Getting pushed back in your seat

DavidR wrote: and 3g is fairly basic.

I can never get a signal. :-(

Spending money to run a classic sports car is one thing. Doing the same to keep some dull mass produced rust bucket like an escort or capri on the road is another matter entirely. Just because something is old doesn't mean its worth spending time on. In 30 years some wally will probably be boring everyone on here or whatever the equivalent will be then of their tales of doing up a 2009 Mondeo or Octavia and how wonderful it is. As silk says, no one will be fooled.

B2003

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Conor

I really did like the old capri (if only more cars these days were built with as much character), sadly I never got to drive one. One thing I was wandering:- what was the range? to the best of my limited knowledge it was:-

1.6 1.8 2.0 2.8 3.0

Was the 2.8 quicker than the 3.0? and what were the various options, i seem to recall a 'Lazer' version or something.

Debacler

Ask the previous owner. I'm the third owner. It was maintained at main dealers until it was 5 years old then spent the last 20 years being maintained at the same independent Ford specialist in Lincoln.

You missed 1.3L which was present as a MK1 and I've seen one MK3 with a

1.3 X-flow engine in. There wasn't a 1.8L but there was a 1.7L V4 thing. Also there was the MK1 RS2600 and MK1 RS3100 as well with 2.6 and 3.1L engines.

As to the 2.8i being quicker than the 3L, it is but not massively so but the 3L can be tuned better due to the 2.8 having siamese exhaust ports (2 outlets per bank for 3 cylinders).

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Just pointing out that I linked you direct to the makers website, so you could have just pointed to that, you didn't need to find a 3rd party review site, like you had googled it up all by yourself.

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Oh dear, does it really matter?

Bod

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Depends on how important, claiming to have found something makes you feel.

Do you feel less important than you did when you posted the link?

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I don't really know why you are making such a fuss of it. I just posted a link, who cares who found it first.

Bod

Are you drunk?

Although it's not something that interests me, I can see that the above you describe are what most people would regard as proper classics. A

1970s heap of s**te that most people would regard as an old banger isn't.

When boring means, reliable, economical, well equiped and, in the case in point, more powerful and faster, I'll take boring.

Yes it's the Jerk that's most noticeable as the pushed back feeling not the acceleration. (if a is dv/dt then jerk is da/dt, next is jolt) People who design roller coasters look to use jerk and jolt to create the "thrill" factor as they want to keep peak acceleration under control (and normally relatively low).

16L and turboed. Should never have gone to that Volvo ImechE "lecture" being a trucky seems extremely nice work and very simple if the sales pitch that was given was true.

Yep my TDi only make's 90% of it's 290ft/lbs between 1500 and 4700rpm just

64% of the rev range.

You will probably find if you put the Mondy on the rollers that it will be

115-120 at the wheels, not enough to offset it's fatness.

So is the engine horsepower. (There's are weaker than ours)

Yes, what's the [1] for?

I'd hope that most mid range rep stuff would be happy to do 50-90 in top gear regardless of there choice of fuel (I'm discounting the stupid stuff like the pious)