Mk2 Cortina 1600E Crossflow Engine Reconditioning

[blacksofstichill]

Thanks for your kind words Henric, I'm glad you liked it!  It was quite some time ago that I did it so I can't remember the exact time I took but I think there would be around 40 hours in it off the top of my head.  The crossflow is a nice engine to work on but boring it and converting it to unleaded added extra time to it.

[ande]

Hi, i have a 1.3 crossflow i am putting into a mk1 fiesta, i have 2 actually, one was a 1.3 bored out to +40 with a big valve head, steel rocker posts and shafts, roller rockers, kent bcf3 cam with adjustable cam sprocket, and another 1.3 bored out +60 with standard components, i want to fit the head, rocker assembly, cam and sprocket to the +60 block.  I put the cam in last night along with the adjustable sprocket, lined the marks up on the cam and crank sprockets and they dont look like they are perfectly lined up, i mean to all intents and purposes they are lined up, maybe it's my ocd playing up here but does it matter if they look ever so slightly off, or do they have to be microscopically lined up, first time i have delved into an engine so excuse my complete lack of understanding on the subject. I did think the adjustable sprocket was for that but it isn't is it, it's for moving your cam, i did originally think it was for fine tuning the lining up of the marks, which it isnt, so am i right in thinking that if these marks are facing each other, that's it? There isn't any way of moving the marks tiny fractions is there, because even 1 link either way will move them too far.