Friday, July 10, 2009

DCOE Top 40

My my my, has it been a very long while.

After much swearing and shouting matches (not to mention money NOT well spent). the project has been resurrected, for lack of better words.

To get the rest of you up to speed, the cortina has been lying dormant on my cold, hard and weathered cement patio for the past 6 months or so getting fired up to make sure the ol' heart still beats with the occasional reverse and 1st gear drives to make sure the differential hasn't locked itself into a no-wheel drive vehicle.

Why have I gone back to throwing money at this car again you may ask? Well, it's not the fact that a lot of money has already been burnt here but about a month ago I fired it up and took it for a spin and realized that if I didn't complete what I'd started almost 3 years ago, I would have not failed my grand dad (who's still alive btw albeit funky in the head) but failed myself.

Enough blabber as this isn't some fucking high-school reunion where get all emotional and what not, it's time to be a man and do the right thing which is to give the car the grunt that it deserves.

Say hello to my DCOE 40s. :)

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Next thing to get done is to get a manifold made for it as I currently have the Proton Iswara manifold (any takers?). More engineering work to be done, among other things still pending.

Hopefully I can get this car up and running to get it into the next autocross just for the heck of it. Running with cut springs (another story all together, which will be posted at a later date) and wide wheels, I guess I'll be thrown into the open class AGAIN. :)

3 comments:

Clayton said...

Nice webers man... when is it going into the car?

It'll be great, if you could post your rebuild over at www.classicfordmalaysia.com

the ford classic guys there would love it

Ryan Tanchan said...

hey..im ryan from the phillipines...restoring a ford cortina mk3 too!..i wanna know ur email since i wanna ask you a few questions on the corty...anyway..bout the wheels...theres a company here that makes 4x108s rota wheels..check there site..rota rb will look good on the corty...later

Ryan Tanchan said...

my email add by the way is ryantanchan@gmail.com