You may well know this car if you're an old school RSOC BB user. It used to be Chop's car. i bought it in November 2002. I remember saying to him that I hoped to have the welding done by the Christmas I only got it back from the painters last July! It took ages to get all the welding done on it as I have basically never rebuilt a car by myself before! I replaced:
Front X member,
Passneger Wing,
Battery Tray
Fuse box tray,
Inner sills
Outer sills
Driver side floor pans,
De locked doors,
Rear Chassis legs
A pillar repairs both sides (at the base)
Rear passenger side corner repair (above the light)
Boot floor
Lower rear panel
Various other little repairs.

I did all the welding and fabricating myself so it took a while to get it just how I wanted it all. It was definately worth it in the end! I didn't spray the car myself though i chickened out of that at the last minute! Probably just as well!
I have just finished replacing all the suspension on the car with new Koni's at each corner (cheers Cossymad!) and new control arms all round and new bushes all round too. I went for standard ford bushes as the roads around the North of Scotland are not too kind on Polyurethane bushes!
I have also just finished rebuilding the engine and Gearbox too so hopefully it'll be running in the next couple of weekends! More on the engine later when I get the pics uploaded! Here's some pics of the shell.





And in all her former glory with Chop at the helm!

 

Nice one mate - thats some serious welding been done!

Hope to see the finished article up at Crail sometime?

 

Nice work,u must need a lot of time and patience

Only wish i had the above and skill to do sh1t like that.


Real nice mota


Rich

 

Cheers Guys! You may well see her at Crail sometime if I can ever find the place! Got lost last time!

 

Looks mine mate, love to see the resto pics.

 

hey charlie 1st time i looked in here!cant wait till she's up n runnin.

fair play on rebuildin the car by yourself

 

Am heading home this weekend to refit the engine and box, will post pics up on Sunday if I remember!

 

haha quick reply from you

yeah get them pics up cos that'll be kick ass

 

Nice one chick, good too see it all sorted now

I remember chop taking me out in it one time down at ava

 

Cheers for the comments guys! Here's some more pics! Engine is goin in today More pics of that later!

Empty for now, see below for the filling!




I'm off back in to the garage to finish the job off!

 

wicked mate, what spec is the engine??

@ doing all the work by ur self

 

Cheers Stevo.
I bought the engine second hand and was told that it would run straight away, the guy said that he thought that it was low comp but had no proof to tell me so. I ended up buying it and stripping it down. I found that the head gasket had gone in fairly spectacular style allowing coolant to accumulate in bores 2 and 3. Things did not look good. At this point I had simply wanted to replace anything it needed to get it running again. After inspecting the bores and the (standard!) pistons I decided it needed to be checked out by a pro so I sent the lot to AGRA in Dundee. They told me that it needed re bored and that I would need new pistons. At this point I lost all grip of reality (and wallet ) and decided to go for low comp pistons with shot peened balanced rods. The crank was reground by 0.25mm and lightened balanced and tuftrided along with the flywheel and pressure plate. The bits were back in my hands after 2 weeks which I thought was pretty good. I assembled the lot myself with new VP2 bearing shells and ARP bolts. I also put in a new HP oil pump just to be safe! With all that in the bottom end it was pointless putting the standard head on it so I sent it to get ported and polished up, and then fitted it wi a kent CVH35 kit and vernier. The turbo is a stage1 hybrid with -31 actuator. I am currently botchiing a 2WD cossie IC as well. Am aiminig for 200 BHP but I think I'm gonna need a stage 3 head and a stage 3 turbo too

 

good choice mate i had a kent35 cam on my old rs it was very good.
stage 3 head is nice as well

Post more pics up mate, be good to see the engine in the engine bay

 

I was originally going to go for the piper 285T2 but I heard that it was all top end power, I am after lower down torque and intend to run no more than 15 PSi (to begin with anyway!LOL) I got more pics of the engine in the car now, but can't post them up til the weekend cos am at work.

 

nice one chick

 

keep em comin charlie

top achievement doin ALL work yersel like...fair boy

 

Cheers Chop I didn't do it all masel though. Got it sprayed and sent the engine to AGRA for boring and lightening.
Any news of a distributor m8?

 

It's been a while since I been around! So here's some more pics to keep u up to date. The car is almost finished apart from I am pulling my hair out trying to get a hold of a fuel hose connector that fits between the metal pipe that runs below the car and the plastic hose that comes from the fuel reg Apart from that it's just a case of fitting new tyres and firing it up!
A nice shiny new engine freshly rebuilt!

And carefully lowered in to place using a lift from an old folks home! Just the same as a engine lift except it's used to lift old farts out of the bath!

Front view

Another from the front after I botched together a bracket to mount the Cossie 2WD IC on.

The IC in question after being modified to allow the hose to go across the top of it.

Nice shiney SS tubing and Samcos, thanks to Lee @ Fusion

You can just see the IC poking out below where the plate would be, I had to cut out a ton of foam to get it in there!

The "finished"product!

From afar it don't look too bad IMHO!

 

that is well clean i am not to keen on red series 2s but i would be honored to drive about in that

 

looks sweet but you must get round to fitting the black rub strips in the bumper top cars looking really good

 

Looking good, nice to c the car back on the road, top job chick

 

Cheers fo the comments guys! It's not back on the road yet but won't be too long I hope! I got to get it running yet. I am struggling to find the time to finish it off! Am away home for a week and a half from Sunday so should be running by then! I am not too sure wther I'll put the black rub strips in the bumper or not, what do you reckon? Can I still get them from ford?

 

fookin excellent work charlie

looks sweet as!

yeah put the black strips back.i reckon tinted lights for the rear if ya keepin the clears at fron either that or standard look with orange all round

cant wait for a spin

chop

 

Yeah am keeping my eyes peeled for some clear repeaters and smoke/red rears, I had them on my last escort which was merc grey and looked the dogs! Am still trying to find a way of getting the spotties back on too! Am on the case re the black trim with a visit to Arnie Clarks scheduled this avo tea break! i got the number plates on and it fairly finishes the job off! I can't wait to get it back on the road!

 

I have now manage to get it turning over after rebuilding the starter motor, which strangely worked when I had it on the bench before fitting it??!!! I got oil pressure, ...which is nice, fuel pressure and some spark too, you would think that's all it takes, nah, the timing is 180 degrees out No worries, easy sorted!

 

Fuck me! Thats a top job by yourelf m8! I'm well impressed! I remember that car when I was at AVA years ago. Made good power then. Do you have the number for ARGA? They built my engine too, but I have no clue of the spec!

Top job!

 

All you hard work as finally paid off, well done it looks really well