Captain Colonial Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 and a couple of radiator mounting brackets for the polo rad I'll be fitting. As I'm going to fit a Polo rad in the winter upgrade season on my narrow, I'd be interested in the part number and details please! Here's your badge - welcome to the club! http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/544/badged.gif Keep up the good work on the rebuild, really going to enjoy watching! Cheers, Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Am I allowed such a prestigious honer being the owner of both a wide and a narrow bodied car Of course! PM sent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippydave Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Scott the rad you want is a Polo 1.3L one from GSF as I recall. BTW During a recent shed clearout, I found the heavy old Escort rad lurking at the back of some dusty boxes and added it to a pile of metal bits for the scrappie to weigh in. Out of interest they gave me nearly 22 quid scrap value for it...I'd tried to give it away and no one wanted it, got some beer money for it instead and no ebay winkers to deal with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Scott the rad you want is a Polo 1.3L one from GSF as I recall. BTW During a recent shed clearout, I found the heavy old Escort rad lurking at the back of some dusty boxes and added it to a pile of metal bits for the scrappie to weigh in. Out of interest they gave me nearly 22 quid scrap value for it...I'd tried to give it away and no one wanted it, got some beer money for it instead and no ebay winkers to deal with... Cheers mate, nice one! Not sure if the old one is Escort or not, but it still has a radiator cap and overflow tube, two things I'd like to avoid. Obviously the Polo one will need new mounts, so if Smokey got mounts from the factory, it will save me cack-handedly cobbling flat bar bits instead. £22 for an old rad, good tip-off, project 50% funded! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 Scott the rad you want is a Polo 1.3L one from GSF as I recall.BTW During a recent shed clearout, I found the heavy old Escort rad lurking at the back of some dusty boxes and added it to a pile of metal bits for the scrappie to weigh in. Out of interest they gave me nearly 22 quid scrap value for it...I'd tried to give it away and no one wanted it, got some beer money for it instead and no ebay winkers to deal with... <!--emo& Cheers mate, nice one! Not sure if the old one is Escort or not, but it still has a radiator cap and overflow tube, two things I'd like to avoid. Obviously the Polo one will need new mounts, so if Smokey got mounts from the factory, it will save me cack-handedly cobbling flat bar bits instead. £22 for an old rad, good tip-off, project 50% funded! Scott, the part number of the brackets are 2624007 they're the same ones as used on the wide body cars and on my mazda sdv. They'll cost you the measly sum of £3.57 each which is a small price compared to having to make my own Edit: I forgot to say thanks for my badge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Cheers for that Smokey, much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 A small amount more progress made tonight. The car previously wasn't running a dual circuit braking system so I was planning on ditching the modified escort pedal box in favour of a floor mounted set-up. I'd had a look at some of the bolt in options, but all were rather pricey and with my lofty height would also rather limit legroom. In the end I went to Westfield for the parts they use on their wide body pedal boxes. Slightly annoyingly they wouldn't sell me all the bits I need, only the bolt in parts, so a bit more fabrication will be needed to make the necessary brackets to weld to the chassis. Half hour upside down in the footwell of the other car and I'd got the dimensions I needed from that so it was then off to the computer to draw it up, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIG Brother Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 you have far to much time on you're hands Mark and are they potatoes i can see growing on the floor panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted August 6, 2011 Author Share Posted August 6, 2011 you have far to much time on you're hands Mark and are they potatoes i can see growing on the floor panel Yeah, yeah ok so I haven't cleaned the car since I took it to the beach last weekend with the cambs lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted August 6, 2011 Author Share Posted August 6, 2011 In between doing the gardening and washing today, I managed to sneek in a couple more hours work on the car. First job was to evict half the contents of the garage so I could make enough room to hoist the axle in. A few minutes later, and with no blood drawn it's in and sat on some wheels. I'm wishing at this point I got some springs at the same time I bought the shocks as the ground clearance is a bit low at the moment It's a shame I'm going to have to take it all apart again for when I get the welding done and the chassis painting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 If its just for rolling chassis use, a couple of bits of box section drilled at the appropriate length in place of the shocks can help get you moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazpowerslide Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Have a look here on my build thread. Lots of what you'll do I've been through too. I did the pedle conversion too but the factory sold ne the complete kit including the brackets. Chaz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted August 6, 2011 Author Share Posted August 6, 2011 Thanks Chaz, that'll be useful. I was hoping to buy all the pedal box parts from Westfield, but in much the same way as when I asked them for some suspension brackets it was explained to me that since the introduction of the sport turbo and their obtaining of type aproval they can't sell any parts to customers that have to be welded to a chassis shame I wont bother asking them for some harness tubes to convert it to 4-point belts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted August 7, 2011 Author Share Posted August 7, 2011 First minor problem Up until this morning I was under the impression that the ford english diff was available with 3 different pinion flange diameters and two different pcd's for the prop fixings to them. 87 and 92mm diameter flanges with a 70mm PCD and a 109mm diameter flange with 90mm pcd. Looks like I have something very odd as mine is 92mm diameter but with a 76.5mm pcd (3") I've searched google to see if it's something special but that's given no results It doesn't worry me too much other than it may create problems for getting the propshaft made. I was told by the previous owner that it's a It's a 3.9 ratio 10/39 cortina diff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Pete Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 One question Mark - Who's going to get their head and torch down there to weld it? The way its coming along, you'll be looking for a new project before long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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