Escort MK3/4 Estates and Combi vans
08-01-2010, 04:17 PM
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hello mate,havnt touched mine since ford fair but will be getting on with it again soon as i want it done for as early in the show season as i can,money permitting that is as i just got layed off from my job the other day,was a shame you got rid of yours mate
18-01-2010, 03:22 PM
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Hi guys,just wondered if the proper combi vans have a roof lining? Mine has one but as it used to be an estate it used to fold round the glass seal and as thats now plated it hangs down so just wanted to know how the van ones fixed in if they had one?
20-01-2010, 03:41 PM
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my bro inlaw does'nt want his anymore as he lost interest,he said he goin to scrap it,the engine has gone in his sapp,told him ill ave the estate,my sis said he knows i want it, just need to go fetch it but the place is shut at weekends,its been dragged outside now so it will ave water sat in it
20-01-2010, 03:43 PM
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here u go mate,not bad price either
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1344690.htm
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1440692.htm
20-01-2010, 03:45 PM
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20-01-2010, 03:50 PM
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mine did mate,were the panels was it had a rubber around the lip were a window rubber would sit,the head lining had clips on like a estate would have
u can see the rubber but not much head lining
08-03-2010, 08:13 PM
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Hey guys.
Met S1 Combi in Bluewater shopping centre last night and got talking. The car is STUNNING in the flesh.
My 1.3 HCS engined Estate. POPULAR. Bit of a downgrade in speed from my old car, a mk5 XR3i 130 spec. But i like the look of it much more. This was completely standard before I got it, but was used by a fire station as a rapid response vehicle (hahaha rapid). It was covered in stickers, such as an ST stripe running down the middle, had flames going down the sides and had the words "The Red Baron" slapped on the front and back.
And it had the WORST interior I have ever seen on a car.
Not doing anything RADICAL to the outside, but it has been stripped, the bump strips removed and it has been lowered 60mm which have changed the look of the car completely. And I put in some Recaros and an rs turbo steering wheel :P
Keeping it on steel wheels, although they are currently 14s so I may move up to 15s.
Oh and the car has an RS Turbo brake conversion, and a horn that goes AROOOOGA.
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And this is how it stands now.
Now just looking for a 1.6 engine of some description...
Anyone have any ideas on what I should go for? Whats easiest?
Met S1 Combi in Bluewater shopping centre last night and got talking. The car is STUNNING in the flesh.
My 1.3 HCS engined Estate. POPULAR. Bit of a downgrade in speed from my old car, a mk5 XR3i 130 spec. But i like the look of it much more. This was completely standard before I got it, but was used by a fire station as a rapid response vehicle (hahaha rapid). It was covered in stickers, such as an ST stripe running down the middle, had flames going down the sides and had the words "The Red Baron" slapped on the front and back.
And it had the WORST interior I have ever seen on a car.
Not doing anything RADICAL to the outside, but it has been stripped, the bump strips removed and it has been lowered 60mm which have changed the look of the car completely. And I put in some Recaros and an rs turbo steering wheel :P
Keeping it on steel wheels, although they are currently 14s so I may move up to 15s.
Oh and the car has an RS Turbo brake conversion, and a horn that goes AROOOOGA.
Before:
And this is how it stands now.
Now just looking for a 1.6 engine of some description...
Anyone have any ideas on what I should go for? Whats easiest?
love it.Screw messing around with a 1.6 mate just go straight for a turbo zetec
09-03-2010, 09:16 AM
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well i got my sleeper stripped and sold all the efi parts and all the suspension and polybushes,then bought a q plate s2 off a mate and put the sleeper back on the road again lol,i will be making a bit more progress on my cossie estate in the next few weeks as im out of work at the moment and getting very bored sat doing nothing all day every day lol im hoping to get all the welding done so i can get it all cleaned up and stonechipped underneath then i can start putting the interior back in aswell then and figuring out how to mount the front and rear seats
09-03-2010, 09:31 AM
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engines out of mine,rebuild over the winter is taking me abit longer.
old engine made 270atw @ 18psi. fancy running abit more on the new lump.
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old engine made 270atw @ 18psi. fancy running abit more on the new lump.
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09-03-2010, 05:49 PM
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I dragged mine out over the weekend to do afew more bits
a couple more bits to do and i should be ready to try and spark her up
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a couple more bits to do and i should be ready to try and spark her up
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09-03-2010, 08:19 PM
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Cheers guys it should look even more the part once i put the roof rack back on my mates been trying to crank me up to put a tow bar on aswell lol
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10-03-2010, 07:26 AM
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my sleeper is the same colour as yours mate,ive got a roof rack on mine and also putting a towbar on it soon aswell so i can tow my gokart around lol mines on 15inch tsw stealths now though so the discs all round are visible now lol
10-03-2010, 05:20 PM
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I didnt really want a stainless exhaust on it either but it was cheaper to get a stainless one than a mild steel one so i just got one with a small tip if it stands out too much ill just key it up and paint it black.
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10-03-2010, 09:09 PM
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I didnt want to put alloys on mine i thought it would give the game away to much so i got the 15 inch steelies of a fiesta fusion i was paniking abit once i put the 4 pots on about them clearing the calipers but they literally just clear.
I didnt really want a stainless exhaust on it either but it was cheaper to get a stainless one than a mild steel one so i just got one with a small tip if it stands out too much ill just key it up and paint it black.
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I didnt really want a stainless exhaust on it either but it was cheaper to get a stainless one than a mild steel one so i just got one with a small tip if it stands out too much ill just key it up and paint it black.
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28-03-2010, 08:46 PM
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15-05-2010, 06:13 PM
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Heres a couple more of mine now she's road legal
I still need it setting up properly by a tuner but ive been told to put afew miles on it before i send it away to be done so she's only running about 4psi of boost now but it still goes alright.
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I still need it setting up properly by a tuner but ive been told to put afew miles on it before i send it away to be done so she's only running about 4psi of boost now but it still goes alright.
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15-05-2010, 06:58 PM
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Cheers pal its going to be fun once the boosts dialed in properly ive only got it boosting about 4psi at the minute and i saw off a local lad in his 106gti piece of piss so bring on the bigger boys lol
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23-05-2010, 07:57 AM
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its still about mate a friend of mine owns it in welwyn,its been off the road for quite a while but i had it at my house for a while converting it to efi turbo,it should be back on the road in the next few months
24-05-2010, 07:59 PM
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31-05-2010, 10:39 PM
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i own f803 plr m8 i saw some of the pics a while back on escortcombi i would love some pics if u could email them to me i bought it in stevenage about 2.5/3 years ago off fleabay from a bloke in stevenage who was planning on converting it to a zetec after a year i put a rsturbo in it then took it off the road in july last year n its been off the road since like jonesey said he just converted it to efi for me or i prob would of give up lol we finally got it started today so i need a wiper n a headlight then its mot time looks the same as when u had it minus the wheels n m3 mirrors instead rst mirrors in black n some s2 alloys may be putting the wheels on off our st170 though
02-06-2010, 07:22 PM
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Sound mate, i'll glad to hear its still being looked after lol. I'll get a file with all the build pics together and send it on to you.
Bet it goes well with a turbo in it. I put the 1.6 carb engine in just before i sold it and it was fairly quick then, but it could out handle a lot of things aswel
Bet it goes well with a turbo in it. I put the 1.6 carb engine in just before i sold it and it was fairly quick then, but it could out handle a lot of things aswel
02-06-2010, 09:50 PM
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yeah m8 was pretty quick b4 do u know what gbox was on it, as atm its got a s2 1 on there but ive still got the other box as a spare didnt brake too well though on the solid discs lol cant wait to get it back on the road fully its now running but been off the road for nearly a year now so mot tax insurance time