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Realised earlier that I still had a thread for this, unfortunately glaciers have moved quicker than the progress, I am still waiting for my pal to get it in for paint (he's the only one I trust with it)

 

I have been doing bits and bobs to it and collecting parts, some I didn't really need and others which are essential

 

Here's a few pictures from along the way

 

The cam cover I painted up for it

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N.o.s headlamps

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An unbroken scuttle trim panel (rare as rocking horse excrement)

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Machine work on my engine parts I had done

Yb crank

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Had my block bored and decked

 

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0.5 oversize mahle pistons

 

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Here it is after me doing some messing about with it and giving it a bath this is my suspension at its highest setting

 

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Here is the Christmas present that mrs fp has got me for it and had powdercoated for me

 

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I have bought many more things and done a few tweaks but havnt took pictures, my only regret is this wasn't finished to take my dad (who passed away in march) for that spin, this car contains so many memories of him it kept me sane at the time and still does when im having a bad day

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Not seen a decent Cossie rep in a while.. used to be a really shoddy sapphie one running about that from 200+yards looked OK.. till you noticed the wheel trims, standard suspension, body kit fitted by a bloke with no arms, given instructions by stevie wonder....Oh and it had HUGE Cosworth stickers all over it.LOL

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This is it, I'm focusing on getting everything sorted for the yb at the minute, the machinist has my rods at the mo to fit new little ends, the new gudgeon pins to machine them to the right length and my flywheel to face it up, when they are back I can make a start on putting it together

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  On 28/11/2017 at 14:33, bezzabsa said:

 body kit fitted by a bloke with no arms, given instructions by stevie wonder....

 

 

Genuine coffee-spat-onto-keyboard LoL!

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I have been getting progress made on this old girl because my mate at the bodyshop has said he will have the space open for me very soon, I removed the kit and checked the sills the lip was delaminating so decided to replace with fresh steel

 

I cut the lip off, cut up into the inner sill, the outer sill and the floor to sill and the closing part to the inner wheel arch

 

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I cut more of the outer off after this pic was taken to level it up

 

Replaced with fresh steel and repaired the inner strengthener

 

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I have also done the passenger side but I ran out of gas when I was completing the final 6 inches of floor to sill and needing to plug weld the lip, ive got some gas now but it's peeing down

 

Also chatting with my mate we spotted a couple of bubbles at the bottom of the doors so cut the sections out and replaced them

 

After grinding back this is what was there

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So cut it out and welded new steel in

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I also did this both sides

 

Today I popped to pick my yb rods, gudgeon pins and flywheel up from the machine shop, he was doing them in between everything else, he's a busy bloke and very good at what he does, my jobs are pocket money jobs for him if I don't need them quickly, he pushes thingsthrough if I need them sharpish

 

Ive had new little ends inserted and reamed, the new gudgeon pins I got from America shortened to the correct length, and the flywheel refaced

 

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Ive also just ordered a load more parts for my engine build, I seriously have spent too much money on this car

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This would have been fun if it had kept the external look of a buttery biscuit base with dangly mirrors, good luck with the build though

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Lovely work, always good to see fresh metal let in and given a coat of red!

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You've probably already said, but what colour? Moonstone blue I hope.  :-D

Guest Hooli
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So good to see one of these done properly, I've only been waiting since about 1986 to be able to say that!

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  On 10/04/2018 at 19:38, The Reverend Bluejeans said:

You've probably already said, but what colour? Moonstone blue I hope. :-D

It's getting resprayed in the pearlescent blue I had it painted in the first time around all those years back

 

This is a picture of the car seeming as photofuckit killed the pictures

 

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I'd rather have it painted in a colour I love because im never going to try and pass it off as the real deal

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No pictures but I have finished that bit of welding on the floor to sill and the closing panel, hoovered around inside and put the interior back together

  • 3 months later...
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Well folks im crap with updating project threads, this happened

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Which resulted in my car finally ending up in the bodyshop

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I started breaking it down today

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I did a little more after I took the picture

 

Next up when the mr2 in front has gone into the spray booth is to get the doors off and windows out

 

I've also been doing bits for my yb, gapped the rings its pretty much ready to go together, the cylinder head is in for welding at the moment due to corrosion of the water ways then it can go in for porting and polishing once it's sorted

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Going to be weird seeing this one all in one colour, it's been that metallic blue with primered bodykit for as long as it's been here.

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It has unfortunately, im not going to recognise it, I've shaken people up locally moving mrs fps car out of sight to weld it and this not being there, I keep getting people asking me where they have gone, I didn't realise the cars were local celebrities

Guest Hooli
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Wait till they come back & the Daily Wail does an article on how old bangers lower house prices :D

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still a classy car , replica or not!!

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Is basically what we did to Sierras back in the mid nineties, and there was nothing wrong with the mid nineties

 

Apart from The Lighthouse Family

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I do like this car. A few years back, probably a few more than I care to remember, I used to frequent a certain Golden-Arched eatery in Ashford of an evening with a couple of friends to watch the local scallys race their modified cars on the stretch of dual carriageway that the car park backed on to.

 

There were a couple of lads who had built up pretty good Cosworth replicas and I think one of them had some sort of Zetec turbo motor in. It was one of the loudest cars I have ever heard and was finished in a metallic blue just like this one. I imagine it spent as much time in a police impound as it did on the road. Strange how seeing some cars brings back memories!

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  On 16/07/2018 at 19:28, Parky said:

Is basically what we did to Sierras back in the mid nineties, and there was nothing wrong with the mid nineties

 

Apart from The Lighthouse Family

and the M people.
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Guest Hooli
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But we had to drive our Sierras down to Itchycoo park

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  On 16/07/2018 at 20:16, bub2006 said:

and the M people.

“What have yer done to-dayyyy, to make yer feeeeeeeeeeel prou-ou-ouuuuuuuuuuuud”

 

Built a nice Sierra Heather....what have YOU done you crazy haired big lunged crooner?

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Oh and blur,pulp,oasis and feckin spice girls. Bring back Wigan pier

Guest Hooli
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Oh worst thing about the mid 90s? it was march '93 IIIRC that cats had to be fitted by law, that was when I see it that sensibly designed cars stopped & all this emissions bollocks really took off. Now the factories etc make more mess to make the rubbish that pretends to make our air better.

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I loved the 90s and I originally built this in the very early 2000s so it's a throwback from back then

 

Some more things came for it today the much needed gaskets and bolts, I went for the tried and tested reinz group A headgasket

 

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Just waiting for an uprated oil pump to come now

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Should be a pretty strong engine. Seeing all the Ford bits lying around reminds me of pleasant days in friends garages wondering why things wouldn’t fit together before realising we had ordered the wrong stuff from Burton Engineering. Again.

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Uprated oil pump arrived today

 

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Also picked this up for tightening torques etc

 

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I realised I have a few more pictures of items

 

The flywheel I had refaced

 

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New gudgeon pins I had to get from the states and then get machined down to the correct length because I couldn't get any in this country

 

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New little ends fitted and reamed to new gudgeon pins

 

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I have already pre checked the gap of each ring in each bore to check for anomalies on bore which there isn't at all and am impressed with the quality of the rings, each ring is bang on to each other gap wise and spot on to what they need to be, I have not had to make any adjustments at all, it was worth checking for peace of mind

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  On 18/07/2018 at 21:30, stuboy said:

what colour is it going to be

It's getting repainted in the same pearlescent blue that shines purple in certain lights as it's always been, This car is my early 2000s throwback so I think it would be a shame to change it

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