G'night Oppo

"TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts" (the-vancen) 04/03/2015 at 23:27 • Filed to: Capri, Ford

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Its still in the same spot it was two years ago. Its just sunk a bit farther into the mud.

Id be worried if there was any floor left to rust away.

And also, the plan has changed. For now, I am looking for a manual 2wd Ranger built between 1988 and 1996. And I'll just remove the entire drive train and plop it in the Crapri.

Job done.

TopSirloin > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 04/04/2015 at 00:30

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Hey, at least you'll be starting from scratch! heh heh..

I love the Capri.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > TopSirloin 04/04/2015 at 00:59

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Very much so.

One of these days ill stop writing mile long comments about them and do proper write uo on the four of them. I have that rusty one and my father has three. Two of which are ex-racecars.

TopSirloin > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 04/04/2015 at 03:08

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Regardless of its current state, I admire that you've actually aquired one and have plans for it. I don't have the space, nor the time.. Not to mention the money to do so, but a Capri would be on the short list of resto's I'd like to do on my lifetime. Was it hard to find?

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > TopSirloin 04/04/2015 at 11:44

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Thats actually a funny story. Me and my father were on the way to the local pick and pull, and about half a kilometer from the yard we saw a fellow in an old Chevy pickup flat towing this Capri. It looked like he was having a fit, and there we're two long rubber marks coming from the back wheels of the Capri. The rear axle had seized up. So me and my father stopped to look. He's a Capri nut so he wanted the glass. The guy said if we could be back in an hour with a car trailer and $100 it was ours.

We made it in 45 minutes.

I covered the rest of the car here. The plan has changed a bit since then, but you get the basic idea. Eventually I'll find another SHO mill and thisll happen, but for now, I'll just find a little manual rwd ranger and gut that.

http://theshadetree.kinja.com/the-sho-time-c…

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > TopSirloin 04/04/2015 at 13:21

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I was actually just leafing through an old Capri book in the garage and came across this animal. That's a 4wd RS2600 Capri. Holy Carp.

The 4wd setup is apparently a kit that was available from a company called Ferguson. The book is in German, so I'm not 100% sure about some detail, but apparently it uses the use differentials as a Jensen FF

TopSirloin > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 04/04/2015 at 14:41

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Wow! Are those velocity stacks or hood exit headers.. I wonder..

Id rather have that over a rally escort. I guess the UK parts make sense since production was ceased on shore and only carried on in Europe after a certain year if im not mistaken.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > TopSirloin 04/04/2015 at 16:26

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Those are in fact Velocity stacks. For a Bosch mechanical Fuel injection. The engine was a special one called a Weslake.