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[Jay]

get focus ones max

or modify the zetec-s rear beam to take rs2000 brakes like I have

James, That wud be awesome mate, if not then we can get onto Scort

[Max M4X WW]

Any pics jay? Cant have any extra width really cos i want 16x8" wheels.

[Jay]

will get pics for you tomorrow mate

Good point... get rs2k ones then

http://www.jdmotorsport.com

They do an rs2k rear setup for £60 posted iirc

[ianFRST]

i never knew the rs2000 used pads aswell whats the reasoning behing that?

[heeman10]

Ian - If you look at my pics you'll notice the disc is verrrry deep. That's because there's an internal drum brake (for the handbrake) and the disc/pads are used as normal foot brakes.

[Max M4X WW]

Does ian mean shooes?

[Jay]

yeah... handbrakes are better as drums as they work on the surface around the entire hub rather than on a concentrated area

[heeman10]

Does ian mean shooes?

Who knows?! He comes out with all kinds of gobble-di-gook, I just do my best to try and make sense of it all!

[heeman10]

Update

Since I spent the first part of the day going to and from the show further North, I haven't got much done yet today. I spent half an hour or so sanding back the P40 (very hard stuff, so takes quite a while) on the two repairs I made. The small repair looks as though it won't need any filler, as it's sanded back perfectly:



The larger repair now needs filling and sanding to the correct contours to mask over the troughs of the slots I cut with the angle grinder. The repair's worked very well - the split had travelled down the right hand face, and then along the bottom of the bumper about 15cm! It was all falling apart, clearly being held mostly together by the paint! It's all had a wash and is drying in the sun, so I'll aim to get a skim of filler on before the day's out:



Tomorrow I'll try to remove the brake pipes from the engine bay. If they're reasonably accessible (the connections) I'll remove these original pipes and make new ones that'll fit to the original fittings at the back of the bay, to save adding another join up by the master cylinder. Once I know what I need, and have worked out what's needed for the hard pipes I need to make for the rear discs, I'll go to town and buy the pipe and fittings. I aim to have the brakes all ready to connect up by Wednesday night, provided my brake pipe flaring tool arrives, and the bumper should be fully primed and possibly sprayed red by then.

[MarkRS2K]

hopefully be done by FF mate

[MAD_Adamski]

were all on a tight schedule hopefully we will ALL be there in full working order, my new box makes the car feel even stronger glad i invested now me and you james 0-60 thrash is in order!!! main reasons for me keeping 15's was when i called bernie ages ago he said with his box i will hit 63mph in 2nd on 15's so i am hoping my 0-60 to be good altho my top end will be w.a.n.k

[heeman10]

WTF? What 'box have you got? Is it a long 'box? Most of us fail to hit 60 in 2nd...

[heeman10]

Update

Decided I'd work on the bumper properly today to get it ready for primer by tonight...and I accomplished that. The filler's still doing my head in, it just won't spread like other filler I've used It doesn't spread into, and fill holes, it tries to grip to the surface and churns itself up, regardless of the hardener content Anyway, after much application and sanding, I got it ready for spraying:





I swept the rear of the building I store the car in in the afternoon, to allow the dust to settle, and laid a silage bag down on the ground, then trussed the bumper up from a beam to let me get at it from all round:





I wanted to get one coat of primer on to see how it looked (it's hard to tell the precise shape, and quality of the finish on a surface like this without a solid colour all the way over it) and am largely happy. There are a few imperfections in the smoothed top strip (stupid filler's fault), but after looking at it again just now I think a coat or two of filler primer could save the day. Anyway, some pics:









A mate's coming for a couple of days tomorrow, so I won't be able to carry on with the bumper or brakes for a bit, which means the ZT won't be going to TOTB, and means things will be pretty darn tight for Ford Fair. I think the tax and MOT are about to run out too...typical

[rich_frst]

nice jambo!!! are you goona smooth the rear next

[heeman10]

I will need to smooth the really, plus the rear bumper needs tidying up anyway. The front was a bit critical though, as it was cracking, chipped ALL over, as the first pics showed, and I wanted to smooth them anyway, mainly for ease of cleaning. If the paint match is good, then yeah, I'll probably do the rear before too long too

[rich_frst]

I will need to smooth the really, plus the rear bumper needs tidying up anyway. The front was a bit critical though, as it was cracking, chipped ALL over, as the first pics showed, and I wanted to smooth them anyway, mainly for ease of cleaning. If the paint match is good, then yeah, I'll probably do the rear before too long too

you love it in the rear!!!!

[heeman10]

You lot do try so very hard You know..if this paint match is REALLY good, I may even attack some of the actual car bodywork. I've done the bumper on the grounds of "It'll look better than it did before, even if it's not a great finish and not a brilliant match", so it's a bit different when it comes to the car body. Rear bumper, yeah, fine, but I doubt the Halfords colour-matched paint would blend in too well when it's a 25mm circular patch I've done

[Jay]

Looks good mate but I'd honestly remove the splitter as the paint will flake close to the edge of this

[heeman10]

I put pics up at the beginning of the job - the guy who made the bumper fibreglassed the splitter on The masking tape's gone on fine..pushed up to the top of the splitter and folded over the top with a thumb nail, which means it travels under the bottom of the bumper body itself, so all should be fine

[heeman10]

Update

I had a call from my mate to say he wouldn't be here till early this evening, so I decided to go into town and buy the brake pipe, fittings, and filler primer to allow me to carry on. I've already put the coat of filler primer on, followed by a coat of normal grey plastic primer, and will apply the final coat (fourth) in a few minutes.

These pics show what I hoped they would. Even if the final finish I get with the colour isn't brilliant, the bumper will still look less messy than it did before!





(There are, in the pic below, marks that look like runs around the bumper light housing, but it's masking tape just poking up)





And now some before/after shot pairings to show that it's been a worthwhile exercise!

"Before":




And the "afters":







The crease in that lower right hand corner is a little tighter/deeper than I would've liked it, but I didn't want to risk taking too much away from the crack repair and allowing it to open up again. It's mostly hidden by the number plate on the bottom half of the bumper anyway.

And the opposite corner "before":



And "after":





There are one or two imperfections that I'm not really too bothered about..at least not at the moment. I'll put on the last coat of primer now, give it a day or two to dry then sand it all down and see how it looks


As I have the brake pipe and fittings I need now, I can make up all my lines and fit the RS2000 brakes at long last. I guesstimate about another 4-5 hours' work is needed to completely finish up the brakes/master cylinder conversions.

[rich_frst]

smooth as!!!!

[RS_Rawli]

[~nomad~]

looking good james, started my brakes today, and managed to break 2 lines lol. no matter thou, the car wont be at ford fair, decided to do all the stuff in one hit, as per our convo yesterday, and bought a escort cab today to use in the meantime

[mike_wall15]

The paint finish looks good, certainly looks smoother!

Didn't realise you were going for a different colour though, don't you think the yellow will look a bit wierd against the red car?

(You need to polish the rest of your car now!)

[MAD_Adamski]

since when was your car going yellow

[Xr_Dub]

since when was your car going yellow

isnt that his primer

[ScottP]

its plastic primer i think.

if you look at his pic

you can still see where the groove for the rubbing stip was. there is like a line running along it

[Andi]

You know, I think he might have been joking..

Nice work Jimbo!

[ScottP]

the smilies werent working when i saw that, lol, damn computer!

[heeman10]

~nomad~ - How did you break them? Bending too far or twisting? It always is better doing everything once, and with plenty of time instead of rushing. It's a shame it won't be at the show, but you know it's a better decision Cabby!

Mike/Adamski - You know how I love multicoloured motoring! I still don't have any particularly special cleaning products, but will give the car a bit of a polish, certainly

ScottP - If you look at the pictures further up the page, you'll see the one where the bumper's still red, showing the top strip. On the RS bumper, working upwards from the cutout, the bumper slopes upwards steeply, then rounds the edge and slopes up till almost vertically, then drops into the bumper strip recess. The top lip of the recess isn't directly vertically above the bottom lip, as the bottom lip sticks out a bit further, so you get another angle change between the lower and upper lips (i.e. the volume I've smoothed). That results in that angle change that slopes back to the top of the bumper strip recess, it's not just a lumpy line where the filler starts

Andi - Ta!

[ianFRST]

Does ian mean shooes?

Who knows?! He comes out with all kinds of gobble-di-gook, I just do my best to try and make sense of it all!

bite me you pair of gays. i ment shoes, but rear pads, blah, same thing

[MarkRS2K]

looking good mate

[disc]

heeman,
Today I got mine rear disks, hubs, calipers, rear ABR ect., no beam from Escort Cabrio (I suppose it was XR3i but I talk with junk yard man on the phone and he sent me all stuff with courier, so i don't know nothing about the car). I mean it's not RS2k but I think it's the same setup as RS2k. Rear brake disk conversion will be for my Mk3 Orion ZT and I have few questions.

As your setup is from RS2k would you measure length of brake hoses (just the rubber part)? I hope I can use my standard "drum" hoses. Brake hoses on my setup was cut as the handbrake cable
Also - is there any kind of "springs" (is that the right word?) on calipers that hold pads in place and stoping them from rattling as mine don't have?

[chris-fiesta]

looking good james.. if you manage to lay the red and laquer down as you have been with the primer id suggest you get the front bumper mopped by a pro after youve sprayed it and youll have a really nice finish

[heeman10]

disc - So far I only have this picture (from the previous page) which shows the top of the spring plates in the caliper:



I'll try to remember to take a better picture when I'm working on the car in a few minutes. I'll also try to remember to measure the length of the flexi hose

chris - I'll do that myself. I'd rather pay £40 or whatever for the equipment and do it all myself than pay £20 odd for someone to do it for me! That's not really the feeling behind the things I do!