RWD MK4 Escos
 

Now I am certain most of you will no this car & at present I can take no credit for it. I was toying with the idea of building one for a long time but with my new buisness I just didn't have the time.

I read through a lot of resto's with great admiration & im hoping by me starting one of my own it'll motivate me more into getting it finished for early summer.

So after bending Billy's ear for a while we managed to sort a deal for me to take the car as a rolling shell, this way I could put my own mark on it & make it my own.

At present it sits like this in my workshop

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Looking abit sorry for itself but I've already been purchasing a few bits to get the build started...

This arrived yesterday from Belgium.... Big thanks to Bart :top:

Rebuilt 200 block

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On the stand now ready for a clean up

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The plan at them minute is to go for a full colour change, I like the colour now but I'm never going to get away from it being "that's Billy's car" (Sorry Bill :DD:) and doing it now while the car is mostly stripped would make a lot more sense.

I'll keep this updated as & when, hopefully be going in for paint in the next week or so..... Watch this space!

JP

Here's another photo I've just found on a set of Tarmacs kindly given to me by Stu20004x4....... Would appriciate it if you could drop the other 2 round now mate?

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It does look damn sexy on them!

Defiantly looks better on this than that old taxi of yours :blabla:

Gotta admit that they do lol

Looking forward to your rebuild James.

Great car

Thanks mate

I do like a mk3/4 cossied escort.

Looks nice on them white 5 spokes.

Surprised you never said they needed to be silver Glenn :cry::cry:

Will keep an eye on this :DD:

Can't wait to see what the old girl turns out like James :top:

Look after her and keep this updated mate, we'll catch up at a few shows this year because you'll have it finished easily by then..... right?! :cry:

Going to be an animal!!
Love this car:)

Lovely motor :DD:

Hopefully ;-)

Nice!

I did wonder about the car after seeing some bits come up for sale from it. Glad to see its being saved, i'd love another rs turbo let alone a cossied one.

Do it proud james, it looks good on the tarmacs

They look nice on there mate, what width, off set and tire size are they, looks like they sit nicely inside the arch. Having a head ache with wheels for my one.


Ginger


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Good to see it getting rebuilt :-)

If I'm honest mate they are off a friends saph.

They sit well but think they'll rub under load... I'm sure they're 17x8 et42 with 205/40/17's.

I'm the same, as of yet I have no wheels lined up and from speaking with Billy anything wider than a 7.5" is a no go.

Looks very nice keep the updates coming

Cheers mate, it's the fronts that are the issue, the rear Sierra axle with standard Cossie wheels is only a few MM wider each side than a standard RS turbo, but the front Escort axle is narrower than the Escort rear by a good 10mm each side. the front Sierra is wider than the rear, so the front will stick out more, I've widened my arches by 25mm all round to help but it's still an issue I need to address. I really want an 8j 215 on the rear with a 7j 205 front.


Does yours run standard width axles front and rear???



Ginger


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As far as I know mate.

Billy was running et37 wheels 7j wide.

JP

Few small updates.

Started stripping out the rest of the parts under the bonnet ready for prepping

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Dash is out now as is the front part of the cage

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Tomorrow I will be removing the doors, boot & kit ready for some new colour.

Im working nights this week so all being well we should have this prepped & primed for next weekend!

Nice one ,what colour you going for

I'm staying tight lipped for now mate ;-)

Got 3 colours that it could possibly be & as of yet I'm still undecided!

Began stripping it ready for paint..... Hopefully I can remember how to put it back together!

Loom removed

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Engine bay stripped

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Fuel set up removed

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Doors off & glass or plastic out

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Found some rust on the O/S arch that will need replacing before paint

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Jesus! James you ain't messing about :o

I can't mess about mate this needs to be ready for end of May !

Shame about the rust matey. It wont take you long to sort it.

You'll be very busy for the next 3 months. Just think that's only 13 weeks :cry:

Can't wait to see it come together :top:

Going to cut it back tomorrow & see what needs doing, seems to be mainly the inner arch.

Works well under way :top:

Small update on the colour.....

Now I've been playing with this idea in my head for a while but would commit until we'd tried it out.

We mixed a small amount of Jewel Violet L4 in solvent based paint & painted 1 of the wing mirror covers, not a perfect job but to see how it looked.

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As you can see there's a nice pearl purple in this when in good light but wasn't impressed when it was in shade it looked like a brown/dark magenta.

So we mixed some more, this time using water based & removed some of the red oxide from the mix & we got this!

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Again not a perfect Job but it give us a good idea.

I'm 99% sure this will be the colour.

Any thoughts!? Good or bad I can take it !!

That's going to look the bollocks can't wait to see it done

I really like the colour :-)

Go for it and get it painted.

2nd mix looks the nuts

We still need to try a few samples on different colour primers.

We tried it straight over the grey that's it's painted in now then on a base white to see if it would pop more but wasn't much difference.

I would go with the white base. When the full car is painted I think it would make a big difference to the colour on the larger panels. Would definetly look lighter. Your call tho :-)

Yeah the painter said the same mate

So how long you reckon till shes got a fresh coat of paint on :bling:

Hopefully within 2/3 weeks !

Good stuff. Can't wait to see it done :DD: