I bought this car off the old boy that works in the local petrol station for £100 with six months tax & mot on it just over a year ago i didnt really have any plans for it i just bought it because i hadnt seen another estate any where round the area this is how it looked when i got it


I then spotted some one breaking a zetec powered xr3i on ebay so i sent him an email to see how much he would want for the complete conversion. A couple more emails later we agreed a price and i was on my way up to telford to have a look and make sure everything was as he said which it was so i gave him a deposit and arranged to collect the next weekend after he had taken the lump out.


As part of the deal i got the engine complete with inlet and exhaust manifolds,modified engine mount,fuel tank with the right pump in and as much of the loom as i wanted so i took it all so i can install electric windows and mirrors at a later date if i see fit. the only part i didnt get was the modified down pipe as he said he had already sold it to one of his mates the week before.

Now i thought i best get the rest of the car upto scratch so i could drop the engine in i deceided at this point i'd prefer it to be abit of a sleeper so after much searching i found myself some 15 inch steel wheels off a fiesta fusion and bought myself a set of g-max shocks and springs off an rs turbo to lower the car 35mm so it didnt give the game away to the untrained eye and heres the result



So now it went round corners alright but it was gutless as f**k lol
I bought myself some new calipers for it ready for when i took it off the road (cheers B19 CVH) and had them machined so they'd bolt up alright


They came with the hoses so i dont have to get any made up i just need to drill out and tap the hub to take the bigger diameter bolts.
This takes me up to the end of january which was when the tax ran out on the car so i took it up the unit and started taking afew bits off then the seats came out then the carpet and its not too bad under there i was expecting it to be alot worse
theres abit on the inner sill and seat mount


Theres abit of surface rust on the passenger side but the seat mount where they always go looks perfect


Then i found these bits which by the looks of have been welded before but they didnt even make any attempt to cut the rotten stuff out theyve just welded a plate over the outside so its just carried on rusting from the inside out



Theyve done the same with the battery tray aswell so its gone from being not too bad to this in the space of a couple of months


so i took the dash out to investigate


then the loom wasnt too far behind it as ive got an other one to go back in


Then the heavens opened and it started snowing again so i thought id leave it for abit and see if it slowed down after 10 minutes it looked like this


i decided to go home at this point as my units in the middle of no where and i didnt want to get stranded lol so the plan for the next couple of days if it doesnt snow too much is to finish taking the sound deadaning off the bulk head to asses the damage to the battery tray and take the gutless 1.3 out and dump it in the skip.
Cheers for looking and hopefully ill have an update soon depending on the weather
mark

Almost forgot i knew there was a reason i bought an estate