i owned the car, i brought it in gwo from dundee but when i got it off the truck the next day & went 2 use it it was fooked

turbo was fooked & had a strange knock from engine & inner sills were shagged & driver door shut had a hole in it

i stripped out the engine, fully rebuilt the bottom end & powdercoated all the bits candy blue, fitted vaious bits it required (hoses etc) alloy radiator

there didnt appaear much wrong with the bottom end, 1 piston was tight on the gudgen pin so had all 4 replaced, crank regroud, new shells, oilpump cleaned/inspected etc....

i then fitted the engine back into the car, rebuilt the t3 hybrid turbo & a mate of mine stripped all the plug of the engine loom & we cleeved it in some nice wraping.....

i then went to start it & it wouldnt start, after a few hrs of messing about it was 1 of the wires in the crank sensor plug had came out.

it then ran, with no smoke but still had a knock?????
ide had enough so ebay it was (last year sometime)
while on ebay i stripped the camshafts out to find both camshafts badly scored & all the jurnels in the head shagged & it was sold in bits like that.....

1st thing i would do is pull the exhaust camshaft out & check the head/cams have been replaced, if not urll need a head & 2 cams

2ndly ide ditch the fancy engine loom & buy a std after market one as this was more hassle then it was worth & neva ran rite after it was fitted, had a blig flat spot if i remeber rite from low revs

after that set it up, do the sills & door shut & it aint a bad motor

its a genuine cossie shell & is as stated on log book

could be a nice 1 but ide swapped it for my mk3 escort cossie that i was 99% through building & only swapped as i wanted a car that didnt require any work, after i threw 1k into this & another 3 weeks time it was time for it 2 go

i also spent hrs t-cutting the whole car as some numpty had repainted the engine bay & not masked the car up so the whole car was coverd in overspray!!! thast why it looks miny mint lol
bumper mounts were broken so fixed them etc......

i have various pics of the work i completed if any use to you???