Escort conversion, Help!!

[complete_wankel]

Hi all :wave
Im a big fan of the old MK1 and 2 Escorts and i was wandering if anyone has ever mated one with a rotary from an FD3?? Reason being is that there a half smashed one at a garage i know and he said i could have 1st dibs on the engine. Wont get job sorted for a while, was just trying to get some info :Hammer
any help would be grateful

Cheers :cheers

[88GT-R]

Pip at WGT in Middlewich.

John

[complete_wankel]

Thanks :Thumbsup!
Has he done one before or just the man with a good bit of knowledge??

[kiwimazda]

As far as I know he's done one before even wuth sequential box ( everyone say ooooh yes)
Or you could buy the rear drive 323 that I have sitting in my drive and its all set to take rotormotion.

[complete_wankel]

Thanks for the offer on the 323 kiwimazda :guinness
Im affraid its going to be a old scort, Lovely cars :InLove :InLove
thanks. il give him a bell.

[Fish]

I've seen a Mk 1 cortina with a rotary in it.

Fish

[Carl]

Great project,just the sort we love!
Regards
Carl

[complete_wankel]

Thanks Carl :D
It wont be happening for a while but when i get a bit of cash together, il be on my way. Was going to go down the cossie engined route but since a rex engine is available, i thought y not.
Dont have a lot of knowledge but im going to read up a lot. Done odd jobs on a car, change brake pads and discs and also putting lowering springs on an old rover 214 :Thumbsup!

[MikeLMR]

If you know anyone who has put a cosworth engine in a Mk2 a lot of the chassis prep and things like fuel system are going to be pretty much the same. Fitting a rotary into a front engine rear drive shell is pretty easy pickings from an engine swap point of view ... can't see any obvious problems but as with most things it's the details that can be a killer, check clearances across the struts and IIRC the steering linkage is fairly obtrusive on escorts and you might find it needs modifying to clear a standard turbo pack ... either that or you go single turbo and put it where it fits on a custom manifold.

Engine mountings etc. are fairly easy, the sump may need modifying to clear the escort cross member but all of these things aren't really rotary specific its just the same as fitting any other engine appart from you won't find a hundred other people who have done the same in the uk ! (which is the nice thing)

so in conclusion ... GO FOR IT anything is possible.

[complete_wankel]

I know it going to be a lot of work, and money, but its just something i need to do. Ive told the people il take the engine off their hands, so thats one thing less to worry about. This weekend, im going to get my @rse into gear and get this off the ground :spank

[DC-TYPER]

sounds like a great idea! ive always wanted to convert an mx5 to a rotary

good luck mate