Muz's Escort RS Turbo TRACK CAR. Got bored, fitted new breather.

[muz]

Basically the story goes my brother works with a lad who is selling the car and mentioned to my brother that he needed to get rid of his 1988 Escort RS Turbo as he was off into the army and couldn't store it any longer. He took it off the road 8 years ago when he was 20, had it completely stripped and re sprayed, brand new genuine bonnet and boot lid and in the process of putting it back together had a couple of kids and just lost interest and never put it back together. He hasnt even put the New Ford Badges or boot decals on! He just used to take it out of the garage once every 6 months and wash it. The paint finish is absolutely spot on suberb and was sprayed at Hertwell Ford of Hereford, costing a fair whack. The sunroof is mint, which they always aren't the arches and floor totally solid, even my brother was impressed, which is hard to do, especially if its a Ford. Its got 48k on the clock but no history so we dont know if its genuine but looking at the condition I would say its not far off. Engine wise its got a Cam, ported and polished head, low comp forged pistons, 5th injector, full stainless exhaust with K&N, a stage 2 T3 turbo, chargecooler, cossie brakes, and has a Dyno print off for 223BHP. It also killed the standard gearbox at this point so its only got a Diesel box in. But I'm new to turbos so its a bit of a learning curve. To complete it it needs a spoiler, turbo and manifold bolting on, new cam belt and new headgasket just for peice of mind and my wheels. Plans are to fit the following which I already have in the garage; Fit Leather Recaros Wilwood 4 POTS B&M Shifter GRS alloy rad RS Accessory 7x16 wheels. Then later, Front mount cooler CTS 2+ Box Rear Discs Maybe 90 Spec bumpers then whatever else come along. ......All for £1500. I think thats a bit of a bargin.

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[bamcossi]

looks a nice clean car get the paint off the door strap makes it look wrong and the rivets on the arches and owt else it shouldnt be on if you cant get it off paint it black or get new bits would look well nice then

[pratley]

good buy mate

[c.fogarty]

Looks a tidy S2 mate

Plans look ok, but go 17" Soft/Diamondcut 7 spokes, and good luck findind a B&M shifter....

[muz]

Originally Posted by c.fogarty

Looks a tidy S2 mate

Plans look ok, but go 17" Soft/Diamondcut 7 spokes, and good luck findind a B&M shifter....

I have a B&M in the garage

[Twins]

Good luck with the project

[muz]

I've got to be careful I don't end up making an exact replica of your car Dave

[muz]

Had time to do a little bit to the Escort.

Started tidying up the arches and floor. A work in progress. I'm not brave enough to takle it all at once

Before



After



At the moment everything is just being Hammerited for now as I want the car going and dont have time to take everything off and have it powder coated. I'll be having everything powder coated at a later date, doing it in stages and polybushing the car as I go.

Dug the Leather out of the garage and fitted those.



Fitted my GRS alloy rad. Got a grs Front mount on the cards.





My fifth injecter was also hard wired into the loom so it was permanantly supplying fuel. So I bought this to sort it out properly.



Then I put my wheels on.







Then after seeing Twins car, I just had to pinstripe them.







The car though refuses to start. I've given it new plugs, fuel filter etc but there doesn't seem to be any fuel getting to the plugs and ALOT of pressure in the fuel pump. I think the metering head maybe blocked? Is this a common problem?

[hunterlaar]

looking sweet mate, good buy 2!

[Kevin_Mc]

not bad at all. where's the spoiler?

[muz]

It had an " Escort Cosworth" Spoiler on which the previous owner quite rightly put in the bin. The reason he said it had the new pannels when it was painted were not becuase they were rotton but because the bonnet had a stupid vent stuck on, it had a snow plough front bumper which was smoothed (smoothed in with a spade I'm told) into the wings, and bootlid as there were holes for vaious spoilers in it. The cars getting the treatment it deserves now. How anyone can do that to an RS is beyond me.

[Twins]

Cars looking very nice ,may be worth getting a thread up about the problem in the rs turbo room

[muz]

I've been reading up about starting problems and as I'm waiting for a GRS cooler and Samco hoses none of the pipework is connected. I think that might be the problem as its MFI

[G420 DEL]

lol you think

[muz]

This MFI buissness is new to me. I'm used to N/A Zetecs

[EssexMikeSi]

Looking good so far mate. Will look well once you've docked a spoiler on there. Keep up the good work... and the pic updates lol

[adamski frst]

muz you have got all the boost pipes connected ? you are aware the engine wont run without all the boost pipes connected!!!! if there is a air leak it wont run .....

you spooner ROFL.... TAXI FOR 1!!!

[vroooom ptssssh]

Yea, connecting the pipe smight make it run lmao!

ANY air leak in the system and it will either not start or be very difficult to get going!

Looking good tho, learning is good!

[muz]

Starting to look how I want it to look now.

90 Spec bumper fitted with a GRS and Kenlowes.







Also got a 90 Spec rear spoiler on her.



Got some desnt stoppers lined up for it. Cossie 4 pots on HiSpec 300mm bells and rotas. Hopefully get them on on Saturday ready for FordFair.

[jonnyrsturbo]

that looks sweet as now mate

i like them in red

but wrong color 4 me lol

[DeanO Xr3 CoV]

lookin good my friend!!

[muz]

I had the bank holiday weekend to swap my fooked gearbox to my new Quaifed LSD box. I think I got a bit carried away

Off to the barn!



Spent most of Sunday afternoon taking my gearbox out, dealing with all the abs shit etc, then decided as I've got looooads of new parts on the way, I might aswell strip the car ready for its new engine and brakes etc.
SO out with the engine....





The engine is for sale if anyone is interested. Kent cam, 5th injector, P+P head, Stage 2 T3 etc about 200BHP.
Started to remove all the removable parts and give them a good coating of Hammerite.





And attacking the floor as I go.



Hi-Spec 270mm rear disc brake kit to go on.



Full Poly Bush Kit.



Front Koni Adjustables


and the engine that is going in......



2.1 zetec bottom end
Accralite pistons
felpro head gasket
stage 3 head
kent cvh34 cam
uprated springs and lifters
cosworth management
4x4 loom and sensors
dark green injectors
level 8 pectel board
vernier pulley
cranck reground and balanced
rods balenced
fly wheel lightened
4x4 turbo
ap racing paddle clutch
somcos
piper cross air filter

So this is how it stands.

[Rab]

Nice!!

[mikey_clough]

that pinstripe on the wheels looks awsome!!!! i want some of them wheels just to do that!

[muz]

Finished off stipping the rest of the parts. Took off fuel tank, rear anti roll bar, rear suspention arms etc etc so I could paint the floor.

Now I remember why after painting the underside of my Fiesta I swore never to do it again! What a shit job. Anyway this is how far I got before I ran out of paint. I found some Galv-Tech paint in the barn form when we used to do work for the Galvanizers. Its a zinc based spray paint and costs about £20 a tin. So I sprayed the underside in that first before the stone chip and Hammerite went on.











Then painted the mounting brackets etc for my rear discs gold to match the front bells.





Calipers need a bit of touching up looking at that.

Also scrapped those crap ABS bias valve things at the rear end, which I'll replace with a wilwood bias valve when I put the new brake lines in.

Got a few questions though.

Im converting the car to a 2.1 ZVH runnigng L8 Cosworth management. Will I have to change to MFI fuel pump and tank to an EFI pump and tank form an xr3i or the like?

[purple_fiesta]

looks wicked mate, going to be pretty wicked when its finished!
wish I could be arsed to paint my underside

[Twins]

Tank and pump will be fine as i have used mine ,maybe an upgrade to an 044 pump though if you need more fuel

[muz]

Cheers for the pump advise. I've given mine a lick of paint along with a few other things.

After reading Performance Ford today had to go up the barn and do a few bits and Bobs. Bolted up my fuel tank which i painted last week. That had 2 coats of red oxide primer then 4 coats of silver Hammerite.



Fuel filler neck was looking abit tired, and has over spray on from the re-spray, so I cleaned it up and gave it a few coats of matt black paint.



Then I built my rear hubs up ready for when my rear suspention arms come back from the powdercoaters along with the rear springs.



Also got this in the post



Always loved these. Going to get A H Fabrication to make me up a cross over pipe to go with the cover. Should have some more done by Sunday night. Dads changed his mind....He wants his barn back

[Zetecfiesta]

if your going cossie managment on your new engine you should get rid of the dizzy and get it on coilpacks mate sooo much better!

[muz]

Boring bit first, got my new RS2000 handbrake cable and a set of RS1600i solid lifters.





Then...

Took the engine out of the Fiesta ready to go into the Escort today.

Loom out and marked up where things go. Its a bit of a mess so will need re wrapping before it goes in.



Engine out.



Rocker cover off



Lovely.

So removed the head the check the headgasket. But that looks fine to me. The oil breather did have a hole in it though where the vacuum usually pumbs in, so I guess that must have been it



then noticed something which didn't look fine....



Cylinder one exhaust valve.







So which exhaust valves are best to use? I've heard Burtons stainless ones arent great. They are oversized.

Pistons look a little rich, but on cleanup the valve hasnt done too much damage

[hai07222]

Shame the valve bent, whats happening to the fiesta?

good luck with the engine change

[muz]

Bored again on Friday nite, work early tomorrow, so went to fit my fuel pump and rear anti roll bar. Problem is I've lost one of the rear arb brackets. Has anyone got one lying around they dont need?





Then noticed something about my block.



Only one of the oil ways has been blanked off with a brass bung? I thought all 4 needed doing? Looks like I'll have to have that done.

Also got some new parts on the way. Done away with the crappy S2 ARB and track control arms and opted for an RS1600i set up and some MEF adjustable arms.

[muz]

Originally Posted by hai07222

Shame the valve bent, whats happening to the fiesta?

good luck with the engine change

The engine came of of my 5 Door Fiesta, not the Mercury Grey in the background. Thats my old car, now my little brothers.

Engine swap shouldn't cause too much headache. Just splitting the MFI loom I'm not looking forward to.

[patalrob]

Heck of build you have got here. Keep it up looking great~!

[roro22]

Originally Posted by muz

Also got some new parts on the way. Done away with the crappy S2 ARB and track control arms and opted for an RS1600i set up and some MEF adjustable arms.

Loving it mate
Is it a big job to get the rs1600I setup on? you need to change gearbox too?

I'm painting mine underneath soon

[muz]

I got the ARB in the post yesterday so havent trial fitted it yet. You need to change the end casing on the box to a MK3 or 5 as they have a brace not a cradle mount. I'm going to look into keeping the cradle but apparently its a right twat of a job.

If your going to do the underside, I'd suggest stripping the underside bare and get a roll over spit. I realise I never posted a picture of the floor actually finished before I started putting bits back on. Theres about 5 litres of Hammerite on that floor

[roro22]

Please don't say that
I was hoping not to strip the whole lot to baremetal, I don't think it needs it but I'll see if i get carried away.
Is the mk5 a direct fit?

[muz]

Ah sorry no, I didn't strip the floor back to bare metal, some of it already was though I just made sure all the surface rust was gone, it was free of grease and dirt then zinc primed, stone chipped then Hammerite'd the lot. I wouldnt have thought It'll rust for a looooong time.

Mk5 and MK3 end casings are the same I believe and is a direct fit for the S1/RS1600i ARB

[muz]

Some pics just of the Finished floor.

















Hopefully Tuesday I can go about fitting my bag of new parts. All underside clips and bolts, nuts and washers and have a go at fitting that ARB.

Hopefully got my hands on these bad boys to go on.

[muz]

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