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MK2 Escort
madrallysport - 6/3/10 at 07:14 PM

A good friend of mine builds rally cars for a living, over here in Northern Ireland the MK2 is still one serious bit of kit, with crazy money being spent on them. Here's his latest build, and the other link shows his own car.

John's escort - Just built yellow escort

Marty's own yoke - Blue mk2

Not any way locost related, just the quality of the builds are unreal, and i wanted to share it with you guys, blue car's running a duratec, yellow car has a 2.4 vauxhall engine in it.


big_wasa - 6/3/10 at 08:05 PM

I see a mk2 that some one had started to prep for banger racing yesterday It was rotten but fancy taking a sledge hammer to the wings


woolly - 6/3/10 at 08:08 PM

very very pretty thanks for showing. nice JRE motor.

woolly


ashg - 6/3/10 at 08:41 PM

love old escorts. not so sure about the vauxhall engine in the first one though.


tomprescott - 6/3/10 at 09:48 PM

Haha, a friend of mine bought a very good condition mk 2 escort a couple years ago for £500 (a bargain at twice the price) it was cheap because the owner had lost the keys, my mate managed to open and start it with one of his old ford keys - he thought that was good, I'm not so sure!


beaver34 - 6/3/10 at 11:11 PM

very nice i have 3 mates build escort at the moment,

1 pinto powered and arched,

1 irs rear end and yb cossie power 400bhp

the last

again yb powered around 450 bhp to on axle on rear, sequential box on hand controls

its going to be a fun summer!


02GF74 - 7/3/10 at 12:56 AM

nice jobs.

... but putting the coilpack directly above the exhaust manifold (yeloow 'un) is not what i would have done.


MikeRJ - 7/3/10 at 12:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
nice jobs.

... but putting the coilpack directly above the exhaust manifold (yeloow 'un) is not what i would have done.


I thought exactly the same; seems an odd decision as he's had to modify the L shaped cover to enable the HT leads to exit right over the manifold.


MikeRJ - 7/3/10 at 12:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ashg
love old escorts. not so sure about the vauxhall engine in the first one though.


Very common conversion, I always see several XE engined Escorts at the stage rallies I service on. Starting to see some Duratecs being fitted now though.

[Edited on 7/3/10 by MikeRJ]