Hello,
i'm new here, have been looking all over the projects and decided to make my own.
This is actually my Dad's car, which I drive every day.


It's a MK4 Hobby 1.6 Alcool

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When I started to drive this car it was like this:



A couple days after i took this pic unfortunantly i crashed the front, Headlights were gone, radiator, hood and other things..
went to fix all of it
The hood was fixed and painted (not changed) headlights changed, the mile lights were broken and stayed, radiator changed, we also took the spoiler out because it was all broken

Today

Picture from 11/07/2009 (escort Meeting)


Exhaust Changing

First upgrade made on my commando, not my father's

The exhaust before that didn't have the 2nd muffler, it was a straight tube, so the noise was kinda loud and "thin"

Sport muffler (idk the model) and i really liked the results

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qXEzbihuI


LEDs

Another quick UP

I'm working on my front panel leds, meanwhile i put 2 leds on driver's feet and 2 on passenger's feet


The button already had a led inside which wasnt working, i had to make a whole over it


New button led in position


Button in place (i couldn't make a "transparent" plastic to cover the whole)


Positives


Button ON


Driver's side


Passenger's side


I adapted the mile headlights button to it, since i don't have the mile headlights anymore

I liked it but imo its not as bright as I want (it's not as dark as the pic either, camera problems) i might double the led numbers.

That's it for now.
Hugs from Brazil,

Pedro.

 

You guys dont wash your cars for a meet Pedro?

 

hahaha
I didn't have time to do it :/ i even tried to, as you can see half of the hood is clean haha

 

SOUND SYSTEM
Ah. I was missing that


New aquisition (=


Extending the cable hole


Old box (No Botton)


Subs positioned


Bolting the module on the box


Box in position


Details of config and instalation




The sound is simply perfect! I didn't know this sub was that good with the right boxes
PS.: The box volume is 80Liters, 40 Liters for each sub
I made a video trying to show how the car was shaking, but the camera has a function that excludes the shaking witch i don't know how to disable. hehe

Hugs from Brazil,

Pedro

 

The vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFB995VA9A

 

UP speedometer and roof lights

2 LEDs for each light hole


Sanding the LEDs


Materials


Preparing to weld


Resistor + Led


Conected and ready to fit its place



Final Result

 

Well mates,
for a long time i've been hearing a buggy noise coming from under the car, i looked down there today and saw that the exhaust was breaking in the middle, went to a mechanic and changed the middle exhaust.
Photos of process down and a small vid to show how it is now (=

Disgusting


Closer


Starting to create a hole on the 2nd muffler


1st muffler changed last time


New Middle exhaust


On it's place, perfect


Mig weld, All the best to the Escort



And the video (=


Hugs from Brazil,

Pedro

 

cool, do you have pictures of the bay and generally pics around the car, looks like a few different thinks to out model, the dash/switches seem to mbe mk3 switches in a panel on a mk4 dash, like the rear openers (euro hi spec got em we didnt)never seen those skirst either

 

i would spend time cleaning and making car look better forget all them leds

 

Hi sir, i don't have pics of that right now, but i can take them later, tomorrow i think

 

Thanks.

 

New ups ppl
Just finished the installation proccess of tachometer, the other gauges are not working right now, gotta buy all the cables and stuff
No proccess picture because i had no battery on my camera

Tachometer working perfectly


Gauges Column, screwed

 

ta ficando legalzinhho ein? mas capricha mais na limpeza do carrinho. cuida bem que ele merece

 

Since i'm out of ups, some pics from the last meeting that we had here

 

 

And a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrNfzkps044

 

New UP
Ignition Button (=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gfl7Iifo-Y

Hope you like it

 

u got opel corsa wheels on urs??

 

No, but they look like that ones

 

Wasn't there a VW badged Escort Mk4 for sale in Brazil at some point?

 

if its VW and looks like a mk4 its called VERONA, idk about this sale, but there are a lot for sale here.. why?

 

good pics pal,i like to see the foreign fords..........

 

this is how they look like

 

exactly

 

cool to see all these different versions

 

that above pic looks just like the american version of the escort ,

 

a video from our last 2009 meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKsUwlYPwn8

 

Sierra style taillights too!

 

My last up
since I have no idea how you guys do to raise the hood
i made it this way





How it looks

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9RaSBNkSk

100km/h at 2nd gear

1.6 Ethanol Non turbo

 

Cleaning the Valves Cover (Not sure if this is the right name) and also Valve Regulation


Inside


From a distance


Valves


Closer


Cover + Gasoline + tow


Beggining the proccess


After the cleaning, I decided to paint it black and make a detail that was a long time in order to make


Meanwhile my father was fixing the Fuel Pump of his 318is


And changing something about the oil


Closer


There's the detail that i talked about


New Bushes



In it's place


Screws after a gasoline shower


Beautiful IMO

 

"New" sound system

Some pics


After a while trying to figure out which wires would be the speaker ones, little Gel battery to test


New "Bagagito" or "Tampăo" that's how we call it, i have no idea how it's named on english, already with 2 Super tweeters




Me trying to cut something that i do'nt remember right now


Subs on it's place and the 6" waiting


Finishing the weld of the RCA cables for the 6x9




A little bit of disorganization, but it's perfect as it is


Say "Bleeeh"


Isolating with silicone (I was out of tape)


Almost done


In this picture all that was remaining to do was screw a screen on the 6x9 hole, then we stopped to take pictures




Cheers from Brazil.

 

very nice to see different variations what are these different headlamps you talk about??

and also you have no side repeators and no stickers to identify variations of escort by the seams of it?

keep up the good work!

 

Thank you,
I think none of the escorts came with side repeaters, the stickers I removed them because i sincerily dislike

I didn't understand the question about the headlamps, what did you mean?

 

Well,

long time without posting here. Let's continue.

Today i took the day to reinstall the sound system. AGAIN.
Bought 2 more 6x9" pioneer speakers, same model as the ones that i already had

Taking everything off



Trying to clean up a little bit


New Wires


2 New 6x9"s and one of the old ones








In it's place




And here a video to show how it is

 

You guys are big on your sound systems!

In your 2009 meet video there is a lovely mk3. looks a minter.

 

That's true, there are no cars without a good sound system in it.

Is the mk3 a silver one? If so he also has a thread here.