Since selling my rs turbo around 4 years ago i haven,t bothered with modding cars,had 2 kids and bought a house instead.Any way decided to buy a little transit connect for all the little(big) jobs that come with buying a new house.
This beauty:


After using it for a few months i decided to take advantage of my new double garage at the end of my garden.
Painted mirrors and handle and some wheels i got cheap

Spilt the headlamps open and painted the inners black

A set of focus st rims added




Got these cosworth leather recaros off ebay for £100


Then came the fun bit.A transit connect has 1 normal drivers seat and 1 fold down ironing board type passenger seat with no runners so some fabrication skill were needed.
Got hold of another drivers seat to use the runners and mounts off.
First to do was the easy drivers seat.Cut up the base and used the original runner

added angle iron to mount the seat to

Then cross sections



Test fitted.

All painted and bolted to seat.



Next the harder passenger seat.
Used original pssaenger base and added angle iron to mount runner on.


Used runner off spare drivers seat and mounted them together.



Top bars added to mount seat.


All painted


All finished and fitted:

 

Lovely little van
seats look sweet

 

Love a connect me... i run one on my fleet for work. shit slow tho!. looks like you are doing well...

ps. i have a full rear bumper and a later front bumper withh the fog holes going...

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nice van im thinking of getting one of these

 

Iv,e finished the van and am now happy with the way it looks.Just sorting through the photos to up load them so won,t be a long drawn out thread.
Next stop lowering it as they sit way too high for my liking and i don,t carry that much weight in it anyway.The rear is a simple axle flip so made and welds some plates 180 degrees to the original.





Doing it this way drops the rear too much so designed a bracket that will allow me to adjust the rear ride height.
Brackets

Bolted together and shaped to exactly the same size.


Made a simple jig to alllow them to be welded in the same place.



All welded and painted






Then fitted





On to the fronts.I used the original connect shock but with Focus rs springs,cups,bearings and top mounts.
The focus rs parts.


Fitted to the connect shock,compare to the original connect shock.


All fitted and sits nice and low(pics later)

Time for a bit off paint now.Got hold of facelift front and rear bumpers and a rear parking sensor kit.
Prepped and primered.



Painted diamond white.

 

Wheels were given the once over and a lick of paint.




A few coats of gloss black later.

 

A few little more touches
New arches all round including facelift front arches


Mondeo st inner door handles

Led side lights

 

All done now and every thing fitted.
This pic was my insperation.



Here's mine:

 

Just facelift rear lights and possible ice white respray if i can be bothered.Just happy driving it to & from work and not spending alot of money on it like my RS.

 

mate thats amazing simple mods thats turned out great

 

Looks very nice mate


Brian

 

Love it

 

Looks bang on mate

 

looking very nice mate,,,,how much to make me some of them brackets to lower my connect x-press as its got the full focus rs running gear but just needs to be lowered now

 

I like that alot.

 

Fair play mate looks spot on that

 

Like that alot!

 

I think thats cool as fuck

 

very nice really good touches there its nice to see a van being modded

 

That is how you tastefully modify a connect !!!!!!

 

Me and me mate took some pictures of this at ford fair, my mate is now copying you although he has recaro st170 seats to fit, top work matey

 

Looks very tidy, only thing I would do to it is paint the plastic arches / bumper inserts a gloss black.

 

Did you make your own brackets to lower the rear?

 

Yes,just a copy of the original brackets that are on top.

Might put a 2ltr zetec in soon as don,t have the finances for Focus rs running gear

 

Cheers,this is the only pic of mine i took at Ford fair.Was parked near the auto jumble

 

That's where we took our pics then went on the hunt for more connects.

 

Looks awesome !

 

well impressive what uv done ther m8 luv the way you lowered it and they stance it has looks so spot on,wel done m8

 

That looks the dogs - I'd be well happy driving about in that !

 

love these things lots, id leave as is untill you can afford to drop in an FRS setup or maybe an ST setup and 6 speed box

 

that looks great

 

leave it derv! cheap to run and less to f*ck up!!

 

looks really good!

 

yeah but the faces you get when you pass most cars is great and worth every penny of the rs converion

 

mate, u wudnt believe how tempted this has made me to get a connect for work, damn u

i know u say without the brackets u made up, it sat too low, but how much lower exactly? i cant help thinking if it was mine id want it sitting a bit lower, but of course thats all down to personal preference

still looks great as it is tho, nice work

 

Looks spot on mate

 

This is what they look like if you use Focus rs springs on the front and just an axle flip on the back.Too low in my opinion.

 

Or you could pay these people:
Nice price to....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=280722951727

 

mine seems alot lower

 

Very nice and its amazing how much difference the subtle mods make