Cadetsharp

I have posted this here before, but the car has come quite a ways from then. I started out buying this car as my first car for $600, and then going through and slowly making the car drivable. I got in on the road in January and I have been using it as my daily driver since then. In August, I picked up a 1.9 litre engine from a '90 Escort and rebuilt it with the hemispherical head and carbed intake from the 1.6 that previously resided under the hood. Unfortunatly, at the rebuild time, I lacked the funding to install high compression pistons, so my my compression ratio is somewhere around 8:1. Even so, the car pulled of a 10.8 at 63 mph in the 1/8th mile on old P165/80 R13 tires and a worn out clutch.

Anyway, here are some pics.
When I got my hands on her:

After paint:

The old 1.6:

The new 1.9 junkyard fresh:

And after rebuild.

The strip:


Anyway, that's my baby.

-Walt

fezzajsy

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cool

m4tt274

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is that engine the same as a CVH then?

Johnny Knoxville

Yes they are as where do you think they get the block from to do the US 1.9 conversions

Cadetsharp

Yeah, the only difference between that and a 1.6 is the 1.9 has a higher deck height that allows for more stroke, and a larger bore. Apparently, the block is beefier also, but I didn't compare the blocks that much when I swapped them. The 1.9 is also a lot more popular over here. The cam bearings are different between the 1.6 and 1.9 heads, and we also have a few non hemi heads over here that I don't know if y'all got over there.

Johnny Knoxville

None hemi heads for the cvh over here are called lean burn heads

Cadetsharp

We have lean burn with a D shaped combustion chamber and high swirl chamber with a heart shaped combustion chamber. The lean burns were used on throttle body injected 1.9s and the HSC's were used on carbed 1.9 if I recall correctly.

Cadetsharp

Do all y'alls cams have stepped bearing journals or are they all the same size?

Glenn_

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I like it.It looks verey similar to a mk3 escort.

m4tt274

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is it an auto?

jonny s2

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wicked project dude,i wonder if there are any s1 or s2 rs turbos in usa?i doubt it

Cadetsharp

No thank God, I wouldn't own it if it was. 4 on the floor.
Right now the plan is to do some minor work on the engine for land speed racing, and then after that I want to swap in EFI from a 1989 Escort GT, and then after that a turbo if I can find the stuff. Over here we have to make most of our part since there isn't much aftermarket for Escorts over here. There are not a lot of road tracks over here, so I am mainly focused on straight line performance. It will get drag raced mostly but what I am really building the car for is standing mile speed competion. The class I want to run has a record of 114 mph or 183 kph.