Stacov

Will be putting these in today along with new shocks for the front!

I have the same flares on my panel van been a year + now, never had any issues with them

Not much of a update just put new shocks in the rear the ones that came out were pretty poo'd! Now to do the front and put some 2" blocks in the back and lowering springs in the front

motor sounds good, anything else been done to it apart from the cam ?

Well was driving home today had just finished raining, just about to slow down and brake to go around a corner and over the raliway tracks. Next thing i know is the car not turning heading towards a fence front brake had lockd up all i could do is enjoy going towards the fence lucky. Before the fence was quite abit of dirt which brought me to my stop!!! Just missed a pole thing it took off my wing mirror and left some white paint on the side of my car. Honestly have no idea how it happend drove past the same spot for the last 8 years im putting it down to wet/slipy road hopefully not some problem with my brakes somewhere!!! Lucky noone was around reversed out and drove on my way lol very very lucky

Took it for a wof today passed with flying colours, The guy that did the wof couldnt get over how well the interior was looked after and had no rust in the chassis. he even wanted to buy it

Tidy the bonnet up, Was just surface rust where the paint had faded.

haha yup totally too bad my panel van isnt inspirational haha

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=29649 now u can chat about it gogo!

feel free to chat about it lol

Just put in brand new ball joints so should pass a wof now hopefully Also put my hotwires on just deciding now if i should take off the rest of the plastic trim around the car or put the rest of it back on lol hmm

It seems the bonnet is the worst thing wrong with the car that i can see atm. Heres some of the interior More pics to come

Well picked this up yesterday from bulls body not too bad. Seems to be all oringal very happy with the interior tidiest ive had in a escort so far. Will put up pics today, Plans get it rego/wof put my 13x7 hotwires on lower it try keep it as orginal as poss and when i got the coin rebuild the 1600

paint still wet and drying/glossing atm heaps brighter then the picture but u can see the differents in the paint also made flares apart of the car slowly getting there tho

Well had lost interest in this for very long time lol, gearbox blew up , broken win screen etc.. finally started doing things on it again. It does have a cert now tho so thats all good Replaced gearbox put a lighten flywheel on aswell. slowly painting it as weather allows me my garage not big enough to paint whole thing at once so doing it in sections but should be ok with the paint im using, im in no way a expect panel better or painter lol learning as i go. All im after is a "tidy" finish paint colour delious red got some ROH 15" mags but hotwires look so much better

mad escort very nice!!!

Yeah not sure how rooted it is but for months the brakes barely workd and they would keep going soft and yeah after putting engine back in i had no brakes haha. Yea was just a real mission to get to it all with the extractors in the way running a 2L Will take it into town and get it checkd over. cheers

Hey man, what sort of master brake cylinder did u use? and how did u hook it up to the brake pedal ? just asking cause mine has fucked out and boy was it a mission to get it all off pretty keen to have same sort of setup as urs

Heres a couple of engine bay pics with my new motor, gogo FORD blue. It goes so much better then my old motor next on the list is the cert!!! also been finding rust maybe i should stop looking had to put 2 plates in drivers side floor and just found some behind the seat under the tray

thanks for the replys finally fixed it dizzy timing was 180 degrees out had a local guy come around hes a old school mechanic fixed it in 5 minutes he double checkd my timing everything else was bang on, he told me to put it back together and said see u driving past soon he didnt even wait to see if it was going to start he knew it would be sweet lol

leads were newish from old motor will put some other ones on tomorrow just recheckd the valve cleanaces some were out abit so fixed that, theres good compression on all the cylinders put another 2 spark plugs in 3 and 4. 4 didnt burn at all and 3 kinda did, Could the dizzy timing be out ?

Hey need some ideas what may cause this just finished rebuilding the head now sparkplug 3 and 4 werent burning at all werent even hot. going to recheck valve settings tomorrow and leads etc.. but yeah just want some ideas what may be wrong and things i could try. Ive given up for the day brand new sparkplugs as well so they shouldnt be faulty but anything is possiable i guess

Ur doing a awesome job on ur mk1 man im so jealous its going to be wicked once its finished

yup the brake booster is right next to the extractors a tight fit and they get pretty hot touchd them by accident when i was fixing the alternator I can pump them while driving if i need to stop in a hurry they pull the car up nicely but other then that pretty much pedal to the floor.

thanks man, yeah the pvans are just awesome alittle on the bonnet and like a 10 cent size hole on the chassis but nothing over the top that i can see i think most has been cut out