That's the wrong roof clock, someone has put in one from a MK2. the proper MK1 is LED not LCD and it will light up when you press the buton even without the key in the ignition.
Personally, I would do the basics first before considering an engine rebuild: 1. Fresh synthetic oil and filter, 2. Clean or replace the plugs, 3. Check ignition timing, 4. Check valve clearances. 5. Fresh 99 octane fuel. Next step would be to clean or rebuild the carb. Nice car and better looking than the Mk2 but only 85 Bhp versus 96 Bhp.
My dad had a Silver Fiat Regata 70. Did 120,000 miles on one clutch!! Drove to Italy and back in it every year for holidays for like 10 years!!! Car was amazing, never failed. He sold it and the person that purchased it wrote it off😢😢😢
had a mk1 XR2 when i was 19 loved it vulcan engineering bored it to 1700 stage 2 head lightened and ballanced k and n air filter exhaust and manifold made 115 on the dyno , wish i still had it
My 1st car in 1988 was a mk 1 xr2... and it didnt have 84 bhp , but 135 bhp due to a full burtonwood built fast road engine. Full internals.. twin webber 38mm dcnf carb( v rare) full 4-1 janspeed manifold and system.. shame the brakes wernt upgraded.... i had it 5 days lol new driver at 17 with that power wasnt the best match. Old girl ended up on its roof in a farmers field... dnt ask 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
We’d a few 127s when I was a kid. My dad drove the bejaysus out of them, used to haul stuff like trailers of stone with them. The smell of the clutch is burnt into my brain. My brother learnt to drive on a brown one and managed to get it up to 90 though I reckon the speedo was knackered. Our proper cars were sierras which we used to drive all over Europe in for holidays, once to Turkey.
my parents had a 5 door Fiat Ritmo mkii in my childhood it burned in a crash in 96 they bought a new Toyota Carina E post 96 facelift after that a new Peugeot 406 in 01 which my older brother got and it broke down 4 months before it turned 20 years old now they got an 06 Toyota Avensis which they have had since 09
oem stainless exhaust, weber carb, K&n on top, sort out the gearshift (wheeler dealers did a mk1 xr2 and modded the shifter for a short throw maybe worth a watch)
my parents car that brings back memories was a 1981 mk5 ford cortina. it was previously my grandads who had it from almost new until he had to give up driving around 1990. i use to sit on my grandads lap as he would drive. u could get away with it back then. so many good memories... unfortunately it had to b scraped in 1996. MOK 912X i will always remember that reg.
check fuel quality, fuel pump and carburettor wants a checkover. the hot and cold idle will want setting up from memory, i think these were affected. should be good to go i reckon. provided timing is good. peak power should be at 5700 i think so the fact it "only" went to 6000 should be fine. my parents had shit cars as a kid. Vectras, Astras etc. the best my dad had was the 2.0 turbo 200hp cavalier. i remember him getting pulled over flying up the m1 with us in the back ( good parenting dad) doing over 100mph. great to see James back too. great clan of people.
It's fine it's 40 years old she's possibly had a few owners changing the interior clock who cares apart those that are fussy no one is saying it's a brand new unmolested example or show winner so if the black pin stripe & paint round the side windows ain't 100% correct it doesn't matter she'd looking really well for her age stop whining
I'm dribbling over it. I had an almost basic 1300S in metallic blue however I made a few changes everything on it was MK1 Fiesta XR2 apart from the shell, box & front seats being Recaro Fishnets I also chopped & plated the nearside inner wing to accommodate a MK3 Escort 5 speed box complete with the correct 3 holes for the nearside inner wing engine mount I wish I still had her now
I owned a 1983 Mk1 for 14 years. I replaced the Ford carburettor with a Webber, which gave about an extra 10HP. I had to replace 2 drive shafts and 2 engines mostly because I neglected engine service. Max speed was 110mph with the Webber. I also owned 2 MK2 XR2's but they didn't have the same driving dynamics as the MK1. I drove it to the limit a lot of the time and never crashed because the handling was so good.
When I was a nipper my dad always had Range Rovers. The original classic shape, always V8 manual’s because he always towed car trailers around. Can still hear that V8 burble now…and they’re worth a lot of money nowadays!
The 127 1300GT would have been its Italian rival in 82, & was generally seen as a more enjoyable drive than the XR2, especially given the 20% higher price of the Ford, & despite being slightly slower. Did it look as cool? Most people would say no.. Did it rust faster, maybe, slightly.. But you know what they say, the brightest stars burn... for..um.. less time.. Or something like that.. 🤣Plus, the £900 you saved on buying the 127 over the XR2 could have paid for a Stage 2 head, cam, alloys, some wider Pirelli P6`s, + a dose of Zeibrart rustproofing, & then it would beat the XR2 conclusively.. 😁
As others have said, these were up against the Fiat 127 1300GT 5 speed, my mates all had Fiestas & Nova SRs but my 127 (CEG947Y), which cost peanuts in comparison, would keep up with them no problem. Sadly it rotted away before my eyes & then i snapped the driveshafts thru accelerating a bit hard so it ended up on the scrapheap :(
ANT!!!! Man, I wish we'd had these in the states. We had the very early Fiesta, which was this platform, but they were the barest of the bare. We didn't get Escorts until '81.
The sector box and gear stick wear out ,new old stock is hard to find ,if you can find these two parts it will make it like new ,Wheeler dealers xr2 episode is worth a watch.
My brother had a mk1 xr2 and that got stolen police found it called us told us to try and move it quick as its in a rough area and might get nicked again😂 brother was working away so I went to get it and got pulled over on way home🙄
you have to drive it - you just tickled it around - get it lit ffs. chuck it around high revs. i owned two of these - the head gaskets were problematic, the cooling system was problematic - it wasnt a supercar (understatement) it was just really good fun
The big advantage with the MKI was it was so easy to work on...if you had a Haynes manual and a decent set of tools you could do almost anything in a weekend
Lovely classic car but it's not a fast Ford. Tbf driving it 3up is losing you a lot on the power/weight ratio. For a 40 year old car it's brilliant, but most 40 year old cars are pretty crap.
just keep drivin it itll regain its power over time after it gets run in and yes rebuild the carb or upgrade the carb to a decent webber when this engine was used in the mk2 cortina 1600e it produced 88 bhp and fit a short shift gearshift thatll stop it being like pot of soup tryna find the gears fiat strada 1005tc was the compedator for this car at the time
With a flat 4 boxer Alfa Romeo engine were they reliable as a normal Cherry? We had 1 it must have been 1 of the better models then in 1987 rear opening windows controlled from next to the handbrake button for the fuel flap & the boot nice velour trim shame the engine died on us
Sounds like yours was a Nissan Cherry SGL or Turbo if it had remote opening of rear pop out windows. My dads car was fairly reliable 1.2 boxer apart from snapping clutch and throttle cables. The gear shift was always difficult as well@@Rickytricky01
This or a Fiat 127 GT? They were rivals back in the day.... I drove my cousins XR2 mk1 in 89 and remember it spinning its wheels on the change from 2nd to 3rd gear! Not much finesse and he wrote it off after a month or two on an icy road. I like these but just think they're vastly over priced for what they are. I'd rather take an alfasud sprint if I could find one.......
The italian rival in 83 would have been the strada 105tc... and ive owned both the strada mullerd the XR2 guys and it had a 5 speed box.... TRY THE 130TC ABARTH. AND THEY ARE STILL FAST EVEN TODAY GUYS 🎉🎉🎉
The only real on-paper rival to the XR2 was the Golf GTi- but with 110hp from a 1600 or 112 from the 1800 it destroyed the XR2…. I reckon it needs some more ignition timing throwing on, points set up & the missing power will return 💪🏼
Way heavier then the xr2 so the extra bhp wasnt beneficial, the golf wasn't really quicker unless on motorway top end, the pug 1.9 was a different story
@@Kaspertube513 ~800kg for the Fiesta vs ~860kg for the Golf. From memory the Fiesta was nippy & fun- but the mk1 Golf was in a totally different league. Brakes aside it did everything better- & was appreciably quicker & more grown-up ✅ In the days when there wasn’t much power & not a lot of weight then + ~30hp/20lbs.ft and an extra gear made for quite a margin.
105tc what a car only 1500 sold in uk and last time i saw one on the road was 1990 and it was fallin to bits and out of all those car graveyards ive watched theres not one to be seen
Even by mid 90s these were fairly rare, MK2 versions were quite common. Im amazed you get an alloy as a spare - that's a nice touch!
I’m 53 left school in 85 and would’ve loved one, this has been my dream car and still is, will own one someday 👍 love it
Me to but i went the whole hog i have one of the last Fiesta st mk 8.5 in mean green and its a beast and i love it more than the wife ! Dont tell her
Don't leave it out of sight or it'll go for a drive without you!
That's the wrong roof clock, someone has put in one from a MK2. the proper MK1 is LED not LCD and it will light up when you press the buton even without the key in the ignition.
It had a stopwatch built in too!
Personally, I would do the basics first before considering an engine rebuild: 1. Fresh synthetic oil and filter, 2. Clean or replace the plugs, 3. Check ignition timing, 4. Check valve clearances. 5. Fresh 99 octane fuel. Next step would be to clean or rebuild the carb. Nice car and better looking than the Mk2 but only 85 Bhp versus 96 Bhp.
My dad had a Silver Fiat Regata 70. Did 120,000 miles on one clutch!! Drove to Italy and back in it every year for holidays for like 10 years!!! Car was amazing, never failed. He sold it and the person that purchased it wrote it off😢😢😢
Thanks for sharing!
i had a silver regatta 70 it was totally rubbish - your dad was lucky!
@@PBUCKY1969 I had a Regata Turbo Diesel, pile of shit , always overheated
had a mk1 XR2 when i was 19 loved it vulcan engineering bored it to 1700 stage 2 head lightened and ballanced k and n air filter exhaust and manifold made 115 on the dyno , wish i still had it
My 1st car in 1988 was a mk 1 xr2... and it didnt have 84 bhp , but 135 bhp due to a full burtonwood built fast road engine. Full internals.. twin webber 38mm dcnf carb( v rare) full 4-1 janspeed manifold and system.. shame the brakes wernt upgraded.... i had it 5 days lol new driver at 17 with that power wasnt the best match. Old girl ended up on its roof in a farmers field... dnt ask 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
We’d a few 127s when I was a kid. My dad drove the bejaysus out of them, used to haul stuff like trailers of stone with them. The smell of the clutch is burnt into my brain. My brother learnt to drive on a brown one and managed to get it up to 90 though I reckon the speedo was knackered.
Our proper cars were sierras which we used to drive all over Europe in for holidays, once to Turkey.
127 GT was amazing
my parents had a 5 door Fiat Ritmo mkii in my childhood it burned in a crash in 96 they bought a new Toyota Carina E post 96 facelift after that a new Peugeot 406 in 01 which my older brother got and it broke down 4 months before it turned 20 years old now they got an 06 Toyota Avensis which they have had since 09
oem stainless exhaust, weber carb, K&n on top, sort out the gearshift (wheeler dealers did a mk1 xr2 and modded the shifter for a short throw maybe worth a watch)
my parents car that brings back memories was a 1981 mk5 ford cortina. it was previously my grandads who had it from almost new until he had to give up driving around 1990. i use to sit on my grandads lap as he would drive. u could get away with it back then. so many good memories... unfortunately it had to b scraped in 1996.
MOK 912X i will always remember that reg.
you have all those revs, you must use them!
I'm a ford man 😇
check fuel quality, fuel pump and carburettor wants a checkover. the hot and cold idle will want setting up from memory, i think these were affected. should be good to go i reckon. provided timing is good. peak power should be at 5700 i think so the fact it "only" went to 6000 should be fine. my parents had shit cars as a kid. Vectras, Astras etc. the best my dad had was the 2.0 turbo 200hp cavalier. i remember him getting pulled over flying up the m1 with us in the back ( good parenting dad) doing over 100mph. great to see James back too. great clan of people.
Make sure the fuel is fresh and high octane. Make sure the timing is set correctly and she should be good to go.
❤ Power : 84 PS (62 kW / 83 bhp) at 5500 rpm (Max rev 6600 rpm)
Torque : 126 Nm (12.8 mkg / 93 lb-ft) at 2800 rpm (~ 50 PS)
Ratios : 53 PS/L (39 kW/L) - 79 Nm/L ❤
It's fine it's 40 years old she's possibly had a few owners changing the interior clock who cares apart those that are fussy no one is saying it's a brand new unmolested example or show winner so if the black pin stripe & paint round the side windows ain't 100% correct it doesn't matter she'd looking really well for her age stop whining
I'm dribbling over it. I had an almost basic 1300S in metallic blue however I made a few changes everything on it was MK1 Fiesta XR2 apart from the shell, box & front seats being Recaro Fishnets I also chopped & plated the nearside inner wing to accommodate a MK3 Escort 5 speed box complete with the correct 3 holes for the nearside inner wing engine mount I wish I still had her now
i owned one for 2 years back in 1988 when i was 17..my first car loved it
Carb rebuild and timing and valve clearance adjustment and try again but it maybe a bit tired so check compressions
I owned a 1983 Mk1 for 14 years. I replaced the Ford carburettor with a Webber, which gave about an extra 10HP. I had to replace 2 drive shafts and 2 engines mostly because I neglected engine service. Max speed was 110mph with the Webber. I also owned 2 MK2 XR2's but they didn't have the same driving dynamics as the MK1. I drove it to the limit a lot of the time and never crashed because the handling was so good.
Keep em coming lads love this stuff
Thank you
Love the pepper pots ❤
When I was a nipper my dad always had Range Rovers. The original classic shape, always V8 manual’s because he always towed car trailers around. Can still hear that V8 burble now…and they’re worth a lot of money nowadays!
Ignition timing is critical as the valve clearance engine is a bit smokey rings are may be gone or cracked head
Locks need rebuilding... Everything should work off of one key... Go back to an OEM exhaust, sort the gearbox out and you're good to go 👍🏻
The 127 1300GT would have been its Italian rival in 82, & was generally seen as a more enjoyable drive than the XR2, especially given the 20% higher price of the Ford, & despite being slightly slower. Did it look as cool? Most people would say no.. Did it rust faster, maybe, slightly.. But you know what they say, the brightest stars burn... for..um.. less time.. Or something like that.. 🤣Plus, the £900 you saved on buying the 127 over the XR2 could have paid for a Stage 2 head, cam, alloys, some wider Pirelli P6`s, + a dose of Zeibrart rustproofing, & then it would beat the XR2 conclusively.. 😁
Alfa Sprint and Sud, direct competitor at the time and both much better drivers cars plus quicker, I had a 1.5 sprint I could beat XR3 easily. 😊
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Had two of these 😅 With that stiff accelerator pedal and only 70bhp, I wonder if the second choke on the Weber carb is working?! Good luck!
As others have said, these were up against the Fiat 127 1300GT 5 speed, my mates all had Fiestas & Nova SRs but my 127 (CEG947Y), which cost peanuts in comparison, would keep up with them no problem. Sadly it rotted away before my eyes & then i snapped the driveshafts thru accelerating a bit hard so it ended up on the scrapheap :(
My mum and dad aren’t Italian but they had a 128 Berlina , Regatta 70 CL , Tipo 1.4 DGT and they were all white , when white was a bad resale colour 😂
😂 white used to be a bad colour back then.
my dad use to have a tipo with the digital dash... also my mum had a fiat tempra, also with the digital dash...
@@autosportivobedford mum thought white was cool because they looked like Rally cars . She just forgot the livery 😂
@@Kirkyboy260881 I use to think ours was like Knight Rider 😂
@matt bettany it was very futuristic 🤣
ANT!!!!
Man, I wish we'd had these in the states. We had the very early Fiesta, which was this platform, but they were the barest of the bare. We didn't get Escorts until '81.
😂
The sector box and gear stick wear out ,new old stock is hard to find ,if you can find these two parts it will make it like new ,Wheeler dealers xr2 episode is worth a watch.
owned one in 1996, prob needs a freshen up some new rings and a head rebuild wouldnt go amiss
My brother had a mk1 xr2 and that got stolen police found it called us told us to try and move it quick as its in a rough area and might get nicked again😂 brother was working away so I went to get it and got pulled over on way home🙄
My parents had a alfa Romeo 156 sportwagan in black. Quite a rare car but It went to the scrap yard eventually.
you have to drive it - you just tickled it around - get it lit ffs. chuck it around high revs.
i owned two of these - the head gaskets were problematic, the cooling system was problematic - it wasnt a supercar (understatement) it was just really good fun
The big advantage with the MKI was it was so easy to work on...if you had a Haynes manual and a decent set of tools you could do almost anything in a weekend
Lovely classic car but it's not a fast Ford. Tbf driving it 3up is losing you a lot on the power/weight ratio. For a 40 year old car it's brilliant, but most 40 year old cars are pretty crap.
just keep drivin it itll regain its power over time after it gets run in and yes rebuild the carb or upgrade the carb to a decent webber when this engine was used in the mk2 cortina 1600e it produced 88 bhp and fit a short shift gearshift thatll stop it being like pot of soup tryna find the gears fiat strada 1005tc was the compedator for this car at the time
I’d rather have a Ford than a Fiat. But hey we are all unique. I do love Alfa Romeo’s though
I love a fast ford, beautiful car that xr2
If its got the old points then check the gap or renew along with a dizzy cap and rotor arm.
MK1 Fiesta XR2's had an electronic ignition they worked just fine never failed never got damp
My dad had an MG f. You had to put carrier bags on the passenger seat when it rained and came through the roof.
Dad had a Renault 5 gt turbo phase 1. I bought a phase 2 in 2021 👍🏻
A 2006 Fiesta to which I own now.
my first car, same colour
Put some Kent cams in it 😎❤
Try fitting fiat 127 carb.
It was a 127 sport the same year
Points and rotor arm
Mk1 Fiesta XR2's had a reliable electronic ignition so why change it back & have it running worse than an early VW Beetle
Nissan Cherry Europe 1.2 A735 SFE 1983.
With a flat 4 boxer Alfa Romeo engine were they reliable as a normal Cherry? We had 1 it must have been 1 of the better models then in 1987 rear opening windows controlled from next to the handbrake button for the fuel flap & the boot nice velour trim shame the engine died on us
Sounds like yours was a Nissan Cherry SGL or Turbo if it had remote opening of rear pop out windows. My dads car was fairly reliable 1.2 boxer apart from snapping clutch and throttle cables. The gear shift was always difficult as well@@Rickytricky01
This or a Fiat 127 GT? They were rivals back in the day.... I drove my cousins XR2 mk1 in 89 and remember it spinning its wheels on the change from 2nd to 3rd gear! Not much finesse and he wrote it off after a month or two on an icy road. I like these but just think they're vastly over priced for what they are. I'd rather take an alfasud sprint if I could find one.......
The italian rival in 83 would have been the strada 105tc... and ive owned both the strada mullerd the XR2 guys and it had a 5 speed box.... TRY THE 130TC ABARTH. AND THEY ARE STILL FAST EVEN TODAY GUYS 🎉🎉🎉
I had one of these, it was shit slow! Sold it for £200,running with mot! Those were the days!
Contact Danny Robertson from Alfa tech in Huddersfield he has one and knows them really well and he is an Alfa/fiat man too so top guy
Thank you
The only real on-paper rival to the XR2 was the Golf GTi- but with 110hp from a 1600 or 112 from the 1800 it destroyed the XR2….
I reckon it needs some more ignition timing throwing on, points set up & the missing power will return 💪🏼
Points set up? They had an electronic ignition so why change it to an old fashioned thing
@@Rickytricky01 you catch my drift- it’s running flatter than a witches tit. Whilst no rocketship they were pretty lively in their day.
Way heavier then the xr2 so the extra bhp wasnt beneficial, the golf wasn't really quicker unless on motorway top end, the pug 1.9 was a different story
@@Kaspertube513 ~800kg for the Fiesta vs ~860kg for the Golf.
From memory the Fiesta was nippy & fun- but the mk1 Golf was in a totally different league. Brakes aside it did everything better- & was appreciably quicker & more grown-up ✅
In the days when there wasn’t much power & not a lot of weight then + ~30hp/20lbs.ft and an extra gear made for quite a margin.
Fiat 131 super
it is hard to have taste after Italian's :)
Marry one and see how you feel... ;)
Wouldn't it have been a rival for the Strada Ritmo Abarth?
An Abarth would piss all over one of these, a friend had one of the KLB Strada Abarth’s, made mince meat of the other so called hot hatches.
Make it into a XR2I HI I. EAMONN FROM DUBLIN IRELAND
Fiat 127 Sport rival - the run-out 1300/GT version probably, which was way cuter than this nonsense
Black around the window not the right shape. On sun roof .
Back in the day we called these XRpooooo 😂
No, you didn’t
solo auto Italiane fratello
xr2 are good fiats are shit
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Nice car and fun episode😊 well done guys, bravissimi 👏🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
Sell it…. Buy something Italian with free rust problems!!
Urgh. Ford. No thanks
The 105TC and 130TC strada where probably up against these in the day. I would much rather 1 of those much faster and handled better
105tc what a car only 1500 sold in uk and last time i saw one on the road was 1990 and it was fallin to bits and out of all those car graveyards ive watched theres not one to be seen