Vehicle Owner

Member ID: burning_desire

Location: Saxton, PA

Vehicle Info

1985 Ford Escort

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed105mph
  • HP100
  • Weight1100lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Ratings

    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Aug 03, 2009

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Steven’s Ford Escort
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18 guestbook comments

Well if your here you probably checked out my Chevy Truck's. Now I know its not EXACTLY an Escort anymore. Its actually a modified 4 cylinder pulling tractor. Its all escort. 85 5 speed tranny, 95 block with an 85 head. The 95 block had less miles and had alot better pistons while the 85 head had the carb setup and also had a smaller chambers. Makes for a wicked combo. Its actually setup so the spiders are welded up and then a CV shaft runs into a Pinto rear. Its a blast to be able to putt around in 5th gear in the back yard but still be able to run it up through and back down through all 5 gears when I get the urge to take it on the road. its tons of fun and the stares are priceless!

 

 

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

The gas tank is an old keg. Paint is rattle can flat black with gloss white stripes, red pin stripes and gloss red wheels with silver brake drums.

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

Gotta have Mr. Horsepower!

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

Heres a shot of the fender. Its gotta be seen in person to apprishiate the work that gone into it.

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

 As i said, its a 1.9 Escort motor. It'll spit a flame outta each pipe. Its pretty wild to run at night.

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

26 12 12 tires mounted on custom made rims.

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

The shifter handle is actually a 2" trailer ball. Gotta love custom stuff!

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

Heres a close up of the ball.

 burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

Hope you enjoyed looking at this bad boy. Check us out on the web at www.alleghenypullers.com. You can go to our pulls and watch my dad and I tear up the modified class!

 

Thanks alot for your votes folks! This thing has been on here for under a week and its already the top ride in the 85 Escort area! The views are pushing 140 and the guest book grows bigger everyday! I apprishiate all you guys that come in here and look at the thing. I will get a video up of it in action just as soon as the pulling season starts up!

First pull of the year! Distributor is outta it so I had to play with the timing going down the track. Next pull I'll get a video of it in its prime!

<a href="http://video.cardomain.com/VideoPlayer.aspx?id=684305"><img src="http://px5.sfstatic.com/thumbs/0000/34/50/684305.jpg" border="0"></a></a>

Well the season is drawing ever so closer to an end. I named this bad boy and made up a custom grill (yeah, my tractor puller has a grill!) and finished the wheelie bar. It hasnt done too hot this year because of a number of little problems.

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort 

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

I also gave the motor a fresh coat of paint. I really wanted the hotrod theme to stay true so I went with a red block, aluminum (its an aluminum head), silver and a touch of black.

 burning_desire's 1985 Ford Escort

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forsaken_dragon  

Posted by: forsaken_dragon

06/19/2009 03:24PM

LOVE IT!!! Looks like it would be a BLAST!

merkurace  

Posted by: merkurace

05/27/2009 02:04AM

dam that is so sick . love the work u did and the video was kool to. bet that was fun to build . 5 stars hands down

brad_jolly  

Posted by: brad_jolly

05/27/2009 01:39AM

sweet! the video was pretty cool, how fast does it run without the trailer behind?

StreetPiratetC  

Posted by: StreetPiratetC

05/26/2009 10:00PM

that's awesome!!! I wish I could see it in person 5*

mpls-king  

Posted by: mpls-king

05/26/2009 08:31PM

LOL I LOVE IT

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Vehicle Owner

Member ID: burning_desire

Location: Saxton, PA