Just joined the forum, and wanted to introduce myself...

I'm a long time Euro Ford fan, starting with a Mk1 Capri back in the 1980's, and briefly owned a Mk1 Cortina in the late 1990s. I had been looking for another Capri for a long time, but Mk1s are now quite rare in the US. A bit over a year ago, I found a candidate for restoration. Well, that one has been sitting, waiting for me to start work on it, and in the meantime I've acquired another Mk1.

The recently acquired Mk1 is a track car, powered by a Cossie YB which is the main reason I'm here. The YB series never officially came to the US, and are even more rare here than Mk1 Capris. I'm sure I will have plenty of Cosworth related questions as I move forward with the car.

Without further blathering, here are a few pics:







The Cosworth is a high compression N/A build, though I'm still working on determining some of the specifications. I'm also still sorting the jetting for our altitude (5000ft), but it feels like it's making decent power. Long term plans include conversion to EFI and probably lots of other insanity.

This car is going to be mostly for car shows, the occasional Sunday drive, and some infrequent track work. Infrequent, because although we are pretty serious about our racing, our primary track car is an MX-5 (you may have spotted our street MX-5 hiding behind the Capri in the above pic).



For now, they are cohabitating peacefully in the garage.



Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself, and let you know I'll be along shortly with lots of Cosworth questions...

 

Hi mate very nice that 😎

 

Love the look of this.

 

Welcome to Passionford. The Capri looks like the person who prepared it did a great job!! Are the side draught webers 45 dcoe's ? A N/A Cosworth YB can make a lot of power when the right tuning bits are added. I personally love the sound of side draught webers and they are not to difficult to set up right. The arches look like they could take even wider wheels!! I used to have an Australian MK1 V6 Capri which had a lot of modifications and was a great car! Good luck with your new toy which you should have a lot of fun driving!!

 

Welcome along, nice looking car.

 

Nice looking car and the YB will help it loads. At least in Arizona you won't have to worry about rust issues unlike say NY state where some of my cars are stored.

What tracks do you go to in AZ? Its been a couple of years since I was last there, took a drive down from Las Vegas to the titan missile museum.