MK1 Cortina

[håkan]

Good to see you are back working on the car and some nice fabrication and progress beeing made

Thank you for your "visit" in my garage ...! I have good models to fall back on, Mr.. Gary, for example ... I have been viewing a lot of the people who build cars here on the forum, and am impressed by some you may believe ...! Welcome back ... I'm working on ...
/ / Håkan

[håkan]

Good people ...!
The mutation is a fact ... Cortina'n and Sierra have become one another.!
Tonight, I have begun to assemble the dashboard, when it's stuck, I will make new mounts for the fan heater and heater of the bulkhead.
The project progresses ...
/ / Håkan

[exboyracer]

Nice to see some more updates! Good work Håkan

[håkan]

Good people ...!
Here are some updates on my Cortina project ...
Cortinan and Sierra-section is now merged, so the hybrid has seen the world ...
I agree to complete the left side inner fender. It takes time but is slow but steady progress ...
here a link with some pictures from my project ... http://www.garaget.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=163954 (all written in Swedish)



/ / Håkan

[håkan]

Hi there...
Here are some pictures of recent 'pottering' in my garage ... left inside is almost finished ...

[håkan]

-How can it look soon ... (It fits Volvo 740/940 standard struts mounted at the moment ..)
more inf as coming soon...
//Håkan

[exboyracer]

Nice work Hakan, good to see you working on the Cortina again

[håkan]

- At last ...!
Left inner fender ready ... made the last few moments ago, so now I can go to bed with a little smile on the lip ... (However later in the building I have to cut off some of the trailing edge of the inner screen, the wheel will take in when steering to full lock...)





socket for the wheel to make room becomes the "original pressing" on the inner screen at the bottom in the corner ...



//Håkan

[105Ian]

Comming along nicely

[håkan]

Comming along nicely

Yes, it has moved on a bit recently ... thanks for peeping here
//Håkan

[håkan]

Happy New Year England ...!
It's so long since I wrote anything on the forum, so I almost forgot the English language ...! Bad ..!
The following has happened:
I have been following through with the front suspension, the Volvo 960 front hub,
the adjustable legs from England to Escort mk2 (60mm springs and Bilstein 300/70 's,
rack of Volvo 240 by 2.7 between full deflection).
Furthermore, I have ordered new front fenders and front plate from Expressed Steel Panels, these am I waiting for since October.
The front floor is fixed and welded in the car, rear end, I am at this moment in time to adapt to Cortinan. is also to build a cage in the car, the headband is made, front cage is under construction ...

this is some history from the fall 2011
/ / Håkan

[håkan]

... Forgot to say that the control arms are self-designed ... mixture of the Sierra and Volvo
//Håkan

[raymondmarble]

Thats really coming together Håkan. Did you machine the arms yourself? I like also your adjustable strut tops, did you machine those also yourself? Great work!
Graham

[HonkyWhiteTrash]

I love this thread - really interesting engineering happening - so much different to the English way of doing things!!

Were those hub spindle's originally fitted to a car with an A-frame design?

And i also like the way you write English - very entertaining and makes me smile each time i read it!!

[håkan]

Thats really coming together Håkan. Did you machine the arms yourself? I like also your adjustable strut tops, did you machine those also yourself? Great work!
Graham

Yes...
I have designed the control arm in my Cad and then milled from control arms from a massive square bar 75mm ...
about 30 hours of production time ... (puh..!)

[håkan]

I love this thread - really interesting engineering happening - so much different to the English way of doing things!!

Were those hub spindle's originally fitted to a car with an A-frame design?

And i also like the way you write English - very entertaining and makes me smile each time i read it!!

No. ... The Volvo 960 has the same design as the Ford Sierra / Escort.
The difference is that Volvo has a torque arm (Caster-contractor) where Sierra have the anti-roll bars, And Volvo has the anti-roll bars forward. Volvo 740/940 is similar in design but have no loose wheel spindle which is screwed into the strut, 740/940's legs looks like the Escort MK2. Volvo 960 is not rigid rear axle, they have a multi-link rear axle ...
/ / Håkan

[davblue]

hi
hakan first time for me to see this thread am impressed in ur work .
u have dedication on what u do and a very talented man a must admit.
have seen this mod ever to be done on a mk1 cortina so ur resto in very intresting.a will follow ur progress.
i restore fords myself but just road cars .
all the best keep up the good work.

[håkan]

hi
hakan first time for me to see this thread am impressed in ur work .
u have dedication on what u do and a very talented man a must admit.
have seen this mod ever to be done on a mk1 cortina so ur resto in very intresting.a will follow ur progress.
i restore fords myself but just road cars .
all the best keep up the good work.

Thank you for checking my thread ...
I'm a little bad at updating the thread ... sorry for That
The idea of ​​this building from another thread on turbo sports, where another "lunatic" has done the same, but a little different with a different rear end ...
Welcome back another time ..
/ / Håkan

[exboyracer]

Nice to see you back Håkan, I love those control arms!

[Luke]

Nice progress Hakan. Expressed panels never seem in to much of a hurry do they

[håkan]

Nice progress Hakan. Expressed panels never seem in to much of a hurry do they

He he he he ...!
I was told that it was 3-4 months delivery time ...
or if they believe it is 3-4 months of the order queue ..? Anyway, I go in expecting ...!

[håkan]

Nice to see you back Håkan, I love those control arms!

Thank you ..!
-Much work with them ... It's a little adjustment to make on them, inner bracket to be adjusted a bit.
I will measure the Sierra's control arms how thick the goods are on the walls of the inner portion of the control arm's.
As it is, so is the "head" a little too big, then I have moved the hole for the control arm of the beam 18mm,
and it became too small for the arm's in the beam

//Thanks for looking at my project...!
//Håkan

[håkan]

Now I have put into the rear floor solved in the car ... it looks pretty good, but usually required some adjustment. I also scraped away all the rust protection lot .... trembles when I shall do it in the front part of the floor ... For it is a real slave-making, and I can not do last car comes down from the jig when it is too crowded below now.
This weekend I will try to make clear the floor, but it should not be welded into the car before the cage is welded and finished.



more info coming soon ..
/ / Håkan

[håkan]

Hello reader's...
In Friday night I cut away the floor of the new propshaft tunnel out, yesterday was adapted rear floor panel so it is ready to be welded to the car when the comp one rollbar is ready for assembly. Yesterday afternoon, I would bend the pipe, but it would not really ...! The tube fold instead of getting a round and nice bending.
So now I'm not sure how I should move on, possibly to find another more modern tube bending machine, which I can borrow for a weekend ...?

//Håkan

[håkan]

At last Friday ..! after a long week, it feels like 4-week

Today on the afternoon I have cracked the front pipes ... not 100% but so I am more than happy ...
tomorrow and this weekend I will build consoles that the cage should be on and welded to when it is adjusted in position ...

[raymondmarble]

Thats some nice pipe bending Håkan, its not my favourite job. Great work!

[davblue]

At last Friday ..! after a long week, it feels like 4-week

Today on the afternoon I have cracked the front pipes ... not 100% but so I am more than happy ...
tomorrow and this weekend I will build consoles that the cage should be on and welded to when it is adjusted in position ...

hello again.mine a was after inner wings for a mk1 sierra there s a place in germany thast does them so should be sorted now
thanks for ur help.
al the best with ur build will keep watching ur progress.

[håkan]

Floor reinforcement for the front cage made ​​now...
during the week I will overlap the upper corner of the A-pillar, which I cut off (bump for sun protection bracket)

[DIDDY]

Hakan my brother you have p/m.

[håkan]

Hakan my brother you have p/m.

Hey brother ... It was long since last time ... checked my "mailbox" but
has no PM from you.
Have you the same email address as before ..?

[DIDDY]

Hey brother , sent you p/m on here have been very ill since last year as you no?
Long road but will get there !
Email address is (diddyst5@hotmail.co.uk ) cars looking awsome very well engineered .


DIDDY.

[håkan]

Hey brother , sent you p/m on here have been very ill since last year as you no?
Long road but will get there !
Email address is (diddyst5@hotmail.co.uk ) cars looking awsome very well engineered .


DIDDY.

//Håkan

[håkan]

Despite several degrees below zero, I have been in the garage ... but it is cold, especially my feets!

Today I have fixed and adjusted the rollbar, and it was awesome ... would have made it last Thursday, when I have my main garage evening ... but there were other things in between, I have to go to my good friends and watched a broken pellet press if it went to assemble the proper bearing failure, but there were a lot more damage than "just to screw up with the new ball", so garages evening was today, instead ...
Tomorrow I will try to get to the cage plays together with rollbar ... it will be exciting, to see if I get to do on the corners up toward the ceiling again ...?

[105Ian]

Enjoying this thread as much as ever and great to see you still cracking on with the car

[håkan]

Enjoying this thread as much as ever and great to see you still cracking on with the car

Thanks for the kind comment ... And i'm glad you peeked into my garage!

//Håkan:thumb :

[håkan]

Today's exercises ...
I have fused and welded together the front cage with rollbar. Tomorrow I will make the left side stays at B-pillar and cross bar over the windscreen

begins to look like a race car ...

[håkan]

Today's update ...
short pipe at the B-pillar are now complete, and also even the cross bar over windscreen.
Tomorrow it will be quiet, because it's a bandy match on TV ... and I will be a bit social with my best friend, but on Wednesday go work clothes back on ... I will start doing X'et in the roof...
more info coming soon..
//Håkan

[håkan]

- Fattens evening readers ...
Tonight was the "cross in the ceiling."
Tomorrow I will unleash the rollbar and make a valiant attempt to across-weld ...
Here some image of the cross ...
//Håkan

[Darbo]

looking good

i find it a nice thread to look at
be good to see how it all turns out

[håkan]

looking good

i find it a nice thread to look at
be good to see how it all turns out

Thanks..!