Rob F
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| posted on 14/7/12 at 05:37 PM |
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Type 2 gearbox with Zetec
For your amusement - I had read a few things that the escort type 2 box wouldn't be strong enough for a zetec (a 130bhp 1.8) but I tried it
anyway. This had done 3 trackdays and probably 1k road miles, but finally 3rd gear broke;
 
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mookaloid
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| posted on 14/7/12 at 05:48 PM |
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it seems that some things you read on the internet are true then 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/7/12 at 06:12 PM |
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Type 2 is only slightly strengthen version of Mk1 Escort box, the mk1 boxes broke with monotonous regularity.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 15/7/12 at 09:06 AM |
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If it's any concelation, I did something similar to that with a 4 speed single rail, out of a mk3 cortina, attached to a 1662cc Xflow in my Mk1
Cortina back in '84'. I stripped all but 3 teeth off of the input shaft (didn't half go with a bang as I pulled away from Rushden
High Street), then drove it 6 miles home using the only (but noisey) gear I had left which was 4th.
Mind you that was producing an estimated 160 -180bhp then. The only problem I had was when the drive locked up completely trying to reverse it into
the garage (up hill). I had to remove the propshaft to get it off the road and into the garage. 
Happy days.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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