not to most's tastes being a van but its a cheap runabout for me and a good base for some future work to it, so lets start from the beginning!

picked the car up from the borders from a lovely couple who had spent a fortune on the car looking after it, even though they only used it just to ferry their dogs up and down for a walk every day.

only pic i have at present which i took on the way back up the road.



soon after running it for a couple weeks, the timing belt snapped thanks to a knackered tensioner coming loose and killing the head.



some pen writing let people know exactly what was wrong!



towed the van back to work and got cracking with it



got inside and started to inspect what else could be improved with it now needing some work... its time to get stuck into the rust and tart it up a bit.




mirror was tigersealed on as it had been broken off, didnt last long!






van partially stripped, time to get it next door to the garage side of the workshop, and get the engine checked out.

safe to say it wasnt going to work again!




notice something missing in the picture below?


heres why!



cam had broke into 3 parts, bent all the valves, took a chunk out of one of the pistons and completely trashed itself... no point rebuilding this so it was robbed of what it could have been (starter,alternator, box, sump and couple other bits) and then scrapped.

new engine from the local scrappies turned out to be a bargain!








brand new clutch, clutch arm and cable, starter and alternator, engine had done 180k but had full ford service history in the van's logbook! bargain at £120 for that and the box!

new engine fitted, time to crack on with the bits i need.

take one fiesta bonnet at £25 with small repair needed



and one full fiesta rs turbo arches and kit to go with the bumpers i had already on - £20 and its the perfect result for a fiesta rs turbo rep van!

will get more pics up later on tonight of more work that i did today on the van.

should be mot'd and taxed start of next year as mot's just ran out, vans solid underneath apart from the rear valance needing replaced, should get that done just after xmas time and then painted as well.

not sure what to do inside with the van yet, but should be sutble enough and looking a bit better than standard!

that's all for now until later tonight when i get more pics uploaded.

cheers

neil