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Old 20-12-2007, 04:27 PM   #161
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i do love fiestas i have mk3 escort and mk3 fez but escort wins it for me, just more of a classic
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Old 27-12-2007, 10:26 PM   #162
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picked up some tarox 6 pots and bells today and brake balancing valve for the rear disck conversion, hope to have all fitted 2moro
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Old 27-12-2007, 10:28 PM   #163
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oh and a t34 with 0.63 exhaust housing , if i get a chance il hopefully have bottom end built 2mo or day after
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oh mummy! this is getting even better
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Old 27-12-2007, 10:45 PM   #165
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oh yes because with a bit of luck in a couple of weeks i should have a full cream leather re-trim with red piping
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Old 28-12-2007, 06:24 PM   #166
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fitted the tank back up with the escos fuel pump inside, and rand the new brake lines around the rear with then new brake balancing valves , and fitted one of me tarox calipers (then it rained) lol
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Old 28-12-2007, 06:24 PM   #167
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oh will try and get pics up 2mo if weather is ok to carry on
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Old 28-12-2007, 08:18 PM   #168
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and thinking of having these all round with xr3 spats on rear?




are these spats still available??

I would love to have them on my mk3 but here in Holland you can't get them.

can you still buy these in england? and if so, were?

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and thinking of having these all round with xr3 spats on rear?




are these spats still available??

I would love to have them on my mk3 but here in Holland you can't get them.

can you still buy these in england? and if so, were?

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they are available on ebay
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Old 29-12-2007, 10:38 AM   #170
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looks good fella makes me miss my old 16i
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Old 29-12-2007, 10:40 AM   #171
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cheers mate, should look alot better with an engine in lol
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they are available on ebay


hmmm.....

I can't find them
I'm looking on ebay.co.uk for "mud flaps" but no treasure for me
are there any other words for these things???
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search rs motorsport and they will come up
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thanks man


don't understand why I couldn't found these...

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Old 29-12-2007, 04:36 PM   #178
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cheers mate, ben a bit lazy today, havnt done anything other than get rear lines and oil pressure t piece from burtons
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all these projects have got me thinking now
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at last a little progress . got brakes finished (other than fluid and testing) all new lines throughout, balancing valves on the rear, rear disc conversion and tarox 6 pots on the front:






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cheers mate, its getting there slowly but surely
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cool, fold the rear seats down, presto!! a double bed...!!
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i just started stripping down my 2.0 mondeo engine that i bought for Ł40 for the head so as soon as i goodies arrive from ian howell il start lapping the valves, new seals, valve springs and cams etc then asselmble bottom end
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cheers guys, my springs have just arrived from ian howell
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got the bottom end built tody but broke a piston ring hilst putting piston in block , i used rig compressor but it broke second ring, so new rings and will complete and head should be done by the weekend so will update with pics all at once
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pics of oil seal housing, cleaned and prepped:


pic of block mating faces cleaned up:

machine work done to rods, 30 thou of eitherside of small ends, oil hole drilled and balanced and machined for calibra pistons and the balanced:





new mains and shells:

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fitting rods and pistons in bores (exceptone ring broke)
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i seem to have missed some of the pics with crank, oil pump etc in (well everything minus pistons and rods due to the broken ring)
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rings and area six exhaust cam were meant to turn up today but nothing has arrived
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