Modern Mk1 Escort
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It was always going to be a bit of unknown how the car was going to handle, but could it be that wrong using tried and tested Cosworth set up front and rear lowered, the only fly in the ointment was the car is lighter than a Sierra also 9" shorter so it was an exciting first test drive, but I need not worry the car handles well.
Cheers mate, I have a tracker fitted. The process involved in making the adaptor plate was very simple the secret is accuracy, the following pics hopefully show how it's done.
First I made a plywood template to get the rough shape of the MT box, then from a chunk of 6mm plate milled out the centre hole to fit over the crankshaft exactly, then to get the exact centre of the dowels you can see I made up a couple of dummy dowels with threaded in centre punches to mark the hole in the correct place, at this point it would have been easy just to offer up the box into the spigot bearing and mark off the retaining bolt holes to the plate, however there is to much play on the input shaft to make that happen, what I done was make up a disc to fit the hole for the crank, then make up a piece of tube that fitted over the bearing carrier snout on the box snuggly, weld that onto the disc, then tack weld the disc into the hole using all the engineering practices to keep all straight and square, now slip the plate onto the box and mark off the bolt holes, only then can you cut all the centre out, The starter on Duratec V6 can only fit in the one place because of it's shape into the block, I made up a mounting plate to weld on to the adaptor plate, to make things a bit stronger to compensate the loss of some top end retaining bolts because of the starter motor mounting, I welded on a block of alloy and threaded to fit the adaptor plate, (almost done) two other mods were made, first it was found the bearing carrier snout was a bit short, however I found much longer one from a Transit MT box which was machined to the correct length, the other mod involved the ball pivot for the clutch release lever which I made longer which I made adjustable just in case it needed to be on final build, It's worth mentioning that if you are using the V6 flywheel it just skiffs the inside of the bell housing, this is cured by a just taking a small amount from the inside of the bell housing with a flap disc.![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/Eu8rWvCu.jpg[/img]</a> <a href="http://thumbsnap.com/N62pybdq" Target="_blank">[img]http://thumbsnap.com/sc/N62pybdq.jpg)
First I made a plywood template to get the rough shape of the MT box, then from a chunk of 6mm plate milled out the centre hole to fit over the crankshaft exactly, then to get the exact centre of the dowels you can see I made up a couple of dummy dowels with threaded in centre punches to mark the hole in the correct place, at this point it would have been easy just to offer up the box into the spigot bearing and mark off the retaining bolt holes to the plate, however there is to much play on the input shaft to make that happen, what I done was make up a disc to fit the hole for the crank, then make up a piece of tube that fitted over the bearing carrier snout on the box snuggly, weld that onto the disc, then tack weld the disc into the hole using all the engineering practices to keep all straight and square, now slip the plate onto the box and mark off the bolt holes, only then can you cut all the centre out, The starter on Duratec V6 can only fit in the one place because of it's shape into the block, I made up a mounting plate to weld on to the adaptor plate, to make things a bit stronger to compensate the loss of some top end retaining bolts because of the starter motor mounting, I welded on a block of alloy and threaded to fit the adaptor plate, (almost done) two other mods were made, first it was found the bearing carrier snout was a bit short, however I found much longer one from a Transit MT box which was machined to the correct length, the other mod involved the ball pivot for the clutch release lever which I made longer which I made adjustable just in case it needed to be on final build, It's worth mentioning that if you are using the V6 flywheel it just skiffs the inside of the bell housing, this is cured by a just taking a small amount from the inside of the bell housing with a flap disc.
yoeddynz said:
Cool car! A V6 in a small 2 door old car... me likey... :-) I like the fact you have kept the interior comfortable- stripped out interiors wear thin after a few months!
How heavy are these ford V6s? They are very strong motors I know that. Good choice.
First never liked a car without interior, you say small car who would have thought that the Mondeo interior would fit inside a Mk1 Escort? secondly I weighed the engine fully dressed and weighed 63kg, there was a guy interested in fitting one into his hovercraft but decided it was just a few kilos over his limit. How heavy are these ford V6s? They are very strong motors I know that. Good choice.
Falsey said:
Very lovely thing. Is there a hole there at the top of the gearbox below the starter though?
Id be way too paranoid about things falling into or flying out of there.
You needn't worry my friend nothing is going to fly out or get in for that matter, when the engine gearbox is installed you can't see anything Id be way too paranoid about things falling into or flying out of there.
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