clyde 1800

bought this in june and was working away for 3 weeks the rest of the time was spent working at her at every opportunity
the car is nicknamed betty because the numberplate is an anogramme

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clyde 1800

got the car home and started into making the interior cosworth

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yes including roofcloth

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clyde 1800

clyde 1800

changed blue interior to grey looks so much better and matches the recaros

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clyde 1800

interior finished apart from two front door cards which i now have fitted and all
now into mechanicals swapped intercooler and radiator to 4x4 cosworth fitted 4x4 bonnet changed backend to diskbrakes and put lsd in got these things from a guy called willy from limavady top bloke

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clyde 1800

laguna splitter helps set the car off silly little things make a big difference

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things i have to do
change mirrors
wire in foglights
wire in cd player
tighten lsd
take it to my friend up the road and get some black vinyl over the chrome on the side trims
fix small blowout at turbo to manifold

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the water pipes etc are not pretty the car is being sent away on saturday to get set up properly hoping for 200 bhp
apart from that front wheels need lined and straight to mot

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ok so far i have an injection engine and all components for it wiring loom etc
i am currently in the process of rebuilding the engine new gaskets seals etcc

this is my question
i am lowering the compression
and have bought a set of cosworth pistons but i have no conrods

i have in my garage 2.8 v6 pistons and conrods from an xr4i

are these similar?
and will they work with my cosworth pistons to lower my compression?

pictures below

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i havent updated this in a wile
i know now that thw v6 conrods are totally different and i just built my pinto together standard i dont know how this will react to the turbo

ok so in these pictures you will see i have bought myself a set of escos wheels
sets her off nicely i think and you will also see that the old engine is out and waiting on the injection baby going in

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the new injection engine with new gaskets and timing belt just need to give her a service and in she goes

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clyde 1800

cosworth powersteering rack now in the car one turn and your full lock
the bottom half of the dash is out so i can rewire the engine bay to suit my engine
if you look closely you can see the 3 boost gauges on the dash which i gave cossie 09 Ł100 for way over priced
so far the car is two steps forward one step back

gouch1

looking good keep it up

BigPeBe

I've checked your thread before and I'm following your build too, I'm just not a big poster around here so haven't posted anything before.

But yea it looks like you're doing a decent progress with it I'll be very interested to see how it will turn up. BTW I really like those Escos wheels.

What engine management are you planning to run? Like you can see from my thread the EEC-IV works fairly good with some boost after fiddling around with it but I'd suggest to go for something better like Megasquirt.

Like I said already the stock Pinto should (at least should) take the boost nicely, should have some cheap fun potential in it so if you plan to build the stock one first just go for it and have some proper right foot fun with it. Give it some nutter driving and don't worry, if it fails at some point it just fix it lol at least that's my motto.

clyde 1800

just a quick update im currently working away from home for the next 3 weeks but before i left i put my injection engine in,wired it and had it running although thats all the time i had to do before i had to leave
to finish my car i need
1.)a cosworth header tank
2.)cosworth radiator because mine has a small leak
3.)cosworth fans to match the radiator
4.)some silicone pipes preferably blue
if i had these parts my car would be ready for mot
im excited thinking about it
so if anyone can find these parts for me at a decent price i will send cash

scotty4130

cossie header tanks are 35 quid new on fordpartsuk.com

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thanks scotty will get onto it asap just intercooler elbow pipe and rad pipes
new radiator and fans

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just bought cossy pistons and conrods

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car is booked back on the rolling road on saturday
injection engine in and wired all is running
i just need to get a fuel pressure regulator
atm shes throwing out huge flames but i stopped her quickly
is this due to too much fuel or too little?

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had to re weld the manifold as it had small cracks on it thats my uncle grinding it out ive more better quality pictures on a camera i will update again soon

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clyde 1800

i found this picture on the internet ages ago
this is how i want my car to look although im going to have ambers

Sengaaaa

good build mate , looking forward to seeing this finished

DAN400

iTrader: (3)

who s rollin road you goin too?
i d say the flames are too much fuel

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im taking it to a man steven in knockroghram or whatever its called magherafelt
what do you advise?
and too much fuel is good
that means i can just regulate it instead of having to upgrade my fuel pump and then regulate

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