Cortina Crusader MK5 project

[alexmk5tina]

Hi there thought i would share my project on here ,I'm at the beginning as you can see it will probably be a long one but here goes

82 crusader as you can see front ends seriously rotten rest of the car doesn't seem too bad ,

claims to have done only 60k not sure if thats true ,but could be ,interior hasn't much wear on it ect

badged as a 1.6 but block has a 20 on the side plus it has a type 9 5 speed box so think it might have been swapped over ,does this make it a 2.0 ? anyone know ?  hope it is






got worse as i started stripping it





fitted new inner rail on the passenger side



decided to make the bonnet hinge and wing mounting rail on drivers side turned out not to bad










temp fitted wing and bonnet to make sure its all welded up in the right places ,all seems good

[sceptre]

Bookmarked, good luck with the project. My Dad used to have a 2.0 ltr mk 5 years ago and I remember him getting a 5 speed serria box to put in it.

[bortaf]

20 meens 2.0L yep and they never came with a 5 speed so somone has been playing with it already, which is nice, saves you doing it

[120y]

Good on you for saving her, always will have a soft spot for cortinas especially mk5, I had one of the last 1.6 a crusader on a Y plate in Caribbean blue, never forgotten that car
will look forward to updates.

[alexmk5tina]

cheers guys , glad its a 2.0 right enough then ,ill keep the thread up to date

[darrenh]

love the starting work, another "my dad had one of those" cortina fan

[alexmk5tina]

pulled the engine for rebuild its in a right mess





spent hours de greasing the block ,but was worth it
slowly getting back together



twin choke webber and manifold came up well too



like my expensive blast cabinet  

thats all for now

[alexmk5tina]

anyone know how to tell if a head has been made to run on unleaded,ive researched a bit online and its looking like the engine was built in 1986 from the codes , so maybe from a sierra ect ?
not a problem but would be good to know

[SmokeEm]

Sierra's had Egg shaped ports so very noticeable.

Had a Crusader myself earlier this year. Thankfully it didn't need any welding so I just modded it a bit.

My thread is here.. (No idea how to put build thread links in a siggy)

retrorides.proboards.com/thread/162321/82-cortina-crusader-new-owner

[alexmk5tina]

cheers its defo a sierra engine then it has the eggshape ports

[bortaf]

Not quite only the EFI had the egg shapped inlet ports and even those came in leaded and unleaded, if it's a factory unleaded head it will have a stamping "by" the rearmost (No4) Ex port, your looking for an L, P, PP, R, RR, anything else it's a leaded head, now if it has been converted afterwards you need to look at the Ex valve seats, they will look seperate to the head as if somone had pushed inserts in which is what they do to convert the head.
That head is deffo a sierra one as it has the wider cam cover gasket ledge but the block is a cortina one, if the block was sierra it would say 205 on the side not 20

[Maizetina]

Rob you know too much about cortinas and pintos

[bortaf]

Nov 15, 2014 21:33:05 GMT Maizetina said:

Rob you know too much about cortinas and pintos

You sound like me missus
now if somone asked me how old me kids were i'd be stumped

[alexmk5tina]

lol cheers bortaf , looks like it not an unleaded head then ill just need to use an additive ,it has 8b at no4 whatever that means

[qwerty]

Looks like a good project. What are your plans?

[alexmk5tina]

not 100% made my mind up yet but it wont look like a crusader i know that ,want it lowered ,vinyl roof on nice polished alloys ,possibly red for paint ,and whatever other ideas come along as it progresses ,but things could change as they do lol

[alexmk5tina]

might have looked like i abandoned this project but now that i have found the thread again here is how the car turned out, still not 100% but very close now

[optimusprime]

Didn't the very last of the mk5 tina's have 5 spd boxes in them?
Just to get rid of them. As the Sierra was coming out?

[alexmk5tina]

not sure mate , this started as a 1.6 4 speed ,but now a 2.0 5 speed type 9

[sarkie83]

Sept 9, 2016 15:30:24 GMT optimusprime said:

Didn't the very last of the mk5 tina's have 5 spd boxes in them?
Just to get rid of them. As the Sierra was coming out?

Nope - all 4 speeds, but it's pretty common to find them having been retrofitted.