thought i'd post up my project i'm doing see what people think,
well i brought the car the start of feb and thought id had the deal of a life time was taken out for a spin in it by the chap who was buying it off, ran like a dream, didnt miss a beat.
anyway got it home found a few things that needed doing to it but nothing major.
then a week after was cruising down the motorway at 90 and heard an massive bang and smoke pouring out the exhaust got recovered home striped the engine down
and discovered that i blown a nice hole in the side of a piston, then discovered the chap who i brought it off had used 3 different pistons in the block for some reason.
so sourced another bottom end off a chap in tamworth, took a few weeks rebuild it due to the weather, blowning a CV joint and snapping the clutch cable
when got it back on the road did the running in stage and was running sweet again but then discovered the bloke had done a home rebuild on the turbo and the bearings blew on the turbo
so now ive decided cut my loses and do a full rebuild from chassis up and get the car how i want it and know everything has been done to how i would like.
well here few pics i shall keep you up dated as the project continues
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well after gutted the car discovered was a bit rotten so replaced a fair few panel, two new rear wings, two new front wings, new slam panel, new sills also fill smoothed the engine bay out and the interior as well so all looks neat and tidy,






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well over xmas my mate managed fit the car in to his work to get it paid and these are the results











well since it been painted all ive done is strip the suspension off and rear axle and then lost interest in it but slowly getting all my parts togther to rebuild it hopefully for classic ford.
peoples ideas and thoughts are welcome cheers jp

 

thats james old car, good work you haev done there, are you keeping the tt set up?

 

looks very nice painted and look forward to seeing it finished

 

good progress mate what colour you painted that

 

yea it is james on car, nah going ZVH efi setup looking at getting it running over 300+ at the wheels and stripped completely so hopefully should get some good figures out of it once it all done

 

its ford thistle purple but with a black base coat so its bit darker than the standard ford colour

 

thats very nice mate!

 

I could have done with a rocker cover like that when i had a FRST, damn oil cap kept popping off, i'd hear it hit the bonnet then see it in the rear view mirror a few seconds later lol.

 

I have do admit I grew up with full electronic ignition, converted my XR2 to MFI and later to full mappable electronic ignition, but every time I see a TT conversion I think about building something different...

 

Excellent cant beat a good sleeper,especialy mk2 fez.Love it keep up the good work

 

cool car mate have a word with devil developments just made a zvh for a friend its 330bhp

 

im building the engine myself mate just having all the machine work done by professial as i dont have access to the tools. yea gota love a proper sleeper nothing beats that feeling beating people off the lights in a 'standard' fiesta

 

i remember james building it. if u sell the tt stuff give me a pm mate i have it

 

nice i like that

 

Very nice..i like the colour!

 

Hi JB,


have you sent my parts from this car?

 

Think you'll find that Dan fabricated most parts on the car, James did a number on him and never paid for the work done!

 

Nice project mate!

 

the colours lovely

good luck mate

 

nice colour!

 

did james never sort this out?

 

nah mate james never sorted it with lil did i know till actully put the deposit on the car it all came to the surface

 

cool car

 

Top work mate keep up the good work.

 

very nice mate

 

that paint looks great

 

cheers for the comments people, haven't done anything to it still as waiting on parts will update as soon as i have something to report on haha

 

Hi JB,


parts have still not arrived, when will they be arriving?

 

Looks really good


Brian

 

Yes you did know, as we agreed to go up there together when you brought it, as i wanted to get my parts off it, or my money.


Then you lie'd to me, and said your not buying it, then brought it, alot cheaper.

 

Is that rocker cover off a american cvh?? any updates?????

 

Yes it is a American CVH rocker cover.

 

whats happening with this then?

 

xr2 tt manifold??