I'd had a phone call from Redline tuning the previous week saying that my Cortina was ready for collection. Unfortunately, I was booked on a two day training course in Greenford, West London for the latter part of the week and couldn't get there to collect it. Redline also doesn't open weekends so it would have to be Monday morning before work.
The car had also been on a dyno for it's final tune and the Zetec engine produced 136 bhp and 147 pound of torque. Now, by modern car standards that's not a lot, but for an 850kg car that only had around 60bhp available when it was first produced, that's quite an increase. Even the Lotus Cortina's were only 115bhp, so as you can imagine, it has a good power to weight ratio and is a 'bit quick'!
So, good friend Gavin picked me up at 8.15 and after a quick coffee we went to Redline to collect the car. It was a horrible damp and rainy morning so we didn't hang around too long.
It was great driving the car again and it now runs a lot smoother and cleaner. (and faster!) I didn't have too long to play with it though, as I had to get it back home and then go to work. I'm looking forward to getting it out for a good long test drive, but now that the freezing weather has arrived and the gritters have started putting nasty salt all over the roads, the drive is going to have to wait for a while. It's good to have it back home again though.
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