Sold my saph few months ago after blowing the engine and throwing the towel in on turbo'd money pits. bought this and really enjoying the world of N/A!

Just fitted a new OMP wheel today which i love the feel of.

Quick spec is..

fully bare shell resto 2 years ago on spit
painted white underside
2.0 zetec on zxr9 carbs
Type 9 box
capri 2.8i front shocks and brakes
Escos seats

Was a classic ford cover car last year after Lenny built it, not a spot of rust on it!
Got a few plans for it, Atlas axle, rear cage, low pro tyres etc. but generally keep it as it and enjoy it!

 

very nice mate

 

Very nice, i like that a lot.

 

Proper old skool ford love it.

 

love the tina got a 69 2 dr mk2 myself ,watched this build up on old skool ford forum alot of work been done .Neil

 

Fuckin love that ram very very nice

 

Awesome matelove the old stuff , got a feeling it was you drove up my road in Watford a little while back? My bro had a mk1 delux for a few years really nice shape and very rare now!

 

fooking lovely

 

have you just moved to watford mate ?

easy raider seriously jelous mate looks mint when you down ?

 

No been here 12 years now lol

 

have you got the 3dr in your sig ? never seen it around

 

are you more ricky way ?

 

No mate moor park side of south oxhey, have been into boats and jetskis but I have had my 3 door about 17 years now.

 

you need to drive it more then

 

Cheers guys

Is yours the cossie'd one? If so ive always loved your tina mate Yeh Lenny really has done a great job.

Cheers pal, Yeh was picking a mate up in Watford before going ace cafe so would have been me!

Lets do an all day bender down your ends later this month mate

 

not sure i can do this month mate im working weekends at the moment but we'll sort a date out for next month for definate

:beerfrien ds:

 

True mate will do the boats gone now lol

 

No worries mate didnt even realise we were half way through the month already! Been in Japan last 2 weeks ennit Next month fo show

 

That looks the bollocks mate!!

Needs a blower on it though!!!

 

Fuck yeah..

Loving that Ram..looks sweet as mate!!

 

Haha it will defo happen. Just wanna concentrate on handling, braking etc this winter then it'll be getting turbo'd next year

 

That's what like to hear!!!

How was the land of the rising sun?

 

 

Was cool worked for a week then took a weeks holiday whilst i was there. Got back last night

 

Stunning

 

Very nice mate.does it go well then.

 

Lenny's old car! Very nice, I wrote the feature on it in Classic Ford.

Don't bother fitting an Atlas axle though unless you have plans to massively increase the power, it's waste of time, money and extra weight otherwise

 

awesome motor

 

Omg that's proper nice... Love it.

 

Thanks chaps

was RR'd at 165bhp so its nippy. but more just a laugh to drive really. i do miss ripping up in my old 370bhp though lol.

Yeh it really is a credit to him.

Well theres no lsd in this english axle, so instead of spending 500quid on a trans x to go in i thought it wiser to fit an atlas (which come with lsd as far as im aware) as in the the next year or so i plan to turbo the zetec.

only wanna run a t3'd 250ish bhp set up. but my understanding is the english axle wont cope? so didnt wanna throw money at it whilst im naturally aspirated still.

edited to add: what box are you running on your tina? i assume my type 9 would cry if i put 200+ through it and drove it hard lol

 

weld the diff up lol

 

Should have seen that coming

 

Very nice tina mate!

 

Cheers dude

 

At las axles didn;t come with LSDs unless you find thew rare special ones which go for big money. You need a find a narrow Atlas from an early Mk1 Capri which go for Ł300 for it to fit under the standard arches and they come with the wrong ratio in them too so that needs changing. The prop will need changing more than likely, and it's a fair bit of messing a roudn as they are not a direct swap.

An English axle is fine to the 330 bhp mark (even on slicks) with uprated Quaife shafts and it's a much better way of going for you IMO.

I'm on a T5 'box as yes, you're right a Type 9 won't last. It's a bit of extra work getting that to fit too though unless Lenny put in an extra big tunnel which I don;t think he did.

Cool car though, look forward to seeing it progress. Any questions just ask as I know these cars/Zetec turbo conversions quite well now

 

Thanks for the info mate. looks like my axle is staying then.

may have to pick your brain for some more info when i start the build next year but looks like the only main mod i have to worry about is enlarging the tunnel and buying a T5 box. which i assume will mate fine to my current bell housing.

Am purchasing a roll cage from Alachi shop next week when i get paid and noticed they also offer pre made gear box tunnels for various applications so may have to cop one of those too!

Cheers

 

I'd certainly stay with an English in your positon.

The Type 9 and T5 boxes themselves aren't that much different in size, it's the bellhousings of the boxes which are the problem as the T5s are loads bigger.

By all means give me a message

Alachi stuff its top notch, he did my roll cage for me! Very good quality.

 

a guy i know called dean used to own that tina you have

 

looks great, cant beat a cortina

 

very nice car you cant beat old skool with a modern engine