well, i thought id go for something new... something with a little more power... something rwd.... and that looks nice, so here she is!

ford capri, 1987 the year i was born, so this car is 20years old this year but everything on the car looks like new.
drives like a bloody dream, power is still there after 20years, still kicks the wheels out in 1st 2nd and 3rd (as me and my cousin found out coming outta his street lol)

anyway, pics








retro wheels



^ ^ believe it or not, those are steel wheels, not alloys.... very strong





oh yea, engine is the 2.0 pinto engine at 103 bhp to 1003 kg, 100bhp per ton. not bad.

comments welcome

 

Looks nice and clean, much better than my first car which was a mini eSTATE, which a volve had crashed into the back doors of, and they were held shut with wire.
Nice colour too.
tabetha

 

Nice car had a 1.6 S 1978 T for my first car so always had a soft spot for them

As for the remark about steel wheels you are joking as they are indeed alloys

Fit some good rear shocks (spax) and good tyres it will make a hell of a difference

 

yea i noticed the suspension lacked... well... anything
will spax designed for the 2.8i (with less travel in the suspension as standard) fit the 2.0 lazer?

 

As far as i know spax only list one shock for all mk 3 capris

 

I had spax gas adjustable on me old sierra(x2), worked VERY well they did.
tabetha

 

Its my old Capri! sold a couple of weeks back, I recognise the slight bubble on the front wing and touch up lines of the passenger side wing and the capri club international sticker in the middle of the brand new windscreen! Bless her, Hope you enjoying her, looks like getting looked after well! Not bad for 211,000 miles

Z

 

haha yea it is!
did you get the e-mail with the pics of her from up north

 

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and my fave 2




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vv nice car, did you ever have problems with the brakes, ive found on a vv long journey the brakes just fail to work completley... pushed the pedal down to the bulkhead.... nothing... nothing at all, but when i pumped the brakes they slowley came back (thank god as that wall was getting closer!!)
also that k&n looks like it had never been cleaned, it was filthy!!
anyway, v nice car

 

Didn't have it long enough to service it surprised it was filthy given how well looked after the last owner kept it! Nope I never experience brake failure and we drove it from Suffolk to Castle combe (nearly as long a journey as you had home!) hope you get to the root of the problem

Good to see you here!

Z

 

Nice laser
Could be a seized caliper boiling the fluid?

 

we flushed all the old fluid out (god knows how old it was but it was rammy anyway) bled all the brakes one by one and it hasnt done it since, gave it a bit of a run up and down the biggest hills i could find and it hasnt happened since, even trying to get the brakes as hot as i could.

ah well, heres a quick peek of the engine bay after i got my hands on it a few times too many



airbox is going mint car to play with though!
4-2-1 manifold coming
new head-in the making
twin webers..... when i can afford
she's gonna have a nice powerful engine when im done hehehe

 

Brake fluid is borked after a good old boilup anyhoo so it was a good idea to change it
make sure the rear shoes are properly adjusted, they don't do much actuall braking but they pretty much dictate the balence of the system, if the rears are unadjusted the fronts will be doing all the work and overheat/ unsettle the car ect
It looks a real nice base to "personalise" you have there
in fact nice as it is as well

 

only thing that annoys me is the amount of crap pipes that arent nesecarily needed that are just hanging around in the engine bay, and that damn heater hose, whats that all about!??
outside is staying bog standard, its a beautiful car yes, doesnt deserve to be molestered.
but its also a good starting point to me learning how to tune engines, what does what etc, if all goes wrong a std pinto to replace the one i probably end up killing doesnt cost much at all.
good start saying that im only 19