http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-1991-19...Ford|Model:Escort&hash=item25a71938e5&vxp=mtr Make sure it works with your cable first before purchase. It should be an easy OEM drop in. - note update - there is even a compatibility list on the posting.
bye bye pretty lady, time to do it again - - - Updated - - - Great!, and glad to read your Focus is coming back to life. One thing though if you do upgrade your cluster, please do not attempt to make your Escort go 120mph with 24 year old components. Also, I recommend abstaining from drinking until twenty-one, and you are smarter. It really is not worth it in the end. Look to how all the great performers kill themselves.. :/
Yeah, even my dad's with the base engine is quite quick for what it is, then Escort has 88hp; Not the best of power figures.
Speaking of slow cars, I tried to pass someone on a two lane highway in the truck today. Pulled into the oncoming lane and floored it. Instantly realized that I didn't have near enough road, admitted defeat, and filed back in behind the slow poke.
the only thing i've ever passed is a tractor taking up the entire flipping lane, even for being an older american V8, the 4.6L in our old expedition still did quite well speaking of which, turns out that $7000 was not just for the computer, but an entire new engine, the block was cracked badly of course, if the engine was broken, who knows what else is next, so still wasn't worth it, we now drive a 1998 ford expedition (so even older, but meh, we needed something that could actually fit everyone, so it'll do for now), still though, that engine lasted quite a while without any problems for being 12-13 years old
Yeah, auto. It's pretty unresponsive as far as small increases in throttle goes, but as soon as the pedal hits the floor it gets its ass in gear. It dropped down 2 gears, RPM went to near redline, but it just wasn't doing much. It's not very fast, but it makes an effort so I don't really have any complaints. Sounds really nice, too. - - - Updated - - - I've made a pass or two, but never in the truck. The person really wasn't going that slow, I was just kinda bored. I have made a few tense uphill merges onto the interstate on one particular entrance ramp in the truck, though. Required WOT and the whole merge lane to get up to speed. Truck is a 95 F150 with the 5.8l Windsor. Been babied and garage kept all of its life. Only 85k miles on it.
My usual overtake approach was kinda honed in the underpowered corsa. Usual judge that its safe to overtake and all that jazz, that dont change. But rather than moving out and accelerating, I drop back while dropping down a gear or 2 into the power band. Accelerate forwards towards the car infront and then move out. Seemed to really help on the whopping sub 60hp corsa. Focus, 113hp and still only about 1.2 to 1.3 tonnes, while its no sports car by any meaning of the word, it can more than adequately haul ass on demand. - - - Updated - - - Hence why 99% of onramps are downhill in the UK. Offramps are uphill.
It's the same here, but this interchange is situated right at the bottom of a big hill. A really tight whoopdy-whoo that straightens out into an uphill merging lane onto an uphill portion of interstate. I kinda like it. Makes the drive more interesting. I should probably work on my overtaking method. I don't do a lot of driving on two lane roads that are flat or straight enough to allow passing, so it's not a big problem.
I dont like overtaking. I will do it if I deem it necessary, but in the corsa with its total lack of power I hated taking the gamble, it really did need quite a large space to consider it and that negative stigma has kinda stuck with me. Its just not a thing I like to attempt unless I require it. That and I've had total jackasses. Overtook one woman, she then accelerated to prevent me completing the overtake and started trying to move into the oncoming lane, the very oncoming lane I am next to her in, could see her laughing and her kid in the back too. I followed her into town, overtook and jammed car across road infront of her just to call her a maniac bitch and tell her shes lucky I'm not filing an attempted murder case on her ass. She was originally doing 30 in a 60 zone. We hit 70 and I ran outta safe overtaking space by the time I hit the brakes and filed in behind her. Bitch. Next time, I will simply be taking dashcam footage straight to police, didnt have it at the time.
About 20 seconds to 60mph at which point you are already shifting to 4th. Seriously, shifting at top of powerband, you can hit 20mph before you have to shift to 2nd, at 40 you have to shift to 3rd, at 60, 4th, 80, 5th, 105 is almost bouncing off the rev limiter. You do have to take it almost to redline before shifting to "haul ass". Slow as fuck. Focus has higher redline and I think slightly longer gearing. Can shift much later, that alone I think makes all the difference. 0-60 can be done entirely in 2nd gear. Although ideally a shift to 3rd would come before 60mph, it will make it kicking and screaming to 60 in 2nd at any rate. Now I'm interested to record a 0-60 time pulling away and ending in 2nd, bet even with the crippling of not using the engines power bands effectively it would still beat a 1.0 corsa. There was a 1.8 corsa for that generation. Not checked the horsepower or torque figures to compare against fords 1.8 zetec that I have but I'd assume they'd be fairly similar. That I do want to drive at some point. Corsas weigh alot less than a focus, let alone a focus estate, must really haul ass, probably fairly decent sleeper assuming you only want to go in a straight line (considering the corsa takes the whole "fwd cars understeer" to the absolute extreme and cant handle for shit)
The dudes at the county surplus lot uploaded that escort that I took a picture of the other day. The bidding is higher than I figured it'd be. I thought it'd go for pretty much nothing. I'm actually pretty offended that the internet values it almost as much as a pristine 2006 ford crown victoria.
Well, my Escort weighs about 2400lbs, 88hp@4400rpm, 108 lb-ft@2800 or so. I think it 0-60s in the 12-13 range, all out, shifting at the redline of 6600 RPM ish. The Focus feels like a rocket compared to that to be honest, although it's different coming from a Corsa 1.0. I can't believe a 24 year old car with much less computers and shit goes quicker. I know its a 3 vs 4 cylinder and all, and twice the displacement effectively, but still.
SO escort weight wise would be inbetween the corsa and focus. But 6600, ahahahaha, nope, corsa has no hope of hitting that. Focus hits limiter at 7000 and I dont ever take it that high, bottom ends have been known to explode before 7500 if limiter is disabled. There is 1 computer. EVERYTHING links to it except the ABS and TCS units which were external simply by the nature of not being on the stock trim levels, mine had ABS, did not have TCS, did not need TCS as it could not spin its own tyres.
The only things my computer controls is the fuel injection. Everything else electrical is tapped to the 12V supply, or signals from anywhere in the car, like fuel level or temperature. - - - Updated - - - I think this sedan LX-E is a little overpriced, auto, in amazing shape but... http://athensga.craigslist.org/cto/5063252247.html
