Well she started out as an ex concours mint standard xr2. The guy had owned it for 9 years and had been dry stored pretty much all of its life!

Heres a couple of pics of how it was when i bought it...




Anyway i started stripping her ready for painting and she went off to get the bay done last week! Here is is before it left my driveway...


Decided to paint it Lamborghini Merchialago Orange for some bizarre reason!!

Here is it with the bay painted as per the other day....








Ive got a FRST engine going in with the spec as below:

1650 CVH
Cossie T3 turbo with larger exhaust housing
Fully balanced and blueprinted
Blydenstein gas-flowed cylinder head with silicon valve stems
Low compression pistons (7.0:1 CR)
Escort Cossie Group A K&N Filter
Bailey oil breather system
Bailey Swirl Pot
Ahmed Bayjoo Phase2 conversion
OFAC management
Uprated wastegate actuator
Bosch yellow fuel injectors
Ahmed Bayjoo turbo cam
Custom Pace polished chargecooler system with two cooling radiators and boot mounted two gallon water reservoir
Pace polished alloy radiator

No pics of the engine but will take some later....

Bought the following wheels to go on... Should look sweet on front of my chromed cossie calipers


I also have a freshly powder coated safety devices rollcage going in with a Fusion rear brace (pic below). Its stupidly chunky!


Im keeping the interior stripped except for a pair of bucket, fire extinguiser and a mk3 fiesta dash conversion.

Im hoping to get the lump in this weekend so will try and keep this thread updated!

Chris

 

& what sticker job is going on the outside

 

nothing fella! keeping her plain!

 

Not even a nice suttle Vortex along the side on a angle

Good luck with the project Chris

Keep the pics & updates coming mate

 

I thought you were doing something with an Evo engine in one??

Either way it looks cool in that colour

 

 

Looks good mate, keep it up

 

sweet!!!!

 

Wicked colour dude

 

cfoster, looks like its gonna b nice when its done matey when u hopin 2 ave her done???

 

It was gonna be matey but the i found out the cost of the diffs and it was ŁŁŁŁ!!!! decided against it in the end. Im buying an F150 lightning soon and want this as a sort of runabout

Rich - it should be running by the end of the month, then to the painters and hopefully all ready for the Fordsport Weekend at the beginning of May

Chris

 

Nice, more pictures

 

pics pics

 

cfoster, anymore pics matey

 

Got the engine in the other day so took a few more pics! Just got the plumbing in to do now!!
Having a mare with the chargecooler at the mo so will be ditching it for an intercooler!

 

Going to be awesome when done

 

Looks very nice matey !!!!

 

 

looks stunning mate

 

wow nice

 

 

That's going to be a very nice motor m8!!

 

Im not a "chrome" person, but still looks good



Will be good once running......

 

very nice keep the pics coming

 

looks good mate dose the frst engine bolt straight in with out any work ?

 

yeah the mounts are the same but you need to use the mk2 cradle and mount. Depending on how you go about it the front cross member needs to be trimmed back slightly so the downpipe drops down (although some people prefer to mod the downpipe - not me as im a lazy fooker!).

Well its going to the painters on Sunday so she'll be a nice shade of orange very soon!!

 

thats gonna be bright lol but looking good

x x x

 

What painters are you using , i'm looking for someone good around my way to respray mine, do the inner wings and front valance etc.

Any recommendations. I'm in Burnham just down the road

 

Im using TNT Body Repairs in Southminster (Toby Seamon & Tony Mitchell although Tony isnt there anymore!). He's pretty good but i went with him cause he's cheap! Not fussed on a concours paintjob as it will be blated round track anyway so chips galore!!!

Chris

 

Same here just want a good cheap job done. Funnily enough i know toby as i went to schoool with him

Willl have to contact them and get a price as they're only 2 miles away

thanks chris

 

 

Just a couple of sneak pics with me camera phone with all the painting done! Very happy with the job, and cant believe how much the colour changes depending on the light!!!







Chris

 

Looks good Chris, that colour looks simular to the one Tillio used on that cabbie he's got/had

 

Looking MINT chris



reminds me of my mates







you dont hafl knock out some quality xr's m8

 

cfoster, top work there mate , its gonna look nice in that orange

 

love the colour , top work

 

well i got her back from the paintshop last week!! Started to gradually build her up! Coilovers are on, the cossie front brakes/chrome calipers are fitted etc..... Heres a few pics...









my other new toy!


Couple of crappy camera phone pics with the coilovers on!




More pics to follow this week

Chris

 

cfoster, lookin sweet as mate

 

LOVE IT MATE


Looks like you got alot on neg camber on the front ??

 

yeah the track rods ends are loose! The front will need raising though as it rubs like fook!!!!