DIRTY STUFF

WHAT do you do with a pile of really good parts left over from years of building performance engines? Get in and create another competition engine! For about 30 years, I specialised in historic racing four-cylinder Ford engines, mainly the little short-stroke 105E screamers. If put together properly, these will rev safely to 11,000rpm and develop in excess of three times their stock production horsepower.

I had a base engine to begin with – a 109E-stamped Cortina 1200,