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  • #2
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,762 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    MK3 Escort .42

    Incredible :eek:

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #3
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    unkel wrote: »
    Incredible :eek:

    It is, but I don't think you would drive very far in it!


  • #4
    bijapos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,002 ✭✭✭bijapos


    The Escort change though excellent is kind of cheating, no proper bonnet, no fuel lines connected etc.

    In France in the 90's there was a competition on TV to change a 2CV engine, which necessitated wings etc being taken off, and fuel lines being properly connected and reconnected. It became a bit of a fad, the Guinness Book of Records printed the record which was somewhere between 2 and 3 mins IIRC.

    There is incidentally a record for taking a 2CV apart into its 1000 base pieces and putting it back together, it stands at 1hr 55 mins at the moment.


  • #5
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Love the geansi on your man introducing the Escort vid! :D


  • #6
    MercMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Okay so the Escort one is most impressive ..........so how did they cheat ?

    Clearly they just sat it on its mounts and crossmember, no bolts tightened, no cooling system fitted, but surprisingly little cranking of the new engine, so carb already primed ??

    What about the driveshafts ?


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  • #7
    ianobrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,751 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    MercMad wrote: »
    Okay so the Escort one is most impressive ..........so how did they cheat ?


    What about the driveshafts ?

    I'd say the driveshafts were already loose and the fella underneath caught them when the 'box was removed and guided them back in when the 'box was being dropped back in.

    I'm more interested to know what they did to the exhaust manifold to seal/reattach so quickly?


  • #8
    hi5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,106 ✭✭✭hi5


    Maybe they had a second engine fitted in the rear.


  • #9
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Love the varying degrees of intelligence displayed in the different videos!!!


  • #10
    piston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭piston


    I'd really like to present that Escort at an NCT centre after that engine swap:)


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