thought id finally get round to showing everyone my car in progress.
I Bought the car last year off my mate who was stripping it for track days. he had bought an xr2i for the road. anyway i saved it from destroying it and slowly bit by bit its coming together. Im currently off work at the minute with a broken arm so no money to spend on the old girl. I bought the car for 500 squids! it had 48k on her then and 3 owners from new! well anyway ill let the photos do the talking...
this was whilst my mate had it, parked it in trolley huts to stop it rusting away!
This was the day it became under my ownership. them wheels where way too big for it.
My mates dad has his own garage and all three of us shared a passion for ford. so we serviced it, new plugs, filters etc. he said he cant see why it wouldnt pass another MOT with a few things putting right. MOT isnt due till Decemeber 2012!
Theres it sat with uncles escort.
Looking Low just on 30mm springs, have some bad camber on the front now. literally eating tyres. any ideas where to problem lays there?
Got these for free! i have refurbed them at college now selling, im on the hunt for some RS2000 alloys for it
I know, forgive me the rs badge is terrible. I liked the carbon wrap. excuse the charger cables.
as you can see the car has little interior. and the as you can also see by one of the photos the mirrors arent in the best form. so that was the first task!
I got two MK4 mirrors from a scrapyard for a fiver, one was blue and one purple. not a problem.
this is where becoming a vehicle refisher student came in to place!
A good scotch and some satin black!
bit of fun in the ice at college!
I decided was going to put an interior in the car having one passenger was boring.
Then looking through ebay i came across a full xr2i interior for 30 quid!
My mate decided he would have a go at getting in his little clio.
then the day before we was due to set off to collect it my mate told me he had bought some renault leather seats for his car and well how we got it in is a miracle!
we had to leave the dash and that was it everthing else went in i got every last bit. even thought some was painted blue i didnt think i did too bad for 30 quid!
looking sorry for its self after i sorned it. had an issue with the alternator. and my insurance was too hard to pay been on sick.
Whilst in a weekly look round a scrap yard. i came across a red fiesta 1.1 xr2i replica,. any way one mans junk is another mans treasure and all, i had the xr2i arches skirts, rear bumper and spoiler of it, along with the headlamps. grand total of 42.50 for it all! great scrap yard U PULL IT near york if its near anyone well worth the visit have an xr2i in at the moment.
All the interior just about fitted need to do a few things. i just put the kit on with tape just to see how it looks
left over parts. free to good home really just taking up room. can imagine the roof be Fudged now after might of been left in the rain
I decided i had to repspray the body kit as it was dull and lifeless, also beacause my new bumper was black plastic and the splitter was scuffed. so had th spray them anyway. the first photo shows the scuff on the corner then then rest are at college and when they are finished
Thats as far as i am upto soo far. plans for the car are
-Fit the body kit properly. .
-Tint the rear indicators black for the euro look.
- de-cat it hopefully will bang and pop and little only got a little cherry bomb back box so hopefully the pressure will be there.
- Tint back windows
- rs turbo sticker for the rear. then the "1.1 inside" under it
- I want some rs 2000 alloys or escort gti alloys painted black un decided.
- get the unwanted camber sorted. any idea's guys? reckon getting it tracked will sort it?
- want to spoiler and bonnet carbon wrapping and on raisers.
Hopefully will be on the road for ford fair
there will be things that ive missed off and ill try to add them
All comments, thoughs, ideas, and opinions welcome
Positive or negative, its your opinion.
Thanks Lewis