Not been up to much since the last update. I've mostly been just gathering bits and pieces.

I've stripped the xr4x4 rear beam down, grinded the rust and treated it to some anti rust paint. I'll give it a coat of black hammerite yet. The calipers and the xr4x4 anti roll bar have been cleaned up and given some red paint too.


I bought a new glass lense for the cracked NS headlight and made one decent drivers headlight out of 2 as the casing and a mount was broken on th 4i's so I bought a headlight from a breaker for the casing only. I got it forpennies as it the chrome had rusted out and the glass was smashed.

Finally bought some very good foglights on ebay and a roll of 4m universal rubber seal to go round the grill & complete the front. Couldn't justify the 50 odd quid people are asking for the proper seals so £4 seems like a bargain and it looks legit too!

No more dodgy gaps round the front now




Cleaned, de-moulded and back indoors.


Another thing I did was add boot struts as the fibreglass boot had no holes for them. Drilled and tapped the Holes, fitted struts from the xr4x4 and jobs a good un.

(Note the now redundant broomstick in the foreground)


Mirrors given some Caspian Blue. Still to be wet'n'dried mind


Last week I got word of a rusted out xr4x4 with Escorts cossie wheels going for £?00 so I didn't hesitate and bought it unseen.

Picked it up the other day. It's buggered shell wise. Inner + outer sills, rear chassis legs, front crossmember, bumper supports to name a few. The cars got a BOA swap, runs sweet and goes like stink it's got an Escort Cosworth rear beam + brakes all round, full stainless, Recaros, RS steering wheel plus lots of other swag!

I'm going to break it and look into 24v'ing the 4i at a later date. So that's taken an unexpected turn!



Had to throw the Cosworth wheels on the 4i. To give me motivation. Or something ����


That's all for now