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Well i made it to FITP, breaking only a gearbox mount and knocking my tracking out thanks to the UK's wonderful roads





then disaster struck and my car cut out whilst it was sat idling, it wouldn't restart, and the fuel pump wasn't priming.
borrowed a multimeter from TOTD and confirmed the pump had shat its pants - after having been used for around 300miles from brand new
I'll be taking that up with the manufacturer.

thus



and home on the recovery truck it went

anyway, took the tank off today covered myself in petrol, modified the pump wiring hole to be a pump / sender removal hole.

got an rs2000 pump coming tomorrow morning so after my job interview tomorrow morning I'll get back on things and get it going again... bloody fords

I still smell of petrol and i had my overalls on

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So its off to replace my fuel pump i go

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yesterday's work

Today did a few bits, put the new wheels on took it off axle stands put the coil packs and intake back on and got it out the garage





Also started to take the tar up off the floor have a huge blister on the palm of my hand



next few days I'll be cracking on with:

painting the morettes, grille and splitter
taking the rest of the tar up
perhaps fitting some of the guages I've had for the last two years

today

Remembered why i love this colour while the sun was shining, looks good despite needing a clean




More sound proofing came up today - but not without a fight





also removed the patch on the roof after I binned this heavy fecker:




i was going to replace it with a carbon fibre plate rivited on but carbon isn't flexible enough so it'll be a piece of painted aluminium

Also for the first time in a couple of years i got the rattle cans out and colour coded my morrettes and smooth cosworth grill




and a front shot, the grille is only half fitted and a bit wonky but its going to look hard

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RichieST

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Nice job, I like it mate! An old ford shouldn't be without the RAC hot on its heels eh

Glenn_

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I like the look of that.

J1mbo

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soooooooooo cool

jonnyrsturbo

like it

needs a rs2000 bonnet on though

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thanks, I'm not sure about a bulge bonnet though

marky_g

very cool

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Just been round j1mbos and stolen his bonnet

CarbonRick

Really quite like this, keep it up!

Brian

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Brian

snOOpy86

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would look great after a flat and polish! keep up the work.

Kestrel77

Hiya Mate, some Commitment there,
Paul

CarbonRick

Any developments with this? Finally got round to reading the thread.

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sadly on hold for now until i start earning some more cash

Rides

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looks pretty good.. it would deffo look better with the bulge bonnet on it.. deffo like those arch extensions..what did you get them off or did you actually make them... so are you putting a turbo lump back in once you get enough cash???

MarK4

would riveting a panel where the sunroof was be a good enough seal? Could water seap in the gaps or will there not be a gap?

I was planning on doing something like that myself but not found the courage yet lol.

tezmanian devil

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i think you should sell me your front bumper :P

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> turbo engine seems unlikely, you don't need much power to go round a track quickly. The arch extension were made for me by fibresports, they are custom cyclone arches made extra wide afaik they still have the moulds.

>> The sunroof panel will be covered with an alloy plate which will be sealed with tigerseal or similar the rivits will just be to make it easier.

>>> hell i'll sell yoiu the whole car if you like it that much

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Car is currently in the for sale section and on pistonheads

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1605059.htm

J1mbo

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lol never see this the best bonnet for a escort

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never got as far as fitting and painting it

J1mbo

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boo

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http://www.escortevolution.co.uk/for...owtopic=135817

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rubbish update

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So today I bought this:


looks like a big pile of scrap interior, but its not:



so I've put them in but had some trouble with the seat belts and a few other bits so they'll have to come out again soon

J1mbo

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You still have it

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i know, odd given that i was ready to sell it for less than it was worth. still might sell it, but for now i want to return it to a road worthy state and get it mot'd

J1mbo

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Good stuff! How's that std suspension treating you ?

Oh and did you get my pm on escort evo at all?

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erm not sure when did you send it, drop me an email on neonpirate85 at aol.com