"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
10/03/2015 at 02:42 • Filed to: None
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"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
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had a mustang with a similar 2.3 and it was terrible.
Echo51
> Frank Grimes
10/03/2015 at 03:20 |
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You spoiled ‘mericans and your V8’s.
Flavien Vidal
> Frank Grimes
10/03/2015 at 04:40 |
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Well, one car is 800lbs lighter than the other... So of course, it’s a bit more fun :)
Old-Busted-Hotness
> Frank Grimes
10/03/2015 at 06:17 |
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Your 2.3 was smogged to death. With a proper cam, carb and header, the Pinto mill is actually quite good.
wafflesnfalafel
> Old-Busted-Hotness
10/03/2015 at 08:01 |
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yeah... that thing had, what, like 80 something hp stock? It could barely get out of it’s own way.
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Frank Grimes
> Echo51
10/05/2015 at 15:28 |
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We keep trying to tell you guys but you just wont listen! :) Really though I would want a really nice 4 cylinder if I still had my fox mustang.
And I would never put a v8 in an older escort. The sad thing is we never got them!
I will trade one mk2 escort roller for V8’s but I don’t know the exchange rate. I actually thought of this before doing some kind of deal crate up some mustangs or a bunch of V8’s and ship em to australia for some of their ford turbo I6 engines or England for some escort cosworth rollers or mk2 escorts.
I was drooling over that mk1 escort they built for cheap on wheeler dealers. We didn’t get many cool older compact cars. But maybe I just ignore the falcon and novas because they weren’t rally cars like the escorts.
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Frank Grimes
> Old-Busted-Hotness
10/05/2015 at 15:31 |
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You know what you maybe right. I know they also use them for dirt track racing its just trying to mod one in a fox body would be expensive and kinda weak compared to just throwing in a 5.0 but I would like to build a rally fox body in the spirit of the old escorts and it would need to pass smog.
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Frank Grimes
> Flavien Vidal
10/05/2015 at 15:32 |
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Yeah I was wondering how much lighter a escort is than a fox body! The mustang I had was rated at 89hp and with an auto you can imagine the suckitude.