Hi, I bought this Escort just after new year from Boothy. It was a 1000 mile round trip and drove all through the night after picking the car up but it was worth it

Here are some pics...





Got the car home





Gave it a wee wash



Then cleaned up the bonnet catch



















Got the car inside









Then started the work, the first thing I wanted to do was get it fired up to make sure the engine actually worked. Thankfully it did!













And the last thing I did was put together the rear lights and put the mirrors on properly









Comments are welcome, thanks

 

It looks a very nice shell mate wots the plans for it keep the up dates coming . And wecome to passionford

 

Yeah the shell is really good, hardly any rust at all on it. Still need to have a proper look underneath though, but I'm not expecting anything bad.

I'm planning to build it up to a good usable standard, I want it looking good and driving well. I don't think I'm going to do much to the engine, just leave it how it is for a while.

 

Nice solid project mate!

 

Really fresh looking shell. Going to look lovely all built up.

 

Brings back memories of my white S2.

Fair bit of work needed, but a great project. Is that a Fiesta Turbo engine? (certainly not the Escorts EFI unit)

Good luck with it.

Chris.

 

Thanks everyone

Yeah I'm pretty sure it is a Fiesta engine, it's got a stage 3 turbo and a few other bits.

 

Looks mint that, good shell, good luck with the project

 

Got a small update, I installed the headlights and indicators last night. Had a few problems and sorted most of them, only thing is I can't get the indicators to sit properly... They just don't look right.

 

Your right about the indicators not looking right.. What has caused that??

I'm sure somebody will know the answer!

Good luck, I like the look of it!

 

Are the indicators non genuine ones ,or even the wings may be non gen if they have been replaced ,first thing would be to get some gen indicators in to try

 

Nice work so far.

 

Well the drivers side is a ford part and the passenger is a Cibie, but both sides don't look quite right. What else do you think could be causing my problem?

I'm pretty sure the wings haven't been changed so I don't think that's the problem well hopefully anyway!

 

Was out in the garage for 5 mins today so thought I'd put in the bonnet vents









And I found some genuine Ford indicators so might try and fit them later tonight

 

Very nice car.... wish we got them over here.... all we got was watered down poo.

 

Only managed to fit one of the indicators tonight, but I managed to figure out why they didn't look right before. It's because I didn't have any spring clips on the indicators, I managed to find 1 though

Does anyone know where I will be able to get anymore?

 

It's been a while since I've updated this, I haven't had much spare time recently but I got a few wee things done today.

Fitted the heater box and motor





Then I managed to find another spring clip for the indicator so that sorted my wonky lights





And I put on the wiper linkage, motor and the wipers themselves









I also ordered some parts from Auto Specialist and Motorsport Developments, I've ordered timing belt kit, fuel filter, turbo oil feed hose, thermostat and a front mount intercooler hopefully they won't take long to arrive!

 

Thought I'd better clean up the MAP sensor bracket so did that today













It definitely looks a bit better anyway

 

Got a couple of parcels yesterday, just waiting for the Airtec intercooler to come now

 

Very nice I do like a white s2!

 

It definitely looks a bit better anyway

 

Looks like a nice base car to start with.Keep the updates coming.

 

I received my Airtec intercooler today hopefully I'll get it fitted tonight!

 

Lovely project mate! If you get bored just fire me a pm and i'l come collect her ;p

 

Haha no problem and thanks, I'm hoping it'll be finished soon so I can finally drive it! I think I might have your old car, H616UVV? Grey Escort RS Turbo

 

 

I didn't manage to finish fitting the intercooler tonight, I just got the radiator mounted but I've figured out what I have to do tomorrow

 

looking nice

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

 

Got the intercooler on!!







But.... As usual nothing quite went to plan, my top boost hose wouldn't reach the intercooler. So I ordered a longer alloy hose joiner and a straight silicone hose for my air filter.

 

I tried the front bumper on to see how it fits, and it doesn't fit properly... So I'll have to try and move the intercooler back a wee bit.





I wanted to make sure the car was watertight aswell so I took it out and gave it a wash, there is a bit of water leaking in near the top of the doors so going to try and sort that out soon.





And I've been trying to tidy up the wiring inside the car and I'm slowly getting there, just got to replace the wires for the boost gauge because they are really thin.



Going to see if I can connect up the intercooler tonight with the new alloy joiner I got.

 

Was out in the garage for 20 mins tonight, I got the alloy joiner and silicon hose I ordered a few days ago. So I stuck the joiner on and it solved 1 problem, for now...

 

Put my air filter on properly, it turns out that the straight silicone hose I bought isn't any use for the filter but I just cut up a standard hose and got the filter where I want it.







I got a new battery aswell

 

I got the bumper on properly a couple of days ago





And I had to sort out the wiring for the electric windows, some wires had come apart so I soldered them back together. All fixed now

 

Yeah mate thats the one! I was gonna email keith and ask if he still had it! Whats your plans with it?? I always fancied buying it back and actually finishing it lol it feels like unfinished business between me and that car lol

 

I'm planning to completely restore it after I've finished the white one, I'll have to redo the underneath of the car because it's starting to rust a bit already in some places. I'm hoping to make it really mint, but it's going to take a while... I probably won't be able to get started on it until next year after I've done the underneath of the white one, once I get going though it should take too long

Here are a couple of pictures I took when I got the car home, it's looking a bit rough right now

 

Looks in a sorry state! Im sure ul sort it out and get it minted!

 

nice

 

Looking good mate

 

I've been trying to get the engine running properly for the past week so I changed the fuel filter and spark plugs. Was having problems where as soon as I put any load on the engine it would misfire then cut out but I figured out I had the wrong chip plugged in so I need to buy a new one







Oh and I changed the charge carrier bolts

 

I got a load of parts recently and still waiting for a few more things, but here's what I got so far.







I fitted the new ECU chip, HT leads and new bulb holders, all the lights work properly now





Had to replace the rear exhaust mount rubber because it basically just fell apart





And today I started fitting the dashboard, not quite finished though