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Re: 1970 mkI Escort restoration attempt
Welcome...car looks solid in the first pics....there is always rust....keep the pics coming will be a good project....and you will be an excelent welder at the finish with all the practice...cheers mark
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Re: 1970 mkI Escort restoration attempt
She looks mint compared to some uk cars bodged with numerous sills over sills and strut tops bodged over strut tops.
Keep the updates coming, what are your plans for it??
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The restoration plan, due to money and time constrains, is divided into 2 major steps.
Right now I'm planning to rebuild the front of the car, so that I don't need to modify it (too much) one I decide to change the engine. The rest of body will be repaired so i can MOT the car.
The engine stays original, as well as gearbox and axle (it's Koln at the moment). The car came in with probably mk2 front brakes as the disks are 247x12 with M16 callipers.
The plan for distant future is to go with bubble arches + ST170 + N9. For this setup I already bought 2.8i Capri front struts.
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Re: 1970 mkI Escort restoration attempt
nice one, re welding wire, thats usually a case of the wire speed is too low for the current setting, either turn the amps down a bit or the speed up.
blowing holes means too many amps
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Re: 1970 mkI Escort restoration attempt
Mate check out migwelding.co.uk it's got a lot of good info re setting up amps and wire speed for mig. Try using a stop start technique on car body stuff (stitch welding) much less chance of you going through the ass of it
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That will be one nice mk1 when finished
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Very clean looking car. Tidy work on the restoration. Better to have a rusty car and see it fixed right, than have a good looking car hiding all sorts of nonsense.
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Nice build .it did look like a clean one from the start.
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I might be wrong but I think your wheels are FWD off a fiesta, which might cause problems?
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you've made a great start to the build, going to look awesome when completed
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by memory, about the rack, you have to drill the dowel that is clearly seen on the pic
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