If you were going to stick a new engine in a mk2 Escort...
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... what would you put in it?
I've thought long and hard (a good ten years) about what to do with my Escort and have decided against breaking it to build a Locost, against an immediate sale and against an "original" restoration. I want to get some modern suspension on it and give it a modern, reliable and, more importantly, very grunty engine. I want it to be a fast and able toy that just happens to look like a ratty old Ford.
Within reason, nothing huge that would require extensive modifications to the engine bay, so not the engine from a Viper, what would fit nice and snugly into a mk2 Escort and provide a nice sound and enough shove to crush your lungs?
Over to you Pistonheads, you're better at this stuff than me.
(300bhp/ton, I welcome your suggestions, really)
I've thought long and hard (a good ten years) about what to do with my Escort and have decided against breaking it to build a Locost, against an immediate sale and against an "original" restoration. I want to get some modern suspension on it and give it a modern, reliable and, more importantly, very grunty engine. I want it to be a fast and able toy that just happens to look like a ratty old Ford.
Within reason, nothing huge that would require extensive modifications to the engine bay, so not the engine from a Viper, what would fit nice and snugly into a mk2 Escort and provide a nice sound and enough shove to crush your lungs?
Over to you Pistonheads, you're better at this stuff than me.
(300bhp/ton, I welcome your suggestions, really)
Haighermeister said:
Honda F20 from an S2000. 9,000rpm, lovely bit of power and if you get bored, bang a supercharger on it 
I thought this too, I'm pretty sure it'd fit and easily provide the power to make a mk 2 Escort entertaining but I was hoping for suggestions of a V flavour. It is a good idea, I just want something that sounds more interesting. 
..Papa Hotel said:
I thought this too, I'm pretty sure it'd fit and easily provide the power to make a mk 2 Escort entertaining but I was hoping for suggestions of a V flavour. It is a good idea, I just want something that sounds more interesting.
If you want a sweet noise, you really can't go wrong. And they're 230ish bhp standard, which in your car would be lethal...Papa Hotel said:
Is the general consensus a 4 pot then? 
Stick in a lardy V engine if you want but its your understeer.4 pots are unloved only because they are normally in crappy everyday cars so the V snobs discount them.
Go find out what a Millington diamond is before you say its hit because it is a 4 pot
Light weight high revving engines are most fun in light weight RWd cars
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something VTEC or on throttle bodies, C20XE's are easy to get hold of and SBD parts can get 205bhp with very little effort on Throttle bodies.
Mate has a 1750 big valve pinto in his MK2 on twin 45's .... epic fun ! 8200rpm
2.0 N/A
something VTEC or on throttle bodies, C20XE's are easy to get hold of and SBD parts can get 205bhp with very little effort on Throttle bodies.
Mate has a 1750 big valve pinto in his MK2 on twin 45's .... epic fun ! 8200rpm
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