Got a mate that is gonna do this conversion, anyone got a rough guide to what needs doing to except a yb completely std so t3 etc with t5 box

 

What cortina it is might help some answers.

theres quite some difference between a mk1 and 5

 

Ah ok cheers i am sure its a mk5

 

engine and box will just drop in
its everything else that will need sorting

 

Didnt Max power do one years ago?

 

You will need a 4x4 exhaust manifold, 2wd dont fit.

You will need to cut a small section out of the gearbox hole.

Dont use a 1 piece prop, you will need to have one made.

Steve

 

cheers guys i will pass the info on.

 

there will never be another goonybus

 

That will make the void bushes twitch!

 

what a motor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSBvSAScKxw

 

atlas axle?

 

You can get solid ones

Steve

 

love it

 

No, but they did feature a ridiculous red one (Prism Motorsport IIRC) which had really huge arches that were made from plywood!

 

Didn't it have a twin turbo V8 as well ?

Steve

 

Yeah, that rings a bell. Was a good few years back, must be getting on for 15 years ago.

 

wasn't that the e30?

 

They had a V8 E30 (yellow thing) but that was after the 'Tina.

 

think they still have the bmw

 

You sure it needs a 4x4 manifold? I know you do for a mk1 or 2 Escort but I think the Tina's bay is a bit bigger?

 

I loved that car back then!

Remember a little pic with the back door ajar showing the rotten old brown back door underneath the huge kit

 

It does unless you beat the crap out of the chassis rails

Had 2 cossie Cortinas

Steve

 

I sit corrected. Every day is a school day.

 

i thought it was the rear spoiler made from plywood, and the arches had been made from aluminium or steel by bashing them over the kerb to get the edges?

remember the car though... i was fairly impressed at the time!

 

let us know how it goes, I'd love to see that

 

yeah woteva happened to clive the black fella from prism ??????????

them spackers at mp loved him and his cars were stand outish.

not only did they do a wooden cortina they did a golf that got robbed and a awful reno 5 that someone bought from by me,every time i saw it i thought yeah its a shitter.

 

Found a pic!

 

Was Leepu involved in building that??

 

This is the aforementioned BMW

 

Clive is still working now - for himself i think.

His work is good as I have seen him do some work on a friends E30. Meticulously clean workshop too.

 

i remember it having a plywood spoiler or soemthing

might have looekd kinda cool back in the day

but it looks shite now

 

that's the fucker!

 

Awesome! As a teenager I must have read that feature a hundred times

Kinda good that I grew out of that wild bodykit phase before I was 17 too!

 

yeah i think prism could build a good motor although them idiots at max power had him build some right toilet looking cars,i wouldn't drive that cortina if you paid me and the same went for all the others cars they got companys to build inc the give away rst,the purple bmw,the pink rs2000,the lemon carlton that was rusting,etc etc. just shows they had no taste as hardly anybody builds or wants cars like they built them lol.

 

The Cortina was his own car, Max just featured it. Nor did he do all their cars. He may have had a hand in a couple though.

Funny thing is, people mock Max Power but back in the day it was the biggest selling car mag in the UK, and was selling over 280,000 copies a month! Now it's broken and they're selling so few that they no longer release the sales figures!

 

yeah i know prism didn't build them all,they had some bloke called binks painting the cars for them like the rs turbo and the carlton. both of them would get laughed at now.

hang on they got laughed at bitd too

it got to the stage it was like saying this is how to shag your car.....copy us.

i had to stop buying it as it was for mainly council estate cretins who aspired to drive around in max power type cars where i wanted a big hp rs turbo or cozzie that didn't scream i'm on drugs and bail try and catch me

 

You say that, but it was still selling more than any other car mag.

You and you mates may have laughed at them, but thousands and thousands of lads worshipped their project cars, so you were in the minority, not them.

I'm not defending the cars, but think you're underestimating the impact they had on the scene. Looking back they featured some gash cars and took modifying down a very dodgy path, but in terms of capturing the zeitgeist no mag has come close to Max.

 

I do miss my Tina Turbo

Brother found some pics of it the other day, we was at Brunters

The old shed done 146.7mph on a stage 1

Steve

 

Manta GT/E bumper looks better on a Manta, and the right way up!

 

Pics of STFU