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Had a couple of spare hours so did a little on the front of the car, Changed N/S bottom wishbone so now all the joints have been fitted finally.
Then trial fitted the 3dr Cossie front brakes, (excuse the dirty discs) will need to decide how to mount the calipers as neither the hub or caliper has a thread, maybe easiest way will be to tap a thread into the hub. Anybody who has done this brake upgrade, feel free to comment.
Got the brakes all fitted properly, had to drill out the hole in the hub and tap it to take m12 high tensile bolts.pics of them all bolted up, few bits to touch up with paint.
Next job is to get the wheels sorted
Hi, are you going to use pattern panels? If so can you still get a boot floor or are you going to source a good second hand one?.. Good work on keeping it alive though.
I have purchased a whole back end from a bonus shell, its completely mint so i will be drilling out the spot welds on the boot floor and using that to weld into my shell.
Wanted a rest from rust and rot so decided to do a bit of painting, gave the inlet a few coats of laquer and painted the strut tops, bonnet lifters and rocker cover a fresh coat of satin black and clear coat.
Nice work James, u just need a nice charge pipe 2 finish it off
Nice little project u have hear james, like turbowag says would finish it off a nice black one with silver letters,... How u getting on with it new floor in yet
After a very long break, playing around with other toys/projects, the time has came to crack on with the ol girl.
had a good look and after much thought we decided to cut all the shit bodge ups from somebody and start fresh, all the rear panel was removed with the floor, inner rear boot bits and so on,spent plenty of time trimming the back end of the bonus section i bought so it would weld onto the original sections and maintain the factory look. And being a genuine ford panel from another escort it went in pretty much first time, only tacked in at the moment but you get the idea.
More to come soon.
Last edited by xxTWINNYxx; Jan 30, 2018 at 09:23 PM.
Now when i got the car i knew it ha a new rear 1/4 on which was done very well, so i removed the rear 1/4 card and window and was shocked to see the bodge up on the inner rear 1/4 which consisted of paper and fibreglass.
After anding it all off it revealed another coulpe of bit i now have to weld in, the end is in sight thankfully
Yeah there seems to be a nice collection of them now, I was a bit annoyed to see a bodge like that but I suppose the good thing is that I can now sort it properly and not have to worry about it again
Stripped and blasted the rear wishbones and trailing arms and gave them a few good coats of paint.
Finally got my delivery from ford so the suspension set up can go on. new bearings for hubs, new nuts, castle washer and split pin and rear anti roll bar links
Got the full flowflex kit turned up (Top mounts already fitted) i know some people dont like them but i'll see how i get on with them
Last edited by xxTWINNYxx; Jul 21, 2016 at 09:22 PM.
Had my evo painted and did a few bits to that and then sold it in the summer after 4 years of fun. Bought a mk1 escort which I will start a thread for and post link at some point.
Done a few bits to the rs turbo, all welded and under sealed at the back end now.
Last edited by xxTWINNYxx; Nov 8, 2017 at 02:35 PM.
Small little update, in the process of building all the brakes and suspension out so its ready to fit so started laying down the sound deadening in the boot
Car was away a while being painted, didn’t really get any pics of it in paint but you all know what a car in a paint booth looks like.
got the car back a few days ago, stripped the engine bay out and removed all the fuel lines and brake lines to make them all fresh again, few little bits done and then I decided to strip the underside and paint it red too, what a chore!!!
Excuse the overspray..
