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Doing final in-situ carb mixtures and balance and some road testing to bed-in and prove out.

GC

Really nice too this project nearly completed.

Some purists might be complaing why on on earth you should mount a Fiat TC engine in to a classic For Cortina, but do we really care? Absolutely no. What works, it works. As simple as that.

T

yes, and a short drive in this car would change the mind of any purist...!

G

That Cortina looks superb, very clean and i bet it goes like stink. Very nice looking project there.

It is fast. B fast.



G

That Cortina looks superb, I like this clean look, especially under the hood. How much power has this engine ?

about twice what it had before!

G

And what engine was previously ? I'm sorry but the Fords are not my favorite cars and I do not know too much about them.

Sorry for stepping in here Guy, The Standard Cortina had a 1.5L Ford Kent Crossflow OHV engine which may have optimistically produced 80hp when new, but they also had a Lotus Cortina 1.6L TwinCam engine which again was optimistically claimed to have 140hp when new.

It's not in fact a Lotus - it's a Super which was already converted to a Fiat 2 liter TC, a very very tired one by the time I first saw it.

Cyril said to me, 'I won't be driving it that fast Guy'

I said, 'you will Cyril, you will......'

G