If the timing-chain adjuster is screwed almost fully in, a new chain is needed. Super unleaded fuel is needed to avoid pinking: if it still pinks, the head may have been skimmed too far. Corrosion damage also wreaks havoc with heads. The water pump is a weak point (rock the pulley, there should be no play) and if it’s been run dry after water-pump failure, the head may be warped. With a five-bearing crank and oversquare dimensions, the Twin Cam is long-lived if well maintained.
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Join the Lotus Cortina Register and get help to check provenance before buying: a reshelled car or a replica, if done properly, is every bit as fun (and less of a tragedy if raced and crashed), but is worth substantially less than an original car with full history.ĭetails such as boot mountings for the spare wheel and battery, servo mounting in the engine bay or braces for the rear suspension are check points, but you need to know how Ford/Lotus built the originals to confidently identify one: is a big help. With so many raced, crashed, rotten and reshelled, and replicas created from no more than a logbook and a two-door shell, buying a Lotus Cortina is a minefield that should be negotiated with great caution. Unsurprisingly, as a production road car it had its share of quality issues, especially the alloy diff housing coming away from the axle casing due to the cornering loads inflicted by the Lotus A-frame location.įrom June 1964, once 1000 (or so) had been built for homologation, the aluminium parts were swapped for Ford production items and the price was reduced from £1100 to £992 – so the earliest examples are now more desirable, even if they were not the most reliable when new. The Lotus Cortina was assembled by Lotus and was an instant success, resulting in Jim Clark (who had played an important role in developing and testing the car) winning the British Saloon Car Championship in 1964 Ford couldn’t have hoped for more. Lotus and Cosworth had made the Anglia 105E motor dominant in Formula Junior, and Lotus had commissioned Harry Mundy to design a twin-cam head for the Consul Classic engine (which Ford conveniently enlarged to 1498cc just in time for the new Lotus Elan): it was a marriage made in heaven. Walter Hayes at Ford saw the potential sales benefits in a successful British Saloon Car Championship campaign, and Lotus could see the race potential in Ford’s everyman saloon, with its light, stiff monocoque shell, MacPherson strut front suspension and highly tunable oversquare engine. When it was first announced in The Motor in January 1963 as ‘A ravening wolf in slightly sheepish clothing’, the Lotus-modified Ford Cortina was to be sold through Ford dealers as ‘The Consul Cortina Sports Special’.
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