whitneyd

Anyone ever put a V8 in a Esccos? Anyone got pics?

Dunccoss

seen a white one about at the shows befor and an orange one, will have a look later when i get back from work for pics

dangerous - reyland

friends of mine (twins) have one each

always fun V8s in EVERYTHING they own

dont have any pics to hand but think they use V8 enging & box & cossie rear axle set up
then have a prop made to measure

The DIVA

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Dig some pics out if poss Mike........Would like to see this myself...

Csm

v8 in a escy engine bay

thusr must be tight fitting

TIFF

Was gonna say the Twinnies cars.....they are awesome

I remember the V8 Fiesta they had aswell.....Saw it pull out of the Waterman one night chasing the bikers

Danny B

These cars run rover V8's i Believe.
if you want to make good power go with ford 302/351 or chevy 350 V8 as they will both go in with some work. these have lots of tuning potential also.
i'm mounting a 302 block in a saph at the moment then we're building the motor to 331ci with nitrous cam grind and a demon carb. will be a fast car!!

Stavros

302/351 is the way to go.

Rover V8s are hom in comparison

whitneyd

I have a 302 and a couple of turbos laying around. And I was just looking at a cost comparison and I can get more power for less money with 302 than the 4 cyl cos block. Just a long road thought.

Rick

There used to be one that raced in thundersaloons, but wasnt as fast as the 2 litre turbo'd Prelude

Anonymous

Used to see them over at the coventry boyracer meets quite often about 10 years ago, awesome cars

Ls2 is the way to go though, none of this rover crap!

Stavros

Yup, the eejit should have turbo'd the V8, its the way to go

TIFF

Down by McDonalds on the retail park Chip..........Remember them days well

There was a lad with an old battered 5 door sierra running either a Skyline engine or something from a supra iirc

Doh

how are you mounting it?

Anonymous

Thats the very same meet mate, until the police got speed bumps put in (bolted down rubber ones), which we then took out again then they put barriers in.

The funny bit was the drag racing along the front of the shops, and every few months some numpty would over estimate either his brakes or talent and end up sticking a metro or something into a trolley park at 60mph


I know the one you mean, a silver "lazer" model, I think it was actually just a YB though to be honest mate, despite the rumours to the contary, it certainly smoked like one

Anonymous

TIFF

chip-3door

I always thought it was a Jap engine....but like you say, the rumours were ryff.


Yer, i remember people taking up the speed humps

That was when car meets were proper .....not now, to many neons and bass boxes

Anonymous

Trying to remember the name of one of the guys who was always down there who had a 1600i as im sure you will have known him, he always used to claim to have a 500bhp cossie too but never brought it out, he had a button on the gear lever for nitrous but no pipes in the engine bay
I think it was "roy"

I used to have a blue mini at the time, and was there pretty much every meet, me and you probably bumped into each other at some point!

TIFF

"Rocket Roy"-

I remember that twat

There was also a guy that had a white Sierra---He had painted the WHOLE dash in white paint aswell....what a tool

Chip, i vagerly rmember a Blue Mini......Small world mate, small world.

This reminds me of the post about the Brum streetracing in Digberth.....Turns out that Me, Warley Pete, Deano, AJ and a few others were ALL in the same circles then......crazy

Anonymous

Yeah thats the fella, really nice guy but fook me he could talk some shit when he needed to


I used to be over the Esses quite reguarly with some of the other lads from Cov.

Do you know Ross who used to have a mk2 cavalier on throttle bodies at that point in time, big fella who used to do a lot of weights and stuff, he was one of my housemates at the time.

Or Chris who used to have a mini he did soundoffs with, bought a brand new cooper then came home and ripped the back seats out and filled it full of rockford gear?

Or mad dave who used to drive a van from brown brothers and had a cav sri 130, he gave me a tow home when i broke my diff and i swear the needle only ventured back down onto the speedo in my mini about twice the whole journey, i was fucking terrified

Properly small world at times!

whitneyd

I was thinking of putting a 302 T-5 bell housing on the MTX75 and keeping it AWD. With a dual sump oil pan I should be able to fab an axle mount for the front diff and such.

Fastmaul

LOL, know this sounds familiar.

ricky

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got a few pictures but i cant remember how to put them up

Shings

Twin 1 who had the car the same colour as Martins- that then went orange and then lately wrc+scooby blue live about a mile from me... in North Solihull..

Jake

marco polo

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Hi lads
one of the twins is using the LS1 cammero engine in his orange escort cos it will be 500bhp with 500+ ftlbs aswell when it's all finished

Anonymous

LS1 or LS2 marco?

Either way, GOOD choice, decent bit of GM engineering those are

marco polo

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LS1 but with uprated cams, head work / comp the engine is 400 from stock

RANJ

mad dave and chris and i think rosses mate paul mcabe and paddy with the mk1 astras, good old days

ricky

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