Whats up acurazine... I'm Tino and my ride is a 91½ Escort GT.
Underhood is a Mazda BP 1.8 DOHC (1st gen Protege and 94-00 Miata), with a complete JDM Mazda Familia 323 GTX turbo setup.
Car weighs ~2200lbs, and dyno's 200whp, 225wtq.
Here's some pix of the car/setup. I'm open to all feedback pos or neg, just nice to be on another local forum












heres a couple of the setup..

 

Cool! I'll move this over to our CarTalk forum, welcome to the forums. Nice set up, looks fun!

 

nice sleeper

 

niceeee

 

Welcome to the forum. Car looks good, and you've obviously done quite a bit of work to it.


Terry

 

Def a car I wouldn't expect to be faster than mine. Great sleeper! Is the escort GT basically a mazda 323 chassis?

 

Nice

That car probably boogies...

 

Honestly not as much as you may think... Its all 99% drop in. One wire had to be added to the OEM harness and swap in the JDM turbo ECU...

Thanks, it definitely does do damage for what it is... by no means did i build this expecting a 400whp beast, but i did get out of it exactly what i wanted.... a fast, good looking, EXTREMELY fun daily driver that can spank on cars an escort has no business spanking, while bein a hell of a sleeper.

As far as the chassis, ALL escorts (2dr,4dr,wagon,ZX2,) 91-03 were built off of the Mazda BG chassis, which was shared btween Protege, 323, Escort, Tracer, and 94-97 Kia Sephia.

I gotta admit, the head turning,the WTF faces i get is the best part about it, plus the fact that theres only 2 turbo in the state

 

boogies reallll good up to about 165 lol

i've pulled on a nice long list of cars lol

Hemi chargers
WRXs
STis
Mazdaspeed3
CL type S 6spd
RSX type S who SWORE he had the fastest car around lol (u know the type)
B16 Turbo integra
SRT4s
Turbo Tercel
A4 1.8T and 2.0T
a few VR6 jettas
Mustang 5.0s and 4.6s
GSR EG Hatchbacks
the list goes on

I happen to like my tranny after blowin a couple, so i take off easy off the line... but once 2nd decides to grab traction, then im pullin all the way out...

Dont know if anyones ever done it but it feels crazy as all hell to redline 5th lol

 

thats an awesome power to weight ratio! lightweight is the way to go!

but im sorry, i gotta be a jerk and say I can't appreciate the looks of this car...

but i do know that the performance side of your car has to be a blast. I have 200whp, but my 2001 3.2CL-P weighs in at 3600lbs...if i could get anywhere near 2200lbs, i'd love it, itd be soooo fun!

 

yeah, i'm not necessarily proud of it, but I have seen redline in 5th in my CL-P (~147mph)...i will NEVER do this again, but ill never forget it...

stayed at redline for a solid 2-3 seconds, then let off: the entire car jerked back like I hit the brakes or something...was not expecting that at all!

 

excellent sleeper - had a 94 Escort for awhile, but it wasn't nearly as fun as yours must be...

 

The reason i love the look of the car so much is because of the fact thats its the 1st year of the gen2 GT, the 3piece wing, the more aggressive ground effects, are exclusive to 91.... The part i really love, is that the car is a 1991½ Escort GT Cayman edition.. only a lil over 1200 GTs made in this color Cayman green, and it has the color matched wheels, 2 tone dash board, color matched interior piping, a lot of lil touches that sets this escort off from the norm... people HAVE mistaken it for a foxbody lol heres some more pix

 

welcome

 

Wow, I never knew an Escort GT could be such an unsuspecting sleeper. Nice work! Got any videos of it?

 

are you from ctvtec? I think i saw some of those pics in the meet thread....
anyway WELCOME!

 

that is f'in awesome... welcome to the boards!!!

 

Ahhhhhh, I'm having flashback of removing door panels over and over again. I must have changed the speakers in that car 100 times.....

Let's see - one screw in the arm rest, one screw behind the door handle, pop the clip off the window arm with a rag and then get all the pop-clips with a cooking fork........

 

Welcome to the nut house.

 

Thanks guys, yeah im from CTVTEC, a couple guys over there have been in/driven the car and they all love it...


heres some vid, Mind u these were when the car was 1st back on the street....4psi and 40whp/75wtq ago lol

The golf had FMIC, @ 12psi I was @ 8psi

this WRX wagon was STi swapped, Perrin FMIC, APS Turbo back exhaust, Cobb Access Port and SSQV BOV
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I absolutely love this thing!!!

 

Seriously you've changed my mind about Escort GTs. Thanks for the vidz!

 

How could i change ur mind if Escort period is never on anyones mind lol never mind a GT lol

BTW the cars name is THE HULK
looks calm, kinda nerdy, but piss it off, the pedal goes down and it gets big loud and starts smashin shit lol

 

thats so ironic. some escort gt tried to race me this morning... his wasnt as fast as yours cool car.

your sheer passion and appreciation for it is inspiring

 

Nice Escort! And welcome!

 

 

Honestly my cars power level right now would pull the cossie, being that those cossies with the T25 turbo put down 227hp/214tq @ the crank.... im 200 @ the ground and 500lbs lighter.....plus i can GET escort GTs here lol

 

My wife and I owned a '93 Escort back in the day. Was a pretty good car. I wish I'd been able to make ours boogie like yours! What an awesome sleeper.

Welcome!

 

wow havent logged on in a while, unfortunately the car is gone, blew the motor, lost my job, built another motor, and my boys father scrapped it all within a week. So I traded the car for a 2002 Mazda Protegé5 even trade... Only thing wrong with it is the stripes which are painted on not vinyls...

So heres a couple more vids of the escort b4 it went and a couple pix of the next project...
This one is goin V6 swap and turbo

Dashboard Accel. videos

and the farewell video
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Damn that thing got to 140 in no time. Shame to hear about what happened. Goodluck with your next project man

 

Nice, car, welcome, too bad about the Escort GT, Nice pickup, hope that project goes well.

And you're in a good community here, just a bunch of car nuts, one Audi whore , and a snoozaroo driver (me).

 

fawk, that is a suite ride. I had a white 87 escort gt. It kicked ass stock. I surprised a few mustang gt's with the turns.

 

well actually the new car is coming along quite nicely, got in some suspension/audio/wheels/tires but ill start a new thread on that

 

New topic about the new car: https://acurazine.com/forums/car-talk-5/turbo-escort-gone-my-new-proteg%E95-747169/