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[jonyb4]

that is so so so soo nice!

loving the work mate, always thought the window black part was a vinyl sticker, keep at it, will be truly rapid with a ZT in

[xrt-mart]

that is so so so soo nice!

loving the work mate, always thought the window black part was a vinyl sticker, keep at it, will be truly rapid with a ZT in

Cheers

The window surround is painted on with a 6mm pin stripe around it, hopefully the zetec turbo should be fun Might be a while yet though as its so expensive lol

[jayrs]

thats nice mate, the erst vents deffo look good on the mk2 dont they.

the black round the windows though, its futher out than std at the back, how come you done it like that mate?
im not critising, just interested as to why?

[xrt-mart]

To be honest I thought that's how it was. Then after having it done realised it was wrong. I have corrected one side now and in the process of doing the other Also I'm in the middle of painting the kit so it all looks fresh.

I want to get it on the road now doing my head in a bit not ever being able to finish it,hence the reason for the escort engine. I have the complete running gear from it but it has the plastic manifold which doesn't fit in the fiesta bay. I have a alloy inlet but need to find a sandwich plate for it. Apart from that it ain't to far off finished

[jayrs]

well at least its a fairly easy fix to rub the black off, but its not that far out really, but if ya not happy then ya not happy, more so if people like me keep pointing it out

sandwich plate should be easy enough to get, all 1800 ones are the same inc rs1800, so just find a 1800 zetec escort in the scrapper and take the plate, jobs a goodun

[xrt-mart]

It would always annoy me if it wasnt right lol.

[Excursion]

Now that's an update Looking good!

[xrt-mart]

Cheers

It was a big update but it was about 2 years worth lol....

[jayrs]

yeah would me.
and tbh, its something im not looking forward to when it comes to doing mine on the xr, im thinking i might just make a paper template, as i dont fancy masking them bits when i repaint the car

[FRSJON]

love it

[xrt-mart]

love it

It will be better when it has some management on it

[fiestarsturboblack]

Looks lovely mate. Really nice job on the paint . Cnt wait to see more pics

[xrt-mart]

Cheers I should have some more pics soon really as the ones above are actually a little old lol

I'm thinking of bringing it back from the bodyshop this week. It's been stuck there since winter....

[FRSJON]

looking great

[xrt-mart]

few pics of it at the mo, all dusty.... but with reshaped window surround and some painted bodykit







mart

[jayrs]

looks much better with the reshape on the window surround mate

[xrt-mart]

Cheers mate, My mates doing a template to copy it over to the other side over the weekend.

Wanted to bring it back this week but it looks like its going to be mid next now. Never mind at least I can get on with some bits once its back

[jayrs]

cant rush these things mate, better it takes a bit longer than to rush it and maybe make a mistake on something

[xrt-mart]

To right mate

Just 2 more pics of the front end in need of a de-dust/clean





Finished reshaping the other window surround so it's basically ready to go. Just needs the pin stripe around the rear windows. Hopefully can talk my mate into it so I can bring it back

[jayrs]

you kow i say this all the time when i look at threads with mk2s, and that is, it makes me really want to crack on with mine! and yours is no different, a nice fresh looking mk2 is great

[xrt-mart]

you kow i say this all the time when i look at threads with mk2s, and that is, it makes me really want to crack on with mine! and yours is no different, a nice fresh looking mk2 is great

Cheers mate. I've nearly given up a few times but recently I keep thinkin it wont take long now.... lol and it keeps me going

[jayrs]

never give up, when i was doing my RS, the brake and fuel lines gave mer a lot of hassle as they had relaxed while off the car and trying to fit them on ya own, under a car is not easy, more so when there out of shape and keep breaking the clips, caused me to get so fcuked off, i went home and didnt touch the car for 6 months! and i should never of done that, i should of just got on with it, so i can relate to wanting to give up, but its good you didnt, cos you would be behind on it, and when you do back to it, you would of kicked your self, so no more thoughts of that, your on the home run now, and once its done, your be glad you kept on at it.

now to contradict the above a little i put my xr2 in the garage and started stipping it in oct 2009, and its been nearly 3 years, and in that time all ive done is mess about with the bonnet as im converting it to open the other way, nothing more ive had another project on the go for a mate, but still, im so egar to crack on with it, its unreal, but i cant until clarks car is complete, and threads like yours just kick me in the face and remind me i got a xr2 waiting for my TLC

[xrt-mart]

Mate I took my car off the road when my first boy was born. He's now 8 and there's 2 more boys and a baby girl lol...

The only thing left from the original car is the dash so it's had a fair bit done

[jayrs]

bloody hell, that makes me feel a bit better now

[jonyb4]

so thats whata straight front valance looks like

loooking fresh as mate

[xrt-mart]

so thats whata straight front valance looks like

loooking fresh as mate

Maybe lol. My front panel looks a little weird with the cut out and random extra bracket for the front mount cooler

[jonyb4]

straight though lol, mine looks like our roads

[xrt-mart]

The finished window surrounds



Nearly there now....

[jayrs]

[xrt-mart]

Ok so managed to bring it back tonight.

Gave it a quick wash just before it went dark.Had a disaster with some TFR. It apparently doesn't like U-Pol plastic paint. It ate straight through some of the black window surround so I've had to repaint it tonight :blub: don't think you'll be able to tell to be honest will see better tomorrow.

Anyway she's tucked back up ready for some more work to be done...







Mart

[ben17southport]

awesome build so far man. how did you polish your air inlet? looks amazing!

looking foward to seeing it all done.

[xrt-mart]

awesome build so far man. how did you polish your air inlet? looks amazing!

looking foward to seeing it all done.

Cheers

All the alloy polishing is just sand paper on a drill . Going through the grades until it was pretty shiny then moved on to polishing mop with G3.

Mart

[ben17southport]

how did you manage all the nooks and crannys lol?

i had a go at polishing my fuel injector rail before, looked alright but not amazing! think ill just resort to spraying them

[xrt-mart]

how did you manage all the nooks and crannys lol?

i had a go at polishing my fuel injector rail before, looked alright but not amazing! think ill just resort to spraying them

Sorry mate didn't see this I just use some scotch brite same as you use when doing preperation for paint....

Anyway, I've made a little progress and I apologise for the long post.

First thing I wanted to tackle was the engine/bay wiring. Bearing in mind this shell was originally a 1.1 auto the main differences I found where:

1 It has a starter inhibitor relay for the starter motor. This is actuated by the ignition switch and gear selector lever. I was going to make it the same as a "normal" Fiesta loom but decided better to leave it in as it protects the ignition switch anyway. Its easily bypassed by permanently earthing the relay.

2 The reverse light has one extra wire going into the above loom this is nothing to do with reverse but another safety mechanism. The wire can be completely removed and reverse lights rewired in a per normal.

3 Because it was a push-rod type engine the coolant temperature sensor and fan switch wiring is on the opposite side. I extended the temperature sensor wire to the other side of the bay but I'm Using a RS1800 radiator which has the fan switch on this side so no need to move which is good

4 The alternator wiring is built into the loom unlike the CVH. However I'm Using the IB5 rear starter and alternator and wiring from the donor Escort which comes with its own starter/alternator wiring loom. What I have done is to remove the alternator wiring completely, cut the wire that feeds the whole car loom, starter feed and the alternator dash light wire, un-taped them out of the loom and refitted the opposite side of the bay by the battery.
This left me with the 3 wires. On the Escort loom there is a multi-plug next to the battery cables which house the starter feed and alternator dash light. I've put my wires onto this multi-plug. This left me with the main wiring harness feed which I have used the Escort battery fuse box and mounted it on the battery with the Escort cables so it is wired in as it would be on the Escort. This has left me with 2 extra main battery feed outlets which is handy to use for the engine management system

Alternator wiring removed ( dash light wire cut for maximum length re-routing )



Main harness feed with fuse link, I've removed the fuse link and I'm using the Escort fuse The Orange one on the left of the fuse box is the one its connected to....





It leaves me with these 2 wires which I'll connect to the muti-plug as mentioned above when the engine is in...





Bay as complete as it could be I moved on to the engine ECU wiring. I'm using a 1.8 zetec as it came out of my donor complete with a SLUG ecu and PATS.

Started off by making a 2 relay loom ( the big coil of wire is for the fuel pump ) Copied the original wiring and fuses as much as possible with all fuses etc...



Did loads of research on the SLUG/PATS wiring and labeled up the engine mult-plug. Connected up the 2 bits together. This left me with 2 connections needed to connect to the existing car loom. One for the rev counter. Originally this car didn't have one but had a clock instead, the power for the clock is input into the the dash cluster via the same pin as the rev counter so I took the wire out of the fuse bos and rerouted it to the multiplug. Then took a ignition feed direct from the ignition switch. The feeds for the relays come direct from the battery via the Escort fuse box so no extra load goes onto the fiesta loom.



Next I got the whole engine loom and took a look at where I could fit it. I noticed that a lot of the loom could be left inside the car to keep things neater if it weren't for the lamda wiring. It turned out that if I extended the power feed for it I could leave around 2 foot extra inside the loom so I did Now Ive put the wiring through the bulkhead with a 40mm hole. Connected it up inside the car and turned the ignition and the fuel pump relay primes That was it for the wiring.





Moving onto the engine.....


Got the engine out from under the cover and started to give it a clean with the jet wash.

Before...







After...





Then took the plastic inlet off which doesn't fit inside the XR2 bay and started getting the other manifold ready.



First took the new sandwich plate



swapped over the injector rail off the old manifold.



Then over to the actual manifold (kindly donated by my friend Chris)



Only part needing changing was the air temp sensor, which I'm running the new management system off a 98 car. New on the left side.



Next up inlet side stripped off engine





Painted up



new plastic gasket fitted



Sandwich plate fitted



Inlet fitted.



Then I had the throttle body trouble. The plastic type and alloy type aren't compatible as the throttle cable mechanism and position sensors are different so ordered up a cheap throttle body off ebay which was a smaller diameter intake but had good other parts, swapped them all over

Alloy one the left plastic on the right. look how tiny the left one is :shock:



all swapped over



Then stripped off the front side and got rid of this stuff





Painted up the same as the back.....



Ordered up a alternator belt. Got a 900mm one at first and that was to short so went for a 913mm which is OK. Fitted that up to the engine with the zetec alternator and Fiesta CVH bracket, then put the exhaust manifold back on and its looking a lot better





Not very interesting I know but getting there all the same

[jonyb4]

Top work mate!