mk4 escort 1.3

[chris83]

Tonight i went to view the escort u may of seen advertised by focusmk1
it was just as described and very solid and perfect for my want to build a sleeper
so ive left a depoist and I'm now sorting out storage for it and will collect it next week. Heres a pic from the sale ad, my plans are to put it on 16inch pug steelies and get it sitting a bit lower and fit either a zetec or a 1600i engine we have laying about that was in my escort van, but atm I'm just excited ive got a great base model escort

[chris83]

[foldy]

Looks a great base! Any rust? Bubbling at the very least expected.
Take a look at my old MK4, I raised it to -40mm after I bought it as the ride height made for a very harsh drive. 15" Mondeo steels, 1400 CVH, XR2 gearbox, Sportex exhaust. Every time I drove it I had a grin from ear to ear!
The good thing about the little pushrod engines is they're absolutely bullet proof.
rodney on here likes putting a TD in just about everything, but he's done a bit of a how to for the MK4 on youtube.

[focusmk1]

See you next week mate

[chris83]

Aug 13, 2016 11:41:22 GMT focusmk1 said:

See you next week mate

I will ring you probably monday and arrange a day and time to collect it

[chris83]

Aug 13, 2016 8:36:34 GMT foldy said:

Looks a great base! Any rust? Bubbling at the very least expected.
Take a look at my old MK4, I raised it to -40mm after I bought it as the ride height made for a very harsh drive. 15" Mondeo steels, 1400 CVH, XR2 gearbox, Sportex exhaust. Every time I drove it I had a grin from ear to ear!
The good thing about the little pushrod engines is they're absolutely bullet proof.
rodney on here likes putting a TD in just about everything, but he's done a bit of a how to for the MK4 on youtube.

The crossmember has gone but its got a mint crossmember included in the sale so easily sorted , everything else is solid has very slight bubbling on back arches but will sort them and bonnet has a little surface rust on the front, ive just won on ebay a full set of recaros from a golf mk4 so i think I'm going to make them fit for now , engine wise i think a cheap 2.0 zetec will do to start , but never thought about td power may you tube it and have a look

[foldy]

Cheapest way to zetec is a 1.8 from a mk3 Fiesta/mk5 Escort.
That'll be plenty in an Escort to start with.
Thing is with the 2.0, you need a few parts from the 1.8, and the price starts going up.
If I were to do it, I'd go 1.8 first, then wait for a 2.0 to rebuild, then you have all the bits needed to convert

[chris83]

Aug 13, 2016 16:53:02 GMT foldy said:

Cheapest way to zetec is a 1.8 from a mk3 Fiesta/mk5 Escort.
That'll be plenty in an Escort to start with.
Thing is with the 2.0, you need a few parts from the 1.8, and the price starts going up.
If I were to do it, I'd go 1.8 first, then wait for a 2.0 to rebuild, then you have all the bits needed to convert

I will keep that in mind but due to your td comments i kinda like idea of tuned td lol

[rodney]

heres my old blue td mk4 , was a fun car ,



and the part1 of the guide i did

[chris83]

Aug 14, 2016 18:18:39 GMT rodney said:

heres my old blue td mk4 , was a fun car ,



and the part1 of the guide i did

Thanks , i like the stance would be well happy if i can get mine sitting that way

[rodney]

you need shorter shocks when going that low as it will crash about , think i had spax on the blue one possibly , might have been the silver 1 though lol

[NobbyClark]

That's a great Escort you have there!

It'll look well cool with the new steelies on. Make sure you out pics up when they are fitted!!

[VWPowered]

tidy as that

[chris83]

picking it up tonight so work will begin

[chris83]

After a delay picking it up tonight my pal has been and picked it up , so tomorrow will have a good clean and pics

[chris83]

Now its home and ive driven it 100 mile of fun , i need to clean it but i have put a bluetooth fancy cd player and its back on pressed plates included with the car

[chris83]

So plans for now are it sits to high , wheels are on the way, i also bought some seats for 26 quid from the bay of evil, so seats are coming out, and a good polish

[chris83]

Roadtrip tomorrow taking some of kids away for a week so instead of using something modern and boring I'm taking the escort so manchester to towyn shouldnt be 2 much of an issues I'm thinking and will have the wifes bora following just in case.

[sridgett]

Cool car pal looking forward to updates, the easyest swap would be a cvh as it should drop straight in.

[nathmcloughlin]

Looks a good base to start with!
I have a complete xr3 engine all mated to box and carb etc for sale too was rebuilt but never used it as went zetec.