Escort Van Modification - Power Upgrade 2

After many hours on eBay looking at overpriced RS2000 engines I have found one not too far away from me and, more important, at a bargain price.

The engine comes with many of the other parts I need for the conversion such as the loom, ECU, gearbox, radiator, pipes and a stainless steel exhaust, which on its own is worth what I paid for the lot so I’m pretty pleased.

So, all excited, me and my brother Dan jumped in the van and headed off to pick it all up. And you wouldn’t believe it, 15 miles in to the journey the diesel engine that has been reliable for the last two years started to play up and lose power - it was as if it knew it was being replaced... Lucky enough it made it there and back.

I later found out it had a faulty fuel filter housing that was leaking air, but now I've given it a new lease of life so that buys me a little more time to convert it.

So far I’ve got all the parts I have back to the workshop while I locate the few more I need and have got the loom at work so I can modify it during my lunch.

Normally while carrying out this conversion you would put the whole loom in and join to the van's rear light loom at the driver's sill, but as my van is left hand drive and the loom is from a right hand drive, I'll have to splice it in to the van's exciting loom - which sounds hard but is just a case of working out what parts of the loom you need to make it run and disregarding the parts you don’t need, such as lighting, abs circuits etc.

So I’ll keep u up dated on the progress on the van but I really should finish the Cabriolet before I do any more...