Lloydey--10

First ill give a Intro!
Been a Member on this forum for a while just havent posted much...

Im 21Years old!

Been In Love with Fords ever Since i knew what they were

Had Too Many cars for my age really 31 Lol! But loved them all!

Had 2 Cars Mag featured... My Red Escort GTI & My white RS TURBO

My Red Escort GTI! 1.8 Zetec.. Custom Inlet and Exhaust Manifold.. white Comps... Was Immaculate! loved it
Built this when I was 18... Bought it standard with in 2 months Looked like this...





Also Had a 500BHP Saph Cosworth 2wd Magenta Red!
Had a WRC Engine! On Diamond cut RS7's!
Built this On my drive.. Bought it all In Pieces! Loved every Second of that car.. whenever I took it out that was... had a 528i Sport 51 plate BMW on 20'' M5 Alloys for My Daily at the time





Only Kept it 2 Months Once Built! Sold It for a Healthy Profit .. So wasnt Complaining!


The Bought Proberly My 6th RS turbo! but My fav one!

Bought it Basically a Shell! Needed Alot Of work doing.. Built New Engine.. 270bhp rollin roaded @ Wheels! 1650cc Steel Bottom end Stage 3 head T34 Stage 2 Hybrid Turbo! Diesel gearbox etc
Won 2 Shows Whilst I had it.. For Best In Class!!
Unfortunatly Had to Sell it Because I lost my job :/





Took a Brake away from Fords and went to rover

Id Always Liked the 220GSI Turbo! So bit the bullet and Bought one ...
Built a Crazy 2.1 Forged Engine For it.. GT28 Turbo DTA management etc 305 BHP!
Gearbox Gave way on that. Driveshaft spun and Wrecked the Spline Got annoyed with it so Sold it My Friend! lol

Owned about another 26-7 Cars! But cba to go thru them all!

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Mk4 Escort Estate 2 door! 1.6 Auto!



44k From New! 2 Owners from new! & a Chuffin Bargain at £300

Always wanted one of these... because they are Soo Ridiculously COOOOOOLLL! & rareeeee as Poooo Pooo!














Never Seen a Engine bayy As Clean as this




& a Boot Floor This Immaculate



One Hell of a Find i wrekon!


Tottallly Stripped now


Well Chuffed to be Honest ... Its completely Solid! No rust anywhere On any of the Floor Plan.. Seem welds.. Or the sills! Couldnt ask for a better shell tbh!



Got a Problem with the Battery Tray tho!

Looooked 100% Solid..
Kind of Put it thruuu lol! So thats nakered.. and In Need of a Repair Panel But Perfect Time.. To Put the Battery In the Boot now!
And When the New Panel Gets welded in... Remove the Battery Tray itself... and Just keep the Smooth panel! Will look Lovelyyy!!!



Rear Bumper Is in the skip!
Along with-
Seats
Carpet
Rear Lights
Auto box module
and Few bits of plastic....


Just Bought Some New Rear Lights off ebay! As My Ones were Cracked
Also In the Process.....


Beeen hard At work Todayy!

As its Going Back to Factoryy fresh!
Obv First thing to do is Strip it back to nothink!

So Hay Hoo Thats whats been going on todayy!

Everythink off..

And Had Fun.. Getting all the Chuffin Underseal off the Underside!!¬ But Its all Off! So To be Honest the Hard Parts done!

Had a Trip out earlier.. To Buy a New Variable Speeed drill With WireBrush Ends! And A Brand New Toool Box + Ratchets, Sockets etc! Thought Got to have the best so lets go buy some!
Cost me a Good Few pennies for the New Tools but ... Itl Be worth it in the end!

Before Underseal was Stripped off


After



Petrol Does wounders 8)

Told You I was Having Everythink Factory Fresh and New! Even Down to the Lights!


Brand Spanking New! & Shock Horror.. Not a Ebay Purchaseee!

Also Ordered The Very very very very RARE! Ford Wrekon there were about 50 sets of these Lights made! But Anywayy
Thanks to someone I Know at FORD! Managed to get a Set... Yet again Brand new!
Full Red Tint! Rear Lights! They Should Be Arriving Tomoro Sometime! So Will Await them!


Also Ordered All my Brand New Suspension!
Front Shocks
Rear Shocks
Front Springs
Rear Springs

Was Debatin on make.. but Got a Good deal On a New Set of Spax .. So Opted for them! Hopefully Will be With me By the end of the week If not definatly Next week!


Tomorrows Plan.... Get the Wirebrush Drill Bit Into Action... and Let it loose on the undersidee.... Soo Its Readyy for me to think about paint!

Well Had a Trip To AutoSmart... Managed to get the Correct Paint to Paint Undersides of cars!

So the pics you Saw Yesterdayy Were with the Metal Rust Sealer!

Here it is Now Finished!

Looks Factory fresh!

Love it (HH)

Passenger Rear Wheel Arch


Drivers Rear Wheel Arch


Underside







Over the chuffin Moooon! (bg)



Been in my garage all afternoon... Tinkering!

Back end of the Car Is Now Back In place...
Had everythink painted Blackk! Think The Silver And Black Contrast will go well

Fitted All My New Rear Suspension! And got everythink lined Up!







Well Chuffed with how this looks!!


Welll.. Done what I wanted to Do for this week now!

Finallyy the Engine is out!
Huff and A Puff with out a Hoist.. and it slotted Nicely underneath

very nice engine bay tbh...

And found a Little Bit of Dreaded Rust behind the Front Bumper

Will Sort that out thoo!










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Got too sayy.. them Auto Box's Weight a Chuffin tonne!!!

And The Gypo's Come in Handyy for once...
just as I was cleaning Up...
The Scrap metal van come round...
Resulttt... Bye Bye Engine and any other Shizzle I had lyin around :mrgreen:



My Angle grinder has been My best friend todayy on the sanding side of things!
Rust Spreads i swear.. Looks about 10p size.. ends up 3times the sizeeee lol
Owell... Jobs a gooden

Before


After


This Does Needs a New plate Welded.. But thought mite aswel sand it right back first..

Other side

Pretty solid.. Had a Bit of surface rust that Like i said looked small ended up bit bigger.. But Nothing to worry about...



Before


After


Drivers side Wheel bay: Before





Pretty much the same the other side... Never took pics.. only after sanded



Drivers Side... After:


Passenger side... After:


Lookin tip top Shape now 8)











Drilled the Caliper Holes On the hub out So they accept Cosworth Calipers 8)

Just got to get some New Control Arms!¬
And Tighten it all up!

Steering Rack has been DeGreased and Given a Lick of paint
Had New Steering Rack Bushes!


Finally got my Engine Backk...

Skint Now.. but Owell.....

Sold the 2.1 Zetec turbo block. to my mate... Gave me a good price for it

Sooo heres the new engine....

Im not goin Turbo now..... CBA! Mainlyy becausee i did some Research ... every Mk4 Escort.. Either it is hatchback.. estate van or combi... They are all Turbo'd!
And I dont want mine to follow the crowd...

Soo this is just gonna be a Highly Specced 1850cc Zetec

Spec to the Bottom end so far
- Fully Bored out Block to 1850cc
- New Marhle Pistons
- Piston Rings
- Heavy Duty Big End bearings
- Heavy Duty Crank Shell Bearings
- Block has been drilled so it can take the under Piston Oil jets 8)
- ARP Rod Bolts!!!
- Brand New Oil pump
- Brand New Water Pump

( think thats enough for a good Bottom end )

Will post Pics Up when I manage to catch my breath From a Stupid hectic mornin!!!



Well today i thought to give the car some more Lovin...
As I havent for Hmm A Good few weeks!

well big decision lately has been what colour to go for....

Cuz i dont like silver! end of....


Mallard Green was top of my choice for a while...

But Images Of My RS Turbo come Fludding back too mee....

And Has to be Frozen white Soo thats what Im doing....



So had to re do the underside...

So far the Underside has been..

*Stone Chip Guarded with about 7 cans of the stuff! ( tad high on that stuff lol )
*Over the top of that a Sealer with Added Waxoil 8)

& This is How it Looks Soo far











Probs Will Buy The white Paint for the Underneath Next week sometime.. but goin to give it a Good few days - Week... For all that so far to Go off properly



Got My Brakes Aswell.. Some nice big Cossie Brakes with Bell Disks! ( 3piece Disk.. I can take them apart .. Whooop )

Also Got My front Seats - RS1600i Seats! Going to be Totally Refurbed/Re-upholstered In Black With White Stitching 8)
( need Pennies for this tho )


Sod It... Took the Pics











Nice & freshh!! (ud)


Long Due Update I think ....

Been Waiting For New Control Arms To be Delivered And they Finally Were this Mornin


So Thought I better Put all the Suspension Etc Back Where It belongs....

Passenger rear


Drivers Rear


Passenger Front



Drivers Front




Underside Shot



My old Rear Bumper was Smashed To pieces.. & had So much FibreGlass Inside it.. I Chucked it in the Bin the second i pulled it off....
The Other week My New One Arrived 8)


Also Got a Strut Brace.. ( needs painting etc )


Decided to be Different... & Not have Recaro RST Seats!!
So Opted for RS1600i Seats!!

( These Are gettin Refurbed/Re-Upholstered ) Black.. With White Stitching! Think they will look Smashing Once done...

Painted All the Inside white aswell


Dash it out.. Havent Decided What Im doing with that yet...
I soo want to Try get a Mk5 Dash to fit... but Dont Kno if it is Possible or Not...

So if i have to Use a mk4 Dash.. Ill Get it Flocked... Tbh Ill get the Mk5 Dash Flocked if it fits aswell... ( Never Seen a mk5 DASH in a Mk4.. But Im sure its possible...)


Thats All For now... Im Trying to Get it on the Floor.. because when I do that.. I can take it to be Painted... 8)



well Dug My Brakes Out from the Box's In my garage...

Cosworth 2wd Calipers & 2Part Bells Disks!

Noticed the One Caliper The Seal Is Nakered! So Going to have to send them off for a Refurb Me thinks...

Split The Disks tho... They Needed a Good Clean and a Fresh Coat of paint on the centres etc!





First Pics of my Engine now!
Brand Spanking New... Just It decided it didnt want to turn over Smoothly.. After Months Of Sitting In a garage...
So had to Strip it back down to See why the Crank wouldnt Spin Smoothly...
It Would Spin.. Just Not How I like it to!
It Does now tho...
Good Old Bit of Oil And Constant Spinning It Become free 8) Turns Over By Hand now!

Im a Fussy Bugger I swear! Some people would of Just stuck it in.. and let the Oil Flow Round and it would of free Up that wayy!
Pfft.. Wouldnt even take that risk!!
Easy and quick enough to strip down and put back togetha!
Piece of Mind!!






Another Lick of Paint 8)


Spec:
1850cc Block - Originally a RS1800I Block So Has the UnderPiston Oil jets!
Brand New Marhle Pistons
New Big end bearings
New Shells
Crank Givin a Polish
New Oil pump
New Water Pump
New Bottom End Gasket Set!
ARP Con Rod Bolts!
ARP Flywheel Bolts!
Freshly Skimmed Flywheel
Stage 1 Fast Road Clutch!
(Built By myself)

Head Spec:
2.0 Head
New Valves
New guides
New Valve Springs
New Cam Buckets
Polished On the Inlet Side!
( had all this work done )





And Never been run! So will Be nice to Fire Up a New engine!




Well think thats it for now!

Im just awaiting to bring it to work!¬ there is a Cortina atm havin a full resto! which should be out by End of OCT and then mine is booked in straight away to have it Painted Frozen white

There will be a change to it aswel.. it will come out a Combi!
taking the back windows out and Puttin pannels in ...
Have a proper soft spot for the combi Van !!!

Then gotta put my engine back togetha! and at some stage afta paint .. Put it in and build the bay up ...
Really cant wait now well Excited!

bigryrs

iTrader: (10)

nice looking project mate and a very good base to start from! rare nowadays lol

mk1trb

love it!!!!!!!!!

Lloydey--10

Rare lol.. That ent the word is it!

Love it tho Keeps me happy these days!

Lloydey--10

Cheers Bud

rickbartlett

awesome mate,if i was u id leave it as an estate tho,theres still quite a few vans about but hardly any estates

Lloydey--10

It did cross my Mind Bud..
But iv always Had a Super Soft Spot For the Combi Van itself!!

What Do People think???

chris m1

leave it as an estate, bloody good going so far..

jonny s2

iTrader: (12)

leave as an estate

awesomely cool

scottyrs

iTrader: (1)

some good work there mate thats shell looked like a exellent find good luck with it ill be watching it come together

cosworthlee

i think you may need to replace the camshafts the look like they have wood worm. awesome work bud that shells a minter

Blaine W

looking great mate!

harvcore

iTrader: (8)

welcome to the exclusive club ,there are a few estates on here

Zetecfiesta

looking good!!

Lloydey--10

Been thinkin about it... & Yes I am going to leave it an estate now!!! did have my heart set on changing it... but after some thought... Estate it will stay


Cheers for the comments guys... Much appreciated
Yea the Shell is a Stunner! only bit of Rust was the Battery Tray! which when i bought it.. it was / looked Solid as a Nut!
It was Only when i stripped the Insulation out.. it took the battery tray with it! But owell was not a biggie for me.. replaced enough battery trays in my time! lol!!
Never Been welded underneath Either! so was over the moon

Will post Updates as and when i have them

tejy

iTrader: (1)

very nice mate!

RAPID 3DR

Very rare that one mate, I've always wanted one with green tint windows
I'm looking for a estate again soon or p100,maybe a escort is best tho as I've got all the parts of my old combi
keep the pics coming mate

Lloydey--10

RS Turbo S2 petrol Tank!
DriveShafts
AntiRoll Bar
Gearbox Cradle & Both Mounts
A SuperChip For my RS1800i ECU!
Bits&Bobs!

Petrol Tank has had the Blast Back to Metal Treatment! Buzzed of all the Surface Rust! And Painted It Black


Same With the Gearbox Cradle & Mounts



Had Some things Arrive in the Post aswell

Rear Brake Disc Conversion brackets!
Drilled at Different heights to accept Smaller or Bigger Discs!! Includin all the Bolts etc £17 Delivered Brand New from a Good Source On Ebayy!
from the Same bloke... Got My Inlet Adaptor plate! £30 Delivered with All the Bolts!


Was Goin to use the Cosworth inlet! Scrapped that Ideaa!

Got a Rover Turbo mani Lurking About Soo Decided to use that

Be plentyy For my NA Lump

RAPID 3DR

anymore updates mate?

Less.

glad its staying an estate very rare

Lloydey--10

Sorrry For Delay On Updates.. Been Busy at work etc..
Plus the company That was Sending my Uprated Bolts and Bearings etc Never Sent them out On time!

The Pipes from where You Put the petrol in on the side of the car.. To the tank
Had a Broken Pipe.. and the unit on the sidee Was In Not the Best Condition! Soo ordered a new pipe and a new Unit!
Cleaned it all up and Put them on



Tank Had Been Sat in the garagee and To Be Honest.. I was gettin Annoyed at Lookin At it ... Soo On that went too!



Had Few Glitches Along the wayy this week!
The Wires to the Fuel Sender unit! well Looked Like Sumone In the past Had tried to Repair them for sum reason!!! So I repared the Whole loom Instead! No point havin a bodge Sumwhere!!

Had to Drill the Spot Welds out the Front Seat Crossmember and remove it! As the Bolt Holes in the one side.. Are threaded! So need to ReTap that!!

The Engine Went Back togetha today!
















So Glad its All Back Togetha now

Had A Righttt moment Earliaa!
Bolted it all back togetha .. And then Was Like Ahhhh The Conrods Move Slightlyy Horizontally!!!
No Joke Havent Panic'd In my life as much as i did then!
Propaa Annoyed me.. racked my brains for about an hour!
Was Like Whyyy whhyy whyy!

Then Did Some Research
Horizontall Slight Movement Is Normal! As the Conrod wont actually Move Whilst Going Up and Down... The Slight Movement is too Counteract any Play in the bores\!
So Afta that Panic! Was Okayy.. *sighOfRelief* reallly!
Never Really Noticed it on any of my other engines iv built! Just funnnilyy noticed it on this one!

Just Made me think Cuz Everythink is Brand New! Just come across as Strangeeee! lol



Owell... Tbh God Knows what to do next..! Suppose better Bolt the head etc To the Block!

My custom Exhaust Manifold Needs blooody Adapted Yet still! Even tho its been Made for the Zetec Head! They Welded the Flange like Back to front onit! *Burks*! So weld a new one one.. the correct wayy and ill be sorted!

Lloydey--10

Pic of my Exhaust Manifold




Pic Of All My Engine Loom & ECU! ( All None Pats )

Lloydey--10

After Being Annoyed about that Clearence Issue on the Conrods!
It Bugged me that Much..
I just Had to Strip it again! and Just Make sure everythink is correct!
So Was... Everythink was 100% Spot on!
So Happy Now!






Think Ill order the HeadBolts and gasket next week! Put the head on

Then Can Mock Fit everythink.. manifold and Inlet Manifold

gouch1

very nice will be gr8 when finished

rogerxr3i

nice project mate.
looks to be coming along well.
i've just bought some new suspension legs for my combi van.
looking for some springs now but undecided how much to lower it by.
got a pair of rear lower arms (powder coated)black.
got a mint pair of fiesta is seats to go in next week.
just fitted a turbo carpet and consoles as the old van carpet was naff.
looking to have it re painted next.
then after x mas looking to get the 1.6 diesel engine changed to summat quicker.
like you say tho their are to many turbo conversions so looking for rs2000 or zetec maybe...

tommytxr

looks like its cuming along very nicely good on you m8

jonesymk2

iTrader: (2)

looks good mate nd glad your not welding the rer windows up,ive got 3 2 door estates lol

MrCapriScort

Leave it as an estate, cool project

Dan_RS500

Very nice work, looking even more mint than when you got it! Should look well in the white too. Keep up the good work

ROADWARS

iTrader: (1)

very nice work there love it

Lloydey--10

Yeaa And Me Mate Got Over the idea of a Combi Now.. I photoShopped How I want it too Look and I fell In Love
But Scrapped My Cage idea because it does suit the End look!




Ahhh Itl Look Gorjous in White i Think! Hence whyy Im Having it painted White..
but I Am a Sucker For White lol ....
Did Have a Debate last weeek.. I Bought all my Frozen white Paint the Other Month.. and I saw one of them '' Electric White '' Focus ST's and Loved it :/!

So was going to Send all the Paint back and get that colour...
but My mate Changed my Mind and I only had to Look at a Picture of my S2 I had In Frozen white.. and Was Like Nahhh Frozen White It is !!

To Be Honest I love Workin On the car Keeps me out of troubleee too and Keeps me occupied!



Thankyou For all the Comments

jonesymk2

iTrader: (2)

one of my estates is diamond white with mercury grey front bumper and sides below the door mouldings and it looks really good,white does seem to suit the estate

Lloydey--10

Ahhh Did You buy that Off Pistonheads? And Was In Kent/essex Somewhere like that?!

Lloydey--10

Well Iv blown Enough RS Turbo gearbox's Up to last Me a Lifetimeee.. And Really Cba To Keep Changin Box's!!

I Had a Diesel Box On my White RS Turbo! And That thing Was emmence! Coped with 250bhp! All Day long!

But there is a Slight twist behind why it did!

Iv Bought a Diesel gearbox Off ebay for £5 ! And its Only 2 Close's Down the Road From My house!
So Going to Pick it up 2moro...
& Already booked it Into My Gearbox Rebuilder ( as I know Chuff All about Gearbox's On the Rebuild Side )!

Im Having it the Exact Same Spec As the One that was in my RST!

HeavyDuty Bearings.. New Syncro's etc! New Seals & The Best Part!
Quaiff Diff!

If All Goes to Plan Should have it Back End Of Next weekend!!

I know Everyone Is going to Sayy....
The GearRatio's On a Diesel Box are Goin To Be completely Wrong for the Zetec Engine As Being None Turbo!

But I Have faith itl work! & After Seeing my mates 1.6CVH Xr3i On a Diesel Box ( that was None Turbo )
I wont Be Complaining!


Trial & Error @ the end of the day

Lloydey--10

Day Of work.. So Where Else Are You going to Find Me.. Apart From My garage (ud)

Good News Today was My Headgasket and head Bolts all Arrived!
£55!
£32 Alone For the Headgasket :/
Can Not Knock the Qualityy Of the Products tho!

( Got a Freee Tin Of MultiPurpose Grease So Suppose Ill Let them off On price )




First Of All tho!
Made Sure I Had All my Tools Ready for todayy As I Kno I lost one of my Drimmel ends!

Anyways!

Got to Work On the Head!
Ported&Polished it!

Inlet Side
Before:




After:




Wasnt Going to Do the Exhaust Side! But Read Up on a few things And Decided to:

Cleaned them Up abit first




Finished:


Ahhh Welll Chuffed with It
Took All Chuffin day to Do that.. And Some Prep work Last nite!
Havent Opened the Ports Up loads... Just a Couple of Mil!
But Gains Should Be good!

Put New CamFollowers In aswel! £45!


Then Put the Head on!

Gasket On...


Head On:


Finallyy Its All Built Up!!
Soon Will Sort Out the Inlet manifold and mock Fit that Etc! but Need to Adapt that to Fit the ICV!

Just Need My gearbox To Arrive now! Then Can Bolt it all Up And Be Ready to put In After The Respray!

jonesymk2

iTrader: (2)

yes mate it was on pistonheads picked it up from bexleyheath i think it was,just near to dartford crossing

crumpet

whendid you sell that saph? looks spitting image of this local one, why would you get rid of a 500bhp saph to a escort estate?

Lloydey--10

Mate I sold that Saph Like when i was 19! thats 2 years agoo!!

I sold it because When I bought it i paid £1600 for it bought it from liverpoool!
Sold it for £8300 2 months later!!

And I Never Sold it to buy the estate... Iv had about 11 cars since my estate!

I sold the Saph And Built My White RS turbo!

The Saph Is In Ireland Now.. As the person i sold it too still has it and sends me regular pics of it!

Lloydey--10

Well Pics of the Engine fully built up for you to seee!!




Inlet Adaptor Plate On for Mock fit of manifold

Lloydey--10

My New TCA Bush's Come!
Havent Had Standard Ones tho.. Had Uprated Nylon Ones.. With New Inner Bushes Too!
Holds the ARB Solid!



Both my ECU's

Ones 2FCD .. Chipped By Piggy Back Superchips Flash module!
Other 2FBC .. Been ran And Checked By MSD

Dont Kno |which One To use Yet|




Also My GearBox Arrived back from the Rebuilders todayy!

as Now Come Back All Rebuilt & Ready for Action!

1.8 mk4 Escort Diesel Gearbox
Heavy Duty bearings
All New gears synchros
New Seals
5th Gear Has Been Altered So 150mph + Is Achievable!
& The Best Bit... Quaiff Diff! (HH)

Yes Okayy It wasnt Cheapp!! But In the Long Run itl be More Efficient that Blowing Up RST Box's Left right and Centre!!