Ive been meaning to put my project up on here for a little while now but just have not had the time to sit down and write about it,Hopefully ppl can give me advice and sale me there parts, but here goes.

after owning a black s2 a few years ago i decided on buying another escort seen this one up for sale from a guy on here. traveled along way to collect it,
it had a few problems to start with really delocked doors, engine was cutting out and needed tlc.If im honest it looked sorry for itself but thats what i was looking for a car, i could make my own. The car had good grounds for me to start on with bits polished and the zetec conversion almost finished. because that was the way i wanted to go, not big power but a nice power.

I wanted to do something like this for alittle while now, i wanted to have a rs turbo that was in good condition and looked great that i could say i did that. i know that i would never get it in like concourse condition with my budget but i wanted a good one.

here is a few pics of it when i picked it up back in Feb 2011 before a clean!




Then it looked alot better with abit a water and shampoo

 

So the plan was to drive it how it was throu the summer and then after summer start to strip car, before i knew it summer was gone and it was time to start, so in Sept me and my mate started the project





Nice bit of cutting there

 

Good looking project

 

next abit was the block which was pretty easy, wasnt really looking forward to putting it back in.








Interior aswell to see what we was up against









so after a good weekend this is what we had

also i was so surprised how much stuff comes out of one car, my garage was getting full

 

That's a nice looking shell mate! What's the spec of the zetec?

 

Pretty much standard at mo beige injectors will be on emerald management, in the mix of getting new turbo for it, ill post up more soon

 

looks good mate... the worst feelin is wen you lift the carpets up on them i think... looks a solid one tho

 

ye that feeling was not bad seen worse, the next bit was to find out about a jig for the car, sourced one of them, and it was worth every penny,

here is the car on the jig



once on that was time to find all the rust so i thought it would be good to do it correctly and get the shell fully sandblasted and there was a local company that would be doing this. but came to a problem i needed the car on wheels really but before a new it B&Q helped me out with them



then it was booked car in for blast and off it went

 

Great start to a project thread

 

Thanks just so much to write up

 

you ent hangin about are ya lol

 

That's got to be one of the best mk3 turbo shells i have seen in ages,good luck with the project,regards paul

 

Fair shout mate I love S1 turbos

 

thanks paul, so while shell was off getting blasted i was back at garage stripping the bonnet and doors of paint, what stuff do you lot thing the best for stripping paint???

the next day i got a call off the blasters and they said cant blast the shell yet due to undersealer on car, so i went up there and to keep the cost down for labour, i took day off work and spent the day burning and scrapping underseal off the shell, (oh that was fun, 8 hours)

 

Cool project matey.I like seening projects like this.I just hope you dont get sick half way through and sell up like some people do.

 

shell doesnt look to bad mate, keep the updates coming mate

 

well here is a couple of photo's when i was chipping away at the underseal.

before


after

 

once i got the underseal off the car it went into booth to be blasted then ech primed
here are some photos of what it looked like with a few bad bits but not that bad. what you think?

 

here are a few more of shell after the blasting










so i couldnt wait to get her back home to start cutting and replacing the bad bits

 

looks in good shape for a mk3 rs escort good start to the project

 

Nice project


Did you get it blasted out near Ermington?

 

great looking shell you have mate ,should make it a lot easier hopefully

i have two shells here that are in need of some serious surgery

 

Thats a good shell you got there m8 you are certainly cracking on with it, I met you at woodford garage a couple of weeks ago by the way m8

 

Looks a good solid shell....keep the updates coming.

 

Thank all ye nice meeting u. I will update u tomorrow

 

was at plympton mate

 

Well ain't been on here much done lot since last post cut out old panels that had any rust or filler in for some new ones to go in.

 

Looks like it will be a thread to watch