Bertil Hedlund's Cortina Salvage

CIF

This nasty looking thing is owned by Kevin Gall. Here's the specs as supplied by Kevin:

69 Mk.II 4-Door

Genuine GT body
302 Windsor worked with custom billet CNC machined tunnel ram (courtesy of Billet Racing Wheels)
Manifold was CNC machined to suit a new 750 Dominator Holley as twin fours were useless!
Ccast iron Dart cylinder heads, stainless valves, small porting job - nothing spectacular!
Crower solid camshaft
Standard bore block
Aries pistons flat tops TRW ring set
Standard crankshaft, micro polished and crack tested
Cloyes true roller timing chain
High volume Mellings oil pump
Standard conrods shotpeened and crack tested, fitted with ARP rod bolts
ARP main bearing stud kit & ARP head stud kit
High capacity sump pan with crank scraper and windage tray
Custom-built extractors 1.5" dia to 3.5" collectors into turbo mufflers
Moroso valve covers (chrome)
Electric Holley fuel pump with adjustable regulators
Gilmer drive pulley kit custom CNC machined
Crower hardened pushrods with roller rockers and valve springs
Mallory distributor graphed and timing curve adjusted to 38 degrees total
Felpro gasket kit
Mr Gasket electric water pump
Davies Craig electric thermo fans

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Automatic C4 full manual with oil cooler
3500 stall converter B&M shifter
Mini tubbed 9" rear end built by Billet Racing Wheels
Ladder bars & Koni coil overs, 4.56:1 ratio
Mr Gasket line lock kit
Mickey Thompson Sportsman Pro rear tires 26 x 13 x 15
Pirelli Front Runners 3.5" wide
Center Line rims
Pearl White with Blue Black genuine trim with GT dash and gauges
Auto Meter Monster tacho and shift light
Fibreglass bonnet

Car has run 12.5 quarter mile @ 108mph

All text and photos © 2001Kevin Gall


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