bonus_boy

sold the car yesterday, realy gutted ive sold it but i needed to as its silly on fuel and i was thinking of somthing newer....


but i REALY REALY REALY cant find nothing i want!! well nothing thats good on fuel! thinking in the lines of a civic 1.6 vtec, 106 gti, toyota starlet turbo or fiesta zetec s...

WANT ANOTHER MK4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bonus_boy

but yu know what.....im going to bid on another 1.3 mk4 2dr escort tomorrow hehe....

going to keep it standard again, keep the 1.3 in so its decent on fuel, just lower it on the floor again, some s2 alloys again, but keep it with full interior so its not realy noisy, cz i was having it in the neck off the misses lmao...

aint giving up on the old mk4s that easy!!!!

only reason i sold the last one, was because of the 1.6 (not that good on fuel when you put your foot down, and not beeing on the logbook as a 1.6 as im 17)

bonus_boy

MK4'S RULE!

KEV-461Y-MK3-GHIA

as if uve sold it man!!!!!! was a truly bad ass mk4 on the floor!!!!

bonus_boy

trust me.....ul like the next one aswell....most probs like it more!!!!

dave cos4x4

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sold it.

hope the next one will be better.

good luck finding a good one.

bonus_boy

already found one mate, alot better by the sounds of things....

will post up 2moro to say if ive got it or not

well like i said above, the things i want to do....so not much at all...wont have a cossy lump etc...

but its looks etc will be good!! will be going to ford fair im sure!!!

10th_racer

dont worry jay i'll be keeping it pretty much the same, apart from highering the back of it very slightly, will probably leave the front as it is tho, so if you want the old rear springs i'll let you know when i take them off.

bonus_boy

yeye....well ive already got them springs off the fiesta shocks they wer about the same size as the fronts on my old one so should be ok or il take abit more off....

why dont yu put the comps on the escort and let me have the s2 alloys back off you.....

as the ka aint gona be moving in quite along time so that could stay on steelies untill you get some different alloys for the ka or escort...

10th_racer

well seen as this is mine now i suppose i better update the topic really lol.

serviced the car a couple of weeks ago, nothing really majorly wrong with it besides the largish (40mm x 25mm) hole in the floor on the passengers side, but have been told by our MOT tester thats its not a structural part of the car so wont fail the MOT, and also the rear arch's are a bit scrotty so ideally it needs 2 on it, but apart from that its not too bad.

have also sorted the exhaust so it sits pretty much where it should now, and its been highered a bit, but still on chopped springs lol, just not chopped quite as much as the old ones.

Zanderford

saw this last week by merry hill looks well nice sounds good 2

10th_racer

cars in the back of fast ford mag this month for those that havent seen it.

only a small tiny piece from what im told, havent even looked myself yet, moms just popped to merry hill so shes getting the mag while shes there.

bonus_boy

fanny lol!

dont take the cred for it!

will get the mag once i get back from holiday..

hope its still forsale!

10th_racer

looking a bit sorry for itself at the moment lol.

its being resprayed and im rs kitting it and putting full interior back in it.

so heres what its like at the moment.

midlands_ford_boy

oooo look at me looking all kool

GiRO

dont RS kit it!!!

10th_racer

too late, have already got a rear bumper and spoiler lol.

at 18 its the only cheap and legal way to have what most people will think is an rs.

cossiecrew

i second that for gods sake dont build a fake rsturbo the car looked mint as it was

midlands_ford_boy

told you look shit with rs kit should of left it with standard bumpers!

cossiecrew

to true why make a fake ? rsturbos look nothing special anyway imo unless the s1 ofcourse i would of kept it looking as it was then as the insurance come down dropped a mad lump in there

cossiecrew

NUFF SAID.

cossiecrew

infact i love that as pictured ive owned x amount of rst and cossies but the looks of a council estate slammed mk4 still does it for me

10th_racer

but not for me and im the one that has to drive it, either way it needed respraying as there were a few bits pissing me off, the 1 rear arch had a right mess made of it, there were scratch's under the door locks and boot lock from keys dangling, and a few other dodgey bits all over it, you can see how bad it was from where its had to be rubbed down a lot in the pictures, it was covered in imperfections.

the bonnet is covered in little dents and stone chips, the rear bumper has got a crack in it, the bumpers are a pain in the arse as even if you use back to black on them they are grey again within a couple of days, i just want something i can go everywhere in as an every day car as im still trying to get this track car finished.

dont get me wrong it was ok before, but it only looked good before because of how low it was, and i'v had to higher it because it was stupid, i couldnt even go to the local shopping centre, i'v got a garage that i can use which the dam thing is too low to go in, it scrapes on the works car park, it was ridiculous

tell ya what, if you like it so much i'll swap it someone for a red rst when its been sprayed.

10th_racer

as much as most of you dont like me kitting it i thought i'd update this topic anyway.

car is almost ready to be sprayed, just need to prime the roof and pillars then it needs another rub down, not doing the bonnet as it will have an rs one.





rs rear bumper


rs kit


90 spec front bumper


and its also now got full rs interior, carpet, all panels, speaker pods, all the seats, parcel shelf, etc etc, only thing it hasnt got at the moment is a centre console.

and i'v also bought this for it



bottom end (pistons have gone to have a bit of work done on them due to a little accident, meaning i broke 1 lol)


stage 2 t3 hybrid with -31 actuator


ported gas flowed head now with a t285 cam


smoked rear lights, clear front indicators, and new window seals


and i'v got a vernier pulley in my room

and going to pick up a scorpion exhaust from the turbo back in a couple of weeks

currently undecided as to weather or not im gona leave it mfi or convert it to efi, am swaying more toards efi now as i'v found a cheap inlet manifold, an adapter plate, and a loom, so would just need a chipped ecu.

thats it for now.

hoping to get it sprayed in a week or 2, cant be too fussy though as my mates doing it very very cheap for me so its just a case of whenever he is free.

Tonyt1t

gunna look nice mate

10th_racer

at last someone that sides with me

Nick.

Don't forget me.. im on your side too

Ill phone the bloke about my 'thing' tomorrow

Tonyt1t

just to ask why dont u spray it some real fancy colour but still a solid colour if that makes sense like a wild cherry red or if u know some one with the skills get an aple candy red done on it thats a HOT colour ;p

10th_racer

because red is a nice easy colour to do, and its cheap.

this hasnt got to be spot on, its only a run around.

RSandy

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saw this dwn in cradley heath on my way to a work a while back, before it was prepped for paint, with the rear arch absolutely full of filler!! god i hope you replaced that arch lol

hopefully get it back to lookin how good it looked in the pics, altho with an rs kit its just gna fade into the crowd now im afraid

bonus_boy

what i think aswell if you kit it...

but no he aint going to replace the arch, always gives me stick about the nasty job it was when all i did was ge all the s-hit/rust from out of it and put some filler in there, he then brought it off me about a week later so i thought why bother in getting it sorted....and now he always goes on about the shit job it was!!!!

what a p-enis!!

RSandy

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saw it this morning too, this car has gone from a decked shiny sleeper, to a primered up partially built rs wanabe project, and i guess it wil even stay like this for a while. looked soooooo nice with it in standard trim

and a quick question, how the hell did u fail to colour match primer? lol its like 5 shades of grey, thats a bad start, please dnt tel me u rattle canned it?

bonus_boy

he so did!

Nick.

But now you have put filled in it how you did its an even longer job to make the arch the correct shape..

RSandy

its getting sprayed tomorrow, he has the full Rs kit for it, going to have the rest of the interior panels (centre consol etc) to make it exactly the same inside as an Rs turbo.. and even better still he's already bought everything to take it that one step further

So unlike most on here he is putting his money where his mouth is and doing what he says he is going to do.. so just all shut the FUCK UP

zippyka80

i agree as he was going to buy my rs cab off me but now is just buying parts to finish it off and is also building a zvh powered ka like me

foreverwhite

for a near standard (looking) mk4 escort that looks really, REALLY well.

sits mint, is uber clean, nice wheels etc

i love this kind of styling...makes such a difference to the look of a car, even though it's still faily standard if you get what i mean.

foreverwhite

you should have just turbo'd it like this.

that looks uber.

Nick.

It looks better than that now seen as its currently been sprayed in radiant red and its a little higher on the back

bonus_boy

it didnt need respraying though, just the rear arch sorting and new red bonnet as it had a few dents in it....

the reason it looked so good was because of it that low...

bai1ey

where did you get your lowering kit frm mate? looking proper nice