Hello all

Well as title really, got myself a mk3 1.1 fiesta pritty cheap (£175) was pritty good condition for a h reg fiesta, little bit of rust around the rear arches and thats about it (belive it or not the fuel filler was perfect )

well got it home, stripped it down in the evenings after work, in the mean time i bought myself a 1.8 sierra estate. I bought the sierra so i could cut the rear floor and tunnel to pop into the fiesta

With all the floor and tunnel ready to go into the car we (myself and fiestawallin) cut part of the floor from the fiesta so that the floor of the sierra (which holds the rear axle/suspension set-up) could fit where the fiesta floor was removed from, after a while of getting it all lined up we welded the floor in place (to get this part of the floor welded in properly took a week or two)

While welding the floor in i was on the look out for my power source, sure enough i found a decent package of parts which included a complete 2wd cosworth engine, gearbox, engine loom (sadly no ecu) rad, intercooler,coil, and quite a few other parts

After a day of getting the engine home i had the engine and box in the car, be it only sitting on wood blocks. Couple days later i had the engine on its frame all bolted up in the car (made some special mounts for the frame to bolt to)

With the engine bolted in it was time to start on the tunnel, tried the complete tunnel (straight from the sierra) in the fiesta just to see what parts of the tunnel i didnt need, in the end i had to cut the tunnel in 4 places to get everything to line up (gearbox mount, propshaft mount)

Now with the tunnel in place and tacked in it was time to weld the whole of the tunnel on the inside of the car. Couple weeks had this sorted, with the tunnel all welded in it was time to pop it on its side and weld the bottom but sadly at this point i lost motovation and really lost interest in the poor old girl

Well the fiesta sat in another garage for about 4-5monthsi got the motovation back to try and get her completed so good news a month ago i pulled her out and popped her in my main workshop and work started fairly soon, with the car now on its side a couple evening this week ive finished nearly one side of the tunnel.....

Instead of more text i'll let the pics do the talking

Poor old girl when i got her


Sierra floor in the fiesta


Engine all in bolted in place


That isnt ment to be there!!


As it is now




Comments welcome