Capri Mk2 From Finland (engine swap in progress)

[Tuomas]

Just bought this one -75 2.0 OHC, quite difficult to find good ones here in Finland (or in any condition)

 

[lotusless]

very nice love the mk2's

[mk1mexico]

Lovely car, looks the same colour as my mk1 Granada Java Green metallic??

[Tuomas]

Not sure about the colour..

Previous owner said that it have been re painted in original colour.

I try to uncode the vin plates colour code it says 5 on the plate.

 

On Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts that 5 is "Jade Green" (says classic ford magazine)

Dont know does that mean the same on Capri..

 

Car is made in West Germany assembly plant Cologne April 1975.

 

Is Java and Jade green the same thing?

[marky4]

looks mint

[Tuomas]

Some updates to this.

I have posted this wheel issue on the capri questions section, but this is what i ended for finaly.

 

 

New wheels trial fitted on the picture.

Fronts are 185/60 and back are 205/60.

MIdland Wheels RS Replicas bought from this forum from nice and helpful guy Moss

 

Its nice to be on this kind of forum where are so many nice people who are into old Fords.

We have some forums in Finland too, but im rather here

 

Im going for the garage this eavning and do the rear brakes (new shoes and drums.)

 

Waiting new manifold and exhaust to arrive from England and nos LHD hedlight arriving too, found it Ebay.uk.

 

Trying to find F O R D badges for the rear lid because it have been debadged and i want it back to original.

Just bought nos CAPRI badge.

[evil knievel]

Lovely car mate!

[marky4]

wheels look spot on

[Dan492]

Great looking machine!

[zetecmk2]

that looks great!!!!

i was in finland a couple of weeks ago...didn't see any oldskoolfords!!

[Kieran]

Like it!

[banarama]

nice and clean i used to have a mk2 1.6 jps capri in white back in 1989 ii was mint i payed 450 for it how times have changed.

[ASBO CAPRI]

Like that a lot Good choice of wheels. Only thing that will make it look better now is to lower the suspension a bit.

[evil knievel]

Like that a lot Good choice of wheels. Only thing that will make it look better now is to lower the suspension a bit.

 

I was thinking that

[wisefodderboy]

Nice

[Tuomas]

that looks great!!!!

i was in finland a couple of weeks ago...didn't see any oldskoolfords!!

 

Thanks.

 

Nobody i hope drives them in snow and salt..

Here usualy every old classic goes to sleep for the winter and around april the snow have melted and you can drive summer tyres on dry roads.

 

Sadly we are near to brake the capital city snow height record from 1982, it was 67cm then and now its 60cm.

The Capital city Helsinki is in southest part of Finland.

 

If you came here by plane and to Helsinki airport, there was some classic fords near by, because its about 20 minutes drive from Helsinki airport to my house..

[Tuomas]

Like that a lot Good choice of wheels. Only thing that will make it look better now is to lower the suspension a bit.

 

I was thinking that

 

Lowering will be done now that i have the wheels and i can see how much..

Didnt want to lower it before i had the wheels and tyres decided.

[Tuomas]

My easy rear drum brake repair wasnt that easy..

I found out after i bought new shoes like the old ones that it was all wrong.

To realice what parts should i have took several days.

 

Now i have new wheel cylinders (whit groove for the shoe) right shoes and right springs i hope.

Also bought new drums.

 

Old ones that wasnt right for this car:

 

And something shiny to the engine bay:

 

replacing the old horrible air filter:

[cocomk1]

Nice

[ASBO CAPRI]

My easy rear drum brake repair wasnt that easy..

I found out after i bought new shoes like the old ones that it was all wrong.

To realice what parts should i have took several days.

 

Now i have new wheel cylinders (whit groove for the shoe) right shoes and right springs i hope.

Also bought new drums.

 

I did exactly the same thing wrong on my capri the otherday. Had a leaky brake cylinder so got a new one only it didn't have the grooves in the pistons . Got the right one now though.

[filicapri]

nice car mate

[bod]

nice clean lines luv it

[Tuomas]

decided to put decent stereo system whit subwoofer for the first time to my classic Ford.

Last 10 years there havent been any radios on my classics..

 

Some of you may think, no dont do that..

I like to play rock in my Capri so i can feel the base kicking, and having standard OHC, no V6/V8 sounds to hear..

 

Maybe this is not for everybody, but i did it whitout ruining the car and as hiden as possible

No boot space lost here, and most important thing no ugly bass boxes in the boot.

 

Mine are MK2 so you can see the boot trough rear window..

 

At this point the system is CD player at front and 12" sub and a pair of 6x9 speakers in the side panels in the boot

(bought spare panels and saved the originals)

2 amps next to the sub powering it and the 6x9 speakers.

 

All of these components have been laying on my garage for many many years, so nothing expensive. i spend for about 100£ on wires and other materials.

 

No door cards or anything else been cut.

No cutting of metal and minimal amount of screw holes.

 

And yes i know there should be speakers at front, but like i said i wont cut the car.

I have spare kick panels, so maybe some fiberglass work on those in the future.

 

 

 

Heres a lot of pictures how i did it if someone is interested:

 

Some surfase rust here because of leaking rear light seal, its solid under there.

 

[Tuomas]

Some exhaust mods:

I bought the Peter Lloyd full exhaust system, because it was cheap and because people sayed dont buy it

It fitted ok after making some mods to the manifold, because of the different LHD belhousing.

Clutch and starter motor in different sides, never thought that before.

 

 

 

 

New Capri badge and numeral II sticker:

[Tuomas]

Today i decided that winter is over and it was time to take Capri out of the garage.

 

Took some better pictures of it.