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Old Dec 24, 2005 | 09:22 PM
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Hello all, you may have seen my fiesta in the members gallery but i thought i would start a post in the projects section as im going to be doing loads to it.

I got the car off spadge last week and picked up full cosworth running gear the day later
And today i fitted the engine and it went in very easy, still need to fit the gearbox etc. But hope to have it running over xmas,but need to have a few bits custom made first

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And heres and heart



And here it is fitted





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What do you think

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Old Dec 24, 2005 | 09:29 PM
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Will be a beast m8

Had a Caspean blue mk1 XR2 when I was 20,loved it

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Old Dec 24, 2005 | 10:18 PM
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look awesome mate !!
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Love it
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 10:26 AM
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all took place very quick fair play most projects take ages
mines took me a couple ov years (house purchase slowed it down )
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 11:02 AM
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 02:19 PM
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id luv 2 c the looks on folks faces wen u pass them so easily in this!!!!lol
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 03:05 PM
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looks crazy my man, that,ll be front cover of performance ford soon then
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 03:14 PM
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Fucking hell, does that thing pull wheelies?!

Mental project mate Thats a right animal i bet
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 03:42 PM
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 04:20 PM
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well in rich , carnt wait to see this on show in 06
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 04:26 PM
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That looks mega! Gonna be a animal
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 05:04 PM
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i see this when spadge had it,awesome little car the fabrication work on it is spot on.good to see that a cossie lump is finaly going in there.
keep up the good work mate
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thats awesome mate not much gonna touch you in that
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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 07:21 PM
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Cheer all hope to have it running soon , at the min its only the engine in still loads to fit, gearbox, wiring, plumbing, rad, cooler etc also need to have the prop modded and want to get a rad and cooler made up

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Old Dec 25, 2005 | 08:23 PM
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simply the bollocks!
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Old Dec 26, 2005 | 07:46 PM
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excellent... youll be wasting cossie's all day long. a fezzie heavyweight to say the least.... i reckon you could have a traction problem though, theres no weight in the rear. might need some ballast for the drag strip or the lights . what diff are you using?
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i reckon it needs a scoop, not a big one, just a cold air intake. i'd love to convert one to rwd but i thought about putting a modded rst lump behind the seats. was yours a big job?
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Old Dec 27, 2005 | 08:21 PM
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Cheers, i didnt do the metal work that was already done, the axel is a 4.6 Quaiffe LSD 5 linked.

Started to fit the gearbox today, but sadly didnt get it in as the tunnel needs some metal cutting out. As long as the weather is ok tomorrow i will try to finish it and fit the exhaust.

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Looks great mate. Hope everything else goes smoothly
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Old Dec 27, 2005 | 09:15 PM
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superb, gonna be nice to see it completed
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the car speaks for itself .
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Old Dec 27, 2005 | 11:50 PM
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looks proper
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Old Dec 27, 2005 | 11:57 PM
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you are a head case but i love it !! i used to own a mk1 fezzy 997cc. the power to weight ratio of that car mean's you'll probably rupture most of your internal organs when you really drop the hammer !!

good luck to you my man.. and good job !! you got any plan's for the engine..or is it already spec'd up?
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Cheers all, cant wait to get it on the road. The engine is stage 3 on a standard engine, going to start buying all the bits to rebuild it to a higher spec

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fecking insane!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old Dec 30, 2005 | 10:27 AM
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fuck about!! that thing is mental!! loving the interior!! cant wait to see it go!! Have ya got a date set for when you should have it done fella??
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wouldnt mind doing something like that my self

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nice project mate, infact amazing project. love it. have you got any more pics of how you fitted the exhaust? i want to mount mine centrally like that on my mk1 capri 24v cossie project. cheers boss. paul.

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Old Jan 2, 2006 | 05:37 PM
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no pics then?.....
how about an explanation? did you run it through the boot or below the boot floor? if the latter does it not interfere with thwe vertical travel of the diff? what boxes did you use? did you use a middle box?
cheers.
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mate,that thing is absolutely mental,dreamed of doin summit like that to mine but havent got the balls to do it.fair play to ya
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Old Jan 3, 2006 | 05:37 PM
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Cheers all

UPDATE

Gearbox now fitted, wasnt easy had to cut a load of metel out and mod the gearbox mounting but its worth it

Going to make the exhaust up next weekend and make some metal boxes to go over the holes

Also a pic for mk1nurburg of the exhaust





For you mk1nurburg


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Fucking superb mate.

You gonna properly shit yourslf once you get that thing running full hammer
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