yeah i going to sort it out next week after ive done a few jobs for my customers hopefully with the cash back i should be done by friday just got to be ready for ford fair

 

Good work mate, a shame about the engine but atleast you will have a bit of piece of mind now knowing its now rebuilt.

 

true and i can upgrade a few things in prep for future mods

 

few supplies for the engine plus my girlfriends car


and the weight saving continues

 

Yo man! Cars looking awsome. What size engine are you putting in it?

 

its only a little 1.6 because i need a reliable work horse then a weekend track toy with cheap parts

little update

went to the local motorfactors and this is the bill


no wonder the guy has a range rover sport with a 4 digit number plate

 

parts of my shopping trip heads off getting tested and skimmed as we speak so hopefully all good news on that front

 

 

Nice car that, keep up the good work

 

cheers

 

 

new sports cat

temp exhaust bodge

oil breather

new aero blades


and my track day prep

 

nice think my next move defo

 

pretty good set up i fit on most of my customers cars

 

on the track

 

thats a good pic mate looks like good fun

whats with the silver and orange subaru, spin out, broke, parked.. ??

 

overtook him on the first lap after the saftey car left and think one of his hoses blew off water all over the place just seen it out of my mirror

 

played around today cleaning a few things up in my workshop and i found an unused motorsport fan from an old project so i thought may aswell put it on this car for track use and to keep temps low on the motorway aswell may aswell have 2 fans

before with original fan behind

after

 

looks good!

 

cheers once the bumper is on you dont even know its there

 

Nice car
Could'nt you fit two fans in there to help with cooling for track days?

 

that is fan no2 it has standard fan at the rear and that fan at the front

 

Looking good fella.

 

thanks Glenn

 

update time

went to get my tyres fitted



and as i was sitting there in the waiting area went a bit loopy and came out with the rest of the exhaust system

piper inward rolled





also got a sexy spare wheel now no need for donuts

 

old shocking warped discs with glazed pads

new mintex pads and shiney discs


i decided to sort the coilovers out they have had 4 years of hard use and are looking a bit sorry for them selves so i thought i would give them a little clean up make them last till i get a bit of money together to get a decent set of gaz all the paint was stuff i had laying around the workshop
whilst i was at it i thought i would give the rear end a bit of a clean up and get some under body seal on it too (no pics as its just the usual black stuff)
coilovers before



coilovers after

 

got some free carbon fibre wrap the other day so thought i would put it to good use

 

sorted out the cam cover

done my glove box handle

and my door handles


this stuff is addictive going to see if i can get some more free tomorrow and wrap my radio surround

 

so bit more wrapping


going to do the ceter console and a few other little bits so its like a cf wrapped version on the st dash

 

quick update been using the car hard and on normal jurneys and the carbon fibre wrap seems to stand up to the test
also before

after

and finally got round to bolting in my track harness

 

good work! plan to change the seats?

 

i work as a mechanic so any seats i buy get covered in muck i dont do the driving round with seat covers on but im considering a cheap set of buckets for track days then turn it back into a road car through the week the harness is fully ditachable so its easy to go from road to track

 

not much of an update but i give the car mini service today


cleaned my k&n and measured it up to a standard filter and was a little worried when the standard filter has more surface area and the k&n ones suppose to have larger surface area and better flow
also i blew the blood doors off (well just the trim) after a spirited driving session

going to be changing the oil shortly though as i will be buying an oil cooler just in time for ford fair also parts will be arriving this week for me to start my induction manifold set up

 

Those door pillers are the shityist thing ever! They fall off every fiesta at speed lol

 

aye thats my 5th on that side alone even when you glue it on it cracks somewhere else

 

just got this 55 mm throttle bodie to bolt onto a custom inlet i will be making soon

 

looking good mate, now i know where welshtony gets his ideas from. ;0)

 

I must admit, when i saw the first pictures with those lights I thought "Here we go, another shitbox!" But credit where it's due, fantastic job so far mate, look's really tidy and the colour is a nice change!
As most others would agree, get some standard facelift lights and that would set it off a treat.
Thought about a 2.0ltr Zetec? Would be a great little car for the track then, bags more torque than the 1.6.

Ben.

 

good work mate it looks spot on

 

lol yeah we bounce alot of ideas around im building him a boot install at the moment with a hidden 8 inch sub

main reason i put the 1.6 in it was i had a 1.7 puma engined mk4 track car running cbr600 throttle bodies 4-1 mani straight through exhaust system this one



so i thought i would just put a cheap engine in my road car cost me 100 quid for the engine and i fitted it in in an afternoon after i finished building a customers car
most of the parts on the engine i have been getting dirt cheap to free so thought its worth keeping it
i have been thinking about changing the lights on the front to the facelifts for a while but just waiting for a set to come up cheap or free lol

thank you there will be a bit more to come soon i will be building an inlet manifold for the big throttle bodie