Lpenhale15

Hey guys been a signed up to this forum for a few months now and thought id share my little Fiesta Project with you all the plan was to get it prepared for Road Rally and take part once car is completed.
i bought this car last October so had the car a year this month its a slow project but have been chipping away at it for the last year, so please bare with me as i have a lot to upload
This is the car the day after i picked it up, it was a mega bargin at £400 it had no MOT and Tax and was a little rough on the ouside with the usual Mk5 rust patches but other than that a good runner on 90k.









So soon after i began the strip down





i took the headlights out as i always liked the look of the smoked ones so began my D.i.Y job









Giving them a little try on the car



Then i moved onto the interior strip



New bonnet picked up ( £20 BARGIN ) and the carpet and under floor stuff taken out.



Dam this stuff is heavy!!





New Steering Wheel purchased and puma gear knob fitted



I then started to work on plastic cover for where the Radio was.



I used part of my son's old toy garage haha!



After a little adjustment and trimming with the dremel i fitted it and gave it some carbon fibre wrap.





New Bonnet on and freestyle grill fitted.





Next up some seats and harness's, as iam on a limited budget seats were cheapys off ebay but harness's are supposed to be out date F.i.A spec out of an Impreza WRC which i got from a friend ! I think there cool even if there not haha!






A quick shot of the car outside in the winter



Then began a little Engine work replaced a few crushed vacuum pipes, strpped a few other bits and bobs, did the Cam belt and fan belt also drained all the fluids and carried out a full service.Also bought an OMP strut brace and a pair of DTM mirrors.





Then i got some old Cibie Oscar Spot Lamps from a friend made up some prototype brackets and tested them on the car.







I also got the cover's which weren't in the best of condition but gave them a rub down and a lick of paint also did the same to the spots.









Next up i had to find some metal good enough to make the brackets the spots would be fitted to i found these at a local diy shop £3 shelf brackets haha





Still loads more to come please bare with me as iam not the best at uploading stuff Haha! C&C welcome but please be gentle HAHA

Lpenhale15

Ok so starting where i left off i bought those shelf brackets which were surprisingly strong, after some drilling and grinding bolted them up and after a load of work with the dremmel cuting the bumper they fitted great and were a lot more secure than i expected.



A good fit and was well pleased still a little bit of cutting to do on them and a dash of paint but all was good this is them with the spots fitted.









Bought her a little cover to keep her warm at night



Next up i wanted to give the car a more Rally look so decided to paint my wheels white.

Didnt realise how long it would take to prep the wheels took forever but i thought might aswel do it properly.












After needing to order more paint because i used way to much haha i think they came out great since iv never done anything like that before.





Next up after removing the bonnet latch needed Bonnet pins plus think they look great.

Really didnt like drilling the bonnet haha


got there in the end ha


I then moved onto a few little jobs just things that were bugging me, one more than most was the rear window bolts they got all rusty and the rust was leaving marks all down the window, so after abit of cleaning got the marks off the window then rubbed down the bolts and painted them.







Then got around to finishing off the spot lamp brackets.



Painted my tow eye's white and fitted arrow stickers.



Also did the front tow eye and sticker plus used some of my carbon wrap to tidy up the spot lamp bracket holes.



Fitted spot lamp steadies and gave her a little clean.





Bought an LED strip light off ebay for my map light wired it to a flick switch down by the gear lever works really well very bright.





interior mostly back together here.



Next up was MSA spec 4mm Mudflaps also added a phew little M-Sport stickers to stick with the rally look.



Pic of the whole car with mudflaps fitted, gives it a better looking stance imo



Did a few little things inside then tape on the steering wheel, M-Sport sticker for the dash, still gotta get a few more bits and piecies like map pockets,spill kit and hopefully a Terratrip to do.





And now iam right up to date these pics are how the car stands now iv fitted number plates and some areo flat blade wipers but thats about it haven't done alot for a few weeks, waiting for my mate to weld my seats in.











Work still ongoing still lots of plans for the car, hopefully bolt in cage will be next then to sort out a terratrip and finish off my air intake, i will keep this thread updated as and when i get things done, think i should have done that to start with HAHA this has taken bloody ages, off to bed now . C&C Welcome please! Hope you like! Thanks in advance

tom9876

iTrader: (1)

looks good just need to get a decent exhaust and manifold now

Lpenhale15

Thanks mate, Its already got a cat back, i wish i could get a mani but if i do it wont pass noise tests on the events its only just under now with the cat back.

CrOwSoN15

Just add more silencers to the system, they're cheap to buy.

I was surprised at how well it looks with the spots, I thought it was going to look naff!

Nice work so far.

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Cool little toy matey.

Lpenhale15

Yea mate i have been looking at Jetex silencers on ebay so if i do get a Manifold i'l use them and at £30 not to pricey either.
Yea i gotta admit i wasnt to sure how the spots would look but think they look ok

Thanks Glenn much Appreciated

OldDan

Thread holding the light brakets on need cutting down

SMILER258

Quality car! Looks ace! And great work with the prep! You fitted a sump and tank guard yet? Top job!

Lpenhale15

Thanks for the kind words mate

Iam in the process of having a sump and tank guard made, it's been a bit of a pain to be honest since they don't seem to make a sump guard for the fiesta or I couldn't find one anyway, I've had to make a cardboard prototype/template so I could get one made up be glad when its done just looking for someone to make it up for me now. Hopefully soon and not to much £££££ ! Fingers crossed haha

gjh

Awsome car, love seeing road rasllies cars on here, I see your location is South Wales, did you check out the cilwendeg? Don't really know if you need to go to the length of a terratrip, one of these should do it> http://www.circuit-innovations.co.uk/digitalclock1.html

Great build though, any idea on the events you'll be entering?

Lpenhale15

Thanks a lot mate Yea I love the Cilwendeg it's a great rally iv been the last couple of years ,I was meant to go last weekend just to spectate but my son was ill and couldn't make it I was gutted.
Thanks for the link those clocks look great, to be honest a terratrip was a little out of my budget range anyway and plus iam using all my cash to save for a cage so for £50 think il b investing in one Yea I've got a few events in mind the cars not going to ready this side of Xmas so iam looking to do the 1000 Lanes and the Gremlin next year hopefully.

gjh

Cool, I checked out the cilwendeg (well the start anyway), looks like it was a good event again, see yourself doing anything in Ceredigion (bro caron, night owl)? Bro caron is the local one to me you see.

Lpenhale15

Yea mate iv been up your way a few times over the last couple of years some good rally's up there, to be honest il start with ones local to me early part of next year then who knows what ones il do iam up for anything if I think the cars gonna be ok

RyanML

looking forward to maybe seeing this on the 1000 lanes next year!

Lpenhale15

You and me both mate Haha

gjh

Tidy, can't see how the car will give any problems, it seems to be well built with you.

Matt FRS

You've done a great job on this so far. I've had four of these mk5's and love them

Lpenhale15

Thanks mate, yea there great little cars to be fair

Andy Tucker

looks great Lpenhale15.

i go to a few rallys a year.i go up epynt in brecon.

are you in a motorclub?

Lpenhale15

Thanks Andy, yea i go up on Epynt to, some really good events up there I love it.

yea mate I go to Griffin Motor Club in the Rhondda

Andy Tucker

how do you find the motor cub? is it clicky?

was looking to do road rally few years ago but work got in the way and it whent out the window

was you asked to join or did just sign up so to speak.

might look at getting into it. maybe a club closer to me in swansea if i can

Lpenhale15

To be honest mate iv only been going this last 18 months and our club is small, hardly any people turn up to our meets on a Tuesday night only a few of us are ever there I joined because my mate was a member and I had planned to build the fiesta for rally.

I would defo join up mate if you can find a good club near to you because from what I hear of the bigger clubs there really good to be a part of.

Andy Tucker

gonna have a look about and see whats what with different clubs.

so any other plans with the car mate

Lpenhale15

Yea still lots of stuff I want to do mate not sure when they will be done but lots of plans Cage is first on the list which I hope to have done next month

Currently making my own cold air feed duct for behind the upper grill will post it in my next update when it's done

Andy Tucker

tidy mate.look forward to seeing them.

great work so far

siddleg

Wicked project mate.

What rallies are you going to do night rallies?

I have an FRP but i just love these little fezzies they have something about them.

Great to see someone else into rallying as it made Ford which is a shame as people seem to forget that.

gjh

Ye its night rallies he's going to do

Lpenhale15

Thank very much mate its getting there
Yea mate night rallies/Road Rallies/night events whatever you want to call them haha

I Love FRP they look epic and from what i hear go well to i would love one !

Yea i love these Fords that really carry the Ford Rally name just a shame that with all these new models they seem to putting the rally side of things to one side and now no Factory Ford World Rally team seems like this might get worse

paulyzetec

Car looks sweet mate. lights and wheels look awesome. have your though about a sump guard yet. mines saved us so many times.lol

paulyzetec

Whats ya noise limit mate. iv got a protech mani with sports cat and two silencers and on noise test at 3500 it was 76 DB. so i reckon without a sports cat i would of still easily passed. i think the limit round here is 98.

Lpenhale15

No sump guard yet mate it is high on list, can i ask how did you get yours did you have it made or buy one from somewhere?
Yea as the exhaust goes you should be fine mate last time mine was noise tested it was just under at 95Db at 3500 so you should be able to get away with removing your sports cat but it might be close.

SMILER258

Looking great. How did you restore the cibie spotlamp covers. I need to do mine

Lpenhale15

Thanks mate, i just rubbed them down masked off some areas and a couple of coats of paint and they came up lovely a bit of patience needed thats all

paulyzetec

My navigator works for a sign company so sometimes hes just got old signs lieing around lol, Mines a 4mm sheet of ally that use to be a sign i just cut it down to size and made some brackets up.

Think i posted pictures up on how i mounted, you can but sheets of ally from companys on the internet. prob cost u £30-40 i think for the size and thickness u you want.

OlRoadPirate

Lpenhale15

[left]Thanks mate, wow i’d forgotten i even had this project thread, well iv still got the car and since posting on here in 2012 a lot has happened to much for me to even write about because i can’t be arsed haha! But heres a pic of how shes stands in my garage now.

OlRoadPirate

Wow! Overhaul time?