Fiesta track car painted frozen white/new decals

[gibby]

well............... did you get the cage in without scratchin it all ?

[DALSY]

absolutely, not one mark on the paintwork, i masked it all off, and porta powered the cage into position, and it worked a treat

all the effort you made to get the finish i wanted, i wasnae gona waste it with being hashy bashy

[mikeymikeyp]

it can be a right cont putting a cage in yerself if its painted all the worse job well done m8

[Big Gordon]

Dalsy, car's looking great mate, look forward to seeing it finished.

[Dereksjoint]

The Fez is coming along nicely Paul, when's it's first outing

[DALSY]

firts outing hopefully the end of February

was down at the autosport show buying some bits and pieces for the car, so get them on this week , and get it pushed along a bit

[Big Gordon]

I was at the show on sat. Never saw you Dalsy..

Met Nicky Grist tho', top bloke.

[DALSY]

we seen you Gordon, cannae miss you towering over everyone , and we ducked down behind the porsches only kiddin big man

done some work at Team Cryo Carnage garage overhauling the fooked gearboc

found that the output shaft bearing had let go big time taking out the shaft and pinion gear in the process, so it was new final drive gearset time, manged to get another quaife set and repair the box with new casing, bearins seals and shaft , so all good as new again

BIG BIG THANKS TO IMSY WHOS THE MAN WHEN IT COMES TO BC BOXES

[DALSY]

some pics of the box all painted , and some pics of the shattered bearing





this is the bearing from the series 2 RST gearbox i used to repair my box after the casing was all damaged, this bearing is starting to show signs of wear and the output shaft was also damaged, common fault in all these boxes







these are all my front suspension parts all powder coated , start to assemble it all tomorrow, my mate Stus comin up to help get the engine box and front suspension all in teh car tomorrow







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[Stu/RS]

[mikeymikeyp]

powder coat looks nice kid that a wee clue to the colour of the graphics

[DALSY]

maybes aye ,,,, maybes naw Mikey

made some good progress today,













dummy fitted the head to see where the pipework would go for the radiator and best pace to fit the radiator, this is the old St170 head which aint getting used so wont have this rocker cover on it when finished





so made good progress today, ill carry on with the car over the weekend when im off again

[Goafer]

Coming along nicely Dalsy

[SHIFTY]

Coming on well ther Dalsy boy

[napier]

lookin good dalsy

[DALSY]

cheers guys, thanks for the comments

ive been working on the car the past few days trying to work my way through all the jobs

thats the suspension now all done, fitted new heaveier springs to front and back, and fitted all the brake pipes and all fastened in

removed all the graphix from the car , in readiness or the paint next week





worked on the fancy head, this came totally bare and needed all the valves fitting and new valve oil stem seals ( not cheap)

I removed all the valves from the spare ST170 head and lapped all the valves in, what a horrible job that is





also bought a proper roof scoop for the car which will allow some air in the car on the hot days, With the polycarb windows fitted the car is very warm inside, so hopefully this will help

[Stu/RS]

A lot of good work going on there Sir

Be a totally different car when its finished!!

[fastfordrab]

lookin good dalsy looks like its comin on a treat lookin forward to seein the finished product

[DALSY]

Been working on the car all day today

built up the rest of the head, fitted new valve stem oil seals and fitted valve springs and cams . Tried to set up the camshaft clearance to the solid lifters and the inlet cam looks like it could be wrong, its way off, over 0.030" away from the lifter, tried the other cam in there to check and thats almost bang on for the clearance 0.008", ill speak to David Newman tomorrow





Decided to try and get the roof scoop fitted, i was a bit nervous cutting the roof, and decided to cut a hole 150mm x 100mm which will let plenty air in







so thats enough for this week, im back at work tomorrow and all weekend, so time for a rest, ill start again Monday, as the car is booked in for its respray next Friday

[napier]

uv been busy dalsy. cars lookin well, am liken the new roof scoop