na she had the remote mate, lol
its all good now, its finished


hjave you got any more pics of ya escort mate?

also what you doing with the isdie, are you getting all neew stuff or mint s/h etc?

 

well said car looks amazing keep up the good work

p.s rab you on strathy??

 

Not really, kinda got sick of them cruisers and they're love of plastic stick on bits and neon lights about 4 year ago. Just use it to sell stuff nowadays

 

I agree. Its an effort regardless of what shell has been used. All this shell snobbery is stupid, i noticed its always ford aswell.

Never get anyone going mad at me for my 1.4 shell kitted up as a GSI, because all icare about is it will go like stink and shit on GSi's

Crack on mate, you'll havea car for life there

 

It wasn't even a 1.3L was it? Thats on OHV engine, looks like a 1.1, the 1.3's were CVH on MK3's believe

but yeah i guess your right its not big loss (car murderer )

 

No they were OHV's the 1.4s were CVH's

 

1.1 or 1.3............... Doesn't really matter, neither would pull your foreskin back

 

 

HA HA yes that old engine went streight on the scrap pile!!

Ignor the engine pics from earlier as my mate rob whose doing a turbo cabrio posted them! mines better of course I have had the gearbox coated candy red, the sump, crossover turbo pipe and rocker cover have been away for chroming. Also the engine has had a full rebuild/ new everything etc. I have got a burton quickshift for it which at the moment i have pinched for my everyday thrash cabrio 2.0 zetec. I would definatly recomend the quickshift if ur old ones worn. All being well i am going to the bodyshop tomorrow cos i am off all week. All the glass is new so no scratches with new ford rubbers. So tomorrow the glass will be back in. Pics to come.

I agree TV tonight is shite, probably why so many have been on passionford tonight!

 

Mr Fawdy, you are the man, however you really shouldve converted to rear wheel drive as well. As you know, its your car, your money and its bloody well spent! but couldnt you have done the decent thing and made it rear wheel drive!! O and a sniff of gas wouldnt hurt!!
Keep up the good work sir! you know who! should i post the pics of my RS1600i? or are the purists gonna twitch to death!!

 

Get it posted rear wheel drive is awesome

 

 

definitely put some of your pictures up mate, would love to see them but start you're own thread so as not to stray from this lads car

 

car's looking brilliant... like the candy!! mk3 or mk4 who cares it's a lot of work and fair play!

 

cossiecrew

 

don't really see the point in converting, there are loads of solid mk4's around....never the less, you're really doin a great job here!!!

 

more pics and update mate

 

yeh post some more updates!!!

car was looking lovely in the last set !!!

 

where abouts mate think you could hook me up with one,like fawdy says take the carpets out and the kit off then you will see just how solid most are,rotboxes is the only word to describe them lol

 

got omly noe thing to tell you mate that hell of a job bbut as I read b4 is not what others like is what please you keep it coming m8 its awsome

 

Fookin nice work mate, as most folk say its your car so do as you like, i know what you mean, i dread taking my kit off

More pics needed - this is gonna be a belter

 

I have taken a break from working on the car recently as i have been busy working. This weekend i have made a list of parts i still need. The turbo has been built by AET in yorkshire, 360 bearing fitted etc. I intend to order the omex system very soon. I will get the digital camera and post some up to date pics this week!

 

I've found one for 180 quid, has 3 things that need welding, solid enough for me!! Stripped it out so I KNOW the floor is solid too!!
Been searching for a year till I found one that was solid WITH sunroof, one without isn't hard to find over here.



Want to point out that fawdy really did a good job, read the whole topic again and what a lot of moaning about someone converting mk3 to mk4, who gives a f*ck, should be looked at the quality!

 

i had the same problem of trying to find a mint shell.so i went out and found a 37000 mile g reg 1.1 bonus in mercury grey. i turbed it,s1 arch kit,bad boy bonnet,17s and loads more.who cares what it started out as so long as the finished article is the dogs!
keep up the good work

 

wow thats a top project

if all the mk3 boys hate it so much why dont they take a mk4 and convert it to a mk3

 

I dont think its so much a fact of hating it, its just SOOOOOOOOOOO much effort and money. But as has been said if theyve got the money to throw at it then fairplay, Fawdy's is a spanker. Can't honestly say i would do it myself either way though, too much hassle.

 

im not sure id go to the trouble of changing a mk3 to a mk4 but its still a very good project and a good read

later on this year i'll be turning a standard mk4 into an rs lookalike

 

Thats not as bad because you dont have to change all panels, as long as its cost effective to do and doesn't cost more than a genuine RS would.

 

ive got all of the pieces waiting but im still looking for the right car to come along at the right price

 

oh dear lord Poor mk3

 

You're wrong - the 1.3s were CVH's in the mk3 Escort, they changed to the HCS engine on mk4