Having started the restoration around 4-5 months ago, I thought for those interested I would create a thread to show how I was getting on.

I have had the car for nearly 11 years now and during that time I've been through many stages with it, including 5 years with a fiesta rs engine producing around 190bhp (can't remember the exact figure now) and recently about 3 years ago with the focus rs engine - after rounding off the cam lobes on the CVH.

Some of you may have seen the car, it was featured in Performance Ford about 2 years ago these were some of the photos taken of it:







The car has been off the road now for nearly 2 years due to finding some rot a lot worse than I thought, needing some upgrades and needing a better place to work on the car. So first up was to move house (drastic I know) but I finally wanted somewhere at home I could work on the car and not have to rely on my parents falling down outbuildings!

So a year ago now I moved and had this at home:



I will show the refurbishment of the workshop in another thread but in the end it looked like this:







This took a couple of months to get the inside sorted, and is far better than what we had. As you can see the car is looking a little sorry for itself and this is the state it has been left in for too long now!

The puma you see belongs to my brother which also has the focus rs engine, he is currently upgrading to the RS MTX gearbox as he blew his hybrid IB5 box to bits. Something that I will eventually get to with this build.

So there you have the car as it stood about 4-5 months ago, progress has been slow but I will post where I am up to now over the next day or so.

Any comments welcome good or bad. Having had the car so long I have a lot of ideas of what I would like to achieve with it and where I want it to be but more will always help.. Or take me longer!

Thanks for looking.

Dan