hi people its been a very long time since i've posted here but i have now started my locost build on friday using the mcsorley 7+4 design. My intended running gear is a VX 2.5 v6 and gearbox from omega utilising wiring loom,ecu, control stalks and ignition barrel from donor car. (These can be picked up for £400) I will use a sierra LSD with a Dedion setup. I know its a bit different which is why i'm goin to do it. Any feedback good or bad on this setup would be relly appreciated. I know it wont be easy.

cheers

Jonny

PS
I was wondering if the cortina uprights will accept sierra hubs and if sierra cossie disc brakes will fit as well. ?

Hi there,

Sounds very interesting - go for it and good luck. The weight brigade will come along shortly and tell you how heavy the engine is, which is true. But who cares!!!

As a meggy driver and someone knowledgable regarding the engine's vices i'll say a big CHANGE THE CAMBELT AND TENSIONERS unless you like bent valves. Ultra-especially if you're lifting an engine from a scrappy car with no history.

And finally - use the three litre instead!! Make the installation work hard for all it's kilos.

Liam

The reason i want VX is because thats all i've ever known and i know the ecotec pretty well. I also reckon that the install shouldn't be too bad if a V8 can be fitted to this chassis. 2.5's are more common so parts should be cheaper and easier to find but if a 3.0 came along at the right price who knows what kind of head stagger i could take.

Well if you end up with a 2.5, then you can always fit some 3 litre cams at a later date. The same trick as employed in the vectra GSi and takes the 2.5 up to 193bhp. Not bad when the 3 litre is only 15bhp more than that.

Liam

[Edited on 7/5/06 by Liam]

id have to agree go for the 3 litre , but these cars get smoked around with no proper maintenance and ive done qiute a few belts and head gaskets on them over the years . one prob i came across was atfer a belt break apart from trashing the heads the valves hitting the pistons crush the ring lands making them drink oil after a few thousand miles. if your goind de-dion why not use the omega rear end and knock up some hub carriers so you might justify buying a complete car

I'm using a similar setup,

2 lt ecotec, manta 1.8 box, sierra lsd, with de-dion

all in a mcsorley +442

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Originally posted by quinnj3
The reason i want VX is because thats all i've ever known and i know the ecotec pretty well. I also reckon that the install shouldn't be too bad if a V8 can be fitted to this chassis. 2.5's are more common so parts should be cheaper and easier to find but if a 3.0 came along at the right price who knows what kind of head stagger i could take.

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i was on the courtney website to check out the tuning potential. Everything seems really expensive but apart form that they reckon that changing the flywheel to a much lighter unit in the 2.5 helps the engine a lot as there is a huge flywheel as standard for emmisions in other countries.

i don't think this will be an easy project but it is far from impossible. between 3 people we will be able to do this. I'm an electrician with experience in working with control gear in industrial equipment, and the 2 others are metal workers and welders all with a passion for engineering and fast cars. It can only be fun.