bly

Hi everyone
Ok had this Mk1 escort sat up drive for over 7year's been used as a shed to store junk,hence shed project.
was going to put cossie engine in it ,but decided to put subaru ej20 in instead. the wrx's run 260-275bhp standard ,so i am on to a winner straght away and can be pushed to 340-350bhp on standard internals,but this is going to have a 2004 v7/8 sti engine witch will run low 400's on standard internals easly .
i am going to lock up c/diff and run it reawheeldrive .
plan is to keep it as close to Mk1 looks and handling as possible here's
what i have done sofar.

the Mk1

have cut out tunnel and replaced front floor pans



used mokeup ej20+g/box(thanks wayne) just caseing so much lighter for messing about with,
engine and g/box is in car had to cut out front inner wing's and widend and box chassi ,made engine cradle to hold engine witch is only tacked at moment needs a lot more work yet.
also started on makeing exaust header's also only tacked





removed gearbox tunnel support welded in mount for subaru gear linkage


started on gearbox mount today and finished


in car


also started to mockup gearbox tunnel will try to finish this week

gouch1

i like the idea of that keep the updates coming glad to see its geting brought back to life and not being another abandoned classic

stevos

Looks a smashing project mate will keep an eye on it

jonfoc

Updates? Be interesting to see a scooby powered one. Knew of a N/A wankel mk2 it just didn't sound right. Keep up the good work

mk1turboestate

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nice project mate

Tev

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i like it something different

melspec1

COOL
nice to see somthing that every one is not doing..
its going to be one crazy car dude....

bly

ok thanks everyone for your intrest
here's update decided to finish crossmember and engine cradle
also moved engine back a inch to try and get bit more space at
front for radiator ,very tight up there.
found another crossmember in the shed better condition than the other rusty thing.
cut off escort engine mounts and made plates to weld over hole and
stiffen up crossmember


welded up

then welded engine cradle

put crossmember back on car and lined up and tacked engine cradle to crossmember,
then removed again and welded up hole thing to gether ,sprayed to stop rust for now.




and fixed back on escort

McGoo 69

awesome project!

itll sound mental!

Glenn_

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Mad project. It looks a bit tight mind.

whizzisat114

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Great progect
Nice to see something different

bly

spending ever bit of my spare time on this at moment ,longway to go but not as far to go as yesterday

Zetecfiesta

gonna be a good one to watch!

McGoo 69

i need to adopt this attitude

clarke5700

fuck yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa like this alot

Twins

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Great project

scottyrs

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love it mate keep up the goodwork

777johnny

brill project ,,, more pics

katluke

Cracking project,a Subaru powered mk1 was built over on Turbosport.Nice to see it being done a different way

jason_nike

This is going to be such fun.
Nice classic car, and throaty sound too.
Oh and loads of power.
Keep up good work matey

bly

thank's again for all your interest here's another update,
ok got the subaru gear linkage and shoreted it 100mm,
so the gearstick isen't sat where the handbrake is,subaru linkage has 2x bar's one fixes to the side of gearbox to steady gearstick the other fixes to gear selector on gearbox so shorten both by 100mm,
the rear gearlinkage mount i made before was a f**king wast of time,propshaft hits on it ,
so have made a new one that sit's higher up on the tunnel.



made and shaped new bit of tunnel to go round gearstick and welded in the hole tunnel
to car




also made a propshaft out of the subaru prop and escort prop ,will get it ballanced later
still got to make mount's to hold the split prop mount up, get pic's tomorrow

bubs_rsturbo

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i wish i had the skills you have mate!

ted11

great project

Austin101

How do you lock up front diff? I like this project very much.Keep up the good work

ossie cossie

Excelent project, lot of work involved, will keep an eye on this one.

andy escos

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good progress so far
can you still get full lock with out hitting your new chassis legs .

Rides

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SWEET now that looks like fun... you going 4x4 or just rear wheel drive

bly

just touches with standard steel mexico type rim's on full lock.
but will be fitting bubble arche's with deep rim's offset out more
and will be useing compression strut's no ant-rollbar

melspec1

Top work mate, its nice to you see realy hard work done! you got skills, as some just take the easy route and just use the floor-pan and running gear, to me the ANT'' skills! thats cheating...

top work mate, your a realy builder..

massivewangers

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Is there much rot in the shell? Looks like it was pretty neglected! Would love to find an old MK1/2 like that to play with!

I must say, I'd sooner see it with an old skool NA engine in it, but fair play, it should go well, and that engine should keep the centre of gravity well down!

bly

there was alot of rust in front floor pans where window was leaking ,have replaced them as you can see, rear of the car underneath is covered in diff oil very bad leak which as kept shell in mint condiiton at back ,chassey is solid as a rock ,had car on road for over 5years with 1700 xflow in it ,then it just sat for year's untill now

thats why impreza's handle so well with the flat-4 engine low centre of gravity and very light all alloy,still own 2x impreza's ,love them.
but Mk1 escort alway's been my first love have owned over 38 of them

whizzisat114

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38 MK1's Bloody hell you should get something from the guiness book of records for that

Gearbox tunnel look's great

bly

here's little update,
haven't done much this week did airfield day on friday in scoob abington had nice little race with very nice escort Cosworth running 450/460bhp,
was getting high temp's on idle turned out to be stuck thermostate ,spent all weekend getting it ready for rallyday this saturday have 2x sessions at castle coomb.

so done couple of hour's on escort today,made two prop split mounts,
and sat them were they will be but had no time to weld them.





here's couple of my Type RA at abington friday



in sinbin blackflaged

bly

here's little update done lot more work to escort but not aken any pic's will soon but here's some pic's of my New car i got tonight well chuffed

turbo m

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Will be watching this and the cossie too.Some nice work going on there nice one...

RO13 rs cabriolet

love the cossie mk2

whizzisat114

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Great looking RS2000
Is the exhaust manifold hitting the inner flitch?
i thought they used a 4x4 ext manifold to help with the clearence

r.s.2000 ginger

That car is going to be mental and the looks of a mk1 and the sound of a subaru well done mate fucking great.

bly

exhaust manifold not hitting but very close rs2000 bean sat for 3 years in a garage not worked on,got some very good bits on it going to pull it all apart and start again

bly

ok here's some more pic's managed to quite bit of work to the shed this week

finished inside of car for now anyway .welded in impreza seat crossmembers now impreza seat's bolt straight in on subaru runners



fabricated new inner wings with holes to remove sparkplugs from under wing's with alloy cover's







finished mokingup/tacking up tubular headers and
started to fit cossey intercooler and radiator very tight impreza rad is way to high just hope cossey rad will cool it ok.
the water pipes are in wrong place for impreza engine so probably buy
alloy rad and get pipes moved a rewelded unless can find some think else,
cossey intercooler will limit me to 300bhp ok for now