In this first video of the series Project PAPPA, I remove the seized Kent engine with the help of Richard Valentini (from Cortinas past and present - FACEBOOK)
I personally much rather have a classic mk3 cortina parked outside (if I could afford one), than that rather bloated electric suv thing. If you really want a Skoda get an Octavia or Superb, I have a rather nice top spect Skoda superb mk2.Keep up the good work Pete! 👍
Hello there Pete, good to see you and Rich are underway with the Pappa restoration. Looks like you are getting through the Bulldog BDX at a good rate, really happy it is helping you out.
I remember my Dad rebuilding a 1600 crossflow with the block still in the car. Head and sump off and pistons out. New rings, head cleaned up and valves re-seated. New big end bearings and a gasket set for the rebuild of course. It came to a halt on Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire. A landie tow to the top where my Dad found that the accelerator cable had come loose. Other than that it never missed a beat. I loved that Mark 3. Best family car we ever had.
The comparisons in costs of ownership between 2022 and 1972 are fascinating, and bears out what I’ve been thinking for a while - we get better value out of cars now - however, we are all more indebted than ever, with much larger mortgages, credit card debts and many more outgoings. The current cost of living squeeze is hard work, but so far, nowhere near as hard as it got in the mid 70s. Worth remembering when complaining about not being able to afford a second foreign holiday, or a mid-week trip to Nando’s!
Great to see you back Pete! Love Cortina’s, especially Mk3’s! Looking forward to your upcoming videos on Project Papa and penultimately, the finished article! 👍🏼👌🏼😎
A V6 is a minimum and a given geoff in oz or the septic isle as you or the yanks dont settle for anything less and before i get cried down cortinas were found in north america i have seen one in a museum in canada saying they were sold there and i saw at least 2 on the roads in the new york and philly areas inthe mid 80s.
This brings back happy memories of working on my mk1 and mk2 escorts engines back in the 80s, fantastic engines, they could take a good thrashing all day long , it's the gearbox I used to destroy on a regular basis, thanks for the video Pete and happy memories , I was 53 yesterday Jesus lol
@@PeteCswampy Good choice. I remember the sound of it when in Mk2 Escorts and Mk1 Fiesta XR2's. They were less tappety than the Valencia and HCS engine that followed.
Nah...gimme that Cortina over anything on today's market. I have driven quite a few late model rentals and what strikes me the most about all of them is how _relieved_ I feel to slip behind the wheel of my Morris Elite - _real_ steering feel, positive switches and gearshift, whining gearbox, fuss free vinyl seats, horn toots and waves from passers-by. 😊 EDIT: 'Ah yes - _pheromones!_ The spray on love scent for inadequate males who find it impossible to attract women!' 😂
I once went into a car breakers and asked if they have a starter miter for a year old Skoda and they said it’s sounds like a fair swop 👌👌👌🏴🏴🏴
I don't know what kind of penetrating oil you were using but there is an American penetrating oil called Kroil. This stuff will even creep up hill on frozen bolts. It will creep into areas as small as 1 millionth of an inch to break the surface tension of stuck bolts. But I have found that when penetrating oils wont work, on stuck engines, white vinegar will do it
Hi ,I was watching on you tube a vlog on a Cortina mk3 1973 with a facelift interior dash and noticed that at the rear axle he had an antiroll stabilizer or roll bar, was this only to post 1973 model only as I don't think I recall seeing one on your cars.
long time no see it doesn't matter now, but a fully charged battery, good clean battery leads + your charger would of provided way more torque to that motor than just a charger, you could hear your charger going into overload mode. 1600 friction plate has smaller splines than 2L, but there is a ford clutch that will fit, i've just forgot which one. going on my holidays soon, to my uncle's, he has a 74 2L estate, not run for at least 20yrs, but its a pinto with a weber, so nee bother i recon are they worth out these days?
I have a Mk3 estate with 1600 OHV and the same gearbox and front bench seat as yours….If I swap the OHV for the OHC 2L, what gearbox can I use if I want to keep the bench seat? What are you going to use? I really need some advice. From Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
you can keep the gearbox you have. use a 1600 ohc flwheel and clutch on your OHC engine, use a longer thrust release Bering carrier and the ohc engine works with the gearbox you have. you may need to adjust the clutch cable quite far up, i have done this on my car and it works. as i said it all works but clutch release arm needs a longer release bearing carrier to bring the clutch arm forward more than usual. the kent engine sits further into the bellhousing, the ohc engine does not fit as far back into bellhousing but this is compensated for by fitting a longer bearing carrier. on mine i had to adjust the clutch cable by packing it out on bellhosusing . it will work
this was built in uk yes, rare bench seat, yes keeping to L spec, i think the dealer in British Guyana added the GT bits which is fine but im thinking L spec as that is what is on build tags
Really good review of the cars, What you are not telling people about the Skoda is that you are sat on top of an electrical field. NOT GOOD. Do the research. Cheers.
pete if that 97 k engine is knackered it says alot for the brand of car its coming out of.If you took one out of a 70s audi or beemer with similar mileage it would be barely run in mate.You speak as if thats been to the moon and back mileage wise.At 50 odd years old yourself i bet you have walked 5 or 6,000 miles personally so to talk about that engine having done alot in ford terms due to not the best engineering and design is the reason it is what it is.I would love to see you one day stick a proper septic V8 in one and give a blue oval car more of what the companies founding father and family was more used too.You dont find chevy big blocks abused and needing a rebuild with just 97 k on them use wise they have usual done double or treble that and still going.
There were a few things in the Parkers intro that I disagree with. 1. They said newer cars are more dependable. This is false. As long as they are maintained, old cars a extremely reliable and other than some catastrophic failure, if an old car does break down, a knowledgable driver can get it running enough to at least get it home.. 2. Gas mileage of 25 mpg? With a. Proper tuning of the engine that car should easily get 30 mpg or more... 3. All this pushing of EV's is a mistake. Yes, EV's are the way of the future, but the viability of widespread EV usage is still decades away as it is not feasible to add all that extra load onto the existing powergrid which is not up to it and will fail because of it.
@@PeteCswampy As was the C4 Ford Automatic Box Fitted to some of the Mk3 Cortina Range in 1974 For 6 months of Production, when Ford could not get hold of the C3 boxes due to a strike at parts suppliers, so the C4 was fitted in some 2000E models.
I've driven north of anything. Evoras, supercharged mercs, Range Rovers ect. My mk3 Cortina GT is driven every single weekend be it to the shop, hair cuts, shows. I literally have no wants for tech. I'm 27.
yes Robert, ill throw a pinto in BUT rebuild the KENT ASAP and put it in, i just need to get car mobile and moving before winter (its in way blocking Garage) I cant push it on gravel and will be fun to get it driving
Have the presenters taken illicit drugs before filming. 0-60 in 10 seconds was fast back in the day and still respectable today. The new car looks ugly, has lots of screens to distract you from driving. The future us not electric cars; 250-300 mile range will be much less in real life and less as the battery ages. The semiconductors driven curcuitry will be too expensive replace against the value of the vehicle as it ages, reproducing broken electrics/battery no longer available will render them as scrap well before an old simply to repair car. How they can claim it as positive is beyond me.
