mk2 Escort - SR20DET

[kenneth]

well new here and new to the whole japs to be honest.
i'll stick up a thread on my drifter project. mainly for retrostock days and Kartworld days.

i have a mk2 escort which have been building for drifting.
i will copy and past the project from the Escort Club just to bring you guys up to speed with where it is now.
hopefully some on here might find it interesting


its a 4dr mk2 escort which i plan to fit a SR20DET to and make it some what road legal

i'll just add some pics and of whats gone on and i'll update from there as i progress.



















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[kenneth]

was gonna fit this but then the plan changed












then came the new engine choice....

[kenneth]

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[kenneth]

Now thats all up to date.

so during the week a lad in the escort club made me a custom alloy fuel tank to my own spec and it holds approx 8 gallons.





and he also flocked a dashtop for me which turned out excellent.

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[kenneth]

well spent all day at the 4dr today

firstly finished the diff. surely welded enough now





and spent the day fitting all the running gear.
fitted diff, halfshafts and axle
fitted all front suspension except a steering rack as the one i have was fucked.

so anyone got a free steering rack going??













plan to get more done tomorrow

[kenneth]

and some more random pics i forgot to stick up.







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[A.O'Neill]

Looking good lad,that has got to be the coolest wand iv ever seen!

[Mongey]

savage idea!! im loving this car

[kenneth]

thanks lads

this is up to date now.

well Retrostock has come and gone and what an awesome day it was.

i was flat out for the week before retrostock getting it ready and painted so never did an update.
so i'll fill ye in on where it's at now

so first up was a change of axle as i wanted to run a rear anti roll bar and my previous axle had no mount points for them.
so axle out new axle built with strength added to the spring hangers, a-frame brackets made, caliper brackets welded on.










next up was the most important job that was making a proper bulkhead and tunnel.
so vince welded in a complete new bit .






then it was time to make an exhaust. so bought a lenght of 63mm pipe






then vince made a sweet oil catch tank.








and finally got out in mondello here are a few pics of it on track.









at mondello i had a fair few problems.

to start with i went out for the grip laps to make sure everything was ok but was only get 0.2bar boost pressure but after 4 laps i had that sorted and was set at 1bar.
this was class as the power was great and i was fairly excited at this stage.

so out for the first drift laps and after half a lap the thing was back running on 3 cylinders
so changed coils, plugs, injectors and none fixed it.
got a multimeter from dermot kyne and had 12v at all the coils so was completely stumped as to what was wrong.

so i decided it had enough power with 3 cylinders to get back out drifting.
so had a few laps with some nice drifts and then down the straight the radiator burst so thats when i called it a day.
there is a video of it bursting on my facebook page if ye want to see it.

so i have a few changes i want to make before i get out next but the first thing is to get this engine running correctly

[marksull]

cool build, serious amount of work gone into it. what sort of engine was the one you were going to use initially?