Brings back sooooo many memories. I was with ford when they were new. My favorite engine was the 1.9 carby. The throttle body after mid year lost torque. The 1.6 was ok except the early blue valve benders. I still remember the pull knob for the amp in my dark canyon red exp. Still remember the sticker shock of those metric tires. Would love to find another. Sadly mine died at the dragstrip. Ran z stock trophy. The metric tires bit so hard, it spit the low reverse sun gear out the case.
Yeah sadly all the 1.6s are interference like that breaking belts like clockwork just over the 50k service interval too, all 1.9s are non-interference thanks to the block being casted about 1/4" taller. With the 1.9s around there's no need for the 1.6s but to d9nate their hemi heads to convert all 1.9s into 1.9 EFI HO spec haha Wowza ran that ATX hard!
Brings back sooooo many memories. I was with ford when they were new. My favorite engine was the 1.9 carby. The throttle body after mid year lost torque. The 1.6 was ok except the early blue valve benders. I still remember the pull knob for the amp in my dark canyon red exp. Still remember the sticker shock of those metric tires. Would love to find another. Sadly mine died at the dragstrip. Ran z stock trophy. The metric tires bit so hard, it spit the low reverse sun gear out the case.
Yeah sadly all the 1.6s are interference like that breaking belts like clockwork just over the 50k service interval too, all 1.9s are non-interference thanks to the block being casted about 1/4" taller. With the 1.9s around there's no need for the 1.6s but to d9nate their hemi heads to convert all 1.9s into 1.9 EFI HO spec haha
Wowza ran that ATX hard!
Had a 1982 LN7. Fun car to drive and very quick for a 4 cylinder engine with manual transmission. It had tinted green windows from factory.