Good work on the light saber but what the hell do you yanks do to our British cars? Fords are very reliable over here, Hmm could it be that your grease monkeys don't know how to service small engines that extract a lot of HP from very few CC's?
Thanks for the props; that hack was one of those where things were just on a roll; everything just came together and I didn't want to step away from it and break the flow. I didn't really wake up today until around noon; I had free-range
kids daughter
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running around and jumping on my tits from about 8AM tho.
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A lot of HP out of small CCs? Not from the engine in THAT thing... This was the original Cortina motor, a 4-cyl iron-head/iron-block pushrod dinosaur designed in the '50s ( I think for the Anglia
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) that made about 85 HP in its prime. Add stone-age emissions control from the '80s and a Holley 5200 series electric carburetor... that thing barely made enough
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HP to get out of its own way.
The first thing we teenagers did on them was to deplumb the engine, core out the cat and bolt on a non-electric 5200; then the damn thing could be counted on to get you to & from work. When inspection time came around, we'd put the stock air cleaner with all it's hosiery & crap back on the non-electric carb so they couldn't tell it had been gutted unless they were willing to poke around a half an inch of grease and oil from all that crap.
I didn't do that to mine until it hit 80K and started sucking oil back through the EGR; what a stinking mess THAT made of things.
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I was SO relieved to be rid of the three of them when I bought my first Honda Civic, I tell you what.
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mnem
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