Who else here has an Escort?

Thanks for the Escort links...do you have any idea how much power yours had?

I think I'll save the Cossie wing until I get the car a bit faster. What was the install like for the Jap. engine and how much did it cost? If it's easy, I can install it myself without labor costs.

Rod Millen offers a 220 (?) hp, 245 lb-ft turbo conversion for the EGT engine plus wheels, suspension, bodykit for $11K, I have the car in an article in Road & Track Feb. '91.

BTW...I guess I didn't see your Escort, just another heavily modded one with a Mazda engine.

220 hp 'scort? 245ft-lbs?
*runs out to buy another Escort*

I never had the 'Scort dyno'd, but I would say that It had somewhere around 200hp. I can't put a figure on the torque tho.

I got the WHOLE J-spec engine and tranny for about $4000 INSTALLED. I had the hook-up through a friend.

If you have a scanner, I'd like to see the article with the Rod Millen 'Scort. Maybe I can come up with something based on that...

Leaving the wing for the time being is a good idea. No-one likes cars that are all 'show' and no 'go'. Tune the engine up as much as possible, then do something about the looks, thats my advice.

Yeah, I have a scanner...I'll hook it up and scan the article just a wee bit later. The article also talks about a 220hp 200lb-ft, mid-engined, rear drive, two seater Festiva with a SHO V-6. The Escort is just Turbo 1.8, intercooled, larger radiator, deep dish pistons (lowering compression to cope with the increased boost), Rod Millen computer, and free flow exhaust. They say 0-60 in 6.2, I think that's a little conservative. But that is about the same as an M3. :D

I already have a 1.8 tranny in my 1.9 :D, it's from a GT. Is the J-spec one really different? Corksport sells a 210 hp version of the enigne for about $1875 US without shipping (from their place, not Japan).

Sounds like the rod millen escort was about the same as mine, probably a bit faster though.

You have the GT tranny, huh? I wasn't aware there was much of a difference between it and the LX tranny. Originaly I had the auto-mistake tranny in mine, but I wanted a 5-speed, thats why I had the tranny swapped in with the engine. I'd imagine that maybe the j-spec one had a better clutch. It was pretty stiff.

I didn't know corksport sold the j-spec engine. That might be worth a look if I ever get another Escort.

The actual ratios for each gear are nearly the same (minor differences), but the final drive is a fair bit different. I can go a bit faster in each gear. I need to get a tach though, I'm going to go to the junkyard and find an insturment cluster with the tach in it.

Why don't you just get an aftermarket tach that mounts on the bottom of the A pillar? It would be a lot easier than reconfiguring the instrument panel.

More expensive :D

I like the "could have come from the factory" look too, and the tached cluster has a higher registering speedo. Plus, my car's already all wired up for a tached cluster, it's just a matter of switchin' them. The odometer'd be off, though...

well, that would be the better idea then.
Go for it, I say.