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at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3887) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4756: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3887) RS Motorsport :: Classic Speed Restored • View topic - hello all! my cars!
Neville - You said if I got them for under $2000 I did well. In actuality I picked both of them up from a mate for the reasonably good price of only $500. Very pleased with myself
I am about to post some photos of the yellow one RS 2000 mock up now.
P.S. Didn't get a photo from the front as it was parked up against a fence.
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Still at my mates place, need to drop the engine in her and get her home.
happy new year to all! now that xmas and new year is out of the way maybe i can start concentrating on my build again. incedently for australia did ring me back and they told me that they had no information on my car or the chassis number that i gave them(???) after still searching ford and rta websites it dawned on me i went down to the rta and it seems that when the chassis number was put in the engine bay it was marked with an x before and after the actual number?
upon giving themthe revised chassis number(with the x's omitted) they told me that even though i had proof of ownership of the car they couldn't give me any information so i told the lady to go and get her manager(nice guy) after telling him what i was after he was more than happy to help me with my enquirie's. information i receiveed was that
car was last registered in 1996 with the 2 litre(yay!)
i will need a blue slip($47.50)
and i cant transfer the ownership until i register it
all in all not to bad for a car that started life as a 1300 super sedan
i then turned my attention back to rebuidling the car
looking through ebay i came across a listing for a set of fixed back race buckets. fortunately for me the guy lived in tamwoth so he came across for agquip and i paid $170 for a pair of obx daytonarace buckets (last retail price i saw on these was $329 each!)
so after i finished putting mator and gearbox back in i semi modified the seat rails with a piece of flat steel so i could bolt my new found comfort into place.
with the motor, gearbox and seats in i put the gearlever back in and hooked up the clutch cable jumped in car and started going through the gear(with clutch in to check pedal feel) only to my dismay did i feel something crack and grate. upon removal of the shifter assembly i discovered that the nylon? bush had oblitterated itself in side the extension housing.(F!#K) lucky for me i bought 2 cars!
i then proceeded to remove the shifter out of the four door taking notice of how the extension housing looked. then went bak over to 2 door to put it in only to realise once it was in that i could pull the whole shifter up about 4 inches once again removed shifter once again and placed them side by side only difference was that on the original shifter in it i found a piece of pipe used as a spacer below the nylon bush(to change the pivot point of the shifter in turn resulting in a shorter throw distance between the gates)
so i took the spacer of and put it on the other shifter when i went to put it back in i had a look at the extension housing and realised that not only was it deeper that the other gearbox but that the light switch for reverse was on the drivers side at the back meaning only one thing(guy that sold it to me lied) it was not a lotus gearbox!
oh well at least i still have 1 would have prefered 2 but still.
then replaced shifter int extension housing and went through gears again the first time( after nylon bush crapped itself) i found that i could engage first and second but upon moving shifter to third or fourth it would do an arc and slip back into first or second.
with second shifter in place with spacer on it no such dramas every gear engaged as it should(success)
with running gear semi right i bolted back in the radiator and hooked it up i then turned to the aestetics? of the car finding that the one of the owners before me had molested a rectangular headlight grille to fit around the round headlights. so being fairly logical and a little strapped for cash i did what i could and removed the round headlights opting to replace them with the rectangle ones and put the grille on. also this changed the entire look of the front end and my opinion looks a little meaner.
having done this my attention turned to stopping i knew that the front struts where back in and brake callipers where bolted up properly( having done this myself) but the rear drums where somewhat of a mystery to me so i removed the rear wheels and had a look. when i bought the cars the guy told me that the drums and shoes where down at a local garage getting machined to accept the hand brake cable so i went down there to pick them up only to be told they had no escort drums there so i asked them to have another look and to my surprise they told me they only had one so i took it and came home only to find the other drum and shoes where in a pile of parts in the boot of the 4door.
so having screwed the rear drums back together all i have to do is bleed the system and adjust them properly.
all thats left to do is new set of tie rods, engine oil(was thinking castrol edge 10w 60 any other ideas?), some newer gearbox oil(going with motul fully synthetic $40 a litre), put fuel tank back in and connect fuel lines,new coil and new battery then should be ready to go.
so while staying within my budget(at the moment!) i believe i am building a nice small medium perfomance escort for under a $k.
been thinking future upgrades- coilovers, bigger brakes, maybe tramp bars? who knows only time and fuduciarie ability's will tell.
p.s. will post some more pics later when batteries for camera charge.
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