Well I decided to start seeing as a little progress has been made.
Basically the idea is to take a Mk1 Ford Ka and turn it into a track toy. This would include stripping most, if not all of the standard interior and fitting it with a roll cage, bucket seats and the appropriate dials. It will remain road legal to get to track days with minimal hassle.
As of Saturday the 27th I have the engine from an Escort RS Turbo complete with T3 turbo and gearbox. The bottom end and turbo have both seen better days but it is far from a wreck. With plenty of help from my brother over at WayneAshfordRacing we began taking the engine apart to find the cause.
Once the pistons were out of their cylinders it became apparent what had went wrong. The main bearings had been mixed up and put at the wrong points along the crank which likely would have caused the crank to not run true. The bearings all had score marks with the ocassional small piece of copper bearing still floating around. The crank also has some light scoring which will be sorted before it all goes back together.
The gauze inside the oil return was also clogged with thick black sludge and pieces of bearing which would have caused poor oil pressure. I have spent today cleaning up the pistons, block and oil return before the block itself is hot washed.
I have no photos as of yet but will provide the ebay image to give a rough idea of what we're working with!
The engine will want to be converted to EFi so we can give it the Omex treatment for much greater flexibility.
That's about all I have to say that's interesting and will remember to take some pictures at my next opportunity!
