well iv had it a while now and decided to do a bit

bought an ex rac transit connect with a damaged engine from ebay


the engine was a bit worse than i thought


then i had a go in a focus st for the first time and had an idea

so was then on the look out for parts

then i had a phone call with Andy Galacher who had a load of bits he no longer needed and it was verry good of him to offer me the lot for nothing
so off we went to scotland

today we had to remove the engine toremove some bits id sold on ebay
Beefy and my younger brother removed the engine and i decided id try fitting the beam

engine removed


so i got the focus beam and we tried it in and it wouldnt go in so it was out with the tools to madify the bed and the chassis legs to get things how we needed

so we now have this and thats where we left it for today

 

Nice one mate this will be a cracking van when done.Keep up the good work.

 

fiddle with the beam to make perfect tomorow then its paint engine bay and sort rear end then it can all go in and then its paint time

 

Do you do nothing else apart from work lol.

 

sleep and eat

 

 

will keep an eye on this

 

i know exactly what im doing with everything apart from wheels as i have no idea what to put on it but they will be 18"

 

lol does rust taste nice fella

any idea on colour

 

Looks like a good project Jacko will be keepin a close eye on this mate

 

metalic black dont know exactly wich one yet but will be for colour

 

pimp looking forward to seeing this

 

will keep an eye on this thread

will the focus st wheels not go on it ?

 

they do mate but there are loads of options as it will have all the bits from an st it needs large weels but am looking for some thing that looks better maybe comps or something else

 

smax wheels same as the st wheels but 20"

 

didnt know that think 20s to big though as it will need to be useable for picking engines up and maybe track use

 

good choice...

 

nice one jacko

 

I think these wheels look so nice.I think it will take jacko ages to do his van cause he is always busy.

 

Nice project mate

 

ill be honest glenn , if we could get a motor quicky , a couple of gud evening would get the running gear in ,

then it would just be prep , and paint, wiring ,

beef

 

we are coming accross tupid little differences in the way things atatch to the car but all things can be made to fit and this is alot easier than putting a cosworth yb in it and much cheeper (will be a work van after all)

but it isnt the hardest thing in the world to do after all its already a focus mk1 floor pan and engine bay other than management its just fitting the rear beam that will need to be looked at as i want it to handle the leaf springs are going

 

me and beefy been back intoday got the beam in perfect now and started to sort the front shox

 

Your putting a focus ST engine in? How easy will it be to mount into the mk1 focus engine bay?

 

i would think this is the same way you would need to do it mate its not a strait forward fit

 

Nice one jacko......keep the updates coming..

 

It has been looked into on another forum I use and its not gonna be a straightforward fit! Need a bit of fab work to make up mounts apparantely, although I've not looked myself.

Good luck with it!

 

im sure we can manage a cpl mounts fella

beef

 

Yip get the wood n nails out.....

 

if we can get it to fit in the van it will go in a mk1 focus no problem

 

awesome mate

 

good man nice to see you got on with it fellas

was gonna post in the past and ask how you were getting on with this but didnt know if it was a bit hush hush......crack on milaaad.

 

nah this is just going to be a pic up and delivery van

 

i'll be keeping a eye on this. looks a good project

 

yeah il be keeping eye on this

 

us lot hush hush ??

nowt quiet about us bunch matey , pmsl

thought youd know that after meeting us ,

saying that , twas a quiet day wen u poped up ,

beef

 

Hmm! yeah spose so,the day only quiet thing was the day!!

 

looks good jacko
are you keeping the engine std?

 

oh hell no what would be the point i will get it running in standard ish form for now though

 

love connects will keep an eye on this i can get coil overs for front and uprated rear shox and de-stressed rear leafs they look the nuts when done and very very fun to drive

heres mine