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yet another cool vid andy

[heeman10]

Ahh another day in the life of a Fiesta Turbo owner Damn you and being able to make high quality vids! I have to turn the quality right down just to get them to downloadable sizes Yours is nice and crisp and mine are all fuzzy!

[andyhardy]

You need to download something like Dr DivX - have a look on http://www.download.com

Thanks guys,

Andy

[andyhardy]

Was trying to think of some nice places to take the car for a drive round today so decided on Beachy Head

It's been quite overcast around here today but it's actually bloody warm as well - looks like there's going to be a thunderstorm along the coast a bit later this evening

The town of Eastbourne in the background in this one...


Can just make out the sea in the background of this one - bit too hazy to get detail though...


The old lighthouse (drove past this a bit later on but didn't get any closeup pics)...


One for heeman10...





Really enjoyed the drive out - went down a few places around Beachy Head I've never been to before, think some of them have been used in Top Gear before

Cheers,

Andy

[Max M4X WW]

Cool, First pic looks like a drift

Get those smoked lights back on!

Nice sheep

[andyhardy]

If only you could drift it - I wouldn't even contemplate selling it otherwise!

I keep meaning to put the smoked rear clusters in but forgetting again when I find something else more interesting to do

Cheers,

Andy

[Max M4X WW]

Selling Looked mega odd with the standard clusters at Trax!

[~Tony~]

dont sell it, do what you were planning to do

[andyhardy]

I'm in 2 minds now, I've only got a few things left to do to the engine and it's finished as far as that goes.

Then I could go the whole hog with adjustable TCAs up front, adjustable rear beam, stripped out interior including stereo and carputer, roll cage fitted etc. to make the car a full on track car. That would be fun but I don't think I'd use it enough on the road to warrant it, so now I'm in 2 minds about just using it for a bit and maybe another show season and then splitting the car to make back as much money as possible!

One thing is for certain, I'll be doing a little bit of work on the rust on the underside of the boot floor as it's not looking too good under there now.

Cheers,

Andy

[heeman10]

Look at the size of that sheep! Bet that badgirl could go alll night I like the way the farmer's trimmed the bottom of the fence with Recaro fabric, nice touch

Ah the modifying world is a funny one. Because you think it's nearly complete, you're thinking of selling! I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a small part of my head thinking along those lines, but I'd like to enjoy what I've made for a bit longer yet

[andyhardy]

TBH it's not the fact that it's nearly complete that's got me thinking this - I've been thinking it for ages.

If I sold the car I could pay off alot of my debts and live a much more stress free life, especially with only having to look after one un-modified car! I think I'm getting too old for all this modifying lark!

Cheers,

Andy

[SPo0n]

Don't be silly andy. you've worked fudgekin hard on that car and it'd be a shame to not enjoy it! at least keep it for another 6 months or so..

if you sold it i bet you'd only get another project and go through it all again....

[andyhardy]

You're right - I probably would get another project car and go through it all again, but starting with something that's much better to begin with

It's just that it's looking likely that I'm either going to have to lease/borrow/steal/buy a relatively new MPV to demonstrate my system at various different types of show as the Fiesta is just too small and the wrong type of car for showing off to potential customers, so whatever happens the system will be taken from the Turbo and put into something else. I haven't really got the driveway space for the Turbo so it could well end up living at my Dad's for a while under a car cover - getting rid of it (probably being broken) would make the most sense financially and practically.

I'm not making a decision just yet - still weighing up my options and there are definitely a few things I want to get done to the car yet!

Andy

[Xr_Dub]

andy cars looking sweet ...

i wud say get new rims or buy my old ones im sure i can sort u out

[andyhardy]

Bit of an update for you guys.

Have a bit of a list of things I still need to do to get the car running 'properly' again but Simon sorted a few of those out for me today

- Rear strut adjusters freed off
- Anti-freeze/Summer coolant in after coolant dumping after Trax
- Oil level checked - everything fine
- Gearbox oil topped up
- Reverse gear light switch in properly now
- Clutch pedal adjusted to new biting point (it's now finally bedded in )

All I need to get done now is the following:

- Get Grove Garage to check and adjust cam sensor timing
- Get Grove Garage to set boost how it should be (only running 15psi compared to 20psi previously)
- Fit oil cooler and associated gauges
- Adjust intercooler and mold bumper to aid air flow as well as sorting out ducting to oil cooler
- Sort out underseal and rust proofing of boot floor (looking a bit skanky now)

Here's a pic of it parked up outside my house - going to take it for a blat after dinner



Cheers,

Andy

[heeman10]

I hate you profoundly for your sig, but I'm glad you're eating away at some things on lists, always a good thing to do. Damn you for going for a blat, I want to take mine out It's raining, which might as well be "there's ice on the road" these days

[andyhardy]

I'll change the sig once the heemania dies down

Thanks dude - weather's been ok here, no doubt it will turn poo tomorrow

Andy

[andyhardy]

Running a bit low on spare money to spend on the RST at the moment so I've not really done anything to it recently.

I'll hopefully get the car booked in for it's sorting out at Grove at the beginning of November.

In the mean time I'm sorting out stuff with the business and took some piccys of the motorised screen in the Turbo

Folded in (I've had to space the whole unit out by about 3/4 of an inch to make sure it folds out properly - this is an inherent problem with the mk3 Fiesta dash, most other Ford dashes are ok excluding Sierra/Sapphire ones).



Folding out - luckily with the standard Fiesta gearstick it moves over the top in all gears without touching



Operating with Centrafuse front end software playing MP3s from the Hard Drive



Checking out the motorised adjustment - this is at full forward tilting angle, good for angled dashboards



Very pleased with this unit - the touchscreen works brilliantly and doesn't smudge from finger pressing like some of the other touchscreens I've used do Also - because it's mounted lower in the dash the screen appears more brightly (less surrounding light from the sun) and you can flick through tracks whilst your hand is resting on the gearstick

Cheers,

Andy

[Max M4X WW]

you can flick through tracks whilst your hand is resting on the gearstick

I do this lol.

Dont worry about the slow progress, Not as if you havent done much to it recently and we all have these slow bits

[andyhardy]

Cheers dude,

It's quite nice not having to plunge every months worth of living money into my cars for once!

Andy

[Capri]

Mate...

Your car looks AWESOME! Love it!

Top work on the screen too, Andy, it's great to see it finally coming together!

[sjoyce666]

which screen is it ?

think ive seen them for sale on eBay but never really trusted them before

i know youve had plenty of screens before so if you say its good then it must be

looks sweet

Scott

[javablu]

Didn't know you had rear disks andy looks lush

[andyhardy]

Had rear discs (RS2000 ones) for about 2 and a half years now

[andyhardy]

I would never buy something like a touchscreen from eBay personally - but other people have without problems.

I can't rely on eBay as a supplier for my business though!

Cheers,

Andy

[sjoyce666]

Any idea of the make and or model of the screen then Andy, just looks familiar to some ive seen and if its good for you and your business then cant be bad

Can you get hold of more of these and if so could you PM me a price

Cheers

Scott

[andyhardy]

PM sent sjoyce666

[AGAR]

Hey,

Just wondering that type of wheels those are?

I think im going to buy ones similar off a guy locally, whats the offset of yours - how much is the car lowered, what tyre size you using, and have you used spacers so they fill the arches a bit more?
Cheers

[1992FRST]

Theres only one thing that lets this car down, and thats the wheels, just looks like uve spent loads on decent gear etc and put a cheapo set of wheels on it!

The standard wheels would look alot better than those

[andyhardy]

lol - I think I'll be repeating myself if I tell you the reasons why I got those wheels, and seeing as I don't care what you think anyway I'm not going to bother

Car will be being broken once I get the cam timing sorted!

Cheers,

Andy

[FezzR]

Car will be being broken once I get the cam timing sorted!

Cheers,

Andy

[1992FRST]

if your going to break it, why are you bothering to sort the cam timing?

[andyhardy]

So I can get the boost set back up to 20psi, get it rolling roaded then hopefully sell the engine off with management as it will all be setup perfect

Andy

[andyhardy]

I don't think many people are going to like the next stage of modifications, myself included!

[heeman10]

There goes one more of FT's mainstay cars, gutted to hear that