Ey up, am new to all this so will have to bear with me.

I bought this car after a 7 hour round trip from wakefield to essex, it was a known car back in its day when it was looked after from what i have found out about it. When i bought it the bloke told me it was in performance ford, i personally thought he was pulling me tail as it wasnt in the best condition but i wasnt fussed as i wanted a bit of a project and it was a decent price.

so when a got it back to sunny yorkshire i couldnt believe the power it had was tons quicker than a previous rs i had so was absolutly suited by my buy soon as a got in i was riffling throught the massive folders of info and receipts there was a rolling road print out from 2010 for 240bhp the grin got bigger!!!

A wanted to find out the history of the car and if it was a feature, asked a couple of people on here a couple of people said it was a lad called ravi and it featured in a escort rs turbo inssue of pf in 2005 so emailed them straight away and with a bit of luck they sent me a pf file of the feature in the magazine (a would attach the file but aint got a clue how to)

now i had the info it was time to get down and dirty with the VE-hicle, got the borther in law round whos a mechanic as a know very little about the mechanics of cars, the release clutch bearing has gone aswell the electrics were chopped up to feck and wiring was goosed, and from what we could see and feel for the sills were rotten now for some pictures

as it stood when a first got it back








When a got home saturday asked a neighbour who is a mechanic to have a look at me lights see if he could fathom them out as on the dash the full beam was on but in actual fact there was no full beam at all after a hour of checking everything possible we were no closer to finding the problem, with the MOT and tax due i bit the bullet and decided to SORN it, without wasting no time spent all saturday night,sunday and monday stripping it by me sen this is as it stands now


the chopped to bits wiring loom


is this a household earth cable???

the spare room









Thats as far as i am at the moment, has a body repair bloke come round tonight to have a pikes see what he thinks the said the floor pans should be ok may need a patch up but the arches and sills need sorting, there is slight bubbling on the top by the sunroof asked him about that but he seems to think he wouldnt be able to repair for some reason

aim is to have to all sorted by just after the new year, all the rust sorted,full respray(still unsure whether to stay black thinking white) engine and gearbox all sound and sorted cheers for your time