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[jon-ross]

hi peeps this is my frst that ive recently bought and done a s**t load of work on to get it back to how it should be and on the road.

im copying and pasting from the thread on passion ford so here goes



hello peeps right hears the plan. after a few weeks of wanting to keep the mk2 forever like my other to cars i stared to think that i would end up with too many cars so i thought ill still keep my xr2i and rs turbo forever as my 2 babys and ill buy another car to smoke around in and fix it up, use it till i get bored and then sell ing on for a little profit and work my way up and through the ford range so i get a taste of lots of different fords and not just fiestas.

so after doing quite abit of work on the mk2 i decided to put it up for sale and the previous owner saw it and wanted to buy it back as hes had good news on his licence, so i worked out how much the car owed me and took a deposit off him but im not making any money out of this one as he is a mate, so i got some money together and started looking for a cheap frst (starting with what i know best) but nothing came up, but when i was speaking to my mate jason from J.A.developments i mentioned i was looking for one he told me a customer of his was selling a merc grey one cheap but i needed work so he got i to the work shop and i came and had a look and ended up buying it cheap.

ill get some pics up tomorrow as im going to start the work on it and here the list of bits i need to do (its quite long!!)

find fog light connector and plug in,
remove bumper and space cooler forward so i can fit rad propeerly,
diag and repair cooling fan not working,
diag and repair high ldle and cutting out,
remove arch liner and pop out dent in wing,
screw co pot back on mounting plate,
temporaryly seal leaking dump vavle take off (will be removing completely),
tidy up messy engine bay,
daig and repair windows not working,
diag and repair rev counter not working,
diag and repair heater blower not working,
strip interior and remove ice wiring,
wire up speakers to headunit (was running amps),
clean up interior and replace worn door seals,
replace boost gauge and fit properly,
replace steering wheel and indicator stalks,
replace front and rear door cards,
tiger seal front of offside front arch,
replace driveshafts,
replace standard suspension with something abit lower,
remove and replace flushed tailgate with a standard one,
remove gayboy bonnet and replace with standard one,
fit boot carpet,
diag and repair boot popper,
fit copy german spec rear lights,
fit green stripes,
full service and cambelt
reomove bodged up and incorrectly fitted bleed valve and setup boost
remove abs system,
fit pop out window caps,
replace roof gutter trims,
replace number plate light,
replace odd wheel nuts,
bolt in nearside headlight,

and i will proberly find more tomorrow!!!

luckily i know mk3 fiestas very well and i have most parts i need already so shouldnt be too bad (famous last words)


right peeps before i get started heres the pics of the rst as i bought it

















as you can see the body work is good and clean (apart from the bonnet and tailgate) but thats about it really as someone done it all nice then just decided to throw it back together, shame really, heres some pics of our little working day





so what it i do today?? well it was one step forward and three back really i started with the wiring faults and found that the loom was badly bodged up and in places was burnt out so i had to strip the interior and replace the whole wiring loom (lucky i had one lying around).

i managed to get most of the interior back together with the black centre console and rear side panels, and i also replaced the gutter trims and got the boot open and removed it, also removed the bonnet, changed the rear lights for the copy euro spec ones, half fitted new boost gauge. it dont sound like much but i was on it most of the day and despite what happend with the loom im pretty happy with the progress so far

heres a few pics of the job in hand but for got to take pics of the end of the day as i just wanted to get home and eat!!!















hope you like, ill be doing more on weds so ill update then

[jon-ross]

right peeps little update

i got bang on it on weds but a few little hik ups so didnt get as much as i wanted done but he i never do!

i started with finishing off the loom in the engine bay and got it started up despite the fuel pump being bodged up but ive made it secure and going to leave it just for now and now i have a working rev counter and the engine ran better but still high idle,

then i got stuck into the engine bay and removed the bodged up bleed valve and removed and temp repaired the dump valve connection and found quite a few little boost leaks along the way. i then replaced the iscv and secured the rad, added a ht lead guide and generally tidyed things up in there and now see runs sweet and smooth.

i cant refit the firewall panels yet tho as i need to replace the blower motor which is winging its way to me now and i need to get some black insulation tape as i only had red at the time and it looks s**t

this is how i left it last time







and this is the fuel pump bodge



i bloody forgot to get pic of engine bay!!!

i thought id show you lot what i did with the dump vavle (please bare in mind it is temporary untill i get a unfucked charge carrier)

i use this stuff called quick steel and its never let me down. i once used it to seal a leak on a mate erst fuel tank on the outlet to the pump as temp repair but he never fixed it and its still holding out now 2 years later. its good s**t but it fudgekin stinks, heres what i did

the part that is screwed into the carrier was loose and leaking



heres the shizle



and the result (not pretty but better than a boost leak)




so then i thought i best get on with the asthetics, so i fitted the new boost gauge and mounted it on the a pillar were it should be. Then i refitted the bumper and connected the fog lights unlike the previous owner! After that i just couldnt resist putting the green stripe on as i think they just make an rs complete









and then went to fit the window caps and couldnt get them on and it got to the point were i thought i was going to bust the window, so does any one know how to get them on??



just a few bits to do now witch i will update next week, thanks for reading, jon

[jon-ross]

right peeps very long over due update

ive been hard at work getting this frst on the road as it one of those cars that as u do jobs on it you find others to do all the time and the list has grown allot

i thought before i put up loads of pics ill right out the list of jobs ive had to do to get it on the road.

so here goes,

exterior

1, green stripes missing
2, bad boy bonnet fitted
3, flushed tailgate fitted
4, painted door handles
5, doors delocked
6, painted number plate light
7, cheap and nasty 5 spoke alloys fitted
8, offside rear tyre flat
9, clear oval side repeaters fitted
10, nearside front arch loose
11, offside edge of rear bumper insecure
12, front splitter missing (did fit one but it fell off so need to fit it with screws)
13, fog lamps and mains not working (found to be not pluged in)
14, roof rack gutter trims fitted
15, ford badges missing
16, random odd wheel nuts fitted
17, front indicators wonky
18, pop out window bolt caps missing

interior

1, boot popper not working (wiring)
2, nearside window goes down and not up (switch)
3, offside window drops to one side (window bolt missing)
4, rev counter not working (wiring)
5, indicators dont self cancel (ring on steering wheel missing)
6, late spec rs1800 steering wheel fitted
7, ice wiring everywere and very messy
8, boost gauge bodged into clock hole and not working properly
9, boot carpet missing
10, steering very tight and heavy (suspension had no nuts under top mounts)
11, gear selector slightly sloppy
12, black dash fitted but everything else is grey
13, door cards have holes cut into them and dodgy speaker pods
14, heater blower not working (blower siezed causing loom to burn out)
15, stereo not working
16, nearside interior mirror cover missing
17, interior light not workikng
18, heated windscreen replaced with non heated one

under bonnet

1, battery flat
2, runs high idle (air leaks and iscv)
3, engine cuts out (air leaks and iscv)
4, very light blue smoke on start up
5, ht lead guide missing
6, radiator insecure
7, cooling fan not working (switch)
8, inncorrect fan fitted
9, nearside headlight insecure
10, dump valve loose and leaking (temp repaired)
11, dump valve bodged into charge carrier
12, standard top boost hose fitted
13, bodged cooling fan loom fitted
14, ice wiring messy and astray
15, engine bay generally very messy (wiring and vacum pipes)
16, offside driveshaft worn and knocking
17, still has abs system
18, air filter loose and falling apart
19, boost bleed valve bodged in (removed)
20, unknown age of cambelt
21, one odd ht lead to clear dump valve

handling and underside

1, front pads low
2, standard fiesta springs fitted
3, nearside rear tyre rubbing on shock (5mm spacer missing)
4, handbrake not very good
5, front arch liners missing
6, no rust protection on edges of floor pan
7, nearside rear arb bracket snaped

right heres some pics after i lowered it and got sum 4x4 cossie wheels for it







wen doing the work i found that the rear wheel spacer on the nearside was missing and causing the tyre to rub on the shock and on the offside the wheel nut were on about 4 threads! and i drove on the motorway like that!!
and found that the steering was stiff because the nuts under the top mounts were missing so the shock just shot out wen i undone the top nut! so i sorted that out and i now have decent steering that doesnt try and kill you!!

next i sorted out all the interior but didnt get many pics but i did get these









also sorted this out







then the hunt was on for a bonnet and tailgate and found a greybtailgate but could only find a black bonnet with a smoothed front, so i got them and set about removing all the filler on the front of the bonnet and found that it had been in a knock, the line in the front had been welded on the start and finish, and i realised the washer jet holes had been flushed :wall::wall: so i didnt want to get it painted professonaly as im going to buy another bonnet and get that painted instead, so i bought some primer and paint and done a quick okish paint job that was really streeky as i was doing it outside in my garden but wen the mrs went to bed i snuck it into the kitchen and done the last 2 cans of paint and also done the laquer in there and nealy killed myself on fumes!!







sorry ive not got any of it done but i do have pics of the finished article at the end of update

with it all done i got an mot on it and the tax and insurance and was driving it about and came across a few problems which were the slight dip in revs when reving turned into hesitation and kangarooing wen driving which i found to be the throttle position sensor, there is a small noise from the nearside front which i think is the drive shaft or wheel bearing and im going to replace the pair next week, also my brand new fan switch decided to melt wen driving so i got an MSD uprated fan switch and some beefy wiring and a 40amp relay and made up a proper stand alone loom for the cooling fan, i just need to get some insulation tape to make it look more factory but ive done it quite neat i think





right so heres some pics of it finished and on the road

































































looks abit better than the bad boy s**t i bought i think

comments welcome

[dips7758]

Hi Mate.. I love what you done with the car.. Nice work.. I need a bit of advise.. iv got a set of cossie wheels just like your ones and wanted to know when i put spacers on do i have to extend the bolts that lock the wheel or can i use the existing ones. I had to take my wheels off due to my idiot mate didnt fit spacers on and the rim split my passenger side brake hose.. errrgghh, rs if off the road @ the moment .. but will appreciate it if you can get bak to me..

CheeRS

Dips

[jayrs]

great work so far mate, when i first looked at this i though, that rs has been abused, but the results so far are great mate, kepe up the good work