Hi Everybody
I'm Danie from South Africa...
Here is a few pictures of my 1600 sport...
I am currently busy upgrading the car, got some nice 15" superlites and replaced all the suspension's bushes with poly bushes. She's also got a 1" drop all round and anti-dive kit fitted.
Next will be fitting a performance branch and pipe. After that she will be going for some mild engine tuning. Planning on upgrading the engine in stages, and enjoying each stage to the fullest!!
That looks mint like it alot
Proper minter mate
But get that front spoiler painted its killing the car
Thanks
Still thinking about painting the spoiler....
Originally Posted by dangerousdave
Proper minter mate
But get that front spoiler painted its killing the car
Wow what a clean looking car.
I'm on Daves side, get it painted. Does it have spots in it? oh and maybe remove the overriders too.
Nice car
I think the south african escort came with black spoilers? i maybe wrong.
Yes they came with black spoilers....
Nice car
I think the south african escort came with black spoilers? i maybe wrong.
Sport goes to the spa!!!
Decided to treat the sport to a nice detailing session with the guys from Crazydetailer.
This is what they did and the results achieved!! She looks awesome!!
Big thank you to the guys at http://www.crazydetailer.co.za
http://www.carforums.co.za/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7832
Products used:
Wash -
Meguiars shampoo plus
Meguiars APC
Wheels, Tyres & wheel wells-
Autoglym custom wheel cleaner (Non acidic)
Meguiars APC
Undercarriage -
Meguiars APC
Sonax metal polish
TorkCraft metal compounds
Clay -
Automagic clay
Last Touch clay lube
Drying -
Crazydetailer waffle weave
Chamios for the wheels
Compounds/Polish -
Menz SIP PO85
Menz IP PO152
AutoGlym 03b
LSP -
AutoGlym High Defination wax
Trim & tyres -
Adams in out spray
Turtle wax tyre gel
Accessories -
2 x Makita 9227CB rotary polishers
1 x Ryobi drill
Mothers fender brush
Motoquip wheel brush
Tyre brush
Sponges
2 x Flexipad compounding pads
1 x Automagic compounding pad
1 x Uniball
TorkCraft metal polishing kit
When Danie sent me the pics of his Escort for the booking, I could not stop drooling over the pics. Having learnt to drive on one of these cars, it definately holds a special place in my heart. Unfortunatly the car that I learnt to drive on was NO WAY NEAR the condition of this car !
Being white I knew there was never going to be that WOW factor as white is the most unflattering car to detail. We got the car in early on Saturday morning. We took a few shots before the wash but the sun wasn't out fully yet.
Neil set to work on the wheels & wheel wells while I tackled the undercarriage and exhaust.
Once we were both done, it was time for the wash -
We got to work on the claying to remove all contaminates and overspray ...
Then it was time to pull he out in the sun to see what we were working with ...
We pulled her into the garage and taped up all decals and rubber bits. I also taped up my test section for the 50/50's
Then we set to work on the test area with the Menz PO85 to see if that would do the trick. The bonnet only had mild surface swirls so I knew that wouldn't be a problem.
The test section:
We were pleased with the results and decided that the Menz would be the compound of choice. That was until we hit the passenger door and rear fender! Eeeeek ! once the Menz took off the surface swirls we were left with horrid sanding marks. Uneven sanding marks which just looked like a whole lot of DEEP scratches! It was time for some tough love for the old girl and I whipped out the AutoGlym 03b and AutoMagic yellow compounding pad. It cut through the deep sanding marks to some extent but a few random marks still remained. We had no choice but to leave it like that as any further attempt would have caused serious defects. The 03b cuts very well but did leave surface marring and a hazy finish. We decided to followup with the Menz PO152, and it polished out to a brilliant finish!
Once the compounding was complete I tackled the exhaust again. The initial dirt and grim was removed by metal polish and steel wool. I then set to work with the drill and compounding pads to polish it up.
From this
To this
Before
After
The taillights and badges were treated with Meguairs plastic polish and Unibal -
The last step was to apply the High Defination wax, and being white I really was going for the longitivey and protection rather than the WOW but I have to say the High Defination did not disappoint and added it fair share of reflection to a white car !
Finally the AFTERS:
WHAT A BABE !
The worst thing about winter detailing is not enough sun for the BEFORE shots, and then in the afternoon, theres not enough sun for the AFTERS !... Hopefully the pics do show the level of correction.
Thanks for looking !
Sooooooooo cool
Dude thats fooken clean.... are you planing on eatting your meals off that car..... sweet motor...
Thanks!! No eating near the car!!! :-)
Dude thats fooken clean
Cool !
Are there many over there in the scrap yards for spare parts
Bill
looks fucking awesome mate, i disagree with painting the spoiler, looks perfect as is, and definately dont lose the overiders, they look spot on!
***Don't Fool with the Old Skool***
Hey Danie
Dis not know you are registered on this site, I have contacted Crazydetailer to come and do my Cossie.
Your car looks awsome, must get more of our club guys up on theis site.
I have sent in a lot of technical queries to guys from this site and have always had a lot of help....
This is an awsome site, glad you posted some pics of your scort up for all to see.
1993 Sapphire Cosworth (1 of 12 built in SA)
Scweeet
www.gulfpetrolheads.com
Very tidy car dude - very sweet
Looks beautiful! That last picture especially, awesome stuff
excellent job with the cleaning, i feel really lazy now for only washing mine twice this yearLooks beautiful! That last picture especially, awesome stuff
ps i think the spoiler looks cool in black
nice car, looks really clean, fancy doing mine
my magtig maar sy is pragtig DANIE
didnt fancy seeing you on here!! neway welcome and when are you gonna turbo that babe????
1980 Mk2 Sport xflow Turbo
Thanks for all the nice comments everybody!!!
oxb1, wouldn't say many on the scrapyards, but many lurking around in peoples backyards that don't know what they have.....
oveRSteer, spoiler will be left as is!!! ;-)
Gavin, love the international sites, so many ford fans over the world!!
Senuwees, not planning any turbo for her, she will be kept 1600 NA, but Andrew will give her a nice workover. Was planning on getting another MK2 for racing and messing around purposes.
Here's some updates on the Escort....
Fitted some new head lights, removed the spots for storage and replaced with new units that's very close to the originals.
Refurbed the spoiler and bumpers......
very nice and well looked after
thats one tidy looking escort :P
Got another mint condition 1600 sport yesterday.
Here's some photos of the car...
Tucked away for the night!!
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/dbouwer/Photo2012-01-09211909.jpg
Very nice and clean looking good
Some new photos of silver cloud with some superlites wheels fitted. Some other small details added.
Next will be to get the interior cleaned properly and some paint on a few small bits!!
Last edited by dbouwer; 22-01-2012 at 12:38.
Bloody hell how clean is that?!? Love the silver car, hits the spot for me
I would have the front masked off in about half an hour of picking it up and be painting the front spoiler tho! Think we are just not used to seeing them black in the UK...
Lovely pair of motors mate
Thanks GAZZAMK2
Silver with black interior is the only reasons I even went to look at the car.
I just love this colour combo.
The SA sport's all had the front spoiler in black. If I decide to keep the white sport, I might have it's front spoiler colour coded...perhaps do a RS1800 replica..
Seeing that the silver cloud stole the superlites, I had to get White Diamond some new wheels for the time being...
Got a couple of V nice cars dude, how to descide what to drive???. Sun looks nice is -3C here at mo
nice to see u on here m8 .hope all is well.ur car looks very nice .Hi Everybody
I'm Danie from South Africa...
Here is a few pictures of my 1600 sport...
I am currently busy upgrading the car, got some nice 15" superlites and replaced all the suspension's bushes with poly bushes. She's also got a 1" drop all round and anti-dive kit fitted.
Next will be fitting a performance branch and pipe. After that she will be going for some mild engine tuning. Planning on upgrading the engine in stages, and enjoying each stage to the fullest!!
dsrestos
both your cars look so fresh, very jealous.
Thanks everybody..
It's summer here at the moment, so it's around 28-32C during the day.
Need to sell the white one unfortunately, running out of space, and the RS2000 should arrive soon...
The white car is now in the UK I believe.
Must be great living In a country with no salty roads
I heard that it made it's way to the UK. Already SOLD as well.
It's going to Scotland....
It is great not having salted roads...we get snow every 10years if we're lucky...
The Silver Cloud after a nice bath!!
RS2000 that I'm busy with. Need to sort out it's papers.
Will start a separate thread for her later...
I have a sourth Africa mk2 escort and I don't no what axel is it but your one has the same one what u call it and we're do I get parts for it do u have a lsd for it . I'm in northen irland
Lucky you!
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks