+2 Under way! And some good luck ...

[JGeezer]

We are apart and starting the serious stuff:



It looks like I really lucked out, and got one of the meaty "rare and desirable" 701M blocks:



at least according to

http://www.lotus-cortina.com/library/block/blocks.htm

Anybody out there have a parts Stromberg that they might want to deal for a temperature compensator cover?



Thanks!

JGeezer

[oldelanman]

Anybody out there have a parts Stromberg that they might want to deal for a temperature compensator cover?

If you have no luck finding a used cover new ones are available here......http://www.sucarb.co.uk/ProductDetail.a ... 1&id=32164
and maybe also here......http://www.gowerlee.dircon.co.uk/Stromberg.htm

[Elanintheforest]

Hello Mr Geezer
Interested in the 701M block and I'm trying to figure out where they were used. I have one in my Escort twincam, as indicated by the document to which you refer. But I think that they may have been used more widely. Does your block have a blanked-off hole at the rear / right side, where the Escort would have its dipstick?

Mark

[JGeezer]

Anybody out there have a parts Stromberg that they might want to deal for a temperature compensator cover?

If you have no luck finding a used cover new ones are available here......http://www.sucarb.co.uk/ProductDetail.a ... 1&id=32164
and maybe also here......http://www.gowerlee.dircon.co.uk/Stromberg.htm

Thank you! I had only seen listings for a whole new compensator (at Bean, R.D, ... for > $70) and didn't know you could just buy a new cover. Great!

[JGeezer]

Hello Mr Geezer
Interested in the 701M block and I'm trying to figure out where they were used. I have one in my Escort twincam, as indicated by the document to which you refer. But I think that they may have been used more widely. Does your block have a blanked-off hole at the rear / right side, where the Escort would have its dipstick?

Mark

Could be! Is this suspicious looking bit what you mean? (Looking down, above the starter):

[richardcox_lotus]

My 701 Block also has this. Just because its a 701 block doesn't mean its immune from failure though - My number 2 Cylinder burst for no apparant reason..........running a replacement 681 now !

[Elanintheforest]

Yes, that's the blanked off hole for the dipstick tube for the Escort. I don't know of any other block that seems to have these as 'standard', but it certainly looks like the 701M block was used in cars other than the Escort. Maybe they just made too many, or they had some left over when the Escort Twincam was discontinued in favour of the BDA engined Escort in mid 1970.

Thanks for putting the pictures up.

Mark