HirenRS

Hi peeps basically after leaving my baby sttod for over a two years I went about a mini restoration project to bring her back, the plan was to replace:

Slam panel
Scuttle panel
Rear quarter
Sills
St170 brake set up on front
Rear disc conversion

......the list grew longer and longer and I found more and more rust so I picked up a 1.8 TD mk3 1 owner 48k 2 door also in radiant red, clean in and out on a N plate, before I stripped it I made sure everything was still running etc, after a bit of playing around I managed to get it going; the engine was currently running on a base map, so a mapping session will be the final hurdle if I get there!

I have totally stripped everything I think I will need to convert the TD the primary list is as follows:

2.0 zetec turbo Engine
Current Engine spec: Beige injectors, T3 turbo, decomp plate, completely rebuilt bottom end stock, port and polished head, fiesta turbo plenum, airtec cooled - not the largest of specs but will be improved vastly during build.
Emerald m3d
Full engine loom
Driveshafts
Gearbox
Fuel tank
Fuel lines, return & feed inc fuel filter
Cooler/radiator
Hubs
Struts
Axles
Full exhaust etc etc

My questions are: is there anything on the TD I can leave?
I've not yet picked it up so haven't had a good look over it.

Pics coming!

Update! picked up the 1.8td today seems like no one has used a diesel based model to convert before so I'll put together a guide if its really that much more different than a petrol based conversion.
Anyway apart from a bit of surface rust on an few corners of arch there are no other visible defects, just got it home and I doubt I'll be doing anything on it until the weekend, but the TD came with a Toad alarm 2 keys a was of history which probably isn't relevant. Clean interior black carpets, black dash, the seat and door card trim isn't ideal but will do until I figure out a plan, other than that has unwrlded sills in good condition, doesn't have the heated front screen or electric windows and obv doesn't have front fog light options.

Xr2i ZT strip down.


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HirenRS

Differences so far:
shafts are thicker but dont fit xr2i hubs,
Different hubs
no anti roll bar
no brake bias system on rear axle
much smaller rear drums
solid discs at front

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Cool little Project matey.

LVC-Elvis

Will definitely be watching this one, looks v.interesting!

frsjon

just so you know the new shell is a mk3.5 ... hubs and cv joints will be different from a mk3 in all variants. what age was the 2i?

HirenRS

Thankyou, the 2i was a 1990 but i have removed complete struts with hubs, and the final hurdle will be gettig fuel pump going