djbenhunt

I bought my 1999 Escort Van 1.8D (55) in April 2014.

After changing the cambelt and giving her a service (she has done 123,000 miles!) I decided it was time for a big change, I've always liked the focus but they never made a Focus Van! :-(

So here is the project so far!

How I bought the van:


The Escort dash is gone:


The Focus dash is in:

Lee Grout

How much work to get that dash in?

djbenhunt

Was pretty easy Lee! Just had to unstick a bit of plastic from the back of the Focus dash and it fits in easy after that!

sridgett

Hi there not seen you on here befor so welcome to passionford. this sounds like a very cool project.
I'm gonna be keeping a close eye on this. very cool mate. What engine is goning in?

Lee Grout

And what you doing body wise? If nothing else, repair the ding in the wing?

djbenhunt

Engine is probably staying the same as this is a work van :/

Body wise I'm hoping to fit a Focus front end to it!

RichieST

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Interesting! Stick some more pics up as the dash goes back together.

djbenhunt

Will do mate.

Got to rewire the Escort dash wiring loom tomorrow to fit the Focus buttons, stalks & headlight switch.

0150carmac

i like the look off this project get more pictures up

marky_g

I want to put a mk6 escort dash in my mk4 but I wonder if a focus would go now lol

zerotonine

Subscribed!

Minirotty

Strange to see that in there, would like to see the finished item to make my mind up but atm I'm not sure.

djbenhunt

Sorry I haven't posted for a while!

This is how she sits now with her new alloys and a pic of my radio in the focus dash for you





Focus dash is complete, will get up to date pics tomorrow!

marky_g

More pics

cossiestu

Surprised it went in that easy!? Nice job, reminds me of the '3 series BM dash in MK2 Golf' trick from years ago! Looks good, can't wait to see the Focus front end go on!