Ford!!!

[hispeedvp]

now i have your atention, my mate is looking at buying a Mark 3 Cortina, i was wondering if anyone knows anything about these cars, what engines you can put in? what mods? where to find help?, ect....

i know its a ford but we cant find any cheap holdens to play with in descent nick cheap enough

[Rmyers]

This question would be better asked on www.fordforums.com.au

[hispeedvp]

im not a member of "fordforums" and never will be

[STEALTHY™]

im not a member of "fordforums" and never will be

Thats gold....love it!

[brock/owna]

now i have your atention, my mate is looking at buying a Mark 3 Cortina, i was wondering if anyone knows anything about these cars, what engines you can put in? what mods? where to find help?, ect....

i know its a ford but we cant find any cheap holdens to play with in descent nick cheap enough

heard story of lotus engines fitting straight in but remember to upgrade all pullys as the story ended in hospital on 1sttestdrive

[hispeedvp]

i read a bit on the net but all i could find about cortinas is the lotus engine and twin cam toyota engone fits in Mark 2, withc has a slightly lerger engine bay i think

[Wombat]

It's been nearly nineteen years since my last Cortina...is this the Mark Three? I can't remember the exact model code for it. This was my GT model...won a few shows with it too. It had the crossflow Cosworth designed head on the 1.6 ltr Kent engine, a Weber carb, FoMoCo extractors, a free-flowing exhaust (all this was factory fitted) and all sorts of heavy duty stuff in the suspension and disc brakes...handled like it was on rails. It's one Ford i'd gladly still own as a second car to our VS.



A useful swap is, yes, a twin-cam Toyota engine with five speed or maybe a 2-ltr OHC Ford engine if you can find a good one. They are quite a light car and go well. Keep in mind the diff ratio's though...my GT had a factory ratio of 4.11:1, as opposed to the standard 3.9:1 . It would rev it's head off at highway speeds and top out at about 110 MPH, but by god it got there fast!
By the way, all the striping you can see is factory original too. It was a 1971 model and when parked beside my mates XY-GT he had, which was the same Desert Gold and black stripes, it looked like a shrunken version of the Falcon down to the square taillights...

edit: Just noticed also that my late father is in the background doing a spot of gardening with my now-grown-up daughter toddling along in front of him...spookily he is standing in the picture right on the spot where he had his fatal heart attack while also out gardening seven years ago...RIP Dad...

[brock/owna]

top car wombat my first legit car was a cortina a te ghia with a fuel injected 250 and 4spd top loader scared the shit out of my self with that car

[hispeedvp]

nice car wombat. it looks like the Mark 2, the mark 3 is similar but a little smaller and a little rounder, it has a four cylinder OHC engine already dunno how many litres, will find out, has a double barrel webber, but it runs on leaded, so im gonna have to swap the engine or do a ULP conversion

[Wombat]

The model that is a little smaller and rounder (round tailights?) came just before my GT in the picture. After mine came the first of the Cortina's that could be ordered with the six cylinder and was a much larger car. (TC Cortina? I'd have to look it up).

I find it interesting that yours has an OHC motor already...if so I would say that someone has in the past swapped out the old Kent overhead valve engine and fitted a later model two-liter OHC out of a Cortina or Escort, as that engine didn't come out until later. If so, there could be good results from having the head done for unleaded and a decent cam fitted with free-flowing extractors and system...I had a girlfreind with an RS-2000 Escort (1981 model) and by jesus did it go! Those older smaller Cortinas were about the same weight as the later model Escorts.

Thinking laterally, other manufacturers engines might also be good as we said before...Toyota twin cam say...it's just a shame that the only rear-wheel-drive home-grown Holden 4 cylinder was the Starfire four... :b: ...otherwise you could really confuse people and whack a Holden engine in it....

[hispeedvp]

this is what she looks like. and is original engine 2ltr OHC. (pics are not the actual car they are exmples)