Weekends seem to have been spent trawling dealers trying to decide on a new daily, but managed to get a few hours on it just before Christmas.

I've fitted the engine back into the car, albeit with a boggo Focus TDI gearbox currently. I still need to make the lower mount, but you get the idea. The box will come out as I need to build the proper one which, for now will be based around a MK1 Focus RS unit, with the Quaife diff, a diesel bell housing to match up to the RS2000 engine, and a Hewland 5.0:1 final drive, which will shorten the gearing quite a lot.





In addition, I have also started to think about fitting up the front end panels, so I bolted on the bonnet, wings and headlights. I then cut up a scrap bumper to allow the jacking points to go through, so I can try and line everything up. As you can see, the wings seem to sit a touch high in relation to the headlights, so some fettling is going to be needed. The bumper will be used to work out where the holes need to go for the jacking points properly, and I will then cut a decent bumper. The ends will also need to be trimmed down to match the Cosworth front wings.







I did start to fit the bonnet pins, but it got dark, so I went inside and had a beer lol.

More to come over the holidays hopefully, then I can get the front fitted and painted.