1971 Capri Trackcar - always check your pins!

[PhoenixCapri]

Paint on, just needs a bit of polishing up in a week or two when it's nice and hard.



Pretty pleased with it, but might need to put some silicon bead on as pretty sure paint will crack at the join between splitter and body as it's bound to flex a bit.

Next up is some extra vinyl I think

[PhoenixCapri]

Arty preview of the new look front end, nearly ready for Classic Ford this weekend.

Also got it MOT'd but still having ignition issues so going to try a different distributor option.

[PhoenixCapri]

Another year another RRG, and what a great one it was - thanks as always to everyone for such an amazing show.

Better still the Capri actually worked well and I had a smile on my face all day. Thanks to everyone who popped over for a chat, was great to catch up with people.

Happy to see the front end is still confusing people as well

Aug 19, 2019 12:55:11 GMT luckyseven said:

What's this then? MkI Capri?

Note to self.... stop taking photos of cars unless you know what you're looking at

Ta


EDIT to add pic


what by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

Best of all, I got to come home with this -



Means a huge amount to me to get an award from my favourite show and the forum that has accompanied me and my daft car modding for the last 13 years - the car wouldn't exist without this place. Thank you all the judges, and everyone who's given me some positivity etc. over the years ;D

[qwerty]

Was great to finally see this in the flesh. Glad to hear it behaved as well.

Tom

[bmwv8capri]

Looks great & congrats on the dyno result and the RRG performance, i often check in on this thread for some capri-related inspiration!  Love it 

What cam grind are you using?

[PhoenixCapri]

Aug 20, 2019 10:52:54 GMT bmwv8capri said:

Looks great & congrats on the dyno result and the RRG performance, i often check in on this thread for some capri-related inspiration!  Love it 

What cam grind are you using?

Thanks, and it's on a Kent V6T3 currently, so 290deg duration - actually very driveable. When I finally get the triple carb setup done I might look at moving to a T4, but might be a bit peaky for hillclimbs, especially when wet.

[PhoenixCapri]

Bit of Video from the hill

[PhoenixCapri]

[Colonelk]

Loved the car dude, never seemed to track you down for a chat though. I wanted to know more about the engine Like everything

[Ralph.Wrecked.It]

Absolutely mega! Just read the thread start to finish. Awesome bit of kit. Would love to get my Maverick to the same state and getting to some hillclimb events. Even looks like a yank Capri a little!

Do you still have those ultralites when you first got the car? I'm thinking wheels like that for mine eventually.

[bmwv8capri]

Be interested to see how the dyno curve changes with the triple carbs, will check back for updates
(using kent v6t46 in my 2.9i)

[PhoenixCapri]

Aug 20, 2019 17:55:47 GMT Ralph.Wrecked.It said:

Absolutely mega! Just read the thread start to finish. Awesome bit of kit. Would love to get my Maverick to the same state and getting to some hillclimb events. Even looks like a yank Capri a little!

Do you still have those ultralites when you first got the car? I'm thinking wheels like that for mine eventually.

Cheers, sadly sold the wheels years back whilst funding the rear end. Would love to see a Maverick hillclimbing! Much underrated in my eyes.

[PhoenixCapri]

Aug 20, 2019 18:07:29 GMT bmwv8capri said:

Be interested to see how the dyno curve changes with the triple carbs, will check back for updates
(using kent v6t46 in my 2.9i)

How do you find the v6t46 grind? Is it as peaky as I expect?

[PhoenixCapri]

Aug 20, 2019 15:36:10 GMT Colonelk said:

Loved the car dude, never seemed to track you down for a chat though. I wanted to know more about the engine Like everything

I was keeping an eye out for you as we always cross paths at RRG! But it did seem to be a particularly busy one. Next year!

And what do you want to know? I'm now an expert in how not to gap piston rings, that's for sure!

[PhoenixCapri]

Playing aroubd with some road/shpw wheels. Going proper old school with some big sidewalls on some period 14 rims. They fit hust about perfect, question is what colour to do them, body or a dark silver - Thoughts?

[jamesd1972]

Black / silver refurb ?
They look nice as they are.
Of your choices dark silver - was body colour a thing when the wheels were in period ?
James

[PhoenixCapri]

Oct 31, 2019 11:02:02 GMT jamesd1972 said:

Black / silver refurb ?
They look nice as they are.
Of your choices dark silver - was body colour a thing when the wheels were in period ?
James

Not so keen on the black and silver, doesn't seem to make these wheel pop like it does on Rostyles etc.

Body colour seems to have been on a few yank cars from the factory, and a few NASCARs. Could always go for a different shade of blue, ala Superbird

[ndg]

I'd probably go dark grey, but then I'm not very adventurous with colour!

[fiestaholic]

they look good in the current colour or maybe paint them the same colour as the stickers and polish the faces

[PhoenixCapri]

In true fashion I couldn't decide exactly what colour to go with, so decided to get the road and sprint wheels done in different colours. Et viola!



Pretty happy with them, particularly with the way the grey shows the shape of the GT road wheels.