doing this thread for a friends car.

basically when he got it the car was the following spec....

rebuilt 2.0 silvertop zetec, 0.5 oversize new pistons, new rings, headgasket, kent stage 1 cams, head sent off to cylinder head developments, ports opened out, gas flowed and ported, skimmed, webber alpha gold ECU, webber alphga throttle bodies and dark green injectors, Trust 4-2-1 exhaust manifold and sports cat, with magnex cat back.

Willwood 4 pots on the front with 286mm drilled and grooved discs, Pi 35mm shocks and springs, cabriolet front strut brace, rear strut brace. Full MINT Si interior.

WRC front bumper, WRC rear wing, Morrette headlamps with cold air feed, 17" OZ chrono wheels,

some pics....

 

Nice one lad

 

My mate dan used the car for around 2 years and had no problems whatsoever with it, car ran faultless and LOVED to be driven hard, was a credit to the lad he bough it off ian. really did build a good car.

over that 2 years though the Trust manifold wasnt the best quality and cracked, so was replaced wit ha stainless pro-tech manifold with stainless blue-flame decat.




the car was then taken for a remap back to northampton motorsport as it was running a bit rough.

then decided for a change in looks, the WRC stuff and the morrettes went, and were raplaced with standard items for a bit more of a factory look.

unfortuantley a wet moment caused a light back end and a bit of a coming together with some railings lol

needless to say the car came back painted and clean.

Didnt put Dan off though, Weitech coilovers where bought for the car, really freshened uyp the handling.

in the meantime dan bought a nissan terrano daily driver so the escort came off the road to be made into a track car and occasional road use.

over the last few weeks i've changed bottom end shells as it had an ever so slight knock, so better to be safe than sorry, full rollcage has been fitted into car, jsut needs plates welding in, interior totally stripped, and today some stage 2 cams have been fitted.

over the next few weeks the wheels will be painted satin black, car will be ran in and and have another oil change, cage plates welded in and jsut alot on general tidying ready for the vernier pulleys and remap on the 29th December.

will update wil lots of pics through the week, jsut got 2 tonight myself of a painted wheel we tryed to see what it looks like and a nice polished mocal oil catch tank.

 

manifold off the car







how the car looks now misus the cossie bib

 

Cool Car

 

nice car mate,where did you get the manifold from?

 

ebay matey its a pro-tech one

 

Love it. Awesome car

 

Nice, both before and after

 

Never knew Fezz's name was Dan. Haha.

Got your txt last night, looks good. Nice to know hes FINALLY getting round to make it a nice car again.

 

i featured ians car for fast ford mag a few years ago, was quite a tool!!

ps how much was that manifold? its a focus st170 copy, and the propper ones are about £170 from ford lol

 

pic from tonight

 

looks better minus the spolier and bumper IMO

cool car

 

wheels look 10 times better now

 

wellin fezz lad

 

thanks peeps for the comments, nice 1 gaz for the thread aswell, allmost there now just few odds n sods, harnesses an seats,oil breather,insured an mot'd today so tax will be on tomorra an will be out puttin them all important running in miles on an me and gaz will be going on a mission on friday to get the rest done then its off to awsome gti on sat morning for a session on the rollersthen its limiter death lol then it will b a trip to northampton motorsprt on the 29th to get the throttle boddies recond a pair of verniers and then set up so fingers crossed all goes well.

 

should see 200bhp once set up hopefully i think, really strong motor this.

FUDGEY: manifold was about 200 quid i think with the postage and a decat, the decat wasnt upto much though sleeve was a bit short so a blueflame one was fab'd up with a longer sleeve on it, ian is a top bloke and built an awesome car its gone to a whole diff stage now though TBH stripped, coilies, caged and stage 2.

crying out for an LSD box when a decent one comes up and a decent steering wheel as the super nintendo one is gash lol

 

manifold was 180 notes delivered the next day from a place in manc called jap parts they had the manifold on the shelf, good peice of kit just the de-cat wasnt up 2 much

 

looks good!