Cheers fella...bloody miss it tho, especialy on days like we've recently been having

 

These came through the post this morning off "MONSTER" Dave for the bargain price of Ł28 to the door in a group buy organised through a Series One forum

 

Monsters work is tops

Did you see the set he made up for me at all?

 

Car looks good mate! Top work!

Makes me want to get shot of the saph and get a 3 door!!

 

looks wikid

 

No Stu never seen them mate, what difference did you have???

 

 

Oooooh I likes. How do I go about gettin some of those?

 

Speak to Dave "monster" mate

 

My warning plaques were a one off so I had to send in my original stickers for him to work from...came out quite well imo

 

Now the body is finished with new lights all round and all decals are now on:

 

VERY nice mate, throughly good job

 

looking good

 

Very very nice mate spot on ....

 

looks very nice.

 

looks spot on

 

Looks lovely now mate, get some pics from the rear!

 

Another top resto Chris the car looks amazing mate. Now get her up fpr sale.

 

luving it

 

Too much money in it Tom, i'd be losing out massively as it owes me Ł10800 to date, it's a keeper for now

 

has the car been mopped and polish since RS show i hope so

 

Yes mate, it only came out the bodyshop 12 hours before the show so we didn't have time to sort it which was a bit of a pain but it's had a polish but needs another going over before it's perfect.

 

Slight Update on the engine side of things

Visit to MotorSport Developements turned out to be good and bad, well more good than bad

According to the guy's down there the block seems a solid/reliable build and was producing good power for the standard boost and produced good power.

The issues with the car to start with were:

various air leaks which were sorted, needed a new rotor arm, cps lead/sensor, fuel regulator & actuator. After all this was fitted they were still struggling to find the target of 26psi peak and were only able to retrieve 21psi peak holding 17psi. This is suspected to be caused by cracks around the wastegate penny so i've got two options:

1) find a decent replacement exhaust housing .48 .55 or .63
2) wait until the end of summer and fund a roller bearing T34

Another other issue was the fuel pump voltage had dropped slightly so they advised the car be kept under 6k until that was sorted, and a new o ring kit fitted then back for the changes.

I haven't got a clue what sort of power it's producing but the spec is Standard rebuilt block, T34 .48, Pace 500, 803, 3 bar, mongoose and 21psi

 

nice Chris with this good weather were havin it will be out more than in hey

 

Yes mate i had to run the motor in so it's done 1500 miles since march. It's much better to drive around now it's set-up.

Are you planning on another RS in the near future Andy or have you another????

 

Sweet looking... MINT!.... love these RS Cosworths.....

 

nothing as yet mate got a VRS but that dont count im waiting on 6 lucky numbers to come in then i will have an RS in every model they built

 

Looks lovely BRAMMER I like where your heading with the car and the changes you've already made to it.

Roller bearing T34 ... mmmmmmm

Can I ask where you sourced the bumper insert strips from mate ... I heard 3 dr strips are no longer avail

 

its looking nice chris, im going to take mine to MSD for a set up in a few months, dreading what they will say lol

 

The bumper moulding, i only needed one for the rear and i used this company

http://www.rubbertrim.co.uk/body_mouldings.htm

H9020 Ford Style bumper insert. 12mm wide (i had to put a strip of double sided adhesive tape underneath to give it some depth.

Cost Ł24.10 inc postage

Or for genuine, he's a trader on here

http://www.opmd.com/main.cfm?tpl=product.cfm&pid=1098

 

Saw this the other day, prob coming back from msd

 

Was i heading toward the M6 north bound???? and did it look good

 

Cheers BRAMMER .

 

Stunning, looks so factory fresh

 

You were in poulton-le-fylde, at the traffic lights. It looked well not often you see a 3door on the road

 

Thats true mate, i think i've only seen another one on the road this year (not including car shows)

 

Right i've been playing around with the interior, i completely stripped it out, cleaned and replaced along with a few other new parts.

The seat is the drivers position is my spare passenger seat thats in near concours condition, the drivers seat is stored away to keep mint.

The steering wheel that came out of the car had tatty leather so i've replaced with my new 3 spoke RS wheel

The standard head unit has been replaced with a nice new Ipod ready JVC unit and a set of new rsoc mats to keep the carpet in mint condition.







A few more of the car with more cleaning under the bonnet and the outside, the paint on the car isn't perfect and it's going back for another polish but i had to remove the first lot of swirl marks from the first polish, i hate cleaning/polishing cars it's too time consuming.

 

very nice mate, love all the work you've done so far, and in so little time, you going durham next weekend?

 

Cheers Shaun, i was looky as i sold my other RS to fund this project.

I am going to Croft with our group, i take it your heading over??

 

yeah im going, hope to see your car when im there, as i missed you at cumbria