hooligan

I am very happy with my 1500 pre crossflow kicking out at a guess just over 100 bhp, the reason for removing the original 1200 was it needed every gasket and oil seal replacing and struggling to keep up with modern traffic so I built a direct replacement. I was in two minds to keep the original engine that had only covered 26,000 miles but after I fitted the 1500 I knew deep down what ever happens it will never be going back in the car so I sold it.

I always make a car how I want it to be seeing as I will be driving it

This is an improvement on an mx5

Don't like to say it but your wasting your time, I have reported someone who is taking pictures of peoples cars and selling them on ebay many times and given up, always selling cars cheap for a relative, * location always Uk * he leaves an email address at the bottom of the advert asking to make contact for a payment, I suspect to put funds into a bent pay pal address, collects pictures from all over the net so don't be surprised if you see your own car come up for sale, try putting in classic car on ebay and dozens of his adverts come up. The cars exist but he owns none of them !!! Don't hold much hope about stickers when ebay can't even sort this one out, all they do is ban him then he just relists with a different user name a couple of hours later, ebay can't keep up with the amount of different user names this guy has. must be making a fortune !!! easy money and know one seems to give a rats arse in putting a stop to it.

no.2, and also to mention the poor RS1600i in front of it

I recommend one of these close to hand

I too run naked trumpets without issues, what main jets and air jets are you running Rich ? shouldn't really be spitting back through the carbs if it's running correctly, I do keep a small fire extinguisher near me in the car just in case, make sure it's not a powder extinguiser as they can do more damage to your engine bay than the fire itself. Super Help SH2400 Fire Stop Small Fire Extinguisher

I would sell separately to the manifold

BSW banded steel wheels in Devon, very helpful, well packed and a quick turn around.

here's my genuine springalex , 3 hole 13" with 4" dish.

Is there any such thing as a decent fuel pump gasket for a pre crossflow ? cleaned both surfaces like new, new modern plastic type block with a paper gasket either side, small amount of red hermetite. car running and leaking, plastic rubbish !

The only ford that suits bubble arches is the mk1 escort

sorry but I really like this

Hi , does anyone know if a crossflow rear case gasket is ok to use on a pre crossflow ? I have fitted one to my engine and stupidly did not check it assuming I was given the correct gasket, I am using a Cometic gasket and they do not list one for pre crossflow and that was what I was sent. Thanks for reading

I know , I have reported him many times, yesterday he listed over 200 cars , none which belong to his brother, just pics from the net, out of 200 cars all he needs is to sell one at £4800 easy money. uploads pics and copy and pastes the description. When he is removed from ebay his user name changes and he's back on again within minutes.

I would be careful with second hand cast alloys, a friend of mine years ago had a set of 4 spokes revolutions on a mk2 escort and the spokes broke away from one of the outer rims due to age and metal fatigue.

I had a proper sign guy do it, took him all day, had to be good with a knife because he cut them on the car? on the way home I pulled by the police, said that the stripes were the reason why he pulled me over for a vehicle check over? because it stood out like a sore thumb and he made me sit it the back of the patrol car like a criminal why he looked over it, I think I pi##ed him off because I never removed my sunglasses the whole time and he couldn't find a thing wrong with it. The 3 spoke rs fiesta wheels were a piece of cake to clean though

My most favourite ford wheels are the 17" 7 spoke diamond cuts but never owned a set, they look best fitted to a series one, can't beat the look

I only ever went to the Thurrock lake side cruise until they shut it down, got the clutch too hot and warped the flywheel on the rs fiesta turbo at the Thurrock cruise ? had to fit a new flywheel and clutch kit when I got home and it had that horrible belt driven mechanical ABS

No you are right when I look back I would have kept the original wheels but they were badly corroded on the machined finish and I could bring myself to polish them

After this I had a really nice series 1 RS TURBO that I completely rebuilt with all genuine ford parts, but don't have a single photo C909WRU, when I sold it the guy crashed it and the engine was removed and then fitted with a series 2 engine, about 3 years later I see it out on the road but i've not seen it since. I then had a few cars in between but not fords then a 1991 mk5 RS2000 came up for sale with a genuine 66,000 miles , full ford history, but now being 2004 and the car was now 13 years old it needed rear wheel arches and inner seals, this I kept standard, apart from removing the EGR system and changing the wheels for 17's, I found this comfortable to drive but a bit boring, preferred an XR2 all day long over the RS2000, best handling was the RS turbo fiesta and had very little body roll, easily would lift the o/s/r into a roundabout, but my favourite all rounder was my Series 1 for drive, old skool turbo lag performance and looks , can't believe I sold it for £2500 just before the values started to rise.

Then I bought another XR2 when I was 28 and this needed work because they were getting old, it was rusty in the usual areas, the day I bought it I drove it around a mates house to go out clubbing and it dumped it's engine oil because of crankcase pressure over the exhaust manifold and caught fire, managed to put out the flames with my brand new lime green Ralph Lauren shirt. done all the body work and welding, then removed the engine and had everything lightened and balanced, 285 pipercam, double valve springs, Vernier kent timing wheel, uprated clutch, 4 branch manifold, facet reg and fuel pump with a brand new set of twin 40's , once I ran the engine in for 450 miles with running in oil, the car was an absolute rocket, spax all round with front and rear strut braces, xr3i steel wheels with 50 series tyres. a bit of a late 90's sleeper, standard RS turbo eater ! was a lot of fun...

it was resprayed a sh#t blue colour the last I heard of it around 8 years ago and then it was scraped. It was only 4 years old when I owned it

Next was my Q plate RS turbo fiesta, never did get the real story why it was on a Q but it had rs00011 etched on all the windows and had roll cage holes in the boot, maybe some sort of ford training car or skid pan car maybe ? but it was only 2 years old when I bought it from a car auction. owned this when I aged 21, I fitted 17" OZ five spokes, a K & N cone filter kit, superchips 185hp,front and rear strut braces, Cosworth front bumper lip, genuine ford rear spoiler. Also fitted over £3000 worth of stereo all SONY, remote control, 10 stack CD player ,crossover,2 x 10 inch JBL subs, 10 speaker system, all wired with proper monster cable with gold connections, loved the stereo in this car , it was close to blowing the rear window out, maybe why my left ear plays up. Was a really good car and only let me down once after I chipped it when the fuel pump packed up, couldn't handle the extra horses, owned it for just over 4 years