Thought i'd start a thread before we did any work on this B reg Ford Fiesta XR2.

A couple of friends and I bought this XR2 with the idea of having a bit of fun with a track car, Sean_rs (co-founder of MMS) is one of said investors lol so will be also posting on the thread.... unfortunatly sean won't experience getting behind the wheel of this car for a while as he is currently banned from driving

Anyway.... we bought the car last month and since then its lived in my garage and hasn't moved, i took it out today to give it a bit of a clean and take some pictures...











The car has 95k on the clock, it drove the 3 and a half hour journey home without any problems at all, starts first time and the gearbox is mint

Safety has to come first so we'll be looking at uprating brakes, suspension and fitting a roll cage asap.

We managed to pick up a car trailer too last week so we're pretty much good to go.

Will update this thread as things move along, but the aim is purely to have a bit of good old SAFE fun

MASSIVE

 

Did you buy that on Ebay?

 

No mate, bought if off this site, why?

 

I went to see one listed on Ebay, in stoke. Looked identical to that, same rub-strip down the side. was quite clean, just curious to see if it was the same one

 

Brian

 

If it gets rolled on its first outing you probably will see it on ebay

Bought it from Stuart off here from Norfolk

 

MINT! That looks tidy!

Gonna make a mega track tool!

MASSIVE

 

Massive

 

MASSIVE LIVERY

 

Looks like a solid enough shell, should make a fun car for a sensible amount of money.
That rub strip is the one fitted to the popular plus model, how odd that someones fitted it to and xr2?

 

Do you think its maybe not an XR2?

 

Its not just an XR2.... Its a MMS XR2!!!!!!

 

a rollcage of course, besides safety it add some serious extra stiffness to the shell, had a xr2 before, and adding the cage made a huge difference. ( or my bodyshell was not that tatty anymore )

 

Should be going to look at a cage on sunday

And i've treated myself to a new mig welder for if i find anything nasty when we take the carpet out

 

looks a really good car to start off with Mike.

is the engine staying or it is going rst,it would fly then.

good luck with it Mike.

 

Funny you should say that Dave.... I built an rs turbo engine last year, lightened and balanced etc thats just sat in the garage, also have a recon head thats ported with bigger valves etc, but for now we're just going to use it as it is.

Maybe get some of those twin webber jobbies though

I don't think it will be as interesting as your projects

 

be good if that engine went in,would be really awesome on track,with being light etc....

i got done by one years ago at Castle Combe,that went really fast around there!

i'm spending too much on my cars.

 

hey i wish i never got rid of that car i have only just gone and bought another one got your pm mate can u pm details of what u want on this v5 and ill get it away for you.

it aint the same car from crewe ive known this car for years and a lady 4 miles away had it for 9 years.

 

Looks like its been very well looked after, new rad and exhaust on it too

 

MASSIVE!!!!!!!!

As chairwoman of MMS I FULLY approve

Good call, you have loads of fun in that hun

Totally agree with the MMS Livery, will look wicked

 

The guys have been busy this morning while ive been in bed nursing a hang over


All the interior is now out, safety devices rollcage is in... just needs to be secured... gutted i missed out

More pics will be added soon

 

Nice to hear of another XR2 project

Trust me guys you'll love the light little mk2 shell, and with a few shell additons and a turbo lump they fookin fly and handle the bends so well!



If you need any specialist help check out www.xrtwo.com

JAMES

 

Cheers mate, thanks again for your advice on the seats!!!

 

I suppose its feasible that a non xr2 shell was used to reshell it at some point but more likely that someone retro fitted them, just a wierd choice of mod.
Does the shell have the bulge in the boot floor panel on the left for the wider spare wheel? It should make a nice project regardless

 

It is an XR2.

 

At sean

Not checked the boot floor for any bulges as yet, but it has got a spare pepper pot alloy in the spare wheel well.

Would this fit in if it wasn't an XR2, i remember my old Mk1 pop couldn't fit a pepper pot in

Cage is in by the way folks and will hopefully be picking up the S2 recaro's in the next few days

 

It would fit but only with a deflated tyre, it doesn't really matter though, alot of use on xrtwo.com run base spec shells these days as they are more likely to have survived unabused.

 

Cool, is a genuine XR2 then

 

pmsl that was hard work

 

Picked up a great set of 90spec seats last night, cheers bigmatt-s2rst

We've also bought a very sexy black helmet too for track day action, which Sean tested by hitting me while i was wearing it

Pics soon and MASSIVE LIVERY is on the way

 

get on with the car first before buying a helmet.

 

pmsl.... safety first....

 

so true Sean.

 

Not much to do now tbh.... disc's pads and fluid and we're off to track (and we'd need a helmet for that)

Interior is out now too.....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-FIESTA-MK...QQcmdZViewItem

 

like the MMS in the ebay advert.

 

Boys, get your arse's down to my way..


https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=275901

 

I think theyd be pretty pissed off if i start racing around their garage!!

 

It had to be done, i'm just a big kid

 

Looks like a tidy XR, great base for some track action. Even better if you are dropping a turbo lump in

 

Cheers mate...


Mike should be postin more pics soon