4x4

[tc1 1]

i have just brought a load of cortina bits and with it came a 3lt essex engine sat on a large alloy sump with front drive shafts a gear box with transfer box its a 4x4 set up there are some badges with it saying formula ferguson not really sure what its out of looks like a transit or simular any info would be grate cheers trev

[LHD16E 9]

possible it could be from a rare zephyr 6 mk4 4x4

 

also Ferguson made 4x4 transits

[the-ford-cortina.com 226]

Yes I think you have just bought a piece of engineering history :blink:

 

Seriously that should go in a classic car museum

 

Think they did a Capri as well for rallying? :headscratch:

Edited November 18, 2011 by the-ford-cortina.com

[bortaf 94]

Oooo much rareness, pics pics pics :D

Would be capri or Zephyr the transit 4X4 used a solid front axle not drive shafts :unsure:

Team blitz in the US has a fair bit on the ferguson 4X4, he's about the net, usually on capri forums or retrorides or his website will get you in contact http://www.teamblitz.com/ :thumbup:

[mk2sav 42]

Would you be living around the Barnstaple / North Devon area. Many years ago , I found a very sad 4x4 Zodiac police car fitted with the kit you have bought . This was a strange sort of scrap yard that was more or less shut down , run by a strange man was very reluctant to give prices for anything you might have been interested in but he did seem to think the Zodiac would be worth a lot , but as it was a see thru floor and all over rotten I couldnt see it being worth much at all - except the parts would fetch a bit !! Steve

[allan d 1]

they built a 4x4 capri ferguson like massey furguson 4x4 it was a early attempt at ford making a 4x4 car theres is only one left jon hill owns it a v reg capri them parts are worth alot of money :thumbup:

[bortaf 94]

they built a 4x4 capri ferguson like massey furguson 4x4 it was a early attempt at ford making a 4x4 car theres is only one left jon hill owns it a v reg capri them parts are worth alot of money :thumbup:

 

17 built and there are 2 in the US team blitz has or had them and has a fair bit of paperwork as well :)

 

origionly built as rally cars, roger clark drove one

here's an artical i have no idea were from but i obv found it on the web a few years back ?

 

 

FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE

 

It was only natural, that there would be an element of friendly rivalry between the two competitions camps. To steal a march on their Teutonic counterparts and to coincide with the Capri's introduction, Ford UK planned to enter a Capri with four-wheeldrive transmission in a rallycross event at Croft, Co Durham, in February 1969, an event that had a TV audience of millions. It was a simple yet audacious plan to give the car a strong competitions career kick-off.

 

In truth, the notion to go four-wheel-drive with the Capri was not that outrageous, for the 1960s had seen an energetic programme campaigned by Harry Ferguson Research Ltd (HFR) to convince major companies to manufacture cars with this ultra-safe form of transmission allied to anti-skid braking. The first four-wheel-drive production car was, of course, the Jensen FF, the Italianstyled Grand Tourer that was introduced in 1966 alongside its two-wheel-drive sister, the Jensen Interceptor. With its 6.2-litre Chrysler V8 engine, the FF proved a profoundly safe car in most conditions. And while HF Research was hugely pleased and proud of the F1P's success, it never the less nurtured a desire to see its transmission system fitted to volume-manufactured models. In 1968 a Ford Mustang was converted to four-wheel drive using a split-drive transmission arrangement similar to that fitted on the Jensen FF; many convincing demonstrations were given and much interest created. However, the same snag surfaced time after time: HF Research was only interested in prototype development, not volume manufacture. Sadly, no volume manufacturer had been sufficiently convinced that 4WI) should be fitted to massproduced saloons, arguing that the buying public would not shoulder the inevitable extra cost.

 

This situation changed when GKN made the decision to purchase the manufacturing rights to the four-wheel-drive transmission system developed by HF Research. GKN immediately began a high-profile promotion campaign which resulted in small quantities of semi-prototype conversions being undertaken: two Triumph Stags; a Michigan State police car; and twenty Zephyr Estate cars for the British police. News of these four-wheeldrive exploits spread throughout the motor industry. The value of 4WD capabilities made good sense, even if the additional cost to the market price of a family saloon did not appear to the buying public. Henry Taylor, who counted among his friends the directors of GKN and the team of HF Research Ltd at Toll Bar End in Coventry, provided the link which got the 4WI) Capri programme off to a promising start.

 

While it is true to say that a demonstrator Capri was fitted with a BDA engine for the press to drive in Cyprus, Rod Mansfield views this as nothing more than a Walter Hayes 'kite-flying exercise' to measure reaction; in other words, it was never a serious production consideration. Meanwhile, Weslake Engineering in Rye, East Sussex - the world-renowned gas-flow specialists - had been working on the V6 unit to improve its performance.

 

During the latter days of 1968, three Capris were converted by HF Research into full mud-plugging rallyeross machines with 3-litre engines and all-wheel-drive transmission, two of them being used for demonstrating to members of Ford's management hierarchy and the dealership chain. The big moment came on 8 February 1969 when Roger Clark drove his 4WI) Capri to victory in a very muddy rallyeross event at Croft, the success being televized on ITV's popular 'World of Sport'. However, once the event was over the 4WD Capri programme was put on the back burner until the following year as the Boreham boys had something else on their minds - the 1970 World Cup Rally!

 

Ford did return to campaigning 4WD Capris in the winter of 1970/1, when a team of three cars was entered in events at Cadwell Park and Lydden Hill, the tiny racecircuit near Canterbury in Kent. Driven by Rod Chapman, and Roger Clark and his brother Stan, these Capris (sponsored by the Daily Express, Cars and Car Conversions and the Daily Telegraph) won the Castrolbacked championship in fine style, often managing to defeat the opposition through sheer right of might. Indeed, for the driver of any rallyeross Mini, Imp or Triumph, the sight of these monster Capris in their rearview mirror (the Capris often started with a time handicap) must have been fair warning to move over! In truth, however, the HIPRmodified cars were considered to be something of a handful at high speeds in such mud-caked conditions. Despite the antics of

 

people such as Bill Meade - who used marine bilge pumps to direct jets of water on to the windscreen to keep the view ahead clear staying on course was a matter of balancing power against steering. The technique was to set up the car well in advance of the next corner, although often as not this was not achieved, the result being an increasing amount of understeer despite the driver pouring on more lock as the corner arrived. That master of the understatement, Roger Clark, was to quip that these all-wheel-drive Capris were great cars, though not the easiest he'd driven despite plenty of traction!

 

Essential Modifications

 

The first generation of Weslake-developed V6 Capri engines used for rallyeross boasted nothing more than gas-flowed cylinder heads matched to mild road/rally tuned sports camshafts, sufficient to produce a true 160bhp. Later, as the campaign was given momentum, modifications became somewhat more radical: an increased compression ratio of 1121; larger inlet and exhaust valves; a wilder camshaft with 300-degree overlap; and, of course, the inevitable Tecalemit fuel-injection system. These engines were blue-printed and built up by the Boreham boys, Terry Hoyle and Brian Reeves; by this time power output had risen to a rather healthy 200+bhp.

 

However, engine-tuning was the easy part; conversion of the Capri bodyshell to accept the four-wheel-drive transmission was no quick engineering job. To begin with, the front-mounted differential was located in its own cast-aluminium casing fitted on the near side of the engine. The driveshaft for the off-side wheel actually passed through the sump, the front wheels being supported on Ford Taunus (Ford's only frontwheel-drive car) suspension legs, the upper locating points themselves being modified so that their height was increased by 1.75in (44mm). A new bell housing was cast to link the V6 engine and the five-speed U gearbox, the transfer case containing the I1FRdeveloped differential and transfer drive, this bolting on the rear. Normal torque split was set at 37 per cent to the front and 63 per cent to the rear wheels, the drive being taken to the front and rear differentials by short prop shafts.

 

The original chassis rails which supported the engine were cut away and replaced by a new cradle fabricated from 1.5in (38mm) steel tubing. This accommodated the steering assembly and new engine mountings, relocated to clear the front driveshafts. To

 

allow for the cradle's location in the Capri engine bay, considerable surgery had to be carried out in order to create sufficient space, while the transmission tunnel and scuttle also had to be modified to cover the enlarged bell housing, transfer easing and ZF gearbox. To cope with the additional traction and power, Bilstein dampers were fitted all round, located with uprated suspension bushes, while the brakes were given competition pads and linings. Some cars were fitted with anti-skid braking systems, although Roger Clark specifically asked that such a system was not fitted to his car! Wheels were 13 X 6in Minilites for dry use and 13 X 7in for slippery conditions, shod with Dunlop covers.

 

Too Expensive

 

In the event, the four-wheel-drive Capri's competition career was very short even though some courageous people, Rod Chapman among them, did go on campaigning the cars with mixed success. The problems, however, were a mixture of front-driveshaft reliability and GKN's decision to pull out of the four-wheel-drive market, feeling it not to be viable (even by 1971 no massmanufacturer had put a 4WI) car into production). As a production car, the 4WD Capri called for a degree of body modifications that could not easily be incorporated into the car once it had been taken from the production line. The cost of the mechanical parts added to the body surgery would have resulted in a retail price that far outstripped its market share.

 

And an artical from a mag

 

[tc1 1]

hi here are a few pictures.

cheers

trev

[ROB 100 3]

Theres this at the Ford Heritage Centre,

 

[LHD16E 9]

looking at that back axle its got to be carpi . but the front well sump looks like zephyr/zodiac but it is ford. so any thing is possible. and that gear box cross member :headscratch:

[sheffieldcortinacentre 753]

all the 20 mk4 zephyrs where autos. yep thats a capri rear axle the front axles where a double wishbone set with a sort of coilover between top arm & body.

the mk3 capri was in cf some years ago & was a lhd auto.

[bortaf 94]

all the 20 mk4 zephyrs where autos. yep thats a capri rear axle the front axles where a double wishbone set with a sort of coilover between top arm & body.

the mk3 capri was in cf some years ago & was a lhd auto.

I have the artical somewhere? a woman owned it IIRC ? a one off build in germany wasn't ?

that's certainly some interesting pics of some rare parts theer mete :D

being a sad anorac is there any chance of some bigger ones so i can studey them better :oops:

[the-ford-cortina.com 226]

hi here are a few pictures.

cheers

trev

 

hmm nice , so we have a Capri ......... hmm :headscratch:

 

go on how much??

[tc1 1]

all the 20 mk4 zephyrs where autos. yep thats a capri rear axle the front axles where a double wishbone set with a sort of coilover between top arm & body.

the mk3 capri was in cf some years ago & was a lhd auto.

I have the artical somewhere? a woman owned it IIRC ? a one off build in germany wasn't ?

that's certainly some interesting pics of some rare parts theer mete :D

being a sad anorac is there any chance of some bigger ones so i can studey them better :oops:

thanks all for your interest in the bits they did come from the barnstable area but the man i got the stuff from said it was not the zepher mentioned it was in a mk2 capri i have a lot of paper work with it and some photo coppies from dvla with previous owners of the capri it was registard as a 4x4 one of the last owners being rodney trevor quaife. the axle looks like a capri but its 5 stud iam not sure i will try to send some bigger pictures to bortaf cheers trev