lowman

hey people.

now im back with a new car ,after beeing without a cossi for over a year and a half

ive got myself a 1990reg ford sierra cosworth.its a moondust silver car,and im the 5th owner.it was sold new in norway and has a full service booklet,and has never been tuned,or it has a live map in it ,stage one,but thats been in the car just for the last 5 years or so..approx.so the car is almost untouched.


my plan with the car is to restore it.it does have some rust under it,but that is going to be sorted.together with a full respray inside and out
first off is a minor engine bay clean up,,and change the headgasket as it is blown.
and while im at it i do look for stuff that needs to be done,parts that i need and stuff..but i do the headgasket first so i can get the car driveable as soon as possible,as i do not have a place to keep the car when im restoring it.

so first off...engine bay clean up,then its of to the body shop where i work to get the underside rust sorted,then its off to the garage where im going to dimantle the car for the resto..

here are some pics of what i have done to it up til today

cheeers

































































og her var det godnatta bilde..da var det sent og orka ikke en ting mer

scottyrs

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very nice pal

lowman

cheeeers matethanx
stay tuned...hopefully some more progress soon

UK345

That looks to be a very clean example. Id recommend keeping it standard as this will make more unique than the ones that people modify. At least with the headgasket blown you can have a right good look around the engine and make sure everything is perfect.

Mike Kerbey

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Looks like a nice little project, keep them pics coming!

-beefy-

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looks a good base and a good start to the project mate ,


will keep an eye on this one

lowman

cheers mate

yeah and that is my plan aswelli will keep it standard

the only mods im gonna do to the car is mods that can easily be undone in a way, as different wheels,maybe different brakes and suspension.but otherwise i want to keep it standard and restore all the original parts for it.

i have my local ford dealer on the hunt for new standard parts...not easy getting hold of parts these days

lowman

cheeeersthanx alot

lowman

cheers mate..the pics will be coming along nicelyhopefully

cossie04

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Nice motor mate

Lovely colour

lowman

thank you very muchyeah i really like it aswellit looks fresh in silver i think

cheers

lowman

hey people

here comes some more pictures of the progress so far.

the head is in at a local engine shop for a full overhaul.so its gonna be pretty good i think.

here is the pics quite happy with the inlet manifoldfor now at least

cheers

LINCOLN

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Loved your old car - sad that it had to go at the time - congrats on the new one. I still remember the photo of you lying on the ground all tuckered out.

Welcome back mate

lowman

hey mate
hehehe so you remember the nackered lowman.hehe

cheers.

thanx for kind comments both on my old escort...and my new car.
guess its not of the same intrests on people..since its the most common cosworth out there..but hopefully its coming together real nicely in the end with some nice touches though i am keeping it standard...as i think the standard ones are the ones that will become collector cars.not the 20 owner tuned to pieces car that you see around very often

but yeah...cheers for comments

more updates coming pretty soon

lowman

hey people

so ..now ive been working all weekend ..and the first stage of my resto is finished.all this work was carried out because the head gasket was gone..and i had to get the engine going..so i gave the engine bay a mini resto while i was at it

here are some update pics..hope you enjoy it
cheeers and best regards

RS-Stian

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Looks very good mate. Love the finish on the inlet. Nice to see a saff being treated like they should be.

lowman

cheers stian

the silver color on the inlet is a mercedes benz color called irridium silber

pretty happy with the start of my resto...especially since its just taken me 5 days to complete this engine bay resto

COLEYST200

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looking nice mate

lowman

cheers and thank you matethanx for looking
good to be done with it at the moment.been working my ass off to get it ready to be driven away from work..cause im working on it at my work..and now when the snow is getting here..we need the parkingspace at work..so i cant have the sierra there.so..

but ill guess ill sort something out

lowman

hey people.
its tume for an update.
i have started to restore the car now underneath..and i will just post pictures of all that i have done so far..and you can see what has been done
hope you like itcheers

Ginge

Wow, this is going to be a good one...

Looked respectable from the outside but underneath ... holy...

Ginge

Twins

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Very nice

Mike Kerbey

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That chassis leg was knackered! Keep up the good work!

rog

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Looking very good, where did you get the replacement chassis rail from, I thought they weren't available anymore?

Fezman1

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Great job your doing there! didnt expect to see the chassis leg with that much grot. Where did you get the leg?? as I thought they werent available anymore.

lowman

hey people

the chassis leg is an oe chassis leg.from an independent company..dont know what to call it in english.
its available all over norway.the fitment wasnt that easy..as the sides are to wide..and needed to be modified abit.but the end result was pretty good i think

next up is to fix the rot in the floor in the front where the jack is supposed to go into the chassis.
trying to sort out a complete front floor section.that would be the best..so im hoping to find a usable one pretty soon

cheers people

lowman

with the rot.it is always ten times worse than you think, before you start.i did not expect it to be that much either.but as soon as i started cleaning it underneath..and sandblasting stuff..it became apparent.and i think there are a lot of cossies that are worse than their owners think.
i was initially just going to repair the chassis leg...but i soon found out that i had to replace it to make it mint.and so i did

lowman

cheeers

lowman

hopefully you mean its starting to look neater on the underside

Glenn_

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Top work fella.The rear chassis legs were a bit rotton.You have done a good job of the car so far.

james kiely

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great work mate ,one of my fav colours too

fezzajsy

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luving it mate

lowman

hey people.

just a little update

fezzajsy

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nice bits..

lowman

hehe thanx mate.

did you see the pic with the promotional catalogue aswell

did you get my message regarding the chassis leg?