PART2 moottori käymään kaikilla
Car has a 1500 GT head on it, so I didn't want to rebuild that wheezy single barrel car.
I bought a set of 40 DCOE's, intake manifold and an Ashley exhaust header.
These are actually FAJS carburetors, a cheaper alternative to genuine Webers.
I bought a set of 45's few years back, they were decent, but these ones actually seem better desinged than the earlier FAJS DCOE's. Maybe they have improved on the desing along the years, or the 45's are a copy of a different variation of DCOE than these 40's.
I started with a little bit of dismantling and adjusting the valve clearances.
A week after I was still waiting to get my hands on the exhaust header. A nice surpice was to found one on my door step after getting home from working evening shift friday. Just in time for the weekend.
First order of business was to make the header fit. It's an Ashley manifold and these are notorious for typically needing a little bit of work before they actually fit in place. This was no expection. The collector hit the steering box and the end of the header the floor of the car. No big problem tho, it wasn't a big job to make it fit.
I fabricated the rest of the exhaust from a 2" piping. After the rear axle I fitted a single straight thru muffler. I used the original exhaust hanging points.
Fabbed a place for a lambda sensor, so we can install an AFR meter to the car temporarily to tune the carbs.
Fitting the manifolds together wasn't easy. A lot of material had to be removed from the intake to make the nuts fit in place. Also needed to make a special extra thin tool for them. TBH it would have probably been less of a hassle to fabricate the intake manifold myself.
As you can see from the pic, I also painted the valve cover and fitted a breather cap that will allow me to put a hose in there, to divert the breating fumes, so they don't make a mess on my pretty valve cover.
Throttle pedal needed rewelding together after I accidentally used a little too much force on it.
I had to fabricate a mount for the throttle cable, because original system uses levers to pull the throttle on the carb. Also fitted a shorter throttle arm to the carbs, to make sure that the butterflys open properly.
Dizzy was converted to eletcronic ignition with Powerspark stuff.
Friend of mine also nicely installed an RPM gauge to the dash. It's now where the original fuel and temp gauges were.
Right now I'm doing without temp and fuel gauges, at a later point they're probably gonna get mounted in a similar way than they have them in GT Cortinas.
Original fan had to go and we installed an electric fan to the front of the radiator.
Some random coolant leaks kept us busy at first, ie. it wasn't easy to find a fitting o-ring to the original heater valve.
First starts went good. Now the engine felt a lot more effortless to drive...
Current spec as follows:
1500 pre-XF engine
GT head
40 dcoe carbs
electronic ignition
4-2-1 header and 2" exhaust
electric fan