Juicemans Eskie - final pictures before the car goes Page 2

by **juiceman** » April 7th, 2008, 9:09 pm

As I said in the introduction thread, I'll be chasing an EB Fairmont Ghia five-oh sometime in the not too distant future. But for now here is my play toy/project that's been off the road since July last year. Here are the specs and some pictures of it from when it was on the road last.

Car: MK2 Escort RS2000 replica
Colour: Track Red
Body Type: Sedan

Engine: 2.1L Pinto
60thou bore
ACL Flat top pistons
Decked head
Port and polish
Standard valves (for now)
Crow Cam - 280/290 duration, .448" valve lift
Mallory Hyfire 6 electronic ignition
Type 9 5 speed g/box
Twin 40mm sidedraught Dell'orto carburettors
2.5" exhaust, and soon to be 4 into 1 extractors.

Suspension:
Front - RS struts with superlows and Noltec camber/castor adjustable tops, 24mm Whiteline swaybar and whiteline strut brace (strut tops and strut brace aren't in the pictures as they weren't on at the time of taking the photo's, will be on when the car is back on the road)
Rear - Panel van 4-leaf that will be set up with tramp rods when it's on the road again

Brakes: Slotted and ventilated rotors up front and standard drums down the back (will eventually be a disc brake rear end)

Wheels: 13x7 Superlites.

That's it for now.
Josh.

by **makvaiielles_xr6** » April 7th, 2008, 9:15 pm

love a lil eskie. got a p/van myself

2lts are pure :twisted:

by **pHaT`eL** » April 7th, 2008, 9:26 pm

Ahh, love the eskies, had a Mk2 Panno with the RS2000 running gear a while ago, spewing I sold it now!

by **speed.freak** » April 7th, 2008, 9:32 pm

one of my tafe class mates has one of these (not rs200, just mk2 escort) and he seems to think it goes pretty good, going for state hill climb champ or somethin in it, so they must be a noice little package. look pretty groovy aswell, very noice 11teen thumbs up 8-)

by **nommic** » April 7th, 2008, 9:36 pm

That is horny as hell, I like!

by **EF ECTIV** » April 7th, 2008, 9:41 pm

looking good mate...... def jealous :twisted:

by **Commando** » April 7th, 2008, 9:42 pm

Looks awesome mate!

by **juiceman** » April 7th, 2008, 9:51 pm

Thanks guys! It's taken almost 4 years for it to get to where it is today, but it's worth every cent (however many that may be). I just can't wait to get it finished, again haha.

by **mike1989** » April 7th, 2008, 11:41 pm

haha i convinced my gf to buy an old escort

they rock

by **juiceman** » April 12th, 2008, 9:05 pm

Thanks again for the nice comments Ladies and/or Gents.

Here are some new bits and pieces that will be finding their way onto the car while it's off the road.

Tramp rods.

24mm Whiteline Swaybar (jee whiz they take forever to deliver shit!)

RS Struts with Noltec adjustable strut tops

And here's just a few pictures of what's been done in the last few weeks.

Started pulling shit apart - Always good fun!

Let the sanding begin, oh joy! Not.

Started smoothing the visible parts of the engine bay, and getting rid of some dents in the heater bubble and all that sort of thing.

Depending on the weather, next weekend the engine bay should have some paint.

by **juiceman** » April 12th, 2008, 9:16 pm

A few other little bits and pieces too while I'm at it..

Dual throttle cable set up.

Shiny stuff!

Ignition unit - It has launch control :twisted:

and two different presets for rev limiter.

Retrimmed and rebolstered RS Scheels. Very comfy. (Just clearing things up, that's not my bed in the right hand corner haha, it's just some new furniture under a cover waiting to be used!)

Nicely cracked front crank pulley :shock:

I think that's all for now.

Josh

by **G3R3N** » April 12th, 2008, 9:47 pm

Good stuff mate. Love the idea of launch control

by **juiceman** » July 27th, 2008, 9:10 am

Just a small update from last time, finally finished the boot off, it came up pretty good I think.

Before

After

by **Malakai** » July 27th, 2008, 12:00 pm

Good work on the boot, it looks much better and more usable too.

by **TEaaron** » July 27th, 2008, 4:16 pm

NIce mate, always been a fan of escorts.

by **Dezza** » July 27th, 2008, 4:31 pm

Very nice! I've always wanted a Mk2 Escort! My nanna used to have a mint Mk2 Ghia 2-door and I just wish I was old enough to drive when she got rid of it. That car was probably what got me so interested in them. Your one looks mint! Awesome stuff!

by **ed40** » July 27th, 2008, 5:24 pm

AWESOME!!!

by **EF ECTIV** » July 27th, 2008, 6:53 pm

looking great champ.... A little pocket rocket

by **slo_sprint** » July 27th, 2008, 7:42 pm

Its definately a rocket, kept the Sprint honest on several occasions

Looks good man but wheres the bottle?

by **juiceman** » August 4th, 2008, 10:16 pm

Very funny Kieren haha.

Thanks for the nice comments. Next weekend the motor will be painted black and put together so that final assembly in the front half of the car can begin. Then all that will be left to sort out is the seat mounts and wiring...Lucas electrics in British cars can suck my balls.

by **juiceman** » September 5th, 2008, 2:53 pm

Quick update... motor goes back in tomorrow, and it will be running by Thursday next week, no two ways about it. I hope.

So if all goes to plan I might be able to have a drive of it by next weekend. Can't wait to drive it, it's been over a year now since the last time it ran.

by **XRated** » September 5th, 2008, 3:55 pm

Looks like you've put a lot of hard work into it and it definitely shows. Good work mate, keep the photos coming too

by **lowghia** » September 5th, 2008, 5:32 pm

damn nice mate.. looks the goods..

check out the 10 sec boosted rs2000 on youtube... get it goin like that ...

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWg0sR7U ... re=related

by **juiceman** » September 5th, 2008, 5:37 pm

I love that car! And that video. It's pretty much my favourite eskie. Can't go wrong with a Cosworth!

by **67rce** » September 6th, 2008, 11:46 am

juiceman wrote:Very funny Kieren haha.

Thanks for the nice comments. Next weekend the motor will be painted black and put together so that final assembly in the front half of the car can begin. Then all that will be left to sort out is the seat mounts and wiring...Lucas electrics in British cars can suck my balls.

The only tghing that Lucas made that did suck was their Vacuum Cleaner :lol:

by **juiceman** » September 6th, 2008, 5:40 pm

Motor in, finally. Custom rocker cover is completely bitching, I love it (needs a good polish though).

Dummy fit the carbies and manifold just to see what they look like.

On course to have it running by Thursday if I can get to the car after work!

by **Dansedgli** » September 6th, 2008, 5:46 pm

That looks mad!

I'd love a small car like that to play with.

by **EF ECTIV** » September 6th, 2008, 6:17 pm

that looks killer... love that cover

by **bigdude101** » September 7th, 2008, 10:37 pm

Nice car, I have a soft spot for Mk2s, mum had a pair of yellow mk2s back between the early '80s and '99. I only remember the second one, it had aftermarket AC which caused the car to break down. We traded it in for a Camry.

by **OED666** » September 7th, 2008, 11:35 pm

WOW... JUST BLOODY WOW... you have done an awesome job.

keep up the great work

by **XRated** » September 8th, 2008, 12:28 pm

Dansedgli wrote:That looks mad!

I'd love a small car like that to play with.

You had one!

by **juiceman** » September 11th, 2008, 5:34 pm

It lives!!

by **BI6TIM** » September 11th, 2008, 5:58 pm

Excellent! Get it out for a cruise.

by **Bipolar** » September 11th, 2008, 6:02 pm

W00t! What Tim said.

by **juiceman** » September 13th, 2008, 11:28 pm

Had the motor running properly today, got timing and tuning sorted and it sounds effing tough.

Looks piss funny without the nose cone.

by **juiceman** » September 27th, 2008, 6:46 pm

Got the interior mostly together and the front end is all together now, and it fought me the entire way, bastard car. If all goes well I'll be driving it this time next week. Just have a few more bugs to work out and finish up the under dash wiring. Might have to come out to Aspley and meet more of the QLDers in a few weeks.

by **juiceman** » November 16th, 2008, 7:53 pm

As of today it's back on the road, it runs well, just needs a dyno tune and it'll be sweet.

by **Dansedgli** » November 16th, 2008, 7:56 pm

Looks great!

by **juiceman** » December 10th, 2008, 11:00 am

On Sunday I got a bit ambicious and busted the diff. Actually I shattered it, over 20 small pieces of pinion, I was impressed.

So yesterday afternoon I bought a locker with 3.54 gears (I desperately wanted 4.11's, but I can always change the gears at another stage), and later that evening I was happily skipping around corners.

This will be the last update for the car until after March next year, I'm going overseas for 3 months to play in a band on a cruise ship in the Caribbean on Saturday and will come back with full pockets (theoretically), so there should be a fair few updates shortly after.

by **misk** » December 10th, 2008, 11:08 am

thats mad as lol
how much power does the lil pinto put out?

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