Ford Cortina MkV Crusader (Was YB) RB20 Restoration (UPDATE 17/03/13)
 

Right well here we go, I've always been into Ford saloons since I was younger, I'd always wanted a Sierra Cosworth which I bought and subsequently Restored over a 3-4 year peiod, If you get a moment have a look through this thread.

Black 2wd Sierra Cosworth Resto

It's also currently featured in this months Fast Ford issue 260.

Anyway, I've ALWAYS like Cortina MkV's so I started looking for one back in May and found this one on Autotrader, I agreed a price and handed over £600 for it with 12 months MOT and 6 months Tax, I drove it round COMPLETELY hassle free until september when I pulled it off the road for winter. Whilst it sat there I started planning what todo with it, I do like the car VERY much, it has a lovely feel to drive and certainly get's alot of looks. I decided that I would strip it down to it's bare bones and see if the shell that I think is quite good is as good as I think. I've not yet decided on the exterior route I want to take if it's a solid one, although I DO know what I want to do underneath with the drive train. Already being the owner of a Cosworth it's no surprise I have a spare engine lying around so this will be my power source, due to the car being quite light I don't think I should need much more than 400bhp to achieve everything I want from the car. Obviously 400bhp is quite a change to the car from standard so I know i'll be doing alot of strengthening and uprating parts, I'm lookoing to bin the rear axle in favour of a Volvo item with LSD although i'm not 100% which route togo down with mounting yet, I'm looking into 6 link. Anyway this will come later on.

I'm not sure whether to go for a sleeper look from the outside or whether to go stripped out monster look, (I do tend to favour the wolf in sheeps clothing route though) I'm sure you guys will give me some feedback good and bad, i'm also sure that there's plenty of people on here that can offer me good advice and help when needed.
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Well here's how she looks as of today so take a long hard look as the transformation has begun! :D

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:top: Great project

Love it! A silver Crusader powered by a YB is one of the cars on my wish list/to-do list! :top:

Hope you're going to keep it fairly standard looking?

Cheers lads,

Yeah I wanna keep it looking as much like a MkV Cortina as possible although I might have to make a couple of subtle mods to do what I want to with it. :top: :top: :top:

:top: nice one i love these cars ,these taught me to go sideways back in the 90`s we used to have a right laugh in them. back then though we was all on the dole so our quick power up grades were to drop 2.3`s in on a 1.6 running gear ,axles used to last 2 weeks but we had laugh while they worked :top:

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Damn it's mint :eek:
Down here in europe they are called Granadas :top:

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So what are the GRANADAS called??????????? :cry:

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Scorpio :D

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You know what i'm going to ask :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:


WHAT ARE THE SCORPIOS CALLED. :cry: :cry:

This could go on all day. :DD:

Sorry Maki, you're wrong. We call it a Taunus.
We have mk I & Mk II Granada's. Afterwards it's a Scorpio. In the UK our Mk I Scorpio is a Granada Mk III

great project ive been after 1 of these for a while also

always loved the shape since i was a kid due to my dad having loads of them :top:

id of put a 24v granny cossie engine in,hassle free and nice note/grunt,cheap as also ;)

not another mk5 getting cossied lol
my mate has a mkv cortina which is having a cossie engine put in right now........well the engine is actually already in there :cool: should be a beast once done :top:

good luck mate i`ll keep an eye on this one :top:

make sure you get some good void bushes in lol

Keep it looking standard just change the wheels for brakes and thats it the car looks so good as it is reminds me of the early 90's

What a great project mate and car looks a minter :top: :top: :top:

These things are as rare as rocking horse shit these days and the last time i seen a Cortina was at a show !!!! :roll:

Will be keeping an eye on this thread for sure as projects like this really interest me :clap:

Had a 2.0 S a lot of years ago and loved it to bits, great old things for throwing sideways !!!!

Will be keeping an eye on this thread :cool:

Just hope it turns out better than that rough Saph of yours............................. :blabla: :blabla: ;)

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Em, no. Taunus is a two door :)

here's a scorpio, they begin from 85

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cool project

great car, my first rwd car was a 1.3 cortina crusader in brown and gold.. :DD:

I'll be watching with interest.

Cheers for all the interest people, I hope it's as interesting as my last project to read through.

CosKev3 Cheeky fooker, glad you'll be watching this one aswell :cry: :cry: :cry:

Yeah she's gonna look standard outside but be far from it underneath, the reason i'm going YB as opposed to 24V is basically I have a spare YB! Plus I love Forced induction. :top:

Ok,

Went outside today and started taking the old girl apart to see what sort of condition she's in after all these years. Well it felt like a piece of piss to strip down compared to how hard it was doing the Sapphire, I mean there's only like 12 wires in the loom!!! :clown: Once i'd pulled all the dash, seats, carpet and (RATHER DAMP) sound deadening material out it was time to have a look at what was lurking, I found the following.

Interior loom tucked up at the front, note the Blue doors!
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Bottom of the 'A' pillar drivers side, note the bodge repair (A theme to be repeated)
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Did someone say Bodge?? Check this out. Top of 'A' Pillar drivers side not alot left, but look how the front door is clinging on!
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Looking up from the floor at the bottom of the bulkhead under the heater box, it's our friend BODGE again
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Passenger footwell quite grubby
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Passenger seat mountings rusting away, common thing???
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Rear passenger area is VERY tidy actually.
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Into the boot, oh dear!
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Not the worst repair but nowhere near the greatest.
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Wanna get the front wings off now and have a look under there, not to worried about the back as most will have to be cut out and fabricated for the new axle anyway.

How I left her, I'm sure my neighbours must probably think i'm getting into Bangers! :lol:
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What you reckon guys??

:top: thats pretty good nick considering. They always go in them places i used to have a mk5 with a hole in the front wheel well was fun when it rained although i only paid 100quid for it and it lasted me 12 months till i chopped it in for a new car ,was fun with a straight through cherry bomb on it :D

i dont think your doing it quick enough rob tbh . lol

i love these cars, my mum used to have a 2000e i think it was. cool as fook.

This brings back memory's, We had a Mk 4 in Apollo Green in the late 80's early 90's and my best mate had a Silver Crusader just like this one.

love it

looks like a pretty solid shell :top:

what u goin with the yb n/a or blown

be interisting to see what wheels go on this any idea :D

series one wheels look gorgeous on mk5's :banana: :banana:

Well after returning from 6 months of Holiday repping courtesy of Thomsons it's back to the Cos-tina.

Been dragging my heels slightly with this one i'm afraid and not made much progress but rest assured it's still happening as I intended. I've stripped down my Donor YB at work and have found the reason it lost oil pressure. It picked up on number 3 big end bearing and spun it, rendering the Rod and end cap as scrap. I'm in the process of checking to see whether the crank has survived as have heard that they can warp VERY easily on the YB.

Anyway, picked the old girl herself up today and transported her to her new home during the restoration. My boss has kindly allowed me to store the Tina at work so that I can work on it in the workshop at weekends when bored. So here's a quick snap of her loaded up onto the truck and off to her new home for a while.

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So she's now tucked up in her new home for a while. Will be having a look at making a start on the body this coming weekend.

As mentioned, i've been concentrating on the donor engine for the crusader. This being a spare YB I had from my Sierra. I've managed to strip it down completely now so thought i'd post some pics for you to have a good look at.

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The crankshaft, if you look at No.3 big end journal you can see why I lost oil pressure on the M56 :D
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A close up of journal 3
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No.3 compared to No.2 so you can see a little better the damage.
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Started stripping her down to get a better idea of what is needed. Started stripping the front end down, gonna keep it a rolling shell for as long as possible to make it easier to move around.

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Up on the ramp to drain out the coolant and remove all the cooling system.
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Engine bay looking slightly kess cluttered for the moment.
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Front end stripped down, doesn't seem to bad under here for rot.
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Both wings off, doesn't seem too bad at all under here.
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Close up of O/S and A pillar.
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Close up of N/S and A pillar. Also with a small repaired area. All of it needs redoing though as it's poorly repaired.
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And finally my Absolutely Mint Wings, not a patch of Rot or Rust on these. Well pleased.

Cheers for looking :D

Well,

Did some work on the Cortina yesterday so thought i'd pop up a report. I'm still waiting for the block to come back from the engineers before I can start rebuilding the lump. Also my crank is 27thou bent so that has been sent away for straightening.

Then I decided to take the old engine, gearbox and prop out of the shell. Especially as i'm selling them! :P

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Pretty empty engine bay now, not long and then when the better weather comes i'm gonna start on the bodywork.
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i've also had the time to sit down and spec my engine for what I want it to be. The car is going to be used as a road legal, 1/4mile and track car so i'm not going stupid power from it. I've decided now that 360bhp is the figure i'm going to aim for as the car is VERY light anyway, no longer looking at the 400bhp figure I originally thought about.

Cooler that the other side of the pillow!!! :top:

Good to see it still progressing

nice job.. good project

awesome project - loved these as my dad and grandad had pretty much every variant between them when i was growing up :top:

nice project!

:clap:COOL!

Good luck with the project

My one with only a stage 1 chip and T3 done 146.7mph and the 1/4 in 13.7 sec

Steve.

Love it!

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very cool project!! :D

My mk3 had 329bhp should have a bit more when it comes out to play again:roll:

great project keep us updated:top:

Paul

Yeah this is a thread to watch :top: