Hi all, I'm Herman Kenens and I'm from belgium (limburg).
When I was 16 years old I bought a ford escort mk3 1.3 laser, my first intentions were modding my car rat-style but then a teacher at my school told me he had a XR3i engine up for sale , then i decided i wanted is to have a racey look from back in the days (old skool rims , xr3i bumperlip ...) . I bought it immediately and started on swapping the engine . Then i bought 2 dell'orto carburetors because the injection system caused a lot of trouble , wouldn't run the way I wanted it to . Since the carburetors needed revision I just decided to pull the engine back out for some more tuning . Plans for now are another camshaft , lighter flywheel , race clutch , adjustable pulley , bigger and better brakes and since the car only had 4 gears I found a gearbox from a ford fiesta XR2i 5 gear

Some pics of the build so far :













Here I'm swapping the 1300cc engine to the 1600cc xr3i







In the time I painted my taillights and bought rims.







Some pic's wen the first works are done..













Then i bought me some 40mm Dell'orto dhla carburettors.







And now im pulling the engine back out







PS : Does anybody know some good webshops for ford-parts ?
And wich ford brakes would be compitable?

Tips and comments are very welcome since I'm not to experienced but i really want to pull this off in the right and good way . Maybe in the future visit some trackdays , see how it runs when its finished . But that's far ahead , I still have a lot to learn
greets