1970 Ford Cologne production line film - contains Capris.
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Thanks for posting OP. 
Sadly they are fitting them with that hopeless V4 Transit engine, even if the machine at around 2:30 seems to have the capability to do a V6! (The only one to have IMO).
Loved the smoking in the workplace - I had an ashtray on my desk from 1977 until 1991. Then I had to go missing!
Sadly they are fitting them with that hopeless V4 Transit engine, even if the machine at around 2:30 seems to have the capability to do a V6! (The only one to have IMO).
Loved the smoking in the workplace - I had an ashtray on my desk from 1977 until 1991. Then I had to go missing!
Mr Tidy said:
Thanks for posting OP.
Sadly they are fitting them with that hopeless V4 Transit engine, even if the machine at around 2:30 seems to have the capability to do a V6! (The only one to have IMO).
Loved the smoking in the workplace - I had an ashtray on my desk from 1977 until 1991. Then I had to go missing!
Thats the Cologne V4 which was no better than the Essex V4 sadly , also notice the 3 cyl honing jig they must have used the same machine for the V6 version too Sadly they are fitting them with that hopeless V4 Transit engine, even if the machine at around 2:30 seems to have the capability to do a V6! (The only one to have IMO).
Loved the smoking in the workplace - I had an ashtray on my desk from 1977 until 1991. Then I had to go missing!
10 or more years ago, some guy built a period modified Mark 1 Escort GT from scratch and fitted a modified 2000GT V4 (Essex) and it was okay. With flowed head and blueprinting is was pretty smooth and had an unusual almost Boxer sound to it - it had about 120 bhp and it sat right back in the engine bay. The 1300 Cologne V4 revved like a b
d as well, ultra short stroke.
d as well, ultra short stroke.
iSore said:
10 or more years ago, some guy built a period modified Mark 1 Escort GT from scratch and fitted a modified 2000GT V4 (Essex) and it was okay. With flowed head and blueprinting is was pretty smooth and had an unusual almost Boxer sound to it - it had about 120 bhp and it sat right back in the engine bay. The 1300 Cologne V4 revved like a bd as well, ultra short stroke.
The Essex V4 is 2/3rd's of the V6 with a balancer shaft fitted so any mods you can do to the 2.5 (less popular) and the 3.0 apply and these are many a very potent but over weight engine if modded correctly d as well, ultra short stroke.
far more character than the Cologne unless you stroked one out to 3.5/3.7 then they came alive 
I do have a soft spot for the old 3.0 Essex 
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