Right its my first post here, ive read the forums for a while but not posted til tonight, heres my current car. Paid 700 for it

I wouldnt really call it a restoration, just a tidyup.

Heres how I bought it.



Already had the 2.0 zetec in it, previous conversion done by a friend, and now the headgasket had gone. So sod it all just swap the engine, 76k with FSH, sweet as. Also tidied up the bay a little while it was being done, hidden some wiring etc but it could still be better.

Before



Engine coming out



New engine in, IGNORE the duck tape and the broken fan, major mishap but have a new intake pipe to be fitted, need new map and new fan is in the post. Basically before taking the engine out a coolant pipe blew from the pressurisation, blew in my face to be exact, and I broke a ferw things in the reaction.



A couple more things I did were the black grille, fitted some escy gti wheels (these needed spacers, at least 30mm so I ended up selling them cause I didnt wanna spoil the handling (what little handling problems it has anyway) with huge spacers).



Bumper off in that pic.

Fitted some RST recaros I had lying round, just needed to drill 2 holes in the capri subframes to fit them, very easy


Just bought some 280 special wheels, the 13" ones, and am spraying them satin black. Only done one so far so heres the pics.



Just getting rid of the rust slowly, surprisingly the car is very solid underneath, its just rear arches, and one sill has a little rust so Im doing it with filler. Sadly no pics of rust repairs.

New bumpers next and a fuel tank with a swirl pot from a 2.8i. Slowly going through the shoppinglist for the turbo conversion too, almost there Just need turbo, oil cooler and a couple of other small things.