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Cheers guys, it's Noveau as Jony said.

Jony - the grille in the floor of the paint booth is part of an extraction system; clean air is blown in from the roof and passes out by the exhaust in the floor. The idea is that there is no overspray flying around as it all goes through the grilles, though you still have to mask off areas that you can't paint in one and typically the floor, interior, engine bay/exterior are painted as different stages.

The bodyshop have sprayed the piece I cut from the boot floor, as I'm going to make a lid out of it.

My new Evo X Brake Servo and Master Cylinder arrived this morning. The MC is a Bosch 26mm bore unit and will comfortably manage the front and rear AP calipers that I've chosen.



I may have to modify the Fiesta mounting brackets slightly to give more clearance to the Focus Gearbox, but aside from that it should be a straight-forward modification.


I was told by Steve this morning that the car will look considerably better once the final stage of buffing is complete

[xr2irhys]

should imagine the over spray just dissapears in air and get sucked through the extractor fans...

[SEG1]

nice servo!
does it clear the mtx mount?

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nice servo!
does it clear the mtx mount?

I haven't checked yet because I'm not near the car. It definitely won't go on with the Ka brackets, but I'm confident it will go on with some of my own. I can kill two birds with one stone as I want to reinforce the servo area anyway to make sure the pedal feel is optimum, so I'll combine that with the new servo brackets

[jonyb4]

nice man, how the heck do you figure out these random car parts will fit lol

[dontpannic]

Love the colour Mark, but then I'm not biased at all !


Sent from  iPhone.

[rsturbonutter]

nice man, how the heck do you figure out these random car parts will fit lol

he doesn't he makes them fit.

awesome project certainly original with all the extreme mods. Will this be ready for the show season

[andymac]

I think a better question is "Will it ever be finished to his satisfaction?"

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I think a better question is "Will it ever be finished to his satisfaction?"

It will this time. The quality of paintwork has blown me away. I'm actually excited about getting the shell back next week

[AndyKam]

Probably an unanswerable question at the moment - but when do you anticipate you'll have it put together as I cant wait to see this finished

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Probably an unanswerable question at the moment - but when do you anticipate you'll have it put together as I cant wait to see this finished

Thanks Andy. Next Summer is the target completion date.

[andymac]

You'd recommend the bodyshop then ? Catch me on msn if you can.

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[jonyb4]

oh my im blushing, its such a deep rich and gorgeous colour!

cant tell if its your phone or not but is there a hint of magenta or purple in the paint?

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oh my im blushing, its such a deep rich and gorgeous colour!

cant tell if its your phone or not but is there a hint of magenta or purple in the paint?

Cheers Jony, it's close to Magenta in hue but there's less black in this and it's a bit deeper, so it tends to stand out a little more. I think the Purple comes from my phone

[jonyb4]

so like a deep garnet colour?

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so like a deep garnet colour?

Yes, that's a very good description

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A very big thank you to mikeymikeyp for sorting out a body kit part and in time for the body shop to paint it.

[xr2irhys]

from pics paint looks similar to a nicely polished up ford pepper red

[jonyb4]

pepper is crap, this... is... nouveau


lol sorry

[Dave G fsi]

Not seen this thread for a while, looking stunning mate

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I have a Pepper Red car and have attatched some pics of it, the colours are similar but Noveau stands out a lot more

[xr2irhys]

yeah i love pepper red i had a pepper red escort mk6

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It's getting there now:





I will arrange for it to be transported home this week and can look forward to fitting the mountain of new and uprated parts to fit over Christmas.

[rsturbonutter]

Can't wait to see this built up, the colour looks amazing under artificial lighting, Just a shame its going to be a few months before we can see it in the sun with the crappy british weather .

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Can't wait to see this built up, the colour looks amazing under artificial lighting, Just a shame its going to be a few months before we can see it in the sun with the crappy british weather .

Cheers. It’s going to get plenty of sun eventually as once complete I’m using it to take my g/f and I on a European road trip through France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and I will go via some of Europe’s best driving roads

[rsturbonutter]

Fair play your plans don't just end will building the car fella do they, Both you and the car deserve the trip after all the effort you have put in. You can actually get a lot of pleasure driving europe and that's what you want after a project like this, but just how long is your can be improved list gunna be upon return

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Fair play your plans don't just end will building the car fella do they, Both you and the car deserve the trip after all the effort you have put in. You can actually get a lot of pleasure driving europe and that's what you want after a project like this, but just how long is your can be improved list gunna be upon return

You know me too well Kuga 4WD system would be fairly easy now I've fitted the Focus subframe

[rsturbonutter]

Started the list already

[Fraggle]

its nouveau red, i think you spell it, its a good colour choice considering Si's were original in it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diecast-Sierra-Sapphire-Cosworth-/dp/B000KN6NVC



its not at all uninspiring mate, i can sort of over sample it in my head, looks great, but the good camera will do it justice


i forgot about the gaping hole in the floor

silly question and very noobie, but how do they prevent all overspray covering the floor and walls of the booth?

My bad, again its a stunning colour.

Cheers for the enlightenment jb4

[SEG1]

Fair play your plans don't just end will building the car fella do they, Both you and the car deserve the trip after all the effort you have put in. You can actually get a lot of pleasure driving europe and that's what you want after a project like this, but just how long is your can be improved list gunna be upon return

You know me too well Kuga 4WD system would be fairly easy now I've fitted the Focus subframe

now thats an idea! does the kuga gearbox bolt up to a zetec block? i thought it might be a duratec bell housing and there different right?

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now thats an idea! does the kuga gearbox bolt up to a zetec block? i thought it might be a duratec bell housing and there different right?

There are five and six speed gearboxes available for the 4WD system. I’d go for the six speed MMT6 which is Ford’s own replacement for the Getrag MT285 that was used in the ST170. There are no direct fit transmissions available for the Zetec, but the 1.8 Kent diesel (Kent -> Endura-DE -> TDDi -> TDCi) continued production until the end of the Mk2 Focus run last year and came with both five and six speed 'boxes. It was such an old engine but reliable and Ford made a healthy margin on each unit because the tooling had been paid for years ago. Anyway, the bolt pattern on the 1.8 TDCi should have the familiar 7/80’s top half which means there should be both five and six speed transmissions that would fit a Zetec-E. The lower half would require similar work to what's involved when fitting a BC 'box to a Zetec-E with the Black top sump.

I’m not going anywhere near a 4wd system as I’ve got enough to finish as it is and don’t want to risk another unfinished project , but I did have the conversion in mind when choosing the Focus rear end

[jonyb4]

genius


the car looks stunning

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I had a day off work yesterday and did what any person undertaking a restoration would do: drive a 600 mile round trip to collect more parts

The first stop was Wolverhampton to visit Aldridge Trimming. It took me a few weeks of investigation and research to find a company I trusted to re trim the interior, and during those weeks I emailed and spoke to trimmers who catered for various markets from the custom market (mainly VW), to more general trimmers who catered for boats and cars, through to those who catered specifically for the classic car market. There are obviously exceptions to the rule but I found that the trimmers with the greatest heritage and focus on quality of workmanship and materials were in the Classic car market. I think a lot of the modified car scene is about the first impression rather than an understanding of the materials and techniques, which is a shame as I wonder what will happen to some of the craftsmanship as time goes on. Aldridge are a great British firm who were established in the 1930's and continue to have very good reputation in classic circles, in fact it turned out that they trimmed one of the Jaguar's in the body shop I used. Here’s their site: http://www.aldridge.co.uk/about_us/index.cfm?id=2

My Girlfriend also took a day off and came along to provide company and a second opinion on my colour choices, in fact it was actually her car that was the most suitable to carry the interior because its parcel shelf is removable. Unfortunately her car is small, so with two of us together with the complete interior of another car the seating position on the way there was, interesting, to say the least! Here's the complete interior:


The first decision was headlining colour. The existing headlining is a very light grey and the A,B & C pillars are dark grey, but for the re trim I’ve opted to have all coloured in a shade of Alcantara that matches the original dark grey plastic. To help here I used one of the new trim pieces I'd bought to find a good match and I settled on colour 9052:


Next was the leather type and colour. Aldridge had a fantastic selection of hides including those which match the Bentley quality standard, and a range of colours which match OEM types in Ferrari, Bentley, Mercedes etc. I have decided on a Ferrari colour called 'Moderna' in the Premium Nappa leather. The hides alone are going to cost more than an average re trim but it will be worth it in the end.


Here are some other customers' cars which are all a contrast to my Fiesta! When seeing these my Girlfriend laughed and said I really should focus on a classic of some sort, which is an opinion that both she and my Parents have had for a while now. I tend to agree and I'm looking in to restoring an E-Type V12 once the Fiesta is complete.



The other stops on the road trip were to various places to collect a complete set of brand new and genuine Ford glass for the car. I also called in at Ford to collect a box of new trim clips and fastenings for the entire car.

Speaking of glass, the car is now home and every panel looks like a pane of it. Incredible.

[- Danny Boy -]

The interior should turn out looking lovely!