bay is looking serious mate

black evo's with ambers will look cool. colour schemes just like a bigger version of your escort lol

 

looks greaty as it is, please don't start ruinning it by change the wheels!


Standard look FTW!

 

Dont change the wheels what ever you do!!! Hving seen yours I'm thinking about getting rid of my white comp FR's and getting the original ones refurbed!

 

thanks for the comments people, after reading your thoughts i think im going to keep the standard wheels for the moment, also had some focus brembos and discs ready to go on but think im going to sell them and re coupe some dosh

 

Right i havnt updated this thread for ages but to be honest until now ive just been enjoying some trouble free driving.

All ive done recently is changed the rear beam bushes for poly items and fitted a rear strut brace.

It seems now though this has turned into a real resto

whilst i was driving down a local main road which at the time had jus been re surfaced i managed to pick up a few stone chips, well not a few ive done the bonnet, front bumper & both front wings.....

i was dropping some money off to my plumber 2 weeks ago as he was down the pub, i knew the road was stoney but had no idea what it would do to the paint as i was only doing 10mph with a 20mph speed limit.

i didnt even notice the damage until the next day when i popped up the garage with kitchen devil and i atchualy nearly cried

There was a few bits i wasnt happy about with the car like dents here an there and lots off small scratches so ive decided to get the whole car painted

going to get a fella a few miles up the road from me who comes highly recomended by lots of people and has also just done a stunning job on kitchen devils saph

the work started this evening after work as i started stripping the interior out to check the floor etc ( wish i hadnt though )

pic to follow

 

Nice one mate totally stunning car this & can only get better

 

nice one carlo, i hope it will but moneys tight at the mo so im not going to rush

heres a few pics







found two holes one either side of the tunnel up the front, ive got no idea whats involved in sorting this but it looks quite bad to me and pissed me right off, the rest of the floor is spot on though

 

Going to be very mint when the paint work is sorted. Even tho it was tidy already.

 

mine was gone in the same place


chopped out and new bit welded in




All sorted good as new

 

easy matt hows things ? is it a normal place to go on saphs any idea why ?

 

very clean looking saph mate!

 

All good Paul, you ?


as fot the rust yeah have seen a few go there, I wouldnt worry to much as it will be just the outer skin thats gone, at a guess it must be a water trap but cant think how the water gets in

 

Your car looks the business and looks exactly like the one i have just bought..mine is also mercury grey and standard,ambers etc..even down to the original mild steel exhaust.I think fordsportjay had mine for sale about a year ago.

 

paul dont panic the rust is nothing to worry about.
just cut it out and weld her up. bell me and i will pop over

 

thanks for the comments people

when tup the garage for a few hours with dave ( rolling rides ) an put in a few more hours of distruction

managed to get the front bumper off with only the off side bracket braking up, also got all the door rubbers off, rear quarter outside plastics, plastic roof things.

Also attempted the fuel filler surround but failed, also the spoiler and rear bumper which i also failed to do as all the fixings where well rusted up, i squirted these with wd40 and will try again tomorrow

also want to kit the kit of tommorrow although im not looking forwar to that

heres a few more pics

 

looking good paul

 

no it dont its in bits

 

you know what i mean

thought you would have waited till the summer season was over before ripping it apart, you'll have nothing to do come winter time!

 

so whats the plan then just a tidy up or are you modding it?

 

give me a bell and i will pop over again. i got them torque bits to take the back bumper off!

 

thing is ram the tax an mot ran out on the 1st an 31st of last month so couldnt realy see the point in paying out if i was going to rip it apart, ive only atchualy done two meets this year aswell the pod once and ford fair

matt its jus a freshen up realy was loads of bits i wasnt happy with and nows the time as im looking at buying a house next year so theres no way i can afford to do this when im on the ladder its now or never

dave how about tonight

 

yeah drop me a txt, got to go shopping for a car again but if im about i will pop up

 

popped up there again after work i started on the kit which to be honest i was dreading, to my amazment the sills are mint.

then got the spoiler off which was a right pain as i had to drill the bolts out one was completly fucked so i had to drill the nut out the bonnet, fuck knows how im gonna get around that

heres the pics









more pics tomorrow

 

ah fair play then. my mot ran out last week, and then failed when i took it on wednesday. wish i had just put it away now like you had

result with the sills

 

nitemare what did it fail on ? im starting to wish i hadnt started it know, im getting a list together of bits ive decided to change and fuck me it aint cheap

why do we do it ?

 

Unfortunately captain, it isn't cheap but look at it this way, if you spend the wonga doing it right first time, you won't be doing it again.

Just a shame I did spend the wonga but still ended up having to get lots redone and sorted!!

Yours will be good when it's done!

 

know what your saying mate ive spent all this months money on car bits already so doesnt look like il be going out for a few weeks!

was simple things like headlight alignment etc. but the biggest shock was on the brake tester the mot guy was pushing hard on the pedal and the front pas goodridge hose burst! had a look and the braid must have been rubbing on something as it was all frayed and burst right through! good thing it happned on the rollers and not on the road. but yeh so that mot was aborted
bought some compbrake 300mm 4pots and braided lines off luca now so all good

 

All looks so familiar had the same on mine, once you have done the repair on the tunnel get underneath and squirt shit loads of wax oil in the elongated slots that the gear box mount brackets bolt to so it pours out all the edges make sure that the wax oil is hot and runny dilute it down if necessary, it's prone to rusting here because the water gets trapped between the two skins of metal.












also with the seat mounts mine only looked superficial until I started to pick away at it and turned out to be rotten right through to the little bracket welded to the underside of the floor-pan, I striped up all the sound deadening to my horror and found this little lot













Drivers seat fixing point

 

ram mate the brake thing sounds dodge fuck that happening on the road, have you been up dating your thread havnt looked for a while, when you up next ? cruise up im the zim zimma

tosh thanks for the advise mate i was wondering why its seems to happen there havnt looked at that part of the tunnel yet but im also planning a underbody resto at some point so i will be under there soon im sure, you got any more pics up of your or a resto thread

 

managed to get the day down the garage today but was nursing a mega hangover as lastnight i consumed shit loads of stella

had quite a lot do to as the cars atchualy booked to go in tomorow afternoon so it had to be ready, gary kitchen devil popped down for a few hours as he had work at 2

started with the arch liners then door cards locks etc

didnt managed to get the bump strips off or headlining so going to leave these to the fella whos painting it

heres some pics, enjoy the first one this is whats happens when you get up too quick on a stella hangover























the cars going in tomorrow, its going to be around 2 weeks till i pick her up and hopefully going to get up there during the 2 weeks to update the thread

 

was mint before, going to be even better

 

Hi Paul, who doing the bodywork? Probably end up doing the fiesta hopefully in sep when the tax runs out.
May go for the frozen white after seeing Gaz saph.

 

easy mate hows things ? its the same fella who done garys, bedmond coachworks

 

Not to bad mate, work usual, Just started sorting out the Fiesta Cooling issues, Gary gonna make some new brackets for the rad should be back on the road very soon. paint and new wheels.

Hows things with yourself, Saph gonna be mint when finished.
You planning anything for the engine.

 

bloody ell paul your going all out it would seem

you just doing bodywork threashen up or any more mods it car?

 

sounds good rob drop me a txt when gaz is over and i ll pop over with him

lol gaz sometimes im thinking im mad but fuck it, its gonna take me a while but im also thinking underside aswell but not decided yet depends on funds, also thinking comps and ap's aswell

i want to do the whole thing slowly so the cost doesnt seem that bad but will see what happens

 

lol it never ends when you have a cosworth comps,ap's it sounds all good look forward to seeing it all done!

im fancying some comps again,white wheels are a c**t to keep clean

 

c**t to clean but look the bollox, was thinking white on mine the oldstlye like what you had but think im swaying towards silver at the moment

 

No probs mate will give you a txt.

I like the sound of the that, I know your a perfectionist.
Last time you came round I remember talking about doing underside.
One you have done the underside you will not want to drive it incase it gets dirty, thats what happened to me with the S1.

 

Did you do the under side of the s1 mate ? you got any pics ? i know what you mean about not wanting to drive it but its never been undersealed to be honest its not even that dirty so im hoping it will be pretty simple

Ive seen so many different restos with people doing it but not realy sure how to go about it