Rob_DOHC

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Cheers mate, wearing a tea shirt two jumpers and a coat lol and still bloody freezing!

Just been to ford..... they have put their prices up
£49 head gasket
£55 Bolts
£150 oil pump
£185 water pump
£50 rear hand brake cable!

Bastards, only bought the bolts in the end. Think i may buy the oil pump too if i can't find a really really good pattern part

Rob,

Rob_DOHC

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All bushes removed, just leaving for the powder coaters, then its fuel/brake lines out.

***Just came back, really good bloke that does it, the company is caller Formost coatings and they are in Lingfield (near crawley) so if any one is near by and needs some stuff doing he is probably your man, well recommended, going to take some alloys there next weekend to get them sand blasted, £12 a wheel which really isn't bad.

Any how, got the front and rear anti roll bars done in imperial blue, and all the suspension guff done in satin black (should look pretty OEM) with a primary coat of zinc, so shouldn't go peachy for a VERY long time.

Rob,

d4 rst

Comeing on well.

F500 CON

Going well need to put my resto up as never get chance!looking at other people doing the same as you just spurs me on to get mine finished top work mate

Rob_DOHC

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ye bang it up mate, be good to have a look at some other cars

Rob,

Rob_DOHC

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cheers for the comments btw, done a bit more to it but the camera was flat

Rob_DOHC

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Right its been a cold weekend

Bought some goodies which came on sat








So thats the wb lambda with controller, megasquirt, gizzmo boost controller, new anti roll bar mounts (front and back), and a braided adapter hose from mfi fuel filter to efi fuel reg.

It begins:









Annoying badly repaired GRS



Engine ready to be lowered, taking it out the bottom.....



On the floor with all the ABS tosh taken off



And thats pretty much as far as i got today (sat)

Big thanks to my mate James for lending me a hand.

Rob,

Rob_DOHC

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Sunday...

Started late as it was pissing it down

Today i wanted to tidy the engine bay, and totally label the wiring loom before cutting it up to make the MS loom.

This is how the bay looked before a clean and with the rack in etc.







Then it rained.... alot, so i packed up, took the tools inside and gave them a wash, a long with the header tank.



Back out, armed with gunk and wd40









On the hole really happy with the engine bay condition, few scratches i want to blow in etc, battery tray looks good, chassis legs look good. Any black patches you can see are underseal/waxoil/grease that i haven't shifted yet.

May spray the inner wings but the bulk head is very good.

Cheers all knackered and wet. Next up other than the loom, its time to start removing the black shit from the under side, strip the engine and take it for machining and remove/replace the O/S rear sill section.

Rob,

BRAM

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well done mate my brother has just done the same thing to his s2 took a while but its worth it (little brams s2)

Rob_DOHC

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Funny you say that mate, just had a good read of that. looked bloody clean by the end

Need to do something about the servo now.... think the reservoir has been leaking for a few years.

Rob,

10th_racer

that looks a really good clean shell!

Rob_DOHC

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Sorry mate i don't actually know who makes it but a lot of the stuff was from autospecialists. I will have a good look over it and see if it has a logo any where. Its quite nice not having the adjuster in there as the bar is pretty stiff etc. Can only actually get it bolted in if the car is jacked up and you lever one end into position.

Get your project posted mate, be good to see how others are doing theirs.

Good luck

Rob,

Rob_DOHC

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Cheers mate, let me know when yours is up so i can have a nosey.

Rob,

rs_turbo_tony

hi mate few pics of mine coming along good your shell looking very nice keep up the hard workif pics dont come how you post them

Rob_DOHC

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Looking good tony Did you get your suspension powder coated or did you just paint it? came out good! You nearly finished then?

Rob,

rossydfc

good luck with this, currently doing a tidy up on the underside of mine too, not as detailed as this though

rs_turbo_tony

mine were really corroded mate i wana have them powder coated but have painted then in brush hammerite then i flated them and then painted in high build primer then black spray hammerite not the best job but will do till next year when i get sum new ones and have them powder coated i am having all front powder coated when i get them off twin anti roll bars mounts the lot all parts on rear new other than arms they are too expencive new

Deerhunter

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good job Tony and hows it going with yours Rob

Rob_DOHC

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Nice one, yea all mine will be powdercoated eventually, need to take the rest of my stuff off monday. Found out they do fuel tanks to

And Deerhunter its not going too badly, just working around the rain and propper work lol

Cheers

Rob,

H7 CYA

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Looks stunning!

Karlos G

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Great work Rob!!

New Recaro bolsters are available from here http://www.capitalseating.co.uk/prod...e&rid=61&mid=2

If you really want to clean your seats then this is what I did...



Really easy to strip down and after a few cycles through the washing machine they came up like new!
Did the back seat too but no pics of that.

rs_turbo_tony

good find mate ill store web site

little bram

looking good mate keep it up

Karlos G

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H3lsing

Good project, you have your work cut out for you there. Best of luck with it.

rs_turbo_tony

rob have you brought a water pump e.t.c i use a company for all my engine machining and they do high pressure oil pump ,stretch bolts e.t.c at very good prices i have a new s2 water pump i fitted but never ran on car was only on there a month you can have it if you want it

Rob_DOHC

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Haha good work there mate, i have to say the washig machine idea had occurred to me just wasn't sure i could strip them down with out destroying the seats. Cheers for the bolster link aswell buddy

Got some more pictures from this weekend i will post up in a bit, removed most of the waxoil from the front arches, but most of my time was spent stripping and cleaning the engine, so not too many pics as my hands were a state for most of the day.

Rob,

daz1989

hi i no this may be a silly question but how do you take the front arches off as iv got abit of rust showing and want to repaitr it, as for the front wind screen rubber strip. cheers

Rob_DOHC

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Cheers mate, just wish i had a garage so so much, few more bits done need to post an update tomorrow.

And in case i didn't say but that seat cleaning tip is a gem, cheers Karlos

And Daz,

The front arches are bolted on with tiny m3/m4's but that was a few weekends ago and tbh its all getting a bit fuzzy, its straight forward enough tho.

Cheers all

Rob,

jonny s2

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looking great pal,where did you get the gizzmo boost controller? ive been told about these a while ago but forgot where to get them

Deerhunter

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good work Rob well done mate

ghigo

Coming along nicely mate, if you need a hand give us a shout,
btw your wheels are ready

d4 rst

Its comeing on good mate.

MunkeyboyRS

Well done rob, just read though it all, shell looks so much better than mine! Very jealous if you have yours done by central day. Don't think mine will be painted by central day. Going to keep a close eye on your resto, to keep looking out for ideas.

Rob_DOHC

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Thanks very much mate,

Don't think the car will be making it to central day but i probably will be. Shell seems to be pretty good so far, think one of the chassis legs will need replacing though seems to have collapsed looks like the noddy who owned the car before me has bottomed that side out at the rear and crushed the spring platform/leg,

Oh well, any one replaced a chassis leg on an escort?

Here is a very overdue picture update,











Proof that Ghigo is unable to fit his face through a cvh bore



Clean pistons



Efi head i picked up



Avos sent off for rebuild



Nice and tidy



FUCK WHAT HAVE I DONE



Had a lot of slack in the drive line, some wanked mounts may well be why



Wiring loom in a bag, not going to totally remove it as i can't see the need to, clean bulk head







Got some presents through the post







Then attacked the underside with a wire brush, quite nice as you can remove the shite wax oil and the stone chip and just leave the original primer

First few are as was (pretty damn good) the last ones are after i sprayed primer over any bare metal parts (will come off again as i will be using 2k).















And thats it for today, bloody hard work! my only advise for today is to use goggles if you are using a wire brush on a grinder!

More tomorrow, attacking the spare wheel and boot floor.

Cheers

Rob,

Deerhunter

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keep up the good work Rob it will all be worth it in the end.

H7 CYA

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Excellent mate...been a very busy day!!