Sabretooth tiger
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you sir, are a legend :clapper:
Where in tte EC are you situated?
Where in tte EC are you situated?
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My Classics..
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warrenk
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922-ZN said:Very very nice Escorts dude, well done on the restore. Iv only ever seen one other 2 door GT bow tie MK1 as neat and clean as yours. That MK2 is legendaryraise:
Thank you bud, Was the other Mk1 white with the black stripes by any chance?
Auditor said:
Thanks Auditor..
The Mk1 might be coming up to one of the CITP meetings during the course of next year.
Sabretooth tiger said:
I'm in Port Elizabeth meneer.
Sabretooth tiger
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Oh, I go to EC often, but to East London. Wife is from there.
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JCR.Md
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I myself am a ford fanatic they are just lovely cars....my old man has enough history with the ford enough to make me want a ford as my first car.....sooo my ford carrier started off with a ford capri '69 then to a escort mk1 sadly that has been.warrenk said:I know they're not German but they are old and RWD... My hokke..
But our family classic car list entails.
Ford capri 69'
Escort mk1 70'
Vw beetle 74'
Volvo 544s 63'
Peugeot 404 62'
Mercedes 450sl 75'
None the less love your fords! I really would love a 2 door sadly in durban its soo hard to find
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zaksmehtar
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Love the fords man. Well kept.
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Randy ///M
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fantastic Collection
raise:raise:raise:
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warrenk
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A couple of years later and time for an update.
I took the Sport off the road on 6 June 2018. There was an oil leak between the head the block and the car was due for a "blow over"...
Well, one thing lead to another as I was stripping the car. Found the dreaded tinworm had eaten its way through some areas I've never seen an Escort rust in. Anyway, The car started and ran again under its own power for the 1st time in Oct 2020.
I still have minor things to do, but here are some of the pics.
I took the Sport off the road on 6 June 2018. There was an oil leak between the head the block and the car was due for a "blow over"...
Well, one thing lead to another as I was stripping the car. Found the dreaded tinworm had eaten its way through some areas I've never seen an Escort rust in. Anyway, The car started and ran again under its own power for the 1st time in Oct 2020.
I still have minor things to do, but here are some of the pics.
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Captain_Stealth
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wow some awesomeness right here on this thread damn
warrenk
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I had a mental block with this car after a couple of things went pear-shaped. This resulted in it being parked off, on stands with a cover over it for almost an entire year.
Once I finally managed to get my arse into gear, I addressed the issues one by one. Albeit it all being small things that could have been sorted out over a weekend. It took forever for me to redo everything as I took the utmost care when everything was installed the 1st time round and I didn't want to half-arse it the second time around.
The car developed a very bad knock after having parked it off for a while. I checked the timing with the vacuum advance disconnected, on idle it was 6 degrees, on taking it up to 3000rpm it was sitting at around 40 degrees. So issue number 1, distributor in its moer. I put another distributor in the car and transferred the electronic ignition setup over. On plugging everything back in, I had no spark. Did some more investigation and I ended up plugging the pickup in the wrong way around. In the autolec's infinite wisdom, he marked the wiring running to the coil wrong way around. Red is negative and black is positive. I also didn't take care to check when I unplugged it so when I plugged it back in, I blew it.
Ended up putting the points and condenser back in and the car started. Timing at idle was 6 degrees and at 3000rpm it was 28 degrees, happy days until I drove it. The detonation was still there. Put in fresh petrol, the issue is better but still there. Changed spark plugs, carburetors, still knocking.
Eventually, I drained the tank and lines completely, added 25L of fresh fuel with some Wurth additive, and the ping was gone.
I started driving the car short distances to make sure it won't throw me away, the vacuum advance was still disconnected at this time. I did about 100km with it like this. From here I reconnected the vacuum advance but the fueling side still needed attention. I had two 32/36 Weber carbs but saw a new unit on FB Marketplace and ended up grabbing that unit.
The day I fitted the new carb on the car I also installed a wideband controller and lambda sensor. It took 3 hours and around 70km to re-jet and set the carb up. It's a completely different car now. It runs a bit lean high up in the rev range but I need to go up on the primary jet by 1 or 2 steps and change the plugs to one range colder. I will never ever re-jet a carb without the wideband controller, it take the guesswork out of the equation, you know exactly what circuit to work on.
I did some wheel changes during this time too and managed to add roughly another 300km. The rear main seal gave up the ghost so the car is in the air at the moment. When I rebuilt the car I did not bother to open the gearbox up as it was perfect. So while the box is out this time round I took this opportunity to have it checked, it actually needs a rebuild. The layshaft needle rollers are not in the best condition.
Then, we get to the orange Saartjie (one of the JHB guys called these 4 door Mk2 Escort's Saartjies so the name just stuck), I only added the Superlites the red car used to have on and I'm cruising with this thing some evenings. 1600 Auto and the best of it all - it does not have any oil leaks, wish I could say the same about the rust but luckily nothing structural. I'm thinking of fitting the Bilstein struts from my Mk1 to this thing and giving it some more lows.
Once I finally managed to get my arse into gear, I addressed the issues one by one. Albeit it all being small things that could have been sorted out over a weekend. It took forever for me to redo everything as I took the utmost care when everything was installed the 1st time round and I didn't want to half-arse it the second time around.
The car developed a very bad knock after having parked it off for a while. I checked the timing with the vacuum advance disconnected, on idle it was 6 degrees, on taking it up to 3000rpm it was sitting at around 40 degrees. So issue number 1, distributor in its moer. I put another distributor in the car and transferred the electronic ignition setup over. On plugging everything back in, I had no spark. Did some more investigation and I ended up plugging the pickup in the wrong way around. In the autolec's infinite wisdom, he marked the wiring running to the coil wrong way around. Red is negative and black is positive. I also didn't take care to check when I unplugged it so when I plugged it back in, I blew it.
Ended up putting the points and condenser back in and the car started. Timing at idle was 6 degrees and at 3000rpm it was 28 degrees, happy days until I drove it. The detonation was still there. Put in fresh petrol, the issue is better but still there. Changed spark plugs, carburetors, still knocking.
Eventually, I drained the tank and lines completely, added 25L of fresh fuel with some Wurth additive, and the ping was gone.
I started driving the car short distances to make sure it won't throw me away, the vacuum advance was still disconnected at this time. I did about 100km with it like this. From here I reconnected the vacuum advance but the fueling side still needed attention. I had two 32/36 Weber carbs but saw a new unit on FB Marketplace and ended up grabbing that unit.
The day I fitted the new carb on the car I also installed a wideband controller and lambda sensor. It took 3 hours and around 70km to re-jet and set the carb up. It's a completely different car now. It runs a bit lean high up in the rev range but I need to go up on the primary jet by 1 or 2 steps and change the plugs to one range colder. I will never ever re-jet a carb without the wideband controller, it take the guesswork out of the equation, you know exactly what circuit to work on.
I did some wheel changes during this time too and managed to add roughly another 300km. The rear main seal gave up the ghost so the car is in the air at the moment. When I rebuilt the car I did not bother to open the gearbox up as it was perfect. So while the box is out this time round I took this opportunity to have it checked, it actually needs a rebuild. The layshaft needle rollers are not in the best condition.
Then, we get to the orange Saartjie (one of the JHB guys called these 4 door Mk2 Escort's Saartjies so the name just stuck), I only added the Superlites the red car used to have on and I'm cruising with this thing some evenings. 1600 Auto and the best of it all - it does not have any oil leaks, wish I could say the same about the rust but luckily nothing structural. I'm thinking of fitting the Bilstein struts from my Mk1 to this thing and giving it some more lows.
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AshG108
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Escort Mk1....Damn it is a lust thing of a car for me!! Looks great bud!I know they're not German but they are old and RWD... My hokke..
