My first project! I need help!!

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Think we scared him off?

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Actually, on the topic... I know the YB has potential, but all the shit from it has to come from overseas, which seems like kind of a hassle.

No it doesn't, it has to come from right over there <---------- about 35 feet away, couldn't be easier. Even a choice of 3 different build specs.

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For, say, a RWD thingie, does it make more sense than a turboed Duratec thingie still, with money being an object? I know the suckers work well, but it ain't like engine development stopped, and they are iron block and all...

personally I reccomend YB for the same reason we're all showing such extreme tenderness and patience with this guy: most people cannot make their own bellhousings, engine mounts, alternator mounts , intake and exhaust manifolds, intake and intercooler plumbing, radiator mods, then loom, ECU and run in. And that's after we assume they managed to replace pistons, rods, crankshaft and flywheel.
With the 3 YBs here, you pop the valve open on the engine hoist and BANG it falls on the motor mounts.. Bite the insulation off 4 wires and twist them together, insulate with a wad o checwing gum and it is intergrated into the car.

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Personally would like a Cossie AWD car for a daily driver, but I can't imagine it being anywhere near as cheap as the Suburat thing I have. Fundamentally, how much of the shit just bolts into the Merkur shell?

Everything... depending on what year shell you need a vestigal bump for the chain case in the 4x4 part of the gearbox. And US shells have a different with of the trans tunnel, fortunately somebody make a 1.15 lb imitation of Fords crossmember.

There are even dimples in the inner fender sheetmetal where you drill thru to mount Cossie specific components, say the airbox.

It is specifically the Xratties huge versatility an overall low cost that is my attraction to the car. Nothing wrong with it as a Group 2 car, makes a ridiculously easy and fun Gp5 car with the Lima, even more funner-er with YB (and 90lbs lighter), potentially as much fun with 2.3 Duratec (another 90lbs lighter)(with the above work done), and if you re-engined the thing to YB and 2wd wasn't enough fun---then you 4x4 it.
Excellent n.a. rwd, turbo rwd, or awd.

No other car can cover that range (sorry a n.a. fwd Sububitchi or Misterburu ain't my idea of fun---or competitive)


Ask Andrew Steere. I managed to put my whole stinking 4x4 thing together while, very politely said, I was essentially blinded with pain and delerious most of the time (this was right when the two smashed discs in my spine manifested themselves as 24H of shooting burning pain.
(I share shop space with "Offica Austin" of the Woburn Police Department and he said in best local accent one snowy story night about 10:45 after I welded a muffler on his plow truck "Fuckin A John you be careful going home, and watch out for the fuckin cops...some of those fuckers pull you over looking like you look, they ain't gonna fuckin breathalyze you, no fuckin way, they just fuckin shoot you in the fuckin neck and kick the body in the FAWKIN dirtch!!! (har har har)" <------virtual verbatim dialog true dat.

Yet I managed to put it together on with just reptilian semi-autonomic functioning. that easy
Ask Andrew, he saw it.

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Excellent n.a. rwd, turbo rwd, or awd.
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Ask Andrew Steere. I managed to put my whole stinking 4x4 thing together while, very politely said, I was essentially blinded with pain and delerious most of the time (this was right when the two smashed discs in my spine manifested themselves as 24H of shooting burning pain.
(I share shop space with "Offica Austin" of the Woburn Police Department and he said in best local accent one snowy story night about 10:45 after I welded a muffler on his plow truck "Fuckin A John you be careful going home, and watch out for the fuckin cops...some of those fuckers pull you over looking like you look, they ain't gonna fuckin breathalyze you, no fuckin way, they just fuckin shoot you in the fuckin neck and kick the body in the FAWKIN dirtch!!! (har har har)" <------virtual verbatim dialog true dat.

Yet I managed to put it together on with just reptilian semi-autonomic functioning. that easy
Ask Andrew, he saw it.

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Ask Andrew Steere. I managed to put my whole stinking 4x4 thing together while, very politely said, I was essentially blinded with pain and delerious most of the time (this was right when the two smashed discs in my spine manifested themselves as 24H of shooting burning pain.
(I share shop space with "Offica Austin" of the Woburn Police Department and he said in best local accent one snowy story night about 10:45 after I welded a muffler on his plow truck "Fuckin A John you be careful going home, and watch out for the fuckin cops...some of those fuckers pull you over looking like you look, they ain't gonna fuckin breathalyze you, no fuckin way, they just fuckin shoot you in the fuckin neck and kick the body in the FAWKIN dirtch!!! (har har har)" <------virtual verbatim dialog true dat.

Yet I managed to put it together on with just reptilian semi-autonomic functioning. that easy
Ask Andrew, he saw it.

Yep. Drove it, too. Cool cool car, and that was when it was just rigged together and parked at my parents' house for a while.

John, you really need to put that car together in some form and run it, if for no other reason than to piss people off. I've been debating showing up at a rallycross with the Merkurian Falcon for just that purpose.

Work out some trades with Sean and/or others who can knock out the detail stuff you hate in no time at all.

Back to the original Fraud Frackus project. We can stop a lot of the ideas right now since if you live in an area that has "emissions testing" you aren't going to be able to get an inspection/emissions sticker on anything that doesn't have an (apparently properly functioning) OBD2 port.

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Whatsit cost to import an EsCo shell and shit?

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Whatsit cost to import an EsCo shell and shit?

LHD shell: a shit load for the shell, maybe 1200 to newark NJ, plus extra if its a roller (like the ex-works Sapphire I brought over in 2000)

Why Escort Cos? Bitchin' ass street car?

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I just sorta figured this thread has kinda turned into BSing or pie in the sky crap,