Hyjinx

Great to see the good old 2T-G get some proper loving in this bolt in age. I put a built 2tgeu into a 1972 Mk1 Ford Escort while I was over in NZ for a few years of misspent youth (had a ball tho). As best as I recall (we're talking over 15 years ago) the head cost me about 6k and I did the bottom end myself; - 1 1/2 " Intake valves (falcon cut down, re-groved then re-tensiled) - 1 1/4 " Exhaust valves (Teslstar? cut down, re-groved then re-tensiled) - Heavy duty springs - Stainless valve seats - 2 x Duel 48mm side draught webbies (can't remember the exact carbie) - Head opened up and flowed agressively, I could get a finger in each side of the valve stem down to touch the valves - 3T sidecam block converted to Twin Overhead cam didn't think to weld up the side cam oil journals first time I did the bottom end... No Oil pressure :dance: - Valve recessed top forged 60th overbore pistons, can't remember what they were out of. Might have been an Alfa? - Blanced the bottom end to 11k rpm (yes I did bend my valves a few times before I got a soft limiter into it) Can't remember the lift or duration on the cam but it was custom and nasty big. No torque under 3500 rpm, power peaked at 72 which was pretty impressive to me back then. Prolly wouldn't go to that trouble again as there are too many slap in/easy bolt on options available these days. That and I have plenty of other things to throw cash at like my new project, 91 AE91 GT-I (aussie release). Bought the engine back to aussie with me. Think I ended up giving it to one of the VRC boys who dropped it into a KE20? Mighta been a KE25. I didn't pay much attention at the time needed it gone and I was concentrating on a 76 Gallant build. Still great to see a classic car and engine get a bit of mordernising. GG

Sounds like you're pretty much ready to fit the carbi. You will still get a noticible performance increase from just that. With the new carbie you will be able to pull a lot more air and fuel into the motor so you need to get it out, hence your mates suggestion arround extractors and an exhaust system. That'd be your next step seeings as you already have the carbie ready to go on. You're not going to do any damage by just fitting the new carbie. You just won't realise your full potential. Just don't go too big on the exhaust eh :dance:

Good luck on that one. I've built a few Escorts and they have similar issues with finding a cheap reliable strong diff. Well without throwing your wallet and perhaps a leg at the problem.

Looks like it may well be what is called a fusable link. Can't tell without reading the wire shown in the loop. Look for a fuse out of place on your wiring diagram. Sparky may well have replaced it with a loop of normal wire just to confuse everyone. They don't usem that much these days but work on anything English or Japanese manufactured early to mid 70's and you'll knowem... Also is it powered or unpowered? Should be able to trace it to a few likely culprits and grab yeah trusty multimeter and confirm which it is. That should give you a clue, or at least find what bus it's attached to.