before i begin i must state that in order for this to make any sense ill have to start from the beginning.

which was about 10/12 years ago(you`ll get this alot) as i was young not worried about photos as at the time the cameras were twist and click.

some of the dates ect i give you may not make sense as they will be off the top of my head guesses.

it was the late 90`s me and all the boys had ford 1.1 bonus and popular where used alot.lol.

a mate of mine scott did very well for him self and started buying some cracking rs`s saphs and turbos, he bought the cleanest s2 id ever seen proberly still was to this day, which he sold on to one of my friends perrie.

whilst looking for another car he bought an xr2 to smoke around in.
since junior school xr2`s had a special place in my heart. and i was know finishing my apprenatship as a mechanic.

scott bought a saph and i picked up the xr2 off him for 250 black very clean needed some mechanicle work for mot but it was a spanish right hand drive shell very sound.

i had it standard for quite some time and cherrished it.

Then one day round one of the lads houses fast and furious stlye ecept tea and buiscuits inplace of beer and gear.lol.

i was dared to turbo the xr2. i shot up the bank and arranged a 1.5loan and got on the phone to an rs breakers

bearing in mind i had only ever seen one xr2 turbo and that belonged to a guy named sev im sure some of you would have met this nice bloke at the ford fair he`s there showing his beauty year in year out.

only problem i had was beeing a nipper living at good old mum and dads i did`nt really have anywhere to do it.

the wifes boss was going away and asked us to house sit so it was on.

admittedley the first fit was a bit of a mess and i pritty much built the loom from scratch and proberly my proundest moment in motoring thinking back.

the engine ect was all standard that i put in and i just used the bits i had around me to get it goingchopped the standard erst exhaust and rewelded

to begin with i just welded a pipe on the back of the xr2 fuel tank to feed the rs pump which was a nightnare but it got it going and all the other cutting of crossmemebers ect i wont bore you all with.

took me about 4-5 days to do the conversion but i could`nt get it running right. in the end i had to take into a tuning shop to check it over.

turned out i`d missed the temp sensor under the inlet manifold with that added i was away.

ran really well farley nippy,

about 9 months later perrie wrapped up the s2
the engine was turned down by power engineering to 200bhp with 197 lb feet of torque i bought the lot.lol

i put a new front end on and did alot of major tidying full respray including standard kit all black and i fitted a set of 17" bsa 239`s for 2 reasons more grip so much torq and to help keep the 4" mongoose exhaust off the floor

so at this point it was somthing like

xr2 mint all black
200bhp 197lb torq rst s2 lump and running gear
stage 3 chip amed
31 actuator
mongoose system
piper cone filter
bailey dump valve
17" chrome wheels
spax adjustables
ice yardy yardy
80 spec rst seats

just really clean

then i had the seats retrimed half leather grey with blue fleck alcantera i think out of a renault van but works really well

then i put in a
pace radiator
pace charge cooler
blue samco boost hoses

boost upto 1.3 bar 2 stage amal switch
lots of chrome

it was beautifull
just after i got to this stage i grew up and moved in with the other half.
and just after that someone hit the front wing and knocked it all out

beeing skint i had it pushed and tarted just to try to keep it a little tidy till i had some cash

well then it happen

hunny im preg+".t

ah shat

we made the desicion i would do one last rs day at donny and it would go away into storage buy a vectra and be a muppet.

well it needed mot and tax, i had left working in the garage as i need a better income but i returned for a test as i still do and it failed on headlight tarnished and rear light lense broken my ex box offered to write me out a ticketas he knew i`d already ordered the bits i told him id return tomorrow for the retest and ticket.

well that night friday before donny we had the biggest storm in a decade
and his mot bay flooded he had to report it so the ministry revoked his testing.

i could`nt believe it this is what happens to honest people!

you know what i drove to donny anyway no tax no ticket

and i live in portsmouth

weekend was a blast sunday putting her in the garage broke my heart

lots of thoughts over the years about 4wd cossie transplant ect and at one stage i was going to do it i took the tank and pump out for my mate perrie who foolishly bought an escort cossie rep with and rst engine with standard mk five tank and pump.

5ish years later this week i got her out
i was supprised how well she`d held up.
i got an xr2 tank and a s2 tank cut out the swirl pot and fitted it in the xr tank
new battery and push on the air plunger and she ran bit lumpy for 10 minutes but cleared and ran sweet.

made up a small list of jobs to do from visual inspections that i found as follows
turbo to sump oil pipe deteriorated REPLACED
O/S/F inner cv boot abliterated REPLACED
reverse jumps out FIXED

down pipe split
indicator lense broken
temp sender broken off in head
fuel gauge not working
amal switch

mot is midday monday and hopefully ill be at the national day sunday
ill try to work in some pics what i`ve got here are a few that i know where they are at the moment





there not that acurate of how it is today but gives you an idea
ill update as i get time
Thanks for reading
Tony