What do ya recon of MK II cortina's - Ford Forums

68GT CORTINA · 07-18-2003, 02:36

I've had some 50 different cars and bikes now and I'm wondering if things are right with my latest aquisition. The 1968 GT Cortina, It looks pritty good but realy, I'm not surprised Prud is putting a jap import into his engine bay cause in stock GT form mine would be hard pressed to pull the skin off a custard, honestly it runs like shit when its cold and only a little better once its warm. I bought it off a farmer who was definately a bit shifty, telling me he would include a tool kit that was in the boot then removeing it after getting the cash and telling me he thought I ment the
wheel brace was the tool kit. He told me it was only when it was cold it ran badly, guess what? it runs that way all the time. I've put new points in new condenser, striped the carby and cleaned the jets, replaced the fuel filter replaced the coil , supposedly the air filter is new but so far he's lied about some other things so I shouldn't believe him about that, still even without it, the car runs strange. I realy would have liked a GT XR falcon failing that I tried for a Valiant Pacer E34, couldn't get one up my way and the freight killed the practicality of one from south, did test drive a E31, It steered like the cortina but had heaps and I mean heaps more grunt, but the owner had pipe dreams that an unrestored car was worth a minimum of $10000, fine if it didnt have rust holes in the floor & exhaust and need reupholstering. Anyhow if there is anyone who drove one of these beasties new and remembers or has a real goodie please tell.

68GT CORTINA · 07-23-2003, 05:29

Come on for christs sake! some one must have some Idea about a Bloody Ford Bloody Cortina MKII, Crikes I saw some pom in Capri's yaping about how he loves doin it to cortina's, Stinkin tell me how good it was!

smciner1 · 07-25-2003, 04:58

They were a good car in their day the Cortina GT. Yours being a 68 is a Mk II I assume?).

One of they guys in our club used to rally a Mk II Cortina in the 70's for a bit of fun. He can tell stories for hours about that great little car.

68GT CORTINA · 07-25-2003, 06:00

Yes it is a MKII GT, the 1600cc cross flow version. I am glad that someone actually has fond memories of these cars, their rally success is where they got acclaim in australia as there was only one raced at bathurst in 1968 and according to the race results it didnt do too well. Mine seems to have been a rally orientated version as it has factory LSD.
Youll have to get the old guy on line some time I'm sure it would do well to hear of some of fords exploits off the bitumen.

68GT CORTINA · 07-25-2003, 06:04

PS if he rallied in the seventies he need not be an old guy, did my math and thought did he say 60's or 70's and it was 70ts. Be cool to hear from him!

smciner1 · 07-25-2003, 06:34

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Originally Posted by 68GT CORTINA

PS if he rallied in the seventies he need not be an old guy, did my math and thought did he say 60's or 70's and it was 70ts. Be cool to hear from him!

He is in his mid 50's. He only rallyed it at Club Racing level.

MrNeil · 07-26-2003, 18:17

i own a 1971 mk2 440 L cortina, and i think its great!! its dodgy to start in the cold but after that shes great.... spins on cement no dramas

With mine i plan to fit in a 2l escort/cortina engine, and supercharge it with a sc-14 super charger from a 1ggze going to a holley 350 carby. :D

if you knwo where theres a cheap 2l crossflow for sale feel free pm me

68GT CORTINA · 07-26-2003, 22:30

just a whipper snipper, up in cairns they have a huge following of club rallying, people race anything, even brand new cars.
Mrneil, Im in cairns and I dont know that anything I can find is worth the freight for you however I can advise you strongly not to use the holly on the supercharger as you will have great difficulty tuneing it to the required mixture. A variable jet carby like a SU is perfect for this application, they dont run lean under boost or rich at idle/low rpm. the plumbing for the charger can be done by your local exhaust centre(if thier anygood) and I made my own mount(bits of old aircond brackets and tensioner) the only catch is the charger has a six belt pully on it while all the older engines run single groove pully,they dont squeek but the bloody belt somtimes runs off the charger, if you figure a solution for this tell me

MrNeil · 07-27-2003, 00:19

so you've done this before??? can i get more info?? thanks

Neil

68GT CORTINA · 07-28-2003, 05:36

Yes done it before, got the supercharger and all the plumbing air pod and mounts in the shed, as I said before it would have worked a dream if I was putting in a jap engine but the x jap superchargers though brilliantly priced and featureing the magnetic clutch(mad max style) drive from a japanese extra wide fanbelt thats half the thickness or less than any old engines be they whatever brand, I have several old compressor units and I am thinking that somehow I will have to change the drive pully, though there seems to be a variety of output shaft thicknesses.