robman111

Jesus this car was made from butter and toilet paper i swear....
Well heres how my fiesta started off. Was a bit of a WIP anyway until I crashed it... taking me further from my progess...




Well I pretty much kept out of trouble in all the snow of Jan 2010, until ironically it had melted into slush...
Was on my way to a friends when approaching a corner at about 15mph no joke I turned and instead went straight on, which took me through one of the good old budget fence panels you get from homebase etc. Well this was a bit funny, until it came to checking it out and finding my car wouldn’t actually come out of the gap between the missing panels.
Quickly called my mate, to get a tow, and set off driving to my mates, where we noticed my car was trying to drive in both directions at the same time :-S – Yes you guessed it rack was damaged....
Jacked it up to check and sure enough spaghetti shaped arm and wishbone.





Along with cosmetic damage, which was also a suprise. The fence was so flimsy.







Even the sill got a bang...



So next day I got wishbone, and manage to take it home to decide what to do with it.
Decided to get new wings, bumper and rack. Easy fix really.




Got it down to my unit where I began disassembly
I noticed my tracking was clearly out LOL







Stripped out the engine, to make removal of steering rack and subframe etc much easier for me



Got my door off



As you can see was messing with white paint, so decided im going to spray the whole thing frozen white as I now needed half my panels doing...
So started on prepping the engine bay first so I could refit everything in order to wheel it about



Moved the car outside as weather was ok plus unit was quite cluttered.
Got my mate to start sanding the car down for paint



At this point I decided I would quite like to be able to put my 17”s back on but due to the rear discs from st170 they spaced the wheels out too much. So figured why not widen the arch about 20mm?
So started on that




Got the lip welded back on and then a bit of primer to keep rust at bay




Then started to wire brush the whole engine bay to bare metal to make sure it was rust free and smooth for paint. Also stops the red appearing through the white.






That being done we moved it inside for final bay prep and masking etc.







Then on with primer



Then the white








Unmasked



Starting to reassemble the bay








Everything in unit seems to be a shelf for other peoples stuff...
Engine:



Escort LoL



So with the bits ready for the engine, I skipped to the arch again and slapped some filler on.




Looked ok, but not wide enough as other side needs to be double 
Started on other side





Also didn’t seem to be wide enough
Oh well.
Anyway, managed to get a bumper off eBay for Ł70 bargain for a ZS bumper right?
WRONG
This one was worse than the one I got rid of.
Was very irritated indeed. It had been crashed before and seemed to of split on the back, and then repaired and left without any mounting bolts!!! Very annoying!!!!
But trial fit with my only usable headlamp



And the wing put on



So welded it on




Got a new door too as you can see. Multicolour you like?
Placed other wing on



Then was engine time




My mate Beanifer being a spanner...



We were putting the rack and power steering pipes on.




Bonnet on to keep out the dust



Next was the struts and hubs to go back on.



Needless to say they were rubbish so new springs bought which is when I found the rear struts were knackered




Starting to take shape...



Sprayed the underside of my bonnet a funky pearl, with the panther black on topside




Making sure everything was lining up ok



Loom ok – HIDs I managed to run the control unit over so checked they worked after a little repair to the casing – my mate got a nice zap off that lol




Next my new air filter which I thought was funky!!




Sprayed the rear of the car after taking ages to remove all the sound deadening




Dash still needed removal so I didn’t paint it all and left in primer
Something didn’t seem right with the new rear springs as it was sitting so high even though they were meant to be 50mm drop
So whilst I was trying to make sure the arch would go over the tyre without scrubbing I removed them and sat it on the bump stops. But the tyre touched... looked good though with a sideskirt trial attached





So with that like that I realised the arch was still wrong :x
Added lots more to the arch before again going over with filler







Out with the Dash then. That was fun





Started to remove the seam sealer which was on the sill join, this was quite badly corroded underneath



Upgraded discs and callipers to Escort Cosworth 275mm Ones, And painted the callipers blue.



Then started to fix the bumper on the back. Plastic welded two new plastic plates where there were meant to be bolts. Then put new bolts in, and only way to stop them spinning when trying to do the nuts up was to weld a flat plat to the top and then screw it through the plastic.

robman111

Final arch prep


Arch in primer


Then moved onto other side
added metal extension

checked it , not too bad


whacked on some fibrefill to help shape


then moved onto the inside, where i had to weld so many holes!
ridiculous!!!





Seam sealed it all after

removed sound deadening

and welded plate over seat mount as seat bolts kept pulling up from floor and leaning towards centre of car.

robman111

I will get more pics soon, as have painted and polybushed the rear beam, stonechipped and painted the rear inner arches, and rear valance panel and reprimed topside of my bonnet after smoothing it again due to imperfections

doctor stavros

Nice work there, keep it up!