Been meaning to do a resto thread in here for ages and since im bored at work with not alot to do because its my last day before x-mas i thought I would take this opportunity.

Im a big fan of Mark 3 escort's you see and ive had many over the years including the one im restoring/rebuilding at the moment!!

Here some of my previous ones:







This brings me nicely onto my current one. Now here it is a few years before I brought it:



Unfortunately it didnt arrive to me this way - it came as a rolling shell complete with doors, glass etc.



Now i'd had a good look round it before I brought it but you can never find everything thats wrong with it until you start stripping the paint and underseal off.







It needed a new battery tray, cross member and some repairs to the floor pans and a small repair to the rear chassis leg. Nothing to major!!

Now the plan with the car is to build a fast road/track day car but i did want the car to be strengthened as ive had problems with the inner wings and bulk heads before on Mark 3 escorts so it was decided to seam weld most of the shell and add a roll cage.




















All the front end repairs are now complete.



Floor repair





More seam welding.

Added some paint to the inner arches and bulkhead areas. No going for an amazing finish as its going to get used in all weathers when finished!!







Roll cage has arrived and is assembled in position in the car ready for welding!!





I have also assembled the front suspension and brakes getting ready to get the shell rolling!!











A quick picture of underneath



And thats about where im upto today!! Got loads still to do as you can imagine but its getting there!!

Thanks for reading

 

Look good so far - will look different on the MO's

 

Cracking project, I'll be keeping an eye on this one

 

Looks too good to put on track mate

 

Top work

 

I like this alot

 

Nice job (and nice welding btw)

I see you've got a keen eye for detail.

Whats happening with the motor? Original 16i going back in or something else?

 

Great Job keep it up

 

Found a few more pictures on the computer.

Quick shot of the rear complete with spoiler



Another one of the cage



And a quick picture to do with the engine and the spec.



Just giving it a quick overhaul at the moment so will post some pictures up at some point.

And no its not the original RS1600i lump!!

 

GOOOO ONNN DUDEE NICE ONE!!!!!!!!!

 

Looks nice mate well done

 

looks nice

 

looks lovely far too nice for a track car

 

They look great in white, retro cool

(think they look mega pony in red tho )

 

Finally coming round to 'em then

 

keeping my eye on this 1!!!

 

AWESOME!!!

 

From the look so far this is gonna be a cracker once finished, keep up the hard and very neat work.

 

hello all this is my mate garys car if you look at the first couple of pics you will see a silver xr31.
i just perchused this car from gary (this man knows the mk3 like the back of his hand) watch out odd kid
as i was saying the 3i came with a full series 1 turbo convertion and is a wepon love it
when garys car is finished nuf people will be banging one out over it hahahahahahahahaha

 

Cool beans

 

you have had some nice cars there

no need too guess that you are turboing this 1 aswell

keep up the exellent work

 

looking good mate keep us updated

 

I would always like to build a Fiesta Si Track Car with a 2l Zetec Turbo Engine pushing 260bhp.
Looking good! Whats engine is going in there then (or is it secret lol)???

 

 

looking good,hope to see it on track soon.

 

Thank you people for all the kind words!!

Keeps me going especially in this cold weather!

Just a small update this time and its to show the rear suspension ive been adding over the last couple of days!

Enjoy!







You can see the rear disc brackets aswell but that will be another update.

Thanks for reading

 

looking good mate

 

More pics of the red one please mate, all look excellent.

 

got to agree with carlo , too good for the track

 

Love it bring back merorys of my S1 when i had that resprayed

Keep the pics coming

 

All lookin very good keep the pictures coming.

 

Some top work going on there

 

keep up the good work,looking well m8

 

Got a real soft spot for rs1600i's
Good to see you have the MEF Motorsport adjustable suspension there

 

very nice

 

very beautiful work

 

Love that!!!

 

**UPDATE**

Okay ive been busy over the x-mas break and things have been progressing very nicely for the car!

Finally got the shell rolling!







Sitting nice and low on the back with the coilovers! 8) Will probably raise it a tad as its probably a bit too low if im honest.

So with the shell rolling I could push the car out of the garage and get the engine crane, engine, box in to be fitted!

So here's the engine



Here's the engine complete with gearbox (Box all nicely painted as you can see!)



And the engine finally in the bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



No pictures of it actually being fitted as I was fitting it on my own and was to busy actually fitting it to take any pictures!!












And this is how it sits at the moment complete with front spoiler and one spot light bracket! Run out of M6 nuts for the other one!

 

very nice mate ive had few rs16i's in the past & my favourite colour is white aswell...good luck with the build mate

 

very nice