if you dontmind me asking how much you pay for verniers and were from i looked on there site and cant find them?

 

Couple of piccies of how she is now....









Couple of the engine bay, fitted the intercooler and rad last weekend, was quite chuffed when the intercooler just fell into place, especially as it was made from my drawing and measurements lol !!







Petrol tank is also in the boot that was made by alloy racing fabrications... need to get some piccies though

Thinking of ditching the wheels aswell for ml's in 15s instead?! What do people think??

 

Roosie, To be honest I cant remember.. when ian built the new head thats going on I got him to order the pulleys up at the same time. Think they might of been Ł120 for both, not sure where he ordered them from either soz??

 

That looks amazing now dude, excellent work!!!

 

Thanks chap.... getting there slowly!!

 

Love that Liam

 

progressing nicely there Liam, as we know - all good things take time.

and is that Sam floating about aswell?

your building up a nice colection of old school favourites between you, will have to pop up sometime soon and have a peek - got to get a few prices of bits for Warren tomorrow anyway.

keep up the good work mate

 

Cool car, i love it! LOL

 

keep the wheels you got now on it m8

 

Looks fantastic

 

this is a wicked piece of work, like it liam

 

nice looking retro,well done

dave

 

Cheers for the comments guys!! I need it at the mo... shes giving me headaches at the minute!!

Not much progress this week im afraid, hopefully will be when I get the axle back

 

Mate that looks awesome
I seriously can't wait to see it all built up and plumbed in.

 

looks lovely, you got too keep the 13's on it aswel!

 

Blimey....... havent updated on here for a while!!! Suppose I better do one.

Im sure most of you will have seen classic ford last month, well that was me and calums grafters feature so you will have seen some piccys of the cars as thay are now!!

My last post was talking about getting the intercooler done, heres some piccies of how it is






Few things have changed around in the engine bay dew to the amount of room we have to play with, breather you see in the pics is going the other side along with the header tank nearer the front re-sessed in the inner wing :mrgreen: All of this is trial and error really



Also the exhaust manifold is done, SIMPSONS have made an awsome job of it. Few things may need altering as of turbo change but...







Axle is back in, going with the tramp bars and panhard rod to begin with, see how it copes?!




We ended up doing an exhaust tunnel aswell as a 3" system isnt going to fit underneath Should do the job just extending off of the gearbox tunnel..



Fuel tank is sitting in the boot also but have no photos as of yet so il leave with a few piccies of the car... Oh and also have the new turbo which il get a photo of.. only a baby mind dew





One of me faves :mrgreen:



Ive just grabbed this off of oldskoolford for now as just updated, cop out I know as some piccies I already have on here.Will do another update in a bit and sort out whats what, cheers for looking

Liam

 

Fantastic

 

Brian

 

never looked through this thread before li, but f**k me when u see it all together it looks good!!! top work geezer, cant believe its been a year since u bought it! prob cya 2moz mate.

 

This weeks fav project. Manifold looks nuts!

 

Cheers for the comments guys!! Been trying to sort out the engine bay today... fillerering the inner wings trying to smooth things out :x I hate body work!!!!

Anyways got a couple of piccies of the engine!

Cams and pulleys are away being dowled at the mo, hence why there missing from the head!! Hopefully painting the custom sump tomz and should have the cams back early part of next week. Engine should then be complete.... i hope

 

How cool does that look. Very impressed

 

Good evening mate, Car and fab work more importantly is perfection.

Be fantastic to see this at Classic day at Pod next year, you aiming for this ??

 

i love this car stay at it

 

that looks the nuts ive read this treed be for and love every bit and keeps gettin better

 

Cheers for the comments guys!! Much apreciated!!

Luca, hello mate ive been following your car on here.. very very impressive!! I thought my old fiesta had a good looking engine bay but christ yours knocks the socks off of it!!
Ive got the same spec gt30 as yours I believe so im expecting similar results!! Is your engine one of ians?

cheers
liam

 

Oh and id like it to be finished for lemans in june!!

 

great project fella going to be a real sleeper when finished keep the updates coming

 

fuking crazy

 

Love it lads, keep up the good work

 

Cheers mate, Yes i briefly spoke with Kelv and he had said your turbo is the same spec. My engine is also indeed an Ian engine so should be very very similar in power outputs..
Mines going back on the dyno shortly so il post the graphs upon completion.
Keep up the FANTASTIC work its going to be stunning for Le Mans

 

Looking good Liam, as always
are you not having the manifold coated now then mate?

as Luke has sad, it will be fantastic for Le Mans, lets make it another awesome trip next year Liam.
Coming along this time Luke?

 

*and to add*

Liam, Luke has been slowly twisting my arm to go for a spec engine similar to yours and his for the Focus

 

top project your building there mate love mk1 cortina's

 

this is cool as mate!!!!

 

More twisting to follow tomorrow

Kelv, what are the dates/plans for LeMans, is it a camping affair etc.
Only ever heard good things about it

 

Shame l didnt get any photos at Simpsons, Must admit it got the looks on the trailer on the way back to yours

 

your fucking mad liam that turbo looks so big to your old one lol

 

Kelv, Yes mate something has to be done with it, manifolds not on for good yet!! Got to see if the turbo fits under the bonnet yet lol. Got to have some slight alterations for the external gate aswell as its now in the wrong place
And get that bloody escort finished!! Your thinking about others engines already... Love the way down the workshop the other weekend kim looks at you and says.. "no Kelvin your not having one" ha ha looking at the old skool cars!!

Luca, yeah def.. looking forward to the updated figures. Has much work been done to your cams?

Kelv, besides isnt the black top? What evers in the focus good enoungh for the 400's anyway?? I thought they were??

Luca, kelv will fill you in on the dates but I can assure you providing the weathers good (which it hasnt been the last 2 years) it is an awsome trip. The nuttiest driving you do here... times it by about 10 lol! Well worth it!!

Dave, trailering it home from the workshop today it doesnt stop getting looks!! I think thats what keeps me going with it!! Cheers again for bringing it back for us!!

Alex, I know it looks huge! Thinks its because the water rails not in the pics so it looks like its miles away from the head!! It makes the t34 look tiny!!

cheers for the comments peeps!! Hopefully get some paint in the engine bay next saturday, well prima anyways! Then the flaterning begins

Liam