Pixvil

Right, this is my '97 Ford Escort mk6, when I bought it it was as standard as anything apart from a badly wired stereo, which is all sorted now thank god, anyway, this is how it stood when I got it;




First off, needed to change those boring old wheels, so I slapped on a set of 15" BK333, I know they leave a lot of gap between the wheels and the arhces, but then that leaves for plenty of drop when I eventually get my coilovers;




As for that black front end, a week after I got the car I had a little collision on a roundabout with another vehicle, so a face lift bumper was slapped on along with a new bonnet and wing then treated to a fresh coat of paint;




While all that work was going on a picked up some white dials down my local scrapyard;


Next on the agenda was that tiny little pea shooter of an exhaust, so one call to powerflow and one trip to A14 Performance in Bury St Edmunds later, I had a nice cat back system fitted with a twin 4" pipe;



Next was the tunes, at first I put some Sony 6x9s on my parcel shelf along with a fusion amp and mutant 12" sub in the boot with a Sonichi DVD headunit to power them, but sadly they didn't last all that long, in april everything went wrong with my audio, first my sub blew, then the amp died, then I lost the fascia for the headunit! So I gave up with all that, I binned the 6x9s as well, got bored of them, and now have 2 12" sony explod subs in the boot powered by a 2400watt juice amp and a 1.2 farad power cap, I have an old headunit to power all this in the mean time, oh and my factory front speakers died a death as well, so they were replaced with some alpine coaxiels;








Now, whenever I looked at the front of the car all I could see were those horrible fried egg indicators, so, out with the old in with the clear;



Now I know your thinking this was called project random, but where is the random, well it all starts here, first, I may have gone a bit mad with some neon spray paint;







Now, at the moment I don't have the car as it is away having a new head gasket fitted, but, when it returns, I have this little lot for it;
a new pioneer headunit, courtesy of the guys at Rudie Mods;


Got a new air filter to bolt on courtesy of my mate phil;


An Escort cosworth splitter, that will be painted a bright shade of lime green;


And then this is a just a small amount of all the alphabet magnets that will be apperaing inside and/or outside the car;


My rear window is also covered in stickers but havn't got a pic of that at the moment, so, I know its not to everyones taste but still let me know what you think.

jammerrs

i like it, think the splittler should be neon orange aswell though

and i realy like that interior, how much did the spray cost and was it easy to do?

Pixvil

Also thinking of doing the front grills in the lime green as well, shall see what I decide on when I get it back from having the head gasket replaced.

Think all the stuff for the spraying came to about Ł20 from halfords, I may be wrong though, just take off or mask up the parts you want to spray, sand them down with some 240 wet and dry paper, give it a couple of coats of white primer, letting each coat dry before the next, then a couple of coats of the neon orange, again letting it dry between each coat, then depending on what sort of finish you want you can leave it at that for a matt finish, or apply some coats of clear laquer, each coat giving it more shine to the finish, laquer takes a bit longer to dry though so be careful, pretty easy really, only thought I would give it g o after seeing there was only one can of neon paint left at my local halfords lol.

jammerrs

thanks for that

Pixvil

Right four things were added to my car this weekend, first I put my new headunit in;

Then I removed my rear wiper, don't really think I need it, and literaly 'plugged' the hole;

added the, personal touch to my dashboard;

and while the glue on the magnets and the quicksteel behind the plug hardend, I thought i would add my new air filter;

Couple more bits to do but will have to wait for the weather to improve first

jammerrs

love the plug

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

The plug is mint but i think your car looks a bit tacky sorry.Its your car and as long as your happy thats all that matters.

Pixvil

Thought I would give my car a clean today, and add a few more stickers :P
Enjoy.