Hi guys, Im new to the forum and I've just bought my first ford. It's a 3 door 1998 Escort Zetec.

I bought the car about a month ago for way to much than it was worth but anyway. Got it home and it didn't start. Got new starter motor and still didn't work. Put it into the garage it it was the loom. The guy that owned it before me was mucking around with it and the electrics were shocking. 60 volts were going to the front wipers and heaps of other electrics didn't work either.

I got the loom sorted and it was working fine. The next day the car was making a horrible screeching noise so decided to take it back into the garage. On my way out the car broke down on the duel carriageway! Turns out the clutch and gearbox are knackered too.

I'm fed up of taking it back and forth to garage and all the other little problems so it's in the garage now getting a full service including new timing belt. New clutch, new gearbox and heaps of other little bits that it needs.

It also has a small dent in the front wing and a crack in the back bumper. My best mates a panel beater so once I get it back it it's going to his to get repaired.

I'm a car valeter so I'll obviously be spending 2 full days cleaning, buffing, claying etc.

Theres A LOT more to mod's to come so a lot more pictures to come, watch this space! Comments please!

Heres a few pics of it after it's first wash and hoover. Before and after pics will be shown once Car's had a full detail.

 

Stick with it mate it will all come good in the end, looks a nice car

 

As above keep it. If all the little problems are solved you got a really nice car.

 

Cheers guys. Yeh once all that stuff is done it's gonna be awesome

 

nice car matey. love the wheels. just a pity that you are having all tose problems. it will be sweet when you get it back from the garage. is it a gti btw?

 

Lovely colour

 

what colour is that?? looks ace

 

i think its ash black

 

Looks to light for ash black

This was an ash black RS I had years ago

 

wasnt ash black not like panther with about 8 different shades?

 

i loved my old mk6 escort. the interior on the Si and Rs i reckon are nice.

 

It's a GTI. I want 160BHP from it any ideas? Was thinking r1 carbs, st170 manifold, chipped? I just want it to be faster than my mates golf GTI.

It's Land Rover Grey

 

that looks really nice mate

 

Looks really smart mate, rims suit it. You'll be hard pressed to get 160bhp out of it this side of gas. My brothers other halfs GTi



That made 155bhp and was running Piper cams, superchip, full magnex, throttle body etc. There really wasn't a cheap way to get anything else from it so we dropped an ST170 engin in the bay

 

Did you buy that from Dundee mate? It looks familiar...


Cheers,
Grant

 

well 150BHP would be good enough. He's a shocking driver which helps. so Piper cams, r1 throttle bodies, full magnex, superchip. what else?

and yeh i did buy it from dundee

 

It was just an enlarged throttle body from a 2 litre Mondeo I believe, nothing mega fancy. I'll have to find out rest of spec from my brother as I'm not 100% certain. It did go ok for what it was. To be honest though I wouldn't mess about too much with the 1800 as it's cheap and quite easy to just stick a 2 litre Mondeo in and give you a base 130bhp platform to work off.

 

ok sounds good, well it was just some ideas for the future. In the mean time the main thing is to get it running perfect, sort the body work and valet every single millimetre of that car!

 

Quickly made a new avatar and signature. you like?

 

thats what i did, still running it in tho, got the magnex exhaust. but i need a 2.0 ecu

 

Sure thats ash black. Same as mine...Havent seen many about.

 

I'ts had a full respray in Land Rover Grey. It's different in real life to the photos. I thought It was ash black before I went down to see it. mmmmm Mud flaps should I?

 

Anyone like my avatar? I can make them for anyone with your name in instead. give me a shout. latest update on the car. Got heated seats and getting the car back wed.

 

looks good dude
Had my scort for 4 years now
Cheap fun cars tbh but shocking brakes as std

 

when ash black is super clean with good lighting it looks light ,so I would go with that ,its unusual to find a 97 on one in that shade and nearly all were panther black,sort that ding on the front o/s wing and it will look a right good one

 

Once I get it back from the garage my best mate whos a panel beater/painter is gonna take the dent out and theres a small crack on the rear bumper too. like I said before. watch this space for a very very clean car.

 

Looks very smart


Brian

 

My car is Still in the garage!!! I went out today and got a load of bits that were missing for my car and a couple of other little pieces.

New gear knob, Seatbelt bolt covers, rear badge, steering wheel badge, window wiper bolt covers, trim for inside bootlit, window brake light, and a new set of winter wheels, refurbed and 4 new tyres going on asap.

 

oh and an old ford tape deck to fit in my single din fasia, i hate the double din ford cd players!

 

Pretty looking car that mate - well done and welcome !

 

Car looks great, those wheels look the dog's knob!!!