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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    She's getting there. All panels are now on. All windows are out apart from the doors. Front steering and suspension all on. And all front stripped to bare metal. All has now being undersealed. Next job is get the tacking somewhere near. Minilites on and dropped down to the ground. Final fit of engine to check exhaust manifold and system and finally doors to get off. Then she'll be off to paintimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpg

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    be on the road soon cracking job

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    Bloody home so. Bin at it long enough. Having a really thin garage doesn't help either. Want it painting next month so after that should only be another month I hope

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    Nice to see how far you've moved on since you got it

    Out for a drive on a sunny spring day reminds me why I got this car

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    Quote Originally Posted by Mk1escortnoob View Post
    Attachment 71697 have spent some time fully stripping the front shocks and rebuilding them with some new parts. So after they looked like thisAttachment 71698

    Also decided to change front solid discs to vented discs so had to space the calipers out, was going to fit wilwoods but decided It wasn't financially viable for what I needed. Attachment 71699
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    found out you can't fit the vented discs in conjunction with the original backplanes as they hit, they now look pretty sharp if I do say so myself thoAttachment 71702

    Cars now having the inner wings chopped off ready to be replaced with some magnum panels I boughtAttachment 71703
    Hi. Great work!!. What ventilated brake discs you use to remove the old solid brake discs?. What brake pads do you use?. Do you use old brake pads of solid brake discs?
    thanks!!

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    The discs are just some eBay ones. I typed in m16 calliper disc brakes and then just found them on there. Pads I'm using and mintex with a mk2 escort duel circuit master cylinder

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    Over the last few days I've repaired and re-trimmed my nasty rear door cards. Someone had cut big holes in them for speakers. I rectified this with mdf cut to the correct shape and then sanded flatimage.jpgimage.jpg. Finally I had some black vinyl lying around from another job I had done so spent half day with my other half finishing that off. Came out pretty good I think considering I've not done anything with a co caved shape.image.jpgimage.jpg

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    Quote Originally Posted by Mk1escortnoob View Post
    The discs are just some eBay ones. I typed in m16 calliper disc brakes and then just found them on there. Pads I'm using and mintex with a mk2 escort duel circuit master cylinder
    I researched a bit and are ventilated discs ford capri 2.8i '78 to '86

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    Pretty sure it was these that I bought
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MK1-MK2-Es...item20f740857e

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    Yep, I think those are Capri 2.8 vents. They should work fine with either spaced M16 calipers or spaced Princess 4 pots:

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    nice job on the door cards

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    Thanks andy. If your using vented discs and spaced callipers you can't use the original backing plates as you can see in the photo

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    Quick update of photosimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpg
    And my new dailyimage.jpg

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    Coming on well what colour is it going to be?
    Keep up the post��
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    Gunna be orange I think, played with the idea of white and then blue but pretty sure orange is right.

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    any one of them colours would look nice

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    top work mate

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    All look nice but as it was originally orange seems a shame to change it

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    Must be getting pretty close to getting the final primer on the bodywork and painting it, are you?

    It's fairly exciting the closer you get to that... well, it could just be me being a big kid though, I guess

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    Yes it's definitely closer. Had a paint shop come view it to give me a paint quote the other day. Rubbing down is just soooooooo demoralising haha

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    Seen this in traffic today. Anyone's on here ?image.jpg
    Also had this in at work for an MOT. image.jpg
    Then we did a bit on my dads pop.image.jpg. It's going wider and lower.
    Finally had a run in with the law on the way back from ultimate dubs. Me in the back of the rosters car and snapchat courtesy of my friend
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    Wicked build, and mad lols at the snap chat pic,

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    Haha lost my number plate on motorway, made a makeshift one but still got pulled. He let me off tho as I had made one from paper and stick it in the back window haha

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    Widening my dads pop in the lovely weather were having. Sneaky pic of mine while It had a little room to breath image.jpg

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    Re: Mk1 escort 2 door barn find

    ya need a bigger garage nice pop

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    Tell me about it . It's about 30ft long by about 4foot wide haha

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    Great build mate, hats off to you with the metal and body work,.... Lots of patience!!
    Remove all Health & Safety and let Darwinism run its course!

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    Thanks for the comments guys. Anybody on here do resprays or know anybody in West Yorkshire area ?

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    It's booked in to go to the body shop beginning of may. So got 1 month to get everything trial fitted and stripped again. Found the exhaust hits the body where the collector is so that needs chopping and re angling down a bit now. Got the radiator all fitted after chopping some bits out tho and engine refittedimage.jpgimage.jpg

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    looks the dogs ...

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    3/4 of the floors now done inside, now just got the passenger front to get finished

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    Dads wings have now been glasses aswell
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    be looking better than new soon keep up the good work.

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    It's amazing the difference a bit of paint makes... even if it is just primer!

    Coming along nicely :-)

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    Yeah it looks a lot better in paint, not perfect but that's for the body shop to sort out

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    Soo finally got the doors off, had to chop 2 pieces tho as the pins were going nowhere image.jpgimage.jpg. Today I've been assembling all parts to the car before paint so hopefully when it's painted assembly will be a doddle.
    image.jpg carbs on and a few other bits.
    Got the bowls in tooimage.jpg

    Also managed to make 1 of my heater pipes and made a mounting bracket for it alsoimage.jpgimage.jpg
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    Also had this beautiful thing at work today aswell..image.jpg

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    getting there fella just need to find the parts ya lost (jokes)

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    Your telling me haha. There definitely in here somewhere. I never throw anything away.
    Headlight finally all fit aswellimage.jpg

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    That Cossie is bloody gorgeous.

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    That cossie was probably the nicest I've seen, was all chrome under the bonnet. Paint was immaculate and so were all the trims. He said it had just over 400hp on fairly tame boost.

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