well this is my first car, and also first project that i have done, and although it might not be up2 some of the standards of what you guys do on here, i dont think its come out too badly lol.

it started out like this last march when i bought it, bog standard apart from a jvc head unit, and cost £300



started to strip it to sort out a dent that was in the rear quater and some rust on the boot and found a few other problems




the bodywork was done mostly by my dad, well, he sprayed it and made sure it was smooth enough after i had slapped some filler in it and knocked the dent out, then back in the garage it went to be sprayed,




it was around this point that i decided i didnt want to leave it standard, so along came a few of the mods, inclusing some of the following

oz super t gt's


ford racing arch's



i colour coded the boot handle as im not too keen on smoothed boots


made some mesh grills


and some bonnet raisers


and a sport ka n/s rear light with no reverse light, and some clear headlights

the car was then put back together and was looking like this



next mod was some escort cossie front brakes, picked up from a local ford spares place, calipers were bead blasted, hubs modified to fit them



was then time to bring it down from the clouds and get it dropped a bit, so along came some koni coilovers, which then left it looking like this




chucked in some ICE (in typical 17 year old fashion lol)


then i passed my test in october, and started to use it like that for a while doing small mods along the way such as changing the interior to black instead of the nasty blue



stripped the back out


then decided that an engine change was in order, couldnt do anything extreme because of insurance, so decided to go for a well built endura, so started building one, and also bought a pair of reclining bucket seats.

booked myself a week off work to put the engine and other bits and pieces on, then 5 days before i was due to change it, i did this






luckily the chassis wasnt touched, and the lampost that i hit fell down which took the brunt of the force, and although there was a fair bit of damage, it was all repairable.

managed to find a lot of the parts that i needed from a local scrap yard, rear beam, bottom arm, bottom arm mount, driveshaft, etc etc, so this time in mind, i started to change the engine




as you can see in the pics above the damaged front corner of the front panel was cut off, this is because it seemed easier to change just that one corner rather than having to drill all the spot welds out of the other perfectly good corner, then have even more hassle lining it all up again.

with the new engine in and running it was time for some more bodywork



along with a couple of gauges



and some shots of the new engine





then a bit more bodywork




some cheapo wheels to last me a few weeks


then i luckily managed to find someone who happened to have a drivers side front racing arch lying around, so snapped that up.

at the moment the car is now all back together and i have started using it again, its not quite right at the moment, the front shock is bent slightly, new one should be here tomorrow, its got odd wheels on it, the front wing is in yellow primer, the arch corner is purple, and is still running on the standard ecu as i cant afford to have the new one mapped yet, but at least at the moment i can get about in it

last night, i found some white comp mo's for sale which i have to go and pick up this saturday coming, then hopefully when the bodywork is finished it should all be fairly back to normal, although the repair bill hasnt worked out cheap with the shock costing £225 and other repairs coming to round about £350

heres the spec on the car as of when it will be all finished in the next week or so.

engine
bored out to 1.4
ported, polished, skimmed head with raised compression ratio
kent cam
50mm puma throttle body
pipercross panel filter with cold air feed
fully remapable ecu
lightened and balanced flywheel
AP clutch
4-2-1 manifold
powerflow exhaust with 2" bore
sports cat

exterior
ford racing arch's
colour coded boot handle
clear side repeaters
bonnet raisers
sport ka n's rear light

suspension/handling
koni coilovers
sport ka roll bar
powerflex roll bar bush's
ford racing rear stub axle spacers

brakes
escort cossie front brakes
mintex pads
custom length braided hoses
calipers painted red

interior
stripped interior
remaining interior changed to black
gauges

shoes
15" white comp mo's
195-45-15 toyo proxes t1-s tyres

im not done by a long way yet though, am still tempted to turbo the endura
put my seats in
momo steering wheel
cage
braided hoses all round
rosejointed bottom arms
polybushed all round
remove even more interior
another pair of clear headlights
pace rad
all silicone hoses

basically still lots that i want to do yet, but this is basically how it is at the moment, its not drastically quick, couldnt have anything like that for insurance purposes as im only 18, but its quick enough to deal with a paxo vts as i found out today lol

thanks for reading, any comments welcome.