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Car looks great and loving the yellow paint, different

Im doing the same conversion and ive spent about £2500 ish thats buying the car, 172 engine, williams fk coilovers and all the stuff for 172 widetrack new pads and mainly everthing else is new too. Id have to say its upto you how far you want to go with it and how much money you want to spend on...

Rear beam is looking good just taken mine off too and wot a pain it was Wot colour is the bay going ? good progress

The car is now up on 4 axel stads and the rear beam has been removed, took a good hour or so to take it off. Its been taken off because whoever had the car before me had hit the torsion bar in to far, i can get it out on the car as the shel is it the way to get a good swing on a slide hammer...

Car looks nice and the items you have bought sofar are :cool: lets hope it passes the mot

cheers savi, So have you just cut it out were the engine goes Progress is now slowly getting there Thats the one thing i was trying not to do, go throught the bonnet gone through in one place and its bubbled the paint in two other places, personally i thought there would of been more as it...

NO lol grinder on my bonnet and jigsaw through jamies boot if you get wot i mean ;)

Bloody hell, bout time you got rid of it though lol plastic the way forward :rasp:

Woooooops :clown: Its not that bad and the grinder is so much easier then using a jigsaw

Cheers, i have left the top part on because im sure you have seen jords when he hits like 70 and its flapping all over the place lol hopefully this will stop this from happening also left the two bits in the corners for a little bit more strength if i need to stand it up anywere I have gone...

Bonnet got finished off yesterday but it still needs tidying up and then should all be good to fit aerocatches Heres how it looks now I have left these bits on so i dont have to mess around sealing the vent into place and it also attached to the catch too so its giving support to that...

Re: Mk1 F4R'd Track Car Project [2010 Winter Rebuild] Jords new beast of a runabout Fiesta zetec-se 1.25 Awesome little car

Made a good start on cutting the bonnet out before everone else came round, This is were i got upto Gone throught the bonnet on the right hand side of the pic which is the near side, hopefully its not too bad and ill be able to sort it out, ill not be cutting it so close on the other side...

car looks great mate, wish i had the money for one

good work chris Can we start having bets on what colour the car is going to be when you turn up at oulton lol Primer or blue ??

little update We are moving house so i decided to move the car round there, did it late at night as there was not bumper, wings and engine in/on it or tax and went the long way round off the main roads good job its only 1 min down the road, only did it as i had no other way of getting it...

Re: Mk1 F4R'd Track Car Project [2010 Winter Rebuild] Looks good jord think ill have to pay him a visit sometime soon

Sounds good jamie

Looks good

Cheers guys I'll be doing abut of ringing some time soon

Hmmm interesting :cool:

Matteh why is it that you desire this box so much lol ;) Wot the difference between the jc5 and jb3

Might be the pully hopefully it is and the thread on the crank is ok water pump pully should be an easy fix. Suck it up, it's minor maybe but when i have had bad luck with 2 other engines its starting to get annoying now and i dont need this

Yep hopefully this pully only needs changing and all will be ok, i just cba looking for another bottom end just really p***ed off now with all the crap thats happening atm i just opend onother thread for advice on the bottom end and pullys http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=491148...

Hi all Im am just woundering how easy it is to bend the main auxillary pully and water pump pully. I bought a bottom end and i have only opend the sump to see if everything inside was ok and it was, put the sump back on then turned the bottom end over into the upright position, i then pulled...

I thought it looked alot better than the valver one rather than it being half the way over the back of the engine bay Cheers, i only put it in there as i dont have much room to put thing in the garage comes out when im working on the car and then when the engine goes in im sure it goes on the...

Been doing abit of painting over the last few days and abit of tidying The gearbox im going to be using is a williams one jc5 everthing has been cleaned and brushed down ready for paint The heat shild is off a mk1 phs 3 1.2 so im told Everthing has now been painted and looking...

Id have to put it down to mates that know wot they are doing and learning little bits hear and there

Were is that from alex, you can get them cheeper from the place i put up, if you times the price that i quoted^ by 4 that comes out at £115 for a set of 4 and cheeper than wot ben but up for the prada spec 2, good tyres for the price imo, thats were i have always got them from Are the turinis...

This is wot f0xy is onabout, the black bit under the oil pump