While my Capri is off road at Chizfab being turned into a 24v linked up competitive fully sorted beast I've got myself this Sierra. The idea is to have a budget temporary drifty toy to keep me amused/skint, and most of all hone my skills for when I get behind the wheel of the main event.
These pix are excerpts from two Fast Ford features from a few months back documenting the story....



Starting off I found it a lot harder than expected to find a cheap MOT'd 2.0 Sierra..... most were well over £500 and far away. This one turned up on the Bay in Thurso of all places (round the corner from bloody John O'Groats!). Some last minute bidding got it cheap with 6 months test.

So we set off for the north coast of Scotland in Tom's stupid old Merc......









It didn't last long.... We got to Pitlochry before a halfshaft started to self desctruct!





Back on track with an Astra blagged from Pitlochry Hire Cars we headed north..




A bit of haggling with the seller and it was mine for £250. (a wing was beyond fucked and I'm quite sure he was well aware that the pix in the sale didn't show that up properly!).


All set for 300 miles south now!






It made it back totally fine, real comfy to drive and a genuine 72k on the clock, all backed up with MOTs and service history!
Next day was a Classic Ford shoot at Crail which I took along the Saph as firstly it was the only car I had out of my 5(!) which was working, and I was sure I could get a cheeky skid in too....





Shoot wrapped up so lets go play!

Really tall wobbly suspension and an open diff was never going to be great but it was still MILES better than my Capri already! Scandy flicks and actual handling more like a real car rather than a broken shopping trolley was possible!
I was really impressed with it! Only thing I felt could be a problem was the steering which was really slow, laggy and jerky. The PAS resovoir even overflowed!

















I really should have taken some spare wheels, but the car was ram packed with photo gear, and I'm used to the Capri which takes a full day's skidding to kill tyres!



Next stage... mods.....

 

A few days later we undertook project 24hr drift car!
The plan was basically to do some budget key drift mods and tart her up





The main men, Chizfab & Toole....
















Ren enthralled by wet n dry...


Tyre shopping Tramp style


Fitting tyres the cool way...


Weller Steels, 15x8J ET4


Had to try out the new welded diff!




Shonky battered wing gives Toole no fear!




Euan Begbie's 180 odd MPH bumper.... gotta add a few brake!


Dodgy door replaced...




essential Cossie style spoiler!

 

Badges binned, towbar cut off...






Random bumper tug of war


Working into the night, Cossie kit fitted...




pointless number plate trimming!


Toole in action!




Result! 24 hours after it arrived at Chizfab we're at Crail for a big track drift day..

Massive huge thanks to Chizfab, Toole, Jeek, Ren, Two Sheds, Salmon, Rosco, Harris, Tom, Stuart, Pete and K......







Apart from the slipping clutch it did pretty well.... totally different from the forgiving barge like behaviour of the day when it was up 100% stock, but had far more potential.





Next stop was Ford Fair at Silverstone! New clutch fitted, geometry sorted, cool plates, half a ton of stickers added and we're ready to go










It might have been massively underpowered for such a huge track but it was fun just throwing it into corners and using up the whole track to get it back together!


A long drive home for Kyle....

 

Since then I've been taking the Sierra to nearly every day at Crail....
Apart from ripping a gearbox mount apart from constant shift locks it's doing just fine!



Skills are progressing, delaminating tyres are killing bumpers, all is well







I've even been going up in the most ridiculous of weathers.... lol (no picture could describe how wet it was this day!).


This week as my Alfa is away getting paint I've been using it daily.... and trying to resist temptation
Here it is looking out of place... which it does pretty much everywhere very well

 

i do like a real deep dished wheel even when there steel

 

nice work, i'd like to get a tramp drifter myself that looks fun

 

Looks cool!

 

looks good,
may have to invest in one of these one day

 

cool mate

 

As I said the other day Ade, looks cool as fuck mate!

 

That looks cool, awesome transformation!!

I take it you realised your horrendous error of getting the numbers wrong on those second set of number plates then

 

where can i get a set of those rims they look sweet

 

:top ::top :

 

Ade is actually so enthusiastic about his 8,498,8575.65 projects, he's got me hankering after a Capri after I met him in the street last week. I've been searching pistonheads and ebay with an imaginary budget

Ade, you're a c*nt

 

 

wicked mate enjoyed reading this

 

wow! Love the deep dish rims!

 

Weller made them, but alas no more!

Don't know what ya mean

I know.... but apart from this one most of my projects are broken, unfinished or still need tons of cash chucked at them!

 

very kl love those steels shame there not made anymore

 

Least you have a project I have a fucking Avensis.

 

Great pics there Ade... you could do that for a living!!!

What an awesome project!

 

I like it alot Ade.I like sierras and i love your wheels.

 

love the look of the car mate! when are you next up at crail?

 

Wheels are cool as feck.
Whats future plans for the car apart from give it death at more drift days?

ps - upgrade your PB account

 

Thats brilliant. The wheels are a nice touch

 

Cheers for the comments

Was just up yesterday! Next one is two weeks time, but is 'weather dependant' according to Crail
Last one until Feb as well!

The plan was always simple.... tart it up and drift it lots 'til I get some skills!

Got two many projects to start pulling this one apart. Although saying that when the Capri is back up and running the Saph may get a 24v too

 

So on Friday I took the Saph to Simon's Custom Exhausts for some adjustments and budget speccing up. As well a better hanging system I opted for a proper 4" outwardly rolled tailpipe (only thing that can go on a Saph!) and the centre box chopped out

Looked great....



Just a shame that I smashed it backwards into the tyre wall at Crail on Sunday!

So today it was a trip back (with the much dirtier Saph which was wearing a few more battle scars) to Simon's to get it fixed...



Sorted!

 

Recently I was using the Saph as a daily for a while, and on one of those days I turned up early at a shoot location.....

So with a the lights set up, and a cool car in front of me it would be rude not to take a few snaps.
Battle-scars and filth makes it even cooler too I think....

 

Any plans for more power?

 

Lovin your saph Ade , Makes me want to go and buy another one.

 

such a cool car

 

lovely pix m8!
nice to see lowering the back of the car.
but put spacers the rear knuckle (if i'm right about the name of that part), get them wheels right, get more grip for more power.
24v is a nice choice, lot of parts need to change but 200bhp and 300Nm of tourqe will skid the car way better than the twink.

and get more steering angle

 

I remember reading this in fastford and looks smart mate

 

The pics look like there were taken 2 sec from me

 

Not at the moment, my drift Capri project is getting all the power (and my money)....... but saying that the Twink may get turbo'd or pulled out in favour of one of the 24v lumps I've got.

Know what you mean! Have been tempted, but it's not really needed at the moment. With the power it's currently got doing so wouldn't really be of much advantage....

Sure were

 

Now that is COOL !!

 

Loving the shot of the focus 4 wheel drifting in the background

 

Top pics as always Ade.

 

Awesome looks, shame it have that crap engine..... Turbo power soon ?

 

As above, it's a great as a learning tool.... and a mega strong engine too!
Might get a 24v, but my Capri drift project is the priority just now