hubs (and needed to cut a chunk out of my lathe to accept the rotor size).. I machined the hubs mounting back 4mm and also ran a 60deg angle (like Capri) at the studs end to clear the calipers . While it's all apart I gave new bearings and seals plus a decent clean out and paint with 2pk blue..

Same with calipers, they were cleaned, checked and rebuilt

When are we going to see those other escorts rolling marty?

Marty
I have a really good RS Bonnet if you need a donor for fiberglass 
cheers
 

 Marty 
Yes in Adelaide