Escort Bonus RS Conversion | Time For An Update 22/06/15
13-02-2010, 12:13 AM
#81
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Impressed with your hard work mate but not very impressed with how long it's taken you to pay boothy for the lights. Come on mate, if you haven't already then pay the man. You never know when you're gonna want a favour and if you have a reputation of not paying your way then know one will want to help you - i certainly wouldn't 
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13-02-2010, 01:18 AM
#82
look the situation with pete is sorted ive apologised to him we're kool now last year wasnt a good one for me ive sorted out my life
theres alot of members who've been a part of this forum alot longer than i have..made some great friends on here im a genuine guy, i took the piss and i sorted it out.people who do know me know im not a bad guy..
i started making money again so paid off my debts before buying myself anything..ive learnt my lesson! im not a mug to just dissapear from this forum im not gonna run from my problems but now i dont have any..because its all sorted!
well thats all folks..
theres alot of members who've been a part of this forum alot longer than i have..made some great friends on here im a genuine guy, i took the piss and i sorted it out.people who do know me know im not a bad guy..
i started making money again so paid off my debts before buying myself anything..ive learnt my lesson! im not a mug to just dissapear from this forum im not gonna run from my problems but now i dont have any..because its all sorted!
well thats all folks..
13-02-2010, 12:14 PM
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well done mate, getting there? have you considered efi? as alot of people go to the hassle of loom change for mfi then go efi after for the reliability and tuning options?
.. im not working just doing my dj'in on the side [thats nights] so got plenty of free time 
14-02-2010, 09:31 AM
#93
I've found that life I needed.. It's HERE!!
good job bud, not talkin bout the car talkin about boothy lol your honest and you have become a good friend of mine which is why i done the deals i have!
14-02-2010, 08:54 PM
#95
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look the situation with pete is sorted ive apologised to him we're kool now last year wasnt a good one for me ive sorted out my life
theres alot of members who've been a part of this forum alot longer than i have..made some great friends on here im a genuine guy, i took the piss and i sorted it out.people who do know me know im not a bad guy..
i started making money again so paid off my debts before buying myself anything..ive learnt my lesson! im not a mug to just dissapear from this forum im not gonna run from my problems but now i dont have any..because its all sorted!
well thats all folks..
theres alot of members who've been a part of this forum alot longer than i have..made some great friends on here im a genuine guy, i took the piss and i sorted it out.people who do know me know im not a bad guy..
i started making money again so paid off my debts before buying myself anything..ive learnt my lesson! im not a mug to just dissapear from this forum im not gonna run from my problems but now i dont have any..because its all sorted!
well thats all folks..
15-02-2010, 12:19 AM
#97
more updates...
got a pair of original rs turbo front shocks off ebay for 20quid inc delivery in the summer but never got round to fitting them....painted them up a nice yellow - they were originally black..
old shocks out...
pic of the old shocks...dirtyy as foook
new shocks painted up...look how nice the new ones look
new shocks loaded up with nice clean springs
4got to take a pic of how they look inside but im sure ur can imagination can run wild
got a pair of original rs turbo front shocks off ebay for 20quid inc delivery in the summer but never got round to fitting them....painted them up a nice yellow - they were originally black..
old shocks out...
pic of the old shocks...dirtyy as foook
new shocks painted up...look how nice the new ones look
new shocks loaded up with nice clean springs
4got to take a pic of how they look inside but im sure ur can imagination can run wild
22-02-2010, 12:05 AM
#99
updates..
well a few weeks ago i got pulled over by the coppers..they gave me a probation for my tyres because they were illegal and took the mot away so i took the car off the road for a week sent off my wheels and got them back looking like this!!
and ooo theres my car up on the ramp when i got the mot done...which obvivously passed
..the mot guy said that my shell was bloody mint for a 20year old car
will get some pics of the new shoes on my babyy when the weather is a bit better
but thats all for now
well a few weeks ago i got pulled over by the coppers..they gave me a probation for my tyres because they were illegal and took the mot away so i took the car off the road for a week sent off my wheels and got them back looking like this!!
and ooo theres my car up on the ramp when i got the mot done...which obvivously passed
..the mot guy said that my shell was bloody mint for a 20year old carwill get some pics of the new shoes on my babyy when the weather is a bit better
but thats all for now
26-02-2010, 01:35 AM
#100
helloo all got home a little while agoo was at my mates garage just working on the rs engine getting it all stripped down n ready for rebuild!
Some pics of what I got done today
Gearbox disconnected
mounting the engine up on the engine stand
sump out
crank out..look how small it is compared to the one of the spare mecedes one my m8 had lying around in his garage needta buy some bearings because the ones in there were slightly worn..gonna keep the pistons just clean them up nicely. gonna get the crank grind / polish because its just slighty marked.
gonna go get some GUNK/wire brushes etc tmrw to clean the block up.. still deciding what colour to paint the block..any ideas people? im thinking a nice blue to match the blue samco hosing ive gott
my brain is pretty dead at the mo so will get some more pics up tmrw!!
Some pics of what I got done today
Gearbox disconnected
mounting the engine up on the engine stand
sump out
crank out..look how small it is compared to the one of the spare mecedes one my m8 had lying around in his garage
needta buy some bearings because the ones in there were slightly worn..gonna keep the pistons just clean them up nicely. gonna get the crank grind / polish because its just slighty marked. gonna go get some GUNK/wire brushes etc tmrw to clean the block up.. still deciding what colour to paint the block..any ideas people? im thinking a nice blue to match the blue samco hosing ive gott
my brain is pretty dead at the mo so will get some more pics up tmrw!!
03-03-2010, 09:21 PM
#101
Im sure i saw this car in Greenford the other day i see it coming up the road and the mrs said OMG its an rst even though it looked good it sounded like a 1.3 lol its looking really good now with the polished wheels 
glad your sticking a proper engine in it now so it will go and sound as good as it looks good on you for all the hard work
Tony
i see it coming up the road and the mrs said OMG its an rst even though it looked good it sounded like a 1.3 lol its looking really good now with the polished wheels glad your sticking a proper engine in it now so it will go and sound as good as it looks good on you for all the hard work Tony
03-03-2010, 09:32 PM
#102
Im sure i saw this car in Greenford the other day i see it coming up the road and the mrs said OMG its an rst even though it looked good it sounded like a 1.3 lol its looking really good now with the polished wheels glad your sticking a proper engine in it now so it will go and sound as good as it looks good on you for all the hard work
Tony
i see it coming up the road and the mrs said OMG its an rst even though it looked good it sounded like a 1.3 lol its looking really good now with the polished wheels glad your sticking a proper engine in it now so it will go and sound as good as it looks good on you for all the hard work Tony
yepp that was me i live in greenford and im the only person who owns an escort. [well ive never seen another one around and i drive around alot!!] thanks for the compliment im well boosted now looooolllllllllll..needta get some pics up of the new wheels on my car still havent got round to it
. my aim was to get it looking like an rst so when its parked up people think its a rst LOL..ohh and it is a 1.3 bonus thats whyyyy it sounded like a 1.3 lolllim just saving up a few hundred quid so i can bloody get this engine in. its killing mee bcz i just wanna drop it in nowww but i gotta be patient
i went ace cafe last night if u were there too pinged it up and down a few times too..had a few people take pics of my car which got me all
too looll
Last edited by tejy; 03-03-2010 at 09:43 PM.
03-03-2010, 09:43 PM
#103
yepp that was me i live in greenford and im the only person who owns an escort. [well ive never seen another one around and i drive around alot!!] thanks for the compliment im well boosted now looooolllllllllll..needta get some pics up of the new wheels on my car still havent got round to it . my aim was to get it looking like an rst so when its parked up people think its a rst LOL..
im just saving up a few hundred quid so i can bloody get this engine in. its killing mee bcz i just wanna drop it in nowww but i gotta be patient
i went ace cafe last night if u were there too pinged it up and down a few times too..had a few people take pics of my car which got me all too looll
. my aim was to get it looking like an rst so when its parked up people think its a rst LOL..im just saving up a few hundred quid so i can bloody get this engine in. its killing mee bcz i just wanna drop it in nowww but i gotta be patient
i went ace cafe last night if u were there too pinged it up and down a few times too..had a few people take pics of my car which got me all
too looll the cossie is asleep at the moment anyway, when is it on next ?
10-03-2010, 06:53 PM
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Hello dude.
Thought id check your car out.As you posted up on the black rs turbo's page.
I use to have two rs turbo replica's and they were great fun and now had my rs turbo for just over 2 years now and must say you got a lot to look forward to,good and bad hehe.All part of owning a rs turbo.Well done on the motor.Keep it up.Maybe see you about one saturday night,as im in essex and come down london alot.
Thought id check your car out.As you posted up on the black rs turbo's page.
I use to have two rs turbo replica's and they were great fun and now had my rs turbo for just over 2 years now and must say you got a lot to look forward to,good and bad hehe.All part of owning a rs turbo.Well done on the motor.Keep it up.Maybe see you about one saturday night,as im in essex and come down london alot.
15-03-2010, 01:28 AM
#113
finally got sum more pics uploaded....
heres a few of how the new lump is coming along!
block washed down removed all that oil and gunkkk
look at the tree thats about to topple ova
all the bits and bobs out
bearings wornn - gonna replace these
crank needs a good polish too
block looked kinda nice once cleaned down but still decided to strip the paint off it
got this new project
saw this on the way backk...bloody nice!!
turbo looking all dirty
turbo looking all nice and shinyyyy
also swargefa'd the internals so they are nice and cleannn noww
all i needta do now is:
get a mint s2 loom
get a head gasket set
get a set of bearings
get the crank polished/regrind
get head bolts and all the other lil accessories i need
and thats the engine ready to go in!!
more updates wen i get something else done
heres a few of how the new lump is coming along!
block washed down removed all that oil and gunkkk
look at the tree thats about to topple ova
all the bits and bobs out
bearings wornn - gonna replace these
crank needs a good polish too
block looked kinda nice once cleaned down but still decided to strip the paint off it
got this new project
saw this on the way backk...bloody nice!!
turbo looking all dirty
turbo looking all nice and shinyyyy
also swargefa'd the internals so they are nice and cleannn noww
all i needta do now is:
get a mint s2 loom
get a head gasket set
get a set of bearings
get the crank polished/regrind
get head bolts and all the other lil accessories i need
and thats the engine ready to go in!!
more updates wen i get something else done
19-03-2010, 10:57 PM
#114
Just looked at the painting part of this thread and its given me the courage to do mine this summer. Once the garage is built. Ive got everything i need including the paint. All been sat in the shed for a while. Just havent had the courage to tackle it myself!
Your car looks great! good work!
Your car looks great! good work!
21-03-2010, 09:09 AM
#116
Just looked at the painting part of this thread and its given me the courage to do mine this summer. Once the garage is built. Ive got everything i need including the paint. All been sat in the shed for a while. Just havent had the courage to tackle it myself!
Your car looks great! good work!
Your car looks great! good work!
thank you both and chop...
all you need to remember is that its ALL in the prep work...the more time u spend making sure its all prepped the nicer it'll come out.. i waited for about 3 weeks before spraying mine..me n my mate did the paintjob , during that 3weeks i was driving the car around with no paint on, it was just the 2 of us AND we didnt have an orbital sander so it took longer than it should have..but i just got fed up in the end and just banged the paintjob out...the actual painting stage only took about 45mins but looking back as hard as it was to just wanting to get the car sprayed up im glad i waited and painted it when the car was prepped fully. before spraying the car when u do urs make sure when your ready to do it u test how the spray comes out of the gun on a diff surface and the air mixture is right otherwise you'll have orange peel and when the paint it dry thers alot of 1500 wet dry/compound and polish which takes the piss!
if ya need any advice leme know il be more than happy 2 help and dont forget to take pics when u do urs
21-03-2010, 03:19 PM
#117
thank you both and chop...
all you need to remember is that its ALL in the prep work...the more time u spend making sure its all prepped the nicer it'll come out.. i waited for about 3 weeks before spraying mine..me n my mate did the paintjob , during that 3weeks i was driving the car around with no paint on, it was just the 2 of us AND we didnt have an orbital sander so it took longer than it should have..but i just got fed up in the end and just banged the paintjob out...the actual painting stage only took about 45mins but looking back as hard as it was to just wanting to get the car sprayed up im glad i waited and painted it when the car was prepped fully. before spraying the car when u do urs make sure when your ready to do it u test how the spray comes out of the gun on a diff surface and the air mixture is right otherwise you'll have orange peel and when the paint it dry thers alot of 1500 wet dry/compound and polish which takes the piss!
if ya need any advice leme know il be more than happy 2 help and dont forget to take pics when u do urs
all you need to remember is that its ALL in the prep work...the more time u spend making sure its all prepped the nicer it'll come out.. i waited for about 3 weeks before spraying mine..me n my mate did the paintjob , during that 3weeks i was driving the car around with no paint on, it was just the 2 of us AND we didnt have an orbital sander so it took longer than it should have..but i just got fed up in the end and just banged the paintjob out...the actual painting stage only took about 45mins but looking back as hard as it was to just wanting to get the car sprayed up im glad i waited and painted it when the car was prepped fully. before spraying the car when u do urs make sure when your ready to do it u test how the spray comes out of the gun on a diff surface and the air mixture is right otherwise you'll have orange peel and when the paint it dry thers alot of 1500 wet dry/compound and polish which takes the piss!
if ya need any advice leme know il be more than happy 2 help and dont forget to take pics when u do urs
Yeah I've painted a few things, few panels and engine bays etc, but thats easy because it can all be done in a day.
The thing i am worried about is micro blisters if you dont get it all done in one day without having any from of heat to keep the moister out of the primer.
16-04-2010, 10:41 PM
#118
helloo alll its been a while havent done any updates in a while so here i am!
well i was on the way to an interview and the engine finally gave in..
this is how it looked for the last time!!
started stripping out the old engine and parts..
my baby's bleeding
manifold and exhaust off
got some mates to help strip the car
the beggining of the collection that came out the car!
popped the driveshafts out
dashboard out
gear selector out
dont know what i was doing here
old loom out!
still minty behind the fusebox
most of the engine accessories outt so the engine is ready to pop out!
my mate lost the chain to hoist the engine out so we hadta improvise
engine out!!!
got a bit bored started messing around
then ended up pulling out the jet wash and getting all that grime out
cleaned out the wheel arches tooooo
did a quick jet wash underneath the car..look how much dirt came out
pretty good condition!
then today took the rest of the bits off and started prepping for an engine bay respray
some more random pics
some other lil projects that i got on the side
my mates car hes jus keeping it at mine while hes away at uni...jap is crap
evrything stripped outt
engine number 2 sitting there doing nothing
prepping begins
prepping the gunnnn
compreessor we used
some more close up pics
mixing up the painnt
started the spraying
sozz about the millions of pics i just got a bit camera happy but the engine bay has come out sooo nice i didnt even wanna do it but my mate convinced me he sed it'l b worth it and omg it totally was!
i know i wanted my engine in asap but its better to wait and do it properly then just bung it inn right?
well thats all folks
well i was on the way to an interview and the engine finally gave in..
this is how it looked for the last time!!
started stripping out the old engine and parts..
my baby's bleeding
manifold and exhaust off
got some mates to help strip the car
the beggining of the collection that came out the car!
popped the driveshafts out
dashboard out
gear selector out
dont know what i was doing here
old loom out!
still minty behind the fusebox
most of the engine accessories outt so the engine is ready to pop out!
my mate lost the chain to hoist the engine out so we hadta improvise
engine out!!!
got a bit bored started messing around
then ended up pulling out the jet wash and getting all that grime out
cleaned out the wheel arches tooooo
did a quick jet wash underneath the car..look how much dirt came out
pretty good condition!
then today took the rest of the bits off and started prepping for an engine bay respray
some more random pics
some other lil projects that i got on the side
my mates car hes jus keeping it at mine while hes away at uni...jap is crap
evrything stripped outt
engine number 2 sitting there doing nothing
prepping begins
prepping the gunnnn
compreessor we used
some more close up pics
mixing up the painnt
started the spraying
sozz about the millions of pics i just got a bit camera happy but the engine bay has come out sooo nice i didnt even wanna do it but my mate convinced me he sed it'l b worth it and omg it totally was!
i know i wanted my engine in asap but its better to wait and do it properly then just bung it inn right?
well thats all folks
17-05-2010, 02:03 PM
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looking good mate but for 2mins extra work i would have masked the clips or removed them, same goes for the belt cover and the brake clyinder and all the other little engine bits as they will just be covered in overspray now!
what about the rest of the car did you cover that as well?!
fairplay for doing it though.
what about the rest of the car did you cover that as well?!
fairplay for doing it though.
