Mr.Mk1

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I WORKED ON IT! Couple of days saw some progress. It’s more just re-doing and finishing what had been started ages ago but I’ll call it progress for mental health reasons! Circa 2008 I wanted to strengthen it up as much as I easily could (Rollcage will mess with the ascetic I’m aiming for but might be a thing depending how deep I get into Motorsport events?) so I seam welded everything I could reach and drilled plug holes between the spot welds in all the window/door/screen pinch welds. Perhaps me, perhaps the welder didn’t like Schmutz between the layers; it welded fucking horribly. I postponed that shit and this weekend was when it was revisited. Now all the holes had surface rust in them and around them, joy. I whizzed a drill bit in each one to clean up the edge then pushed the car out and spot sandblasted each hole and orange bit as well. Fizzed them all up without much fuss this time and ground them all back, wire wheeled and got some aerosol etch on the bare steel + the back side. Also hammered any heavier pitting with the wheel and got some brunox on there..fantastic stuff. I also zipped up the holes and slots in the rear parcel tray I don’t need and wheeled/ground/sanding-belted MANY other areas I’d uncovered ages ago and let get crusty, especially in engine bay. *PSA go flick some spare paint on any bare bits of your project or parts cars. It will save you or the next guy so much fuckery in the future. Shit eats even in dry storage Few more seams got stitched up..dash to A-pillar top and bottom, rear parcel to C-pillar top and bottom for instance I’m having a CUNT of a time with Imgur lately, so sorry if the pics won’t show in the post

2 sets have some up in the whole time I’ve looked. One set I missed out on and the others had like 6 previous plates against them and smelled fishy. This way it’s stays a 1969, and all the money saved on reg wof cert insurance repair cert etc etc can be spent on shiny and fast bits instead!

I dare say I’ll be hassling you for help in the future!

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Fooo Palmside is a danger zone! Came away with: Bonnet rest rubbers Headlight Bowl gaskets Fibreglass front lip spoiler Boot rubber Door rubbers Outer Window seals 1/4 Window seals Rear side glass rubbers Door hinge pins and an ‘ah fuck it’ luxury purchase of full Mexico front guards. Ive had since ages ago, some well made weld-in steel flares to attach to Standard guards (mine are pretty rough to be fair) ..and I also got expensive Fibreglass ones years ago too. Instant regret when they arrived with no mounting flanges (or filler panel down the A pillar) other than the one you see when you pop the bonnet. WTF Ive since learned fibreglass tends to keep moving then degrades and I can’t have that under lovely paint on something as obvious as the front guards so I flogged them on trademe last week and recovered about half the Owage which was cool. I was looking at my standard guards and they need all the flanges remade to attach to car as they were spot welds drilled. There’s old repairs to re-do along the pillar and bottom, the front edges are so thin they have split and the general shape is hours away from coming back so I picked up my balls and biffed them in the naughty corner. https://imgur.com/a/1iAMu1m Everyone watching probably already knows, but the RS/Mexico/Sport arch is maybe an inch wider and 2.5ish higher towards the midline than standard. Watch this momentous purchase backfire as future me cuts the guards to get wide wheels under with max slam.. Present me Wishes to utilise tyre stretch and camber to achieve this

Have spent some time on research and made some lists.. ticked some things off a list! Have a cart full on the palmside website. Spotted a mate selling the near new Bosch ‘1000’ injectors from his CA setup so grabbed those for a good deal. Complete with the CA adaptor cups. Best deal on a Link monsoon was Simon at Surfab so swung in tonight and copped one. Honestly probably have him wire it all up to be fair. Great work, a link agent and has done mad numbers of engine swaps..Said he has some adjustable cam gears spare as well. Had a dig in the spare room last night and organised all the bits I’d bagged and tagged 20 years back, bit of a stocktake if you like. Plenty to clean up and re-furb..can be fun wee jobs when I remember. Motor is at the shop too.

Heeeey, Used up a bunch of my lunch scrolling to find this thread again but now she’s be back on the first page and I hope to keep it there as I get back into this unit. It’s been in my old flats garage the whole time nice and dry. I brought a house and sold the house and the escort never made it there! I did say a few times we should dig It out of the back corner of the very hectic shed but nothing happened. Well I moved house and have sold the Coronet so have adopted my mates C10 skyline to finish restoring and try get on the road. There were heaps of parts in that garage behind the escort so with a cleanish schedule I dragged it all home. Have been moving every weekend for ages but hankering to have everything in one spot! Thought wheelbarrowing it would be easier but brakes seized so engine crane it was. The skyline needed an engine. Its factory L20 but has a mostly built L31 stroker with all the fruit. We decided to keep it original to get it over the line then add the cool stuff. So 20 was dragged out of garden shed and onto a stand, sump and mounts swapped, clutch added and then into the engine bay so I had space to get the escort inside as with my daily. Shit yarn but explains why everything is a mess and I’m trying to slot stuff into skyline asap to make some space. Have engaged Glen Durie to build the CA18DET as he’s done a few fast ones and knows tricks to help them oil and stay together. He was chokka but will drop it all off next week. Have been looking into cam and crank trigger kits on Ross balancer, ECU etc.

I’ve been paid in full, and it’s heading to Southland to hang out with a bunch of other cool Mopars! Thanks for all the support and motivation; for serious, this is an awesome club to be a part of. Tune in for more as I dust off my Escort and get it out of storage shortly. It’s been pushed to the back of the line SO many times in the 21 years I’ve had it, enough is enough!

Amayama would be my pick for bushes. I modified some to fit my coupe but that was only possible because I worked in a shop that sold suspension parts at the time.

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You sir, are a gentleman of the highest order! Thanks heaps for that, I’ll attack it tomorrow with new energy. It’s a pretty funny wee van that I brought cheap pulled down for rust and paint.. did those in short order and whacked on some aliexpress motorhome graphics and some hoarded banners from work then did some camping and sightseeing missions..just sucks pouring fuel through it.