I know my garage is in a shit state in these pics but I'm trying to renovate my house at the same time and have run out of room
The garage is now cleared for the car
The EsCos has always appealed to me but after having a Sapphire Cosworth I hated the lack of grunt at low revs hence the V8 idea. The original plan was to use a 3.9 Rover V8 engine but the front diff hits the engine casting if you keep it in the same position relative to the crank CL as on the Ford setup. The 5 litre/302 Ford V8 has over 2 inches less hanging below the crank centre line than the Rover V8 giving lots more space for the front diff

Donor car bought for £300 in the small ads

Engine out and the rest dumped

Next I made an adaptor from HE30 aluminium at work that will fit a 302 V8 to the MT75 4x4 gearbox, I'm using the 2.9 V6 box as it is cheap and has a nice long input shaft.

I've just finished the flywheel, it's made from P20 tool steel, I used a lathe and CNC mill to machine it as it has an offset weight for engine balancing.



Adaptor fitted to engine

Flywheel on


I have not had a chance to make the sump yet to take the front diff but it will be made from parts of a standard 4x4 casting welded to new material.

Picked up a sorry looking EsCos today in need of some TLC.
It has no engine, gearbox, diffs, clocks or front brakes but suits my needs.


After a quick wash and some slightly better temporary wheels.



Any updates will be slow in coming as I now have to build a shed to put all the crap in that was in the garage

Mark

 

like that idea

you allways think outside the box dont ya

 

Very cool , what sort of engine spec you going for and what sort of power you looking for???

 

Just a mild cam, decent inlet and some ali heads. 320 bhp would be nice and the gearbox will struggle even at that power level, It should be a fun car to drive and be cheap to fix when the gearbox goes bang

Mark

 

get a 560ci with a vortech chrger,and 2 holly 2 barrels i dont know what the fook im on about but ive heard it on monster garage and it produses 800bhp

 

 

 

Nice project As you know this sort of thing interests me so keep the updates coming..

 

Will do, not much will happen for a while as buying the Escort has left me skint. It looks faily solid and comes with leather interior but still cost me £6000 even with all the missing parts. It has a mint front bumper and grill but I stuck them in the loft for safe keeping.

Mark

 

I would have used an old sapphire as a development mule and then transfered it all over to an escort at a later date....

 

now that is cool....

 

Can it get any better?

Escos + V8 = pr0n

 

class idea mate well done theres some top notch cnc machining work there, brilliant stuff you must be a pro at it.
i presume your going rwd?
good to see an escos saved and this is the extreme side of me talking but how cool would she look with a supercharger air scoop sticking out of the bonnet would be the maddest looking car ever

 

4wd

 

thanks

 

great project

 

I think you should keep it as stealth as possible so when it comes to flattening scoobys its even more fun

 

good luck very interest project!!!
waiting for updates!

 

Intresting.

 

 

That's going to be fun and different to everything else. Nice project.

 

nice one...getting there

 

Intereting project, CNC work looks good. Best of luck.

 

What a great project

There was a few piccs on here of a escoss with a v6 fitted ,,claimed as being Ford built ,,but who knows

Anyway ,, a great project and will be great when complete

Good luck

 

Different

 

Intersting project

 

Thanks for the positive comments
Not much will happen for a while as I've got tons of work left to do on my house

Mark

 

nice thats gonna be a beasty poor old escos when you got it

 

Next to nothing has happened
Still sourcing bits and pieces, I've just bought a 4 barrel 750CFM throttle body


It will go straight onto a 4 barrel inlet keeping the proper V8 look
It comes with holes for 4 BIG injectors but I paid extra for the bungs as I will drill the inlet manifold for 8 injectors.

Mark

 

top work mate!! throttle body and 8 injectors sounds like its gonna be providing plenty of fuel and air to get the big old V8 roaring

 

Brian

 

TOP!!!!

 

 

 

updates

 

this will be the bollcoks when its done i'll keep my eye on thos

 

mate cant wait to see it finished

 

Super charge it

 

i hope this is quick(ish) when finished or it'll be getting smoked by the rs2000 cossies reps