I can get hold of a 2.0L capri and i'd like to know if the live axel will fit the ron campion dimensions and if not what do i need to do to make it fit. Also is the engine the pinto or crossflow? Can all the donor parts be sourced from a capri? Alot of questions but if they can be answered it would put me nearly ready to start building so any help will be really helpful

cheers peeps.

the capri axle will fit a book car technically but it is a lot wider than the escort axle. It might look out of proportion and need odd bodywork. best on a +4 wider chassis.

not sure about the engine or running gear.

With 10 1/2 rear arches, the capri axle looks better on a book chassis. You have better clearance between the tyres and the trailing arms. It is much stronger, better ratios for non BEC engines and much easier to find than the escort hens tooth.

No special modifications needed other than a little more room in the drivers seat area.
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if you decide you want a cortina axle instead, give us a shout.. got one cluttering the shed

Im going to use one on my +4. Im building it +4 so I can put a rover V8 in it one day. Check out my website for a rendered image of my (incomplete at this stage) 3d model of the car.

www.wings-and-wheels.net

Drop me an email if you want info on what ive done with the design...

Ed.

I'm using the capri axle in a book chassis as well. I have just been inquiring at Luego for the body work and they do body work that will fit extra width of the axle. You will need to let them know thats what you are doing as you need the velocity wings not the locost (so Grant informs me), but you can have 15" wheels with 205 tyres in there Wings :-D

I did do go over there a while back to take a drive in the Viento. I got to see the GRP, it's top knotch. I WILL be ordering mine from them.


Simon

Hi

Has any one got a spare rear cover plate they would like to sale

Dave

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I have a capri axle on a standard chassis. doesnt look to bad if you use the right wheels
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Originally posted by quinnj3
I can get hold of a 2.0L capri and i'd like to know if the live axel will fit the ron campion dimensions and if not what do i need to do to make it fit. Also is the engine the pinto or crossflow? Can all the donor parts be sourced from a capri? Alot of questions but if they can be answered it would put me nearly ready to start building so any help will be really helpful

cheers peeps.

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if you can, try and get hold of the 2.8 special one - they had slipper diffs in them

For the record axle width measured across the flanges that the brake back plate bolts to

Escort, MK1 and 2 Cortina, Classic -- 48 inches

Capri 68 on MK1 to 3 --- 50 inches

Cortina Mks 3 to 5 -- 52 inches

The above applies to matter what type of Ford axle is fitted.

The best choice of axle for standard with car is probably the Capri is the Escort axle dosent leave much clearance on the inside edgeof the tyres.

Most Capris also have 9 inch brake drums of various withs wherevas most Escorts use 8 inch drums..

And also Hillman Hunter, and Avenger axles also fit and take ford wheels.

[Edited on 13/3/04 by britishtrident]

One more thing you can use ford wheels to narrow or widen the track

Escort MK1&2 Capri wheels = wide track

Escort FWD and Sierra Wheels = narrow track.

Cortina 3 to 5 standard steel wheels are somewhere in between --- however in the hands of owners many Cortinas ended up with Capri wheels.

Some early 2.0l capris had cologne v4 engines in. Very heavy and not very powerful. Not ideal for a locost.

Adam

Much the same can be said for the Pinto lump., except the V4 (and early V6) was even less reliable.

britishtrident,

Where did you get your information from, my Capri axle measures 52" in between the backplates, I measured it for someone else trying to identify a mystery axle - I hope I have not told them duff info

(I never saw the car that donated my axle, but it had clamps for cart springs, no ears for cortina tailing links, a salibury diff 3.75:1, and all this seemed to confirm what the scrappy said - that it came from a 1.6 Capri Laser)

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"""""Where did you get your information from, my Capri axle measures 52" in between the backplates, I measured it for someone else trying to identify a mystery axle - I hope I have not told them duff info"""

A while back a few of us who were in the Yahoo group collect info on Ford axles -- I contributed the Escort and Anglia (which 2 inches narrower than the Escort !)

My info on the Capri axle came from an old Capri hand a Capri owners club member who built a Capri based book chassis, he swore blind that all Capri axles were the same. He might have got it wrong, it might be that all Capri axles are the same width between spring pads and an additional 2 inches was added perhaps on the MK3.

The only other Ford leaf sprung salsbury style axles were the P100 and Transit 75 both of which are 5 stud.