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[jon-ross]

hello peeps this is my black frst which was my first one which i paid alot of money for and was a bit rotten

please egnore the mk3.5 shell as its now gone and i am on the hunt for a cleanish frst/xr2i shell to restore once i get a unit again and i will be using the id off the black on ( i know its naughty but this car will never ever be sold to anyone else,) which is why i want to build it into concours condition and have it as my perfect frst for life and will hand it down to my boys in my will

you will have to be patent with this one as its a very long project and i proberly wont even get a shell and unit untill around june next year but i thought id put it up anyway

hi there guys and girls this is the second addition to the family (cossie i got after this one). theres abit of a story behind this one and i will tell it all as this one is the one i love the most, this car realy does tick ALL of my boxes and will tick even more when shes done.

right here goes:king:, after the bad luck with my xr2i i decidided it would be good to get a really nice car that doesnt need any work so i could consentrate on my xr2i, so i set about saving up and looking for nothing else but a black fiesta rs turbo still wearing the green pin stripes. nothing for ages and then still too soon because it was way out of my price range but i just had to have it:shocked:. so i got begging my dad to loan me the rest of the money. i was begging with no good results for 3 weeks and then i reluctantly gave up and just begged it was still for sale by the time i got the money. one more week past and my dad come in to my room one morning and made my dream come true!!! so off we were on the 11th of may 2008 we got on the road to cornwall to collect her after a long chat with the owner he promised it was a nice soild mint well modded well looked after rs, as it was a very long way for me to travel and we set a price of 3500. We turned up at this realy nice little cottage and the first thing i saw was the most beautiful car in the world, the second thing i saw just killed so many emotions. it was rotten, the filler cap was the worst id ever seen (looked alot better in pics) i also poked holes in the rear inner arches and the was rust spots everywere:tiff::tiff:, but he put a smile back on my face by taking me for a drive due to rust we settled on 3200 and the deal was done

here the spec as bought,

engine

lightend and balanced rebuilt bottom end
stage 3 c.h.d. big valve head with kent cv34 cam
multilayer head gasket (replaced with gen ford item by me)
ported intlet manifold
stage 2 turbo technics t2 turbo with uprated actuator running 14psi
bleed valve
grs front mount cooler
bailey blow off dump valve
pace alloy rad and kenlowe fan
165 chip
samco coolant and boost hoses
grs group A oil breather
k&n filter
3" scorpion exhaust and downpipe

transmission, suspention and brakes

stage 2 geartouque gearbox with quafe atb
ap racing paddle clutch

koni sports suspention
front and rear polly bushes
front and rear polly strut top mounts
front and rtear strut braces

300mm gold hispec front brakes
rear disc convertion with saph calipers and drilled and grooved discs
braided brake lines
dot 5.1 fluid
16" oz multispoke wheels with 205/40/16 dunlop sp sport tyres

interior

original and mint
lockwood white dials
boost gauge in A pillar pod

exterior

GREEN PINSTRIPES
smoked rear lights (cringe)




heres the first pics













all was good for a while and i was loving rs ownership and then the cambelt decided to let go while idling at work!:wall::wall:it only bent two valves luckily, heres some pics of that escapade



















i did re polish up the head aswel but dont know where pics are:cry::cry:

once back on the road about a month past all was good i had just found out that my mrs was pregnant with my son and was taking her to work at 6am (so not driving like a dick) on the same roundabout that the xr2i got smacked on it happened again!!!:wall::tiff::wall::tiff::wall::tiff::tiff::tiff: This time i was coming down the bypass near were i live and slow right down eventhough the road was empty (mrs in car) got on to the roundabout and just as i was about to turn off i see this green sack of s**t punto come flying in from the left the driver clearly s**t himself so i braked and turned to lighten the blow and when he hit he paniced and carried on turn right into me so i got pushed onto th roundabout straight upo the curb and airbourne, with my mrs now s**t herself i was suprisingly calm, i can just remember thinking not again no not again!!!:tiff::tiff:
i got out and looked at the damage, i had a dented nearside wig, broken mirror, scratched bumper, and the offside wheel was f**cked. i then went over to the car and he was sitting on the rev limter so i opened the door and took his keys out. then he burst out crying saying hes only been driving 2 weeks. i guess it haddent hit me yet but i just gave him a lecture about driving like an absolute tugger even though its 6am and let him go.

after that happened i new id need to take her of the road to repair id so i striped the interior to check how bad the rot was. what i found made me decide it just needed a shell spruce up (oh how wrong was i???)
hears some pics



















as i started to strip the car for the body resto it just got worse and worse were ever i turned so a full resto is on the cards.

The quick plan is to retrore car to mint condition and rarely use it (just sunny weekends and shows) im going to redo the spec sheet because at the end of the day its a nice setup but not MY setup..
heres some pics of the strip down thanks to my mate terry it got done quick.









































































pretty bad aint it? at this point iwas going to repair it all and bought all new panel apart from front panel and set about fitting them. i first cut off the nearside rear quarter panel and found alot more rot and when i followed it, it went so far it had completly eaten the chassis rails and rear arches, nearside and offside front floor, baisicly it would need alot of metal work which i could do but with 3 cars i just dont have the time and id also need to make a jig. so nutsack to that. as it stands now is ive removed that vin numbers and plates and scraped the shell and sorced a rustless fiesta si for 500 quid which im currently striping. i didnt take pics of the rot that killed it [ERRR] its just too painfull to see seeing as how despiratly i wanted this car. ill get some pics of the new shell when striped:top::top: thanks for your time folks

[jon-ross]

small but long over due update,

ive got the si shell striped of all major parts (it still needs some small bits removing but im not worried about that atm, heres some pics of the new shell











and this is the only rot i found but its 1 million times better than the old shell







the next stage in the build after stripping the shell is to mock fit all the
suspention componts so i can fit the escos wheels and drop on the floor and set ride hight with jacks as im using shocks with no springs so i can fine adjust the ride height as if it was complete (i used large washers and jubilee clips on the shock sanctions to clamp the hight in position so i modify the wheel arches to acommadate the 215/40/16 tyres (no s**t steched 195's for me thank you very much). once that is done ill fit the the bumpers and arches and skirts a modify the arches so the wheels dont scrub.
so far all ive done is fitted the steering rack and suspention components, and wheels then put it on the ground so the hight is not set yet but it does look phat and i had a ear to ear grin for the rest of the day

heres some pics, tell me wot you think











ill try to get more done sooner but im breaking cars to make ends meet atm plus ive got my red fez craving my attention again and the saph to put together. headaches aint the word but im a true ford boy through and through:top::top:

[Dave5300]

fair play to you mate ploughing threw all the headaches, will be worth it in the end, nice work keep it up!

[fezzRS]

top work m8 keep with it will be worth the effort in the end