davecrossflow

cheers lizzy, been a bit hesitant in putting my hand in my pocket to buy a gearbox for my engine! from your thread on ya 1300 we are in the same position at the mo!

the crossflow will be near enough standard but will have a few tweaks probably to near enough GT spec then some other bits to suit having a turbo on it! I want to hook it up to a 5 speed gearbox, bit unsure whats involved in putting a 5 speed onto a crossflow this idea of engine is certainly appealing its called 1.4l pushrod turbo on youtube! I have made the intake to take an SU carb from a mg metro turbo carburetter & I know a chap local that can get it on the rolling road to tune it properly for the crossflow, I'm currently thinking on how to go about making the exhaust for a turbo, not sure what type of turbo to go for at the moment, I have two turbo's kicking about that I know are in good order, one is a t3 from the metro turbo the other is a Renault 5gt turbo which is a t2, typically they are both different flange sizes, I have driven two 2.0 non ford cars with t2 turbos & they pull well around town, nice & smooth torquey, the t3 is a bit more laggy & the power comes in later in the rpm range but I could possibly run more power with the t3 from the metro turbocharger making the turbo exhaust manilfold will be hard, I've not done this sort of cutting/shutting before, I have done some fab but not tubing! I'm not planning to run much boost at all, maybe 10-12psi absolute maximum!!!! I have an old ford RS turbo intercooler which should be easy enough to add in once its up & running, I have an oil cooler kit for a crossflow, its a bit 2nd hand but should clean up ok, cooling wise i'll be heading to the scrappers for an old van radiator, this I think will be the hardest part to fit in my car (space is super super tight) I have a turbo oil drain union for a sump somewhere & a walbro 155 fuel pump & turbo fuel pressure regualtor so I think I have basiclally all the parts needed to make a low boost turbo motor setup, ignition will be done with megajolt which I have from a previous project that never happened, the megajolt i'll get working on the current engine in the car so I know spark is sorted, same as the fuel supply, i'll wire all that in on the current carb engine at 2/3psi then its HOPEFULLY a case of making adjustments for when I fit the turbo crossflow, if the turbo part doesn't work out then at least i'll have a gt spc 1600 motor in my car which is double the power of the current engine! any advice help is much appreaciated!

thankyou guys much appreaciated, I had the thread open the other night the laptop had a baby though & the web address wasn't in my history :/ its a comprehensive car build, like others have said, not my taste but ya cant knock the build due to the work put in, & done in a quality way, thanks again!!!

as the title really I cant find the thread

tyre choice is either going to be my preferred choice of 175 50 13s or 165 55 13 which are roughly the same, or 185 60 13 for the mild hotrod stance i'll get some pics of various bits of the proposed vehicle to receive the mildly hopped up crossflow or possibly start a thread in the resto section the vehicle is in the pic on the left by my sign in name, its a pickup with a truckman style top so will be nice & light on the back for burnouts, going to order a line lock I've already fixed brake issues & tomorrow I'm i'll be sorting engine electrics, the car has been off the road for a good while so its a case of getting all the MOT things up to spec, thankfully I have no rust issues to deal with BONUS!!! so its all mechanical an or electrical issues to sort to get her road worthy! then the fun will begin really appreciate the help guys with all my gear ratio related questions, I've not done an engine/gearbox swap before which the original engine is a different manufacturer, I chose to go the ford engine due to the fact most ford engine sound the bollox on twin webers & I have vw camper on twin IDF 40s & its like spitfire on full chat, so I fancy that for this pickup I'm building which will be my daily driver, that's why I'm sticking towards longer gearing/lower rpms & building the engine towards torque rather than out n out hp

just been freezing my small testicles off in the garage I think my axle is 3.54 katana & vista this should be ok with a type 9 should'nt it? I don't mind economy on a longer run aslong as I have enough poke in the 1st 4 gears to make it perky enough around town, also its gotta have BURNOUT potential! that's a given! to be fair I'm no speed merchant, I used to be but had a scarey crash that I shoud'nt have walked away from, I used to own a rover metro with a very hopped up lotus elise k-series engine, jenveys/ultralight flywheel, race cams, emerald ecu metro 1.1 gearbox with steel cage bearings rather than plastic caged, lsd etc etc etc the lot!!! I was driving like a dick in the wet & crashed into an island, my late braking efforts were cough cough a bit too late! love drag racing, that's my thing! but this build "hopefully" wont go down that route but ya never know I've been known to go off my plans before lol this car is to be my daily driver, anyhoo I've gone off topic

thanks mike nice handy bit of info there, specially the clutch cable bracket, better order one of those! I've been offered a 2.8i box for 250 quid, its a working box is that price high/low or about right? I don't know the going rate of a type 9

what would it take to fit a 5 speed from a capri 2.8i as they have the longer 1st gear don't they??? they have th longer input shaft aswell I think, do they? can I fit one of these to a crossflow??? cheers all for any advice help its really appreaciated

cheers alltheoldohyeah some good reading there, i'll have a look tonight! I have a genuine RS2000 bellhousing & clutch fork can I use this to bolt a gearbox to my crossflow engine???? hoping to get stripping the engine this weekend i'll do a write-up if I can find my camera to upload pics

as the title really what are the gearbox codes for the rocket gearbox I am building a hot crossflow 1600, I'm not sure what gearbox to go for (as I haven't got one) as far as I can tell my rear axle ratio is a 3.2 I'm looking for something that will give me a half decent motorway cruise without the rpms being too high on motorway runs but also be quick-ish off the mark in the lower gears my engine should end up around 120 hp when I'm finished with it any hints n tips as I'm new to all this ford lark well not completely new I'm a bit mad about my mk5 smiley transit petrol the crossflow will be going in my project car not the transit

ello everyone I don't have an escort but I have a crossflow engine I am building