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[CortinaDave]

Just bought this:

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Orion-Gh ... 43adbb1c2a

 

Gave him 500 notes to end the auction early and picked it up yesterday. Tax til end April and test til sept , its very very tidy but the engine is spluttering like buggery. A quick look over leads me to believe the carb is to blame... heavy black smoke from the exhaust, very rough running and a massive thirst for fuel.

 

seller advise that I trailer it, but, sod it I drove it back to my girlfriends in Culter last night then down to Edinburgh this morning.. 150 miles in which it used a heart stopping EIGHTY QUIDS WORTH of unleaded. 10 mpg!!

 

Was a nightmare when I hit the traffic in Dundee and Edinburgh... it was not too bad on the motorway but wouldnt idle at all so trying to stop it cutting out at every junction/set of lights was nigh on impossible. The only way to then restart it involved foot flat on the floor and a cloud of black reek from the exhaust as I pulled away

 

Needless to say its going nowhere else until that issue is sorted.

 

Aside from that though, not a spot of rust on it, a nice fresh paintjob, very solid, new exhaust, mint interior, remote central locking and shitey "laserline" alarm and a sony cd multichanger thingy pumping through the tinny speakers as well as the original dealer plates and sticker in the back window.

 

I used to lust after these in 96/97 when I passed my test but couldn't insure one, and despite having gone through many escorts, festers,cortinas,capris, sierras and mondeos I strangely have never actually owned an Orion.

[dollywobbler]

Dare I say it, I quite like that, even with its mild barrying. Sounds like it's running super rich!

[oman5]

If its a carb engine, you can virtually guarentee its going to be the shitty Ford VV carb thats to blame, they were cack when new. bung a weber on.

[AnthonyG]

That's very nice, a proper Orion in the right specification for all the Ford pervs. At that price you could probably chuck in another engine and still come out ahead.

 

Wheels need changing for the originals though .

[red5]

Venomous Venturi with a hole where the base diaphragm should be?

 

Looks ace.

[CortinaDave]

Wont it be a Pierburg on this? I had a 1600 escort of the same age that had a twin choke pierburg on it. I havent actually unscrewed the airpan to have a look yet. If its a VV thats going straight in the river.

[Skizzer]

Blimey, somebody did get a lot of Halfords gift vouchers one Christmas, didn't they? Otherwise that does look like a very fine purchase. Hope it's easy to sort, doesn't sound very terminal anyway.

[red5]

Wont it be a Pierburg on this? I had a 1600 escort of the same age that had a twin choke pierburg on it. I havent actually unscrewed the airpan to have a look yet. If its a VV thats going straight in the river.

 

could be. They had a wanky autochoke on them as well. 2E or 3E from memory. I'll go and look. Brb.

[red5]

VV or Weber 28/32 TLDM if it's an Orion '86.

 

Pierburg was on 1.8 CVH. I think.

[eddyramrod]

Tasty! I can't object to the mods on it, I don't think they detract at all. Looks sweet, and I hope you can sort out the running issue. It should then simply be a lovely car all round.

[Shep Shepherd]

All of a sudden, it's 1995 again! What a nice car

[Cavcraft]

That is excellent, I think the 'accessories' actually suit it too.

[cort16]

Did they do an injection one of these? I had one donkeys ago and I'm sure it was 1.6i?

It eventually met it'd demise at the hands of drug dealers who'd been using it to kart boot loads of disco biscuits up from newcastle and the police forced it off the road. That was one of those days I really wish I'd sent away the v5 document

[cort16]

Did they do an injection one of these? I had one donkeys ago and I'm sure it was 1.6i?

It eventually met it'd demise at the hands of drug dealers who'd been using it to kart boot loads of disco biscuits up from newcastle and the police forced it off the road. That was one of those days I really wish I'd sent away the v5 document

 

Oh aye and nice purchase especially for 500 quid.

[Shep Shepherd]

Did they do an injection one of these? I had one donkeys ago and I'm sure it was 1.6i?

 

Yes. Apart from the chin spoiler, red bumper/rubbing strip inserts (which Dave's car has been retro-fitted with) and the boot badge, it looked identical to the standard Ghia model:

 

 

A very discreet and classy way for computer engineers and photocopier salesmen to travel quickly from point A to point B in the mid-1980s

[CortinaDave]

It's now decided to run out of petrol in my work car park while still reading a quarter tank. - I can't go for petrol as there's automatic security gates which open when they detect a car leaving.. And you need a fob to get back in which I don't have with me. So if I go out to get a can of petrol 1/4 mile up the road - I can't get back in !! And as I'm the last one out I'm now spending an hour sat in the Orion waiting for my mate to come with fuel !

 

I did however have a look and it is a VV. hopefully a new diaphragm will sort it until I can get a decent weber set up together.

 

Most were injection I think so quite rare on a carb now

[Split_Pin]

I like that a lot.

 

Like you, this reminds me very much of the mid-1990's. One of these or an Escort Eclipse were the ones to have Ford-Wise!

[HMC]

as has been said, in its own way a great period piece exactly as it is, I hankered after one myself in the mid 90s but mums fiesta 1.1 had to do!

[retrogeezer]

 

 

[matt79]

This car brings memories of being on Southend Seafront on a summer Saturday night in 1996!

 

Looks like a nice car, cant remember seeing a mk1 Orion for ages!

[trigger]

Lovely car!, I'd sack off the alloys though for some proper pepperpots, you get cashback on the chavy ones against some proper ones i reckon.

[Lord Sterling]

Lovely car!, I'd sack off the alloys though from some proper pepperpots, you get cashback on the chavy ones against some proper ones i reckon.

+ 1

 

I love this car, in fact I used to lust after these as a bus-catching 17-year old in Telford, there used to be quite a few around, I used to see a 2-tone White/Grey one being driven around, I would have loved one of these back then, imagine how cool I would have looked as a younger, thinner, baggy-jeans 'n' trainers wearing, curtain-hair styled 17-year-old cruising around in a White/Grey Orion on Pepperpots.

 

Incidently, I have some Pepperpost somewhere I took of my old Sapphire.

[HillmanImp]

Like everyone else says, its exactly as you expect a Orion to have looked in the mid 90's. Its like a Mk 2 Cortina from the late 70's having flames hand painted down the side. Standard additions which is what people remember and brings back the nostalgia.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Defo a period piece, I too would have to abandon the chavvy wheels mind you. A lad at my school had one of these, Black B-reg 1.6 injection Ghia. Must have been about 1992, he thought he was the c0ck and ball$ driving round in it with the red pinstripes in the bumpers. Sadly i think insurance costs (he had a few crashes, including a good one right into the oncoming school headmaster) and general lack of nouse defeated him in the end and I bought it off him as an MOT failure, fettled it up and sold it through the Autotrader.

 

I say put some grey/black fablon over the headlights and a fido dido sticker in the rear window and drink a can of ‘Tab Clear’ while driving.

[HillmanImp]

But if you change the wheels you will not be able to show off the OMG brakes

 

 

In the absence of a caliper why not paint the drum yellow to attract more attention to it.

 

Will be discs on the front but I imagine it will be nothing to show off to your mates in Halfords car park.

[Father Ted]

+1 what everyone else has said.

Bloody luberly

[CortinaDave]

Well the running issues are sorted. Turns out it was a combo of - 1) Choke stuck on full 2) gasket between carb and inlet manifold in tatters 3: carb practically hanging off 4) Mixture all to buggery.

 

Obviously it had been running a bit crap and previous keeper has messed around with it and made it worse.

 

Now as sweet as a nut after a morning of me and my (far more knowledgeable ) mate farting around with it and a £2 outlay for a new gasket.

 

Makes up for the £80 petrol it hoovered yesterday. I am tempted though by the weber twin choke and manifold set up for it thats on ebay just now to get rid of the VV, might wang a bid in on that.

 

And I hate to say it but I quite like the wheels... I am tempted to swap the tail lights and boot badges back to MK1 spec ones though

[HillmanImp]

And I hate to say it but I quite like the wheels...

 

Hey, its all down to personal taste isn't it.

 

For some reason I fancy that bird out of Peep Show and Hot Fuzz and used to live with this really hot girl who was obsessed with Jimmy Carr Is flying against the norm not what this site is all about. Or does rebelling agains the norm on here make you normal out there?

[dollywobbler]

I'm not going to hate you for leaving the wheels. Getting the right tail-lights on is definitely a good move though, and to be honest, I think I'd ditch the under-bumper spots at the front.

[CortinaDave]

Im actually slightly gutted it has the original dealer plates, cant mess with those - but its crying out for a pair of SERCK's!!