West of Scotland RSOC

well bought this back in march and thought i start a project thread on it ..

i rushed the jobs through on the car so it was ready for our regional day at kames

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was looking for a wee project to play about with i knew it had to have a blue oval but didnt know what .. and how much i was gonna spend .. found an escort x3ri convertible on ebay , phoned the guy and got a good price over the phone provided i took it that night , well it was already 5pm and i had no way of getting up , so got a loan of a mates trowing dolly and headed through to wishaw .. when i got there is was already dark and i looked at the car and the problems it had .. and then the guy told me it just had a new hood a bootfull of odds n ends and it also came with 3 months mot and 3 months tax and a set of silver/black leather bucket recliners !!!! result , done the deal and put it on the dolly and headed home took my time nice and steady all the way home ..





first things first gave it a wash to see how it looked under all the dirt .. and removed some of the over spray on the tyres ( silver wheel paint )







so i started looking for some bits ..

bought a set of 5 s2 alloys off reeceboy ,
a set of arch extensions and one sidskirt off peterRST
and an other 2 sideskirts off nvr2lt2sk8
and some kind gentlemand on RSOC sold me some jacking point covers (cant remember his user name )
i also got a fully stainless exhaust from a S2 off morryRS
and 4 tyres from kevin_Mc
and some door cards and handles from big Ian
50mm lowering kit from Gazman
leather recaro's from johnl

all parts were as expected and at a great price too cheers guys

Sorry if ive got anyones names wrong


first things first i changed the door cards big ian gave me

from this


to a standard looking 90 spec door ( as it should - cant find a pic)

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next was the bodykit , i sanded all the parts down and then wiped them over , i had set up a wee ' paint booth idea in the garage ' to do the wheels so i did the bodykit in the same way with the use of a small pannel heater ..










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then i set about the alloys





i wanted a machine finsh look to the face of them so sat for ages and i mean ages sanding them down to give a machined look



i then went on to mask up the face and paint the inserts silver and then clear coat the whole alloys ( clear coated 3 times for extra protection )



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next was the seats , i did a deal with johnl for his seats for my recliner bucket seats ..


after a clean






also took the back seats out and shampoo'd them too - made what a differance

i also changed over the rear speaker pods for some standard ones as the onld ones had been butched with 6x9's



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next was the exhaust

originally





s/s one



fitted ( only fitted the back box the now but full system will go on once ive changed the engine ( in the future when funds allow it )



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next the suspension and bodykit were fitted (kit was small self tapper screws in the underside of the wing as the cab front wings dont come with the bolt holes )





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next i fitted the original ford stereo and a new leather gator and richbrook gear stick surround and a better gear stick to the one that was there i had the stuff lying about ..









i also reseated the fan switch and added the roof switch back in ( was stolen ages ago when previous owner had it )

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the next day i had the tyres fitted to the rs wheels and put them on the car , i then cleaned it and cleaned it a bit more and made kames the next day and had a fantastic time as my first meet with the club was the regional day ..

( and before anyone mentions it and i ruffle any feathers , i wasnt on the main stand during the day i took my car down to get some pics next to fraz at the end of the day )








update , bought a set of st170 wheels , and 4 new tyres ..








update , gathered all my spares in one place .




update - quick wash before being collected







my aim is that i dont want to do too much cos i dont want to spoil it ..

i will update this thread each time i do something new

chris ..

NICE ONE CHRIS,KEEP AT IT AND KEEP PICS COMING

love it mate, always liked that colour scheme

LOOKS GOOD MATE

god i never even noticed it at regional day!
Whos was the cheeky wee St in the background of the 1st 2 pics?

Looks good mate,nice and clean
as above keep pics coming
Del

Good stuff, looks nice and clean, much better with original (well original S2 bits)

been a while since i wrote in hear but i dug the car out the garage with the plans of getting it mot'd in the next few weeks ( finally have some spare funds to use it ) , so there was some things to sort out ..

- connect up side repeaters ( done)
- connect up horn (done)
- steering coloum bush's (done)
- rear view mirror (done)
- change tyres over
- refit a standard back box as s/s one is blowing (done)
- new set of brakes ( disks and pads)

and anything else advised by mot station etc ..

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first off the amount of movement in the steering wheel ( classic escort prolem ) well i bought a steering coloum bush kit off ebay for 4.99 it arrived the other day so i went out and did the change over ..

he are the new and the old ones ..



all fitted and wot a differance it makes there is NO movement at all now ..

few more bits to do and maybe get it in for its mot nxt week ..

hurry up you looking good mate .....its all in the small details

always loved the look of this car, the seats and colour of the kit are spot-on and the wheels look great. glad to see you've still got the bug for it

looks well mate

we update , put the st170 wheels on it , and i think am liking the way it looks

need to source some other decent wheels for the wifes focus so i can keep these ..





chris

wheels suit the car well mate

i know its a special edition but cant remember what they call them is it a xr 500

nah your think of the SE500 ( which came in all dark blue with the rsturbo bit as standard ,

mine is part of a set of 3 , burgandy and silver bottom , silver and black bottom , blue and silver bottom

chris .

looking well nice on them rims nice 1

looks really good with the ST alloys on it

Ive got a nice set of 17 inch wheels for sale with good tyres and going cheap too

those wheels suit it perfectly!!

cool as mate