The plumbing came together quicker than expected. Will managed to reuse a lot of the OEM hosing which is a bonus for timescale and my wallet and it looks spot on!

Coolant to heater matrix


coolant to header tank


vac pump


Fuel pump (awaiting some more 7mm rubber fuel line to connect to the standard piping from the tank, same goes for the charcoal canister breather pipe)


Vac line to be clipped down near the gearbox mount and clutch was a straight connection between the fiesta line and the slave cylinder pipe.

Also had chance to bleed the clutch through and it really does have a nice firm feel. Much heavier than the fiesta one that's for sure!

Had chance to fit the bonnet lifter as well. Really nice bit of kit, easy to fit and works well!


and here's a quick video of it working....excuse the phone-cameraman-ship.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...psde8238b7.mp4

It took us a good few hours to fit the torque link bolt and spacers just because everything is so tight and also because the bolt i had made was just too tightly toleranced for the job. We didn't have enough wiggle room. So to get it on we ended up using the spacers with a bolt that we had ordered from RS, taking the mount off the gearbox and putting that into the sub frame first then swinging it back onto the box.





a small job that took way too long and may be addressed in the future depending upon how everything works!

Managed to get the focus gaiter off and fit the fiesta gaiter so it looks spot on =]







To fit the shifter in the car we have took the top half of the focus shifter off the raiser plate that it comes with and Will is going to make a new raiser plate from plate steel and box section. This way we can get the shifter to fit on the OEM tabs and at the exact height we need.

This was after the colossal ball ache that was removing the fiesta shifter cables. Nearly lost the will to live but with a bit of brute force they came out and we could get the focus cables in.



Bulkhead through connection is totally different but for ease of service in the future we are running the bulkhead seal on the outside of the car and Will is going to make a seal around it. Saves us having to remove the dash anyway!



here's a closer look at the gearbox mount with the battery tray mount welded to it and coated in Dinitrol. Notice the gearbox vibro mount is on washers at the moment... a properly machined spacer is on order to support it correctly but for now washers will do =]



Now we didn't really want to go final fit yet but with how tight everything is we decided to start heading for it so the drive shafts went in.





Still pretty close to the sub Frame but it is clear and the engine isn't going to twist much after giving it a push.





we then installed all of the new exhaust bushings and it is definitely better. For anyone with the milltek exhaust on the fiesta get yourself some EXH015's from powerflex. I dont have to wrap jubilees around them anymore either.







we forgot to reinstall the heat shielding around the tank so when the centre section is removed to sort out the joint seals this will be going back in.

Feel like we got a lot done yesterday and we're sort of back on track. This week the last items should be on order and Will can start the wiring. Big bonus is that most of the plumbing is done (bar the AC for which we still need to find a mobile guy who can crimp us some lines) along with a lot of the ball aches that were found.

looking a little neater anyway now that the coolant hoses are in position and most of the loom is on.



ONWARD!!!!