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...my Dad borrowed this Orion off my Uncle....around 20 years ago this was,but i just got reminded of it .....anyway it was the 1.6 Ghia and i remember it being very quick for that kinda car..but it had no mods except we was told it had a ford blue print engine in it..hence why it was quicker than the next 1600

Does anyone know about this in the late eighties?

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

iTrader: (1)

He probally meant "Blue printed"

The art of matching components in a precise way.

(thats the way I understand that phrase)

Fil

sounds about right, everyone used to take the time and effort and have a blue printed lump. Spose the new modern engines are built better 1st time around?

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

it probably felt fast back then.

Rab

I had one for my first car!

A black 1.6i ghia

StuarTurbo

From what i understand blue prints are the manufacturers ideal tolerances the ideal set of number that the engine should be produced to , but to eas of manufacture they are built within a set of tolerances , so that means the engines produce more or less power , blueprintings matching whatever imperfections to those ideal numbers , meaning a "perfect" engine

Ginge !

placebo i recon

when i got behind the wheel of my R5GTT i used to tell everyone it had so much power that it spun the wheels in 2nd gear

though when i stopped using the clutch and throttle as "on" "off" switches it would drive like a normal car

my old orion felt fast as fook,,,,, my BMW when people drive feel is very pokey,,,,, though i nail the fucker in all gears round town and find it slow as fuck,,,, though i scare the shite out of anyone who gets in the car

oh and the cossie started to feel slow till i drove my escort cabrio again and it felt quick again,,, and before the smart coments my cossie was holding 27.5psi to the limiter and ran lean in 4th and 5th above 6krpm on greens,,, so no it wasnt a slow cossie claiming big figures,,,, cant fake held boost and low fueling on injectors

The Youth.

iTrader: (1)

I have owned 5 orion ghi Inj's over the years loved them, got my first 1 a mk1 when I was 18 in 1990 was a fantastic car to own at that age, then got a mk2 and promptly rolled it

the others were runabout sheds after I bought a cossie

steve

Ginge !

ive owned a few orions, first one was a dream car that i turboed blah blah

second one was a fucking good deal that i had for ages ( fucking B19BAL plate)

3rd i got to pass the MOT on the other orion but that was a 1600E

mechanic28

iTrader: (5)

oh yes the old ford onion used to love them with the rs kit on them

morcheen

it could have been a press car? they always made them a bit quicker to get a good write up

rigwrecker

my first car was a blue mk2 1.4l loved it then i had a white mk2 16i ghia low as fuck and now on my 3rd one a mk3 1.8 16v but got it with a seized engine so in the process of dropping in a 2L zetec