engine choice for a mk 3 capri

ian.stewart · Post by **ian.stewart** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:55 pm

I built a 289 with 2vCleveland heads years ago, and tbh I think the heads are too big for street use, and are NOT a straight bolt on swap, waterways need drilling and pluging, and the cleveland heads will not take a windsor manifold, this can be got around by fitting ally plates to the heads, plugging and redrilling the the heads to take the inlet manifold, this way you can used any of the off the shelf windsor manifolds, exhausts will have to be custom as well,
or Ive just spotted this, sounds like a good deal,
http://www.nsra.org.uk/newforum/showthread.php?t=16056

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:54 pm

How about this as a base, add a thick head gasket to drop the CR to about 8.5 to 8.75 to 1 and don't spin your 6-71 too fast and your done!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ford-v8-5-0ltr-sm ... 286.c0.m14
Mike

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:58 pm

or this if you want to do a bit of work yourself.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-302-cu-in-Sm ... 286.c0.m14

Mike

HairbearTE · Post by **HairbearTE** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:36 pm

Ian! cleveland heads on a 289! you just can't have a V8 that dosen't rev its nuts off can you?

minorv8 · Post by **minorv8** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:52 am

Why bother with 2V heads or 3V heads when there are ultimate designs available...

http://www.chiheads.com/3v_185cc.php

OK, at this stage the budget is probably blown in bits

HairbearTE · Post by **HairbearTE** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:59 pm

Chi headed engines won engine masters 2 years in a row I believe. A fine cyl head.