Forum: Restorations and Projects

and so it begins my first escort build ive been raging around in minis for years but i fancied a change and some rear wheel drive fun. ive bought this car from a friend. its been siting in a leaky garage for around 3 years, it looks like the waters been sitting in the drivers floor pan bad rust...

hi guys just an update on my baby all painted and looking the nuts:dance::thumb:.......1600ghia/rs 4dr 2000......just have to put the chuffer in then mot it....regards nel boot spoiler to mount engine seats restore rs 4 bar wheels carbon dash stick on...

We'll now that the old transit is finnished and on the road i got the escort back in the garage on sunday. Its a 1968 mk1 2 door in decent condition,it will still need a fair bit of work tho! ive got a thread on here sumwhere already but as i hadnt really done much to it im just going to start a...

hi all ive started a new project for my first rally car for when im ready to give it a go in feburary posted some pics on another forum so hope you dont mind having to look there for them and il post ongoing pics at a later date ...

this is the new box of electronics ive had made to control the pneumatic gear shift system for the sequential gearbox,the card at the bottom does the the gearshift http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y73/turbospud/deececf7.jpg the rest of the cards allow full auto flatshift up and down,8 channel...

Whilst on holiday with my wifes family my sister inlaws boyfriend (Grant) mentioned he wanted a new car as his saxo is a bit slow. Being a young chap (just 18) he was looking at nearly new corsas, fiestas etc. I pointed out that sdthey wouldn't be alot of fun and he would loose a bucket load...

hi all bought this at crimbo ,rs shell with sill damage not recorded this is whats going in it :D http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af333/dingle_05/002-2.jpg http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af333/dingle_05/001-2.jpg

Hi every one just come in is this mk2 RS2000 in need of some work. I have got the job of bringing the shell back to life !

I am now the new owner of the Tuscan Escort that Jtech built. http://www.turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?109182-tuscan-escort&highlight=tuscan+escort Over the next couple of months I will up-date my progress on the car. Hopefully it won't be to long before it goes into the paint shop. I...

New project time The four door is all finished up,with a new 3.5 diff, seats and engine she is loving life. So time for a new project :D Only have an engine bay pic for now and I'm after some advice already. ...

hello. i thought id start a thread about my mk2 2 door project car. im 19 years old from Australia and have owned 5 mk2's my first one i bought when i was just 15 as a shell and spent all my free time building it up. i had no knowledge of how anything car related worked so it was a massive...

....well I hope it's just the weekend :D:D http://media.turbosport.co.uk/2007/8/2007082511338319703shite (Medium).jpg Starting stripping the main interior out once the kids have gone for the day :) Then I shall stand & think for a bit :D

Got this 3 weeks ago , standard 1.3l 1980 Escort 4 door 54000 miles. Only done 800 miles in last ten years ( Dry stored ) and very soild. Fitted some rear Bilsteins and lowering blocks and the Rs Alloys and took these photos. http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt53/stone119/4door012.jpg ...

a few pics of my mk1 will try and get some better pics soon :thumb:

Thought it was about time i started a thread about my escort. She started life as a 1.3gl costing £400 2 years ago and looks like a turd on wheels:D

been a while since i was last on here but i thought i would share my lastest project and maybe get some advice along the way :) bought this off a mate who had bought it on the understanding that it was all done ready for conversion,had had loads of money thrown at it but when i started digging...

I have a nice Escort Mk1, which converted from 1.3 L Kent to 2.0 L Pinto, with twin 40 Webers: Not enough power, so i decided to do a thing: Escort Pinturbo. Now the project begin ....

good friend of mine Greg Pye who also races in DTRC in a silver Alfa sudsprint bought a second alfasud to race while his number one sud was having serious and seriously long winded engine rebuild with an alfa specialist, although mechanically fairly std the car performed well until that too...

Hi everyone, This is one im doing at the moment, nice straight mk11, It has already had floors and the arches fitted, http://media2.turbosport.co.uk/2009/12/2010072720155272381nicks escort 003.jpg http://media2.turbosport.co.uk/2009/12/2010072720158753750nicks escort 004.jpg...

well seeing as im waiting for mr dvla man to give me back my V5, and CTS to finish building my gearbox as well as everything else (rear disk conversion and megajolt), i thought id finally get round to having a look at my dads shorrock supercharger. This is likely to be a very long term project.....

quick , yea right :lmao: ive had this for about 6 months now but wanted to get a head start :) then my phone packed in and i lost a load of pics :doh: (any k800 lockup experts?) anyway its time i posted so here we go. i will be trying to sort it in stages , front, back then engine then body...

Hi all , i have just joined and today and just picked up my first car a mk1 escort :) It looks good not a total rust bucket. Its is a import from Portugal so i'm going to have to convert it to RHD but on the up side its has never been welded before so things should be quite straight forward....

Heres some photos of my anglia 123 e super was in street machine in sept 1992 standard 1200.going to put a 4age in her,also got a rwd corolla gearbox.going to run on bike carbs .Needs a small amount of welding compared to 'pg tips ' cortina project and i need to get back driving an OSF again. ...

I'm quite into mountain biking so decided a pickup would be handy for taking the bikes out in. Plus pickups are handy just generally and will be good for shifting my band gear round if I get a bed cover as well. I'm also bored living in Barrow so though I could kill two birds with one stone. A...

Hi guys, Does anyone have a pattern or drawing of Mk1 escort headlining bars? Better still, does anyone have a set lying around that they don't need or any idea where I can get hold of some. Cheers, Mick

I have always wanted a garage of my own and when we got are first house it was one of the big ones on the list of must have's but first step on the ladder it was a no go :( Then second house again it was a must have but yet again the garage was a compromise on the house but at lest this time it...

hi a couple of pics of my little toy hope you like http://media2.turbosport.co.uk/2008/6/2009032823223775780andrew 571.jpg http://media2.turbosport.co.uk/2008/6/2009032823222845147andrew 577.jpg http://media2.turbosport.co.uk/2008/6/2009032823227617488andrew 574.jpg ...

This is 1 of my mk1's. started work on it this weekend, getting all the 17yrs of farmyard crap out of the inside of it. As you'd expect from being stood in a field for that long its rotted quite badly. even the new sills and front wings it had 1yr before it was laid up have rotted. but it was the...

New to this Forum,just Registered few moments ago...just like to show what ive done,Pics and proper facts will come tomorrow night but heres a shortlist. Absolutely mint mk2 two door,everything you see in this car is made by me with absolutely minimum budget,only thing i bought ready is the...

Having spent so much time and money on my Mini project it is clear that it is going to cost at least 10 - 12k and with the best will in the world is going to be another 12 - 18 months unless I spend quite a bit more money on out sourcing work. So in the interests of having something to drive...