Popular Post Banga Posted January 16, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2022 Making good progress. Pedal box ordered this week after discussions with LVVTA and my certifier- will need to get the brake pedal remade but otherwise should be good. Seats are in, new seat guides in the trans tunnel made. Just need to make doubler plates for under the floor now. Spent some more time on the engine, new oil pick up, sump and dipstick assembly fitted, new cambelt and water pump fitted and painted the cam cover. Spent some time sanding and polishing the exhaust manifold too. Also added the accessory drive assembly. The Retroford stuff isn’t cheap but you get what you pay for, everything fits nicely and is really well made. Have also seam sealed and painted the floor pan, in hind sight probably should have sprayed it but not too many people will see it. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Banga Posted January 24, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2022 Another productive week plodding away on things. Attacked the gearbox with an angle grinder to make space for the starter motor, did some more cutting to fit the release bearing and made up the hoses to suit. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted January 24, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2022 Masked up and sprayed a couple of new coats of stone chip in the wheels wells. looks a heap better in there now. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted January 24, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2022 Then it was onto actually fitting stuff - hopefully for the last time. Diff head was treated to new bearings and an LSD. New oversized axles and new bearings fitted. New brake hardware and new shoes fitted after stripping and tidying up the cylinders. Test fit shininess. 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banga Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 Exciting arrival yesterday. Looks pretty good but will need to have the brake pedal remade to meet cert requirements- which wasn’t a surprise. Second to last major piece to arrive- just waiting on the surge tank now. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted February 5, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2022 I won’t give up my day job but pretty bloody stoked with how my first go at painting went! 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted February 10, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 10, 2022 Another piece of the puzzle. Mk1 Capri struts modified by Suspension Tech. With the Capri struts, Retroford top mounts and rack and pinion conversion I’ve pretty much got Escort front end geometry and steering so should be quite nice compared to the old steering box. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted February 12, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2022 Great success - not too many scratches on the new paint- probably should have asked the better half for a hand really. Pretty tight in there with the ITBs and decent filter but it fits. I am going to have to hunt down a narrow battery- ~110mm so that it doesn’t play with the alternator. 3BDF345D-765F-475F-9DDD-67BA8701E82A.jpeg 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted February 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2022 More work done during the week, new alloy radiator painted black and fitted- came with a nice spal fan. Have fitted the driveshaft and two hoops, exhaust fitted. New handbrake cable after modifications the routing to work with everything going on under neath now. New struts have gone in, after trying a couple of second hand escort sways bars that have turned out to be fairly rusty I’ve ordered a brand new one that should be here next week. Have to change the female fittings on the brake hardline to fit my braided lines. Rack in now too. Started playing around with the centre console to fit again after changing the trans tunnel. Will be wrapped in black vinyl, I think going green will be too much. Can also see the under dash parcel tray there too. Next big job is wiring, trying to figure out where to put the fuse box and ecu is going to be a bit of a challenge. Mine is a series 1 so hasn’t ever had a fuse box so will be good to update. Brake pedal is at Fraser Cars in AK getting copied and made to cert standards. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banga Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 Bit of a one step forward one step back kind of day today. Wilwoods fitted and they fit with my wheels with no issues. But not quite the same with the strut… it was a 50/50 as to whether this would work with standard Capri hubs. Got plenty of space plenty of space to go outwards so not a huge issue I guess. Will probably get some +10mm alloy hubs rather than going spacers. Can still get some 5mm spacers if I need it with the hubs. 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banga Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 Also started some wiring … 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banga Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 Old wheels fit better but no harm in them coming out 10mm 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Banga Posted March 5, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2022 Work has been mental as result of the invasion of Ukraine so not too much time on old Doris over the last couple of weeks. Have still made some progress though. It’s getting pretty busy on the drivers side of the engine bay so whipped up a CAD battery to make sure I do have space- don’t really want to go down the path of mounting in the boot. That does limit my battery choice though- I’ll be going with an oddesey of some sort. Alloy hubs arrived and gave me the clearance I needed- might still run some 8mm front spacers maybe. Front end nearly done now. Made some new front brake hard lines too. 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted March 13, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 13, 2022 Cert spec brake pedal tacked up and sent back to me for a test fit. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted March 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 19, 2022 Thought I would carry on with brake stuff today and figure out what to do with master cylinders. I wasn’t too keen on them being in the engine bay so started poking round under the dash - still a bit of a birds nest under that needs wrapping. Turns out the clutch reservoir can go straight into the master which is a win. With the pedal box I can’t run the original vent hose so that frees up enough space to run the reservoirs behind the dash. Ill run the vent in the original hole which means I’ll be able to see in there to check levels. Will probably have to fill them with syringes but at least I’ve got midget hands so won’t be too much of a drama. The height works out nicely too- the hose has a slight fall from reservoir to master. Not 100% sure how the alloy fittings will hold up to brake fluid though. Good afternoons work. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted March 26, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 26, 2022 Making good progress on the wiring - probably 90% on the way there. Volt meter turned out to be a dud so that will stop me from getting the dash in until a new one arrives. Looking pretty tidy in the engine bay wiring wise- pretty happy with it. Will order a new battery this week and then I can finish finish up the starter and alternator wiring. New H4 lights and relays are a heap better than the old candle sticks. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted March 27, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2022 Another small job today. in keeping with my wanting to look stock/gt standard inside I wanted to keep the original gauges and mileage. I got one of these little speed boxes from speed hut that drives the speedo cable. You can run it via GPS or VSS with the cool bit being that it will calibrate/sync the VSS output to the GPS speed and then once calibrated you unplug the GPS and just use the now calibrated VSS output. Should mean easy speedo syncs between wheels. Anyway, nicely tucked away in the glovebox and the cable goes across to the speedo. They are meant to be fairly quiet so hope that’s the case . I originally thought the MX5 gearbox had a VSS output but seems not to be the case so I’ve gone with a sensor that picks up on magnets on the drive shaft. Bonus that I could mount the sensor to the driveshaft tunnel and avoid having to use a ugly L bracket mount. Time will tell if it works. Onto fuel hard lines now. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Banga Posted April 18, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2022 Finished brake pedal came back this weekend so have been able to push on with finishing brake fuels and rear brake line- brakes all held up. Recovered the centre console and slapped the underlay and carpet back in starting to come together. Still waiting on the surge tank, been a bit of a drama really. Might be able to get it running with the pump. Tune is booked in for 3rd June so have a deadline to work to now. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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