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Are all 1.3L engines Crossflows (From Mk2)
Gerard - 28/2/03 at 01:06 PM

I hope this is an obvious question to most. Are all of the 1.3L engines taken out of MK2 escort crossflows.

Many thanks

Gerard

kingr - 28/2/03 at 01:40 PM

No, not all 1300 crossflows are from escorts. Some are from Mk1 fiestas, they may also have been fitted to cortinas and anglias, can't remember, but they definitely also were fitted to fiestas.

Kingr

auzziejim - 28/2/03 at 02:43 PM

i think Kingr has not been reading the question fully

I think that all 1300 mk2 escorts used the crossflow engine. I know there was a 1300 Pinto but am pretty sure for some reason that this wasnt used in any escort

James

kingr - 28/2/03 at 03:26 PM

Duh, my mistake. I can't imagine they're going to be anything else, the only two possible other engines are the pre-xflow (before) or pinto (after), and I have my doubts that either of them was used.

Don't know anything about pre-xflows, but it's so unlikely that it's not really worth thinking about. But to check if it's a pinto, see which side the exhaust exits, if it's driver's side, then it's a pinto, if it's not then it's a xflow, simple.

Kingr

jonti - 28/2/03 at 04:04 PM

Don't know anything about pre-xflows, but it's so unlikely that it's not really worth thinking about.
Kingr



Just to digress from the point slightly , The old 1500cc MK1 cortina engine plus 2000E box would probably go quite nicely in a Locost..if you could find them now. Had this machinery way back in 1971 bored out to 1650 in an Anglia with twin 40s and all the whistles and it went like hot sh** !!........Ah them was the days when I 'ad no grey hair and a flat belly. Incidentally the Anglebox, to my knowledge was only ever fitted with 997 and 1200cc mills ( as standard !)

Totally pointless drivel I know, and no help at all with the original query, but I went all nostalgic when you mentioned Anglias...Sorry..JJ

[Edited on 28/2/03 by jonti]

auzziejim - 28/2/03 at 04:31 PM

my dad keeps telling me of how he used to have an Anglia! race tuned 1200cc it was with twin 40's! ran quite nicely until he melted a piston in the bore (or so he says)

more pointless drivle for you all

James

kingr - 28/2/03 at 04:42 PM

I suspect if you drove that car now it wouldn't be half as fast as you remember . I know someone who always dreamed of having some lotus ford thing (cortina?). When he eventually got to drive one he said it went like complete crap. Ah, such is life. I wonder what car I'll think fondly about when I'm older .

Kingr

Mark Allanson - 28/2/03 at 08:00 PM

The very early crossflows had a 3 bearing crank, not good for high revs!

jonti - 1/3/03 at 07:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by kingr
I suspect if you drove that car now it wouldn't be half as fast as you remember

You're probably right everything is relative I suppose. One of me mates had bog standard 997 and the other had a moggy minor.Ahhh..we were poor but we were 'appy.
My 1650 (plus my good looks and charm) still pulled the birds though !!
Enough of this crap, I must go and bash a dent in the tranny tunnel to fit my fat *rse