brought my fiesta nearly 3yrs ago of geoff at chorley street garage used it a couple of time's then did a quick paint on it but it went big early last year here's some pics















































































































































well thats the lot lol for now the 1.6 on 45 carbs is havin a freshing up after 7yrs 4 of them not gettin used and see what its had done to it by lowman jones has damo said who built the engine and box

 

wow thats very nice,love old mk1 fezzies

 

crackin lil car fella ,

credit to you hard work mate


beef

 

Remember seeing this when collecting Stickies wheels. Looks mega

 

Love it ,looks great

 

Awesome Robbo

 

stunning mk1 and well done mate love the colour

 

When I saw this thread I had to register! This was my old car before Geoff picked it up off ebay.

I had all the best intentions when I built it to do it proper, but after the initial build (thrown together over a few weeks) it never got pulled off the road to rebuild in a way I would have been happy with. All due to lack of time and fun with the first engine expiring.. quite embarrasing now when I look back at some of the corners I initially cut to get it going.

That said, it was rather too much fun to take off the road!!

Really good to see its still about, I thought it would be on the scrap heap by now.

The original engine went south after the pistons went oval, cracking the block. They were BDA pistons, not cheap, and no idea what caused them to shapeshift.
The new block had all the gear swapped over, but with deskirted pistons, nothing flash this time round, was a budget rebuild. The cam is a Burton BLF18.

The gearbox was supposed to be from a S1 turbo, bought by email, it wasnt! So it sat around for a while until the XR2 box I originally had began to REALLY whine. So was reconditioned, but with a Quaife diff.

If you want to know anything, just ask and I shall try to remember, was 10 years ago!

Oh, and good to see that shitty sunroof is now gone!

 

cheers lads and cheers pal for some info don't know a lot about the car and were it had been when geoff had it i wanted it i used loads of bit from my XR2 which i had for 17yrs 10 of the road to rot was not good will be at central day in april on the strip

 

Smashing job there!!

 

ace nice colour and good rebuild

 

stunning wee car, think it was in Fast Ford years ago? Some kind of Fiesta modifying guide where they showed you how to mod each era of Fiesta? Think it was still white at the time, new colour looks ace

 

looks great love the 4 spokes!

 

love it looks well nice

 

About time you got teh resto on here mate.

Superb car.

 

That looks the nuts, nice choice of colour.

 

got the engine out on sunday took it my mate's to strip it down and give it freshen up now i know why it was smoking a bit of the piston is missing oops i'll get some pics on tomoz

 

great job robbo as usual!

 

yea it was r damo seen it and started to do a mk1 the same look then seen 'quaifey' (thats wot we call it coz it had a quaife sticker in the back) on ebay and it had 2 b bought hehe
took a bit to get it running the carbs were stodged up and the ignition was fooked so we put a 1.1 mk2 electronic ignition robbos now changed it
top little car foot down in every gear all way up 2 130 sure puts a smile on ur face

 

looks stunning but am a bit unsure on the colour

 

that looks really good, i like the colour

 

1970's bathroom tile blue it is lol

 

Wow you have put some work into that.

 

at last some pics got the engine rebuilt new pistons, shells and mains, new cam kit and head was a right mess 8 new valves, seats and guides by the one and only neil bold cross flow master, took all the running gear to strip it and paint it in the morning then start to build it up should be ready for the cumbria show fingers crossed lol



























get some more pics tomoz when all the bits are painted

 

straight away when i saw this the old feature of fast ford fiesta issue popped in my head, awesome car mate, and awesome work to get it looking like that love it

 

got all my parts painted today was loads of fun not lol, got all parts home in the good old S2 avant was a bit low, put the engine in the hall at home don't think the wife mind's start building in up tomoz









moving targets lol mind the head












look after that engine girl

 

car bits in the house (y) top effort
that looks really good doing a similar rebuild on my fez.

 

nice one pal just had a look at yours mint lookin fez a lot cleaner than mine when i started it

 

Any change to the spec of the engine?

 

Looks like a very nice job mate cant wait for you to paint my rs now,See you in 2 weeks,if you dont know who i am you have my white turbo in at the min

 

it's done at last all the shiny runnin gear and rebuilt engine get it run in now

 

awesome dedication mate, i would of left it the smokers teeth white tbh, but still looks great in the pastal blue

love it