Thought I'd start a little thread about my Mk2 as the Mk1is somewhat disappointing me with the progress at the moment Right I'llstart at the beginning and bring you all up to speed as if you’ve got this faryou’re interested :lo:l. I bought the car as a birthday present to myself backin 09 but I hadnowhere to put it so I had to clean out the girlfriends garage which took threedays so from this
To this with a nice grey painted floor.
Had to make a round trip from Ellesmere Port toBurham-on-Crouch and back only 252 miles or 4 hours 10mins each way Anyway once it was back the garage wasn’t finished so the car was off loadedand stored on the drive for a while
So in the garage it went as soon as it could and the obligatorygrill and light trial lol
The car had had a lot of work by the previous owner and wasfairly tidy and solid (haha it’s a feckin escort!!)
So my original plans where to create a clubman spec Grp4 andtry the work myself and even though the car came with a safety devices cage ithad been modified at the back and wouldn’t pass for stage rallies any more soit was removed which allowed better access. A few pic’s of the rear mod of thecage which was a right pig to cut out
Then I started to put in the 4 link boxes and larger reartunnel
It also came with a load of decent gear such as coiloverBilstein’s, 4 link kit, poly bushes etc etc and I’ve also bought some more bitsover the years for it, here’s a little selection of bit’s to go on it
Right we’re nearly there or todays do at least. I wasn’thappy with the drip rails so removed the wings and repaired one side lol
It was about this time all interest was lost as the rallyingstarted to slow down and I bought the Mk1 escort
As said this has been resurrected due to the Mk1 taking solong so the garage was cleaned of its new collection of sh!$e and I’ve upgradethe electrics to allow proper work to happen so my current work space
I even took it to work and made this last week on nights lol(don’t laugh I can’t work metal at all)
And here we are up to date so for today’s attempt, startedoff welding up some trim holes in the rear nearside quarter
And all dressed
Also removed the cage to A pillar strengthener so I didn’tkeep catching it and hurting myself
Even manage to paint the fuel tank in between other jobs
It doesn’t look too bad well for a me job anyway
As said the solid nice escort is still hiding some grot so Idecided to tackle this
I cut all the rot out and made the repairs I had to do it intwo sections first being the floor repair and the second being the outer skin whichwas a bit tricky but it done now and it’s solid if not very pretty
And that’s it the plans for the car are to be used andabused but most of all enjoyed it’s not going to be a beauty contest winner butit’ll be solid. Eventually it’ll be gold and black with 7” banded steel’s and the 1700 xflow from the Mk1 for now Ihave an Xe to go in at some point
These are soon to be on their way to Urchy107 for banding
That’s it for now any comments etc welcome
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