My first post on this forum so thought id start with a project thread so you know what im up to.

Me and the G/F have owned 6 Ka's between us. 4 normal and 2 SportKa's so you could say we like them!

I have done a few track days in my old Fezzy ST and we decided to build a track car between us so we can trailer it to and from incase the worst should ever happen.

We went for the ford ka as we were both very familiar with them and the simplicity of the ka makes it them perfect.

We started looking at standard high mileage ka's for £500 ish to get us started, but after thinking about it we decided to spend a little more on a CAT C damaged SportKa.
The main reason being that the body was newer as Ka's are prone to rust, plus the benefit of the larger 1600 engine, wider track, bigger wheel arches and plenty of parts which were easy to sell on like the full leather interior.

So on February 26th 2009 we bought a Sportka SE CAT C salvage for £1300, (light panel damge). It was in a scrap yard about 250 miles away so didnt even see the car but took the risk.

Well... the car arrived safely, and we took a good look around it to see what needed doing and we were unpleasantly surprised at the condition.
Light panel damage my
Heres some pics from when it arrived...


Check out the respray...










As we started to delve deeper we discovered some serious bodge jobs.
The whole crossmember and slam panel was held on with a few self tapers and 1 nut and bolt...

1 of the chassis legs...





And just as we thought things couldnt get any worse, this was the oil sump, with the crack "filled" over...



More to come....