Paul, the 1300 crossflow pistons at + 0.060" will not reduce the swept volume or capacity of the engine, it will still be 1660cc approx, but they will increase the compression ratio from 9.0:1 o 10.3:1.

Thanks for sharing your content.

The old 711M block from the Cortina Gt. Safe to bore to 1700 with the thick cylinder walls but good to keep around 1650 for peace of mind. Stuck one in our Lotus 7 with a gas flowed head and double valve springs. Lightened flywheel and balanced. It’s always nice to know the engine shouldn’t give you trouble 👌🏻

Love the format of Timelapse with you explaining things as you go. Also these classics are awesome real cars, so much nostalgia

The way you put your content together is golden! Don’t milk it you put in the work and don’t cut corners💪🏼 set the perfect example

Will be amazing to drive when its finished. Brilliant work on that engine 👍

Happy New Year, Paul! Hope 2024 is good to you & yours 😊 Keithy's paint job on the Escort still looks the business!! Cheers. Leigh.

Long live the mighty Xflow and the Ford Escort 💪👌 I've just finished my 10 yr restoration build on my Grandfather's Mk2 ghia that he bought new in 76, he had a amazing and unbelievable WW2 story, so as well as looking absolutely amazing now, a brand new forged 1700 on 45s now gives it a symphony on full beans that I'm sure he can hear👍, well the 5 times I've driven the car anyway in-between fixing the next issues😂 😢.

There’s something special about the crossflows whether it’s a 1300 1600 etc etc they just have a very distinctive sound through the rev range and would rev to the moon and back!! I love the fact you stuck to the original paint scheme too

Great to see a continuation of this series! Great work

Great to see the Escort coming to life and happy new year

Great video, amazing work, beautiful engine, looking forward to seeing the rolling road results 👍👌😀

😎👌🏻all the best for the new year and look forward to seeing what you have to come 👍🏻

Happy New Year mate. It'll be interesting to see those power run differences 👍 10:27

Excellent work 👍nice to see 😊

Love the 1600 Sport built. Happy New Year 😃🎉🎆

Still a great engine. Simple and easy to build. Look forward to 2024. Happy new year. 👌🏻

Great timing Paul better watching this than the usual crap on Tv looking forward to seeing this it’s going to be a beauty all the best for the New Year

Awesome year mate happy new year

All the best paul see ya 2024

Good vid

You make a skilled job look very easy here, Paul!

That was great. I went for the 244 cam in 1700 crossflow. Mind you that was back in 1999. 😂 Awesome little bullet proof engines if built right. I can’t wait to see you do a back to back dyno run showing the difference between stock GT two barrel carb and twin 40mm DCOE’s. 🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼😎🍀☮️

just found your channel with the mk1 .. subbed insta due to the knowledge and the prof content.. and ofc also an anti chromer here .. i find it extremly impressive that you can take apart complete engines.. and just slap em together like this

Love your Videos ;-)

Nice to see the sport again. Happy New Year’s to you & yours

Nice engine build and Happy New Year. Look forward to seeing more in 2024

Nice. It's probably the most satisfying thing to build a good engine. Happy New Year. Looking forward to more stuff in the new year..

excellent ure back on form mate nice one

Happy new year dude, wishing you and your underrated channel all the best for 2024!

Heya Paul! I stumbled upon your videos only recently, and i have to say, i love them! You appear to be living the absolute dream! Your videos have inspired me to get my own workshop finished so that i can enjoy evenings tinkering away on my own toys 😂 Keep up the good work matey.

Happy new year 🎉🎉🎉 another great video, looking forward to more in 2024 🎉🎊🎉😎

Wondered when the Escort videos were due back. Lovely to see it coming along nicely. Happy New Year.

Excellent vid Paul. Happy new year buddy 😊😊😊

All the best in health and prosperity mate

Nice vid paul that mk2 sport got to be a keeper 👌🏽👌🏽👍🏻👍🏻

Happy new year Paul keep up the good work mate

Nice 👍 best wishes for 2024

Looking forward to the rest of the build. And the carb swap on the dyno. Cheers from Oz,where it's the day after NYE...

Nice engine build vid 👍

happy new year mate - keep them vids coming!

Cracking build going to be sweet Built a few screamers back in the day lol Happy New year when it comes bud 👍👍👍😜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦕🦄😁✌️🤞

Nice to see those power figures with the bigger carbs, I have a 1690cc x/flow with the a Kent 234 cam and a head from CTM performance and and a set of 40 DCOE 151 carbs and the usual Ashley manifold and a single box 2 inch system also using Lumenition in the dissy, and my car made 96 bhp @ the wheels. Regards Dave. 😀

Happy New Year Paul, have a good one 😁

Loved working on my old x flow .built it to 1750 using Vulcan parts

Happy new year m8

Happy new year mate

happy new mate looking forward to watching in the new year

Happy new year buddy 👍🍺

Another interesting upload 👍 But as my ex used to say, I wish it was a bit longer 😂

YOUR a GOOD Man ( ntoo old to call u a good LADD ) great content as per happy new year buddy all the very best wishes

Loving the content. Can't wait to see the z3. Hopefully you get to the Audi Ur 😊

Like car

Bit of confusion there. Crown hight doesn't affect CC'S if the piston is taller as tdc it's taller at bdc. Swept volume bore area× stroke of the crank is the only info needed for engine size. What the 1300 pistons do give with their taller crown hight, is a higher cr. Does make a cracking little engine for virtually no money (it's all relative) 🙂

Look nice in my garage ❤

Looking very nice Paul. I have a 1600 Sport that has been sitting around awaiting restoration for too long - need to get finger out! Just a quick question - has the heater bowl on yours been modified to be removeable? Did I miss this mod on a previous video? Thanks for the content - Happy New Year mate.

Great video and a very nice home workshop! Do you still have the big unit with the paint booth? Cheers

you need to watch penguin motors, graham has already got all the dyno answers... all the best for the new year young man

Have a look at Penguin Motors, he does loads of xflow and pinto stuff, cams/carbs/manifolds etc.

Excellent build vid. So pleased you pulled the raffle on this car now. I had £50 on it. I would love to know how much this rebuild has cost.👍

HNY and here's to more great content in 2024 🎉

HNY bud,good to see you here again 😎😎. Quick question,did you steal the sugar dispenser from indoors by chance?🤔🤔🤣

i am building a zetec "blacktop" to go in my mk2 , with a difference i am fitting an xflow water pump conversion !

You can get exhaust manifold gaskets that can cope with. 062" dents. Remflex 3063

Oh God, I wish I knew Paul in the NEC would give you a 1740 engine I got in the garage I got no use for would love you ues it

After running a 38, v6 capri carb on my 1700 xf then 40s then gain was not worth the pain but when you add the music it was.

Hi, Any CC within the piston will not actually change the engine displacement. You only work with the bore diameter in the calculator to go you your overall displacement. Difference in piston dome etc will only affect the compression ratio. ENGINE CAPACITY/DISPLACEMENT Information required: 1. Cylinder bore, 2. Crankshaft stroke, 3. Number of cylinders Calculation: 0.7854 x bore x bore x stroke x number of cylinders. Example: Bore = 81mm (8.1cm), Stroke = 77.6mm (7.76cm), cylinders = 4 Solution: 0.7854 x 8.1 x 8.1 x 7.76 x 4 = 1599.5cc Crossflows love compression. I would be use flattop pistons. Also the 1300 pistons have you checked the pin to deck height, because if they have the same bore as a 1600... Where is the reduction in displacement to make it a 1300? The stroke must be different, they might not even work with the 1600 stroke/crank

My mate had a very similar escort in the late 80s,I’m sure it had a demon tweeks engine??

Hi I would like to know to replace diff shim replacement on the 1600 sport please and how to alignment Enjin and driveshaft angle so there are no vibration on hi speeds

Full detail carbs video?

So if i have +0.020 pistons does that make the engine 1620cc

I miss building proper old school engines😔 building renault qashqai's and peugeot diesels gets depressing after a while

why no balancing

WhatsApp, dear mate, you usually have with you is he no longer with you?