Having cleaned up the underside some 3 years ago, I decided it was time to try and freshen things up for this years Ford Fair Concours.

Starting at the back end last weekend, I'm hoping to get the floor pan and the engine done tomorrow. Only having a driveway and axle stands I'm hoping for good weather but we'll see.

Heres the work so far. I'm pleased so far but 2 parts are bugging me, the first is the exhasut system so I think I'll get a new one with some nice mirror polished backboxes to really shine. The second is the fuel tank cover. As great as it looks polished, the hours and knuckle scrapping involved is quite high, so I think a nice powder coat silver or black may help minimise the maintainence.







I'll post up some front end pics when I've finished this weekend for those who might be interested.

 

Looks very clean mate, what car is it?

 

Looking good m8.

 

Looking rather clean mate

 

Its an ST24 running a 3.0l ST220 Engine

 

very nice, love the car mate

 

very clean mate a credit to you,a lot of work gone into that.

 

wow what a car! is the 3.0 physically the same engine as the 2.5?? bet that flies!!!! underside is cleaner than the top side of mine!!!!

 

That looks stunning mate!!!

 

Did a bit more to the middle and front end this morning. I'm happy with most things but the blue powder coated wishbones will need to come off and get redone in black and the Ceramic coated headers are flaking with only a few months use.

 

tip top pal nice work there

 

Fook me thats mint.

 

Minty fresh, fair play

How come there is a loudspeaker grill sticking out of the engine cover though?!

 

i'd love to have mine this clean but fuck me that must take some doing if your using it as a daily car

 

You need help !!!!


























BUT id love my car to be like that

 

thats very nice

 

sweet

 

Stunning


Brian

 

a real credit to ya

 

FUCK! that's bloody clean...

 

Wow. thats really clean. You should see some car underside here in Finland. Salt/dirt & all shit basically 6 months / year.

 

thats looks brilliant very clean indeed, got cleaning of the underbody of my st200 to look forward to this summer before ford fair.

 

I'm in the process of re-doing the underside to a better standard. having cleaned it up prior to the last show there were a few elements that I wasn't happy with so started stripping it down the day after I got back.

All the arches have been redone:







Front wishbones have been powdercoated black as the blue looked out of place:



Fuel tank has been powdercoated as polished aluminium was very time consuming and the shine was lost very quickly





The rear end has had new tubular arms added and adjustable drop links:



Engines areas been redone:



Just waiting for my Stainless y-pipe, hi flow cat and bespoke exhaust to arrive in the post.

Hopefully get it all fitted for the next show, but fingers crossed.

 

Fook me mate your mad.Top work though.

 

Great work...must have taken many many hours!!

 

Looks awesome mate


Brian

 

looking good

 

very nice

 

Still waiting for my CAT and y-pipe. Decided to fit the exhaust to make sure all was ok. Its getting there slowly.

 

looks mint imo

 

Are those wishbones custom made or an off the shelf mod?

Cheers,
Chris

 

that is bloody clean mate!!
loved the polished fuel tank, shame it couldn't stay

 

Finally got my bespoke hi flow cat made and fitted to the car. So the exhaust now is finished.

 

what a minter, very nice! What does i go like with the 3 litre in it?

 

i like that mate well done thats a real credit to you

 

Just need to get the exhaust joints welded as the mikalor clamps are useless and the standard exhaust clamps look cheap and horrible

 

thats amazing attention to detail .

 

Just a final update :

All my effort seems to have paid off as I was fortunate enough to win my class at Fordfair. Extremely happy and for once all the people around me could relate to underside cleaning rather than giving me that weird look when I say I've cleaned the floorpan.

 

WOW...

 

i'm sure I know that car and looks even better in the 'flesh'