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A passionford user is breaking a Mega spec S1, if you need any parts that is.

Smart.

Good job on the boost gauge

What choice of new cams have you got?

Wise choice not to spend much more on it though until you know what you want.

Btw, Tripods are a tenner in Tescos

Cheers Phil. But as Joe said its best not to spend cash on it at the moment. Im not sure what im doing next but im probably keeping this car. However what im going to do to it i dont know. Theres four things im looking at doing.

Number 1 is to make the RST faster. Expensive but probably worth it, although ill probably never get the money back. Im not tight, i just see cars as an investment. I worked out the RST cost me £2100.

Number 2 is to keep the RST and build a drift car. Something ive longed to do before i was old enough to drive. Im in a situation where i might be able to afford it and think its worth taking the opportunity.

Number 3 involves bying myself something a bit newer for an everydayer. Cars ive looked at are Square headlight Vectra 2.0 Turbo's, Lexus IS200's and new Toyota Avensis 2.4's. Of course keep the RST.

Number 4 is to sell the RST on and buy something faster. Only problem is that i dont know what. Ive always fancied an S13 or S14 but something holding me back. Scoobies are too common and Evo's too expensive to insure.

And Joe, im right now getting ready to head down there

Little update.

I havnt really been up to much. Ive only been using it once or twice a week now due to the work van.

I lost my alt belt the other day so i wasnt pleased. Went down to M53 Ford on the bus to sort a new one and sort a cam belt too.
Was expecting to pay silly money cause i wanted to use genuine parts, but it was about £8 for the alt belt, £20 for the cam belt. So i thought id be clever and drive down there on the battery and fit it when i got there. Got me there no problem but it wouldnt start again. Itd turn over but not enough to catch and fire. So went into the garage after a booster and the lads werent interested. It was a Saturday though and time to go home so couldnt blame them. So i had to call the AA up. Great fella too. Always had good expierences with them. This guy used to live in Germany, and had a 2dr cossie, a 2wd saff cossie and a 4wd saff cossie at the same time, imported from the UK cheap when they couldnt hold their prices. Lucky sod.

One of my sidelight bulbs is on the way out, so instead of ordering a pair ive ordered a set of hid lookalike dip/mains and some nice sidelights. Nothing wrong with the current ones but i do muss the ultrabright 100w'ers i had in the pop.

When you getting the new cams??

Dont know yet. It seems fine at the moment, and touch wood theres been no problem for quite a while. When it starts to get noticably bad ill sort it then.

You kmow my answer

Glad your keeping this you just dont see many of them about.

Fitted the bulbs today in the dark. Had to repair some of the wiring in the dark though. The old bulbs where odd too, one 130w/90 the other 60w/50 so that explains the wonkyness. The new ones arent any brighter but very much clearer and whiter.

Got a harness too. Its going on the drivers side for now of course. But once i fit my bucket seat its going in the passenger side and im fitting a 4 pointer.

Im working this weekend too so i can buy a turbo timer and ive seen a fancy shift light / rev counter too. Ill be getting an air / fuel gauge too and an oil pressure as well as a clock. I like clocks in cars.

The main scheme with this car though is that im not doing any permanent mods. I want to be able to return it to original spec.

Sounds good mate.

Keep us posted

Loads of pics too

Ive got a few pictures to post that ive taken over the last few weeks and havnt posted.

Fitted my harness today. Took it out to weigh it up then thought i could just do it there. Literally took 2 minutes using the old rear seatbelt bolt holes.

Ive decided im fitting my spare carbon bucket seat i got with my MK1 Cortina. Its a fancy FIA spec one but its well out of date. Its on a mk3/4 escort seat rails anyways so im laughing. Got some blue caliper paint too aswell which ill get round to sorting out.

Ive seen a nice V8 MK2 Cortina though, and ive just been told ive got a 6 month extention on my contract so if i can sort it out i might go for it and keep the two cars. If not ill spend all my money on this one instead.

Heres pictures anyways. Im always taking pictures so theres about 20 of them.





Made up that i made a space for my tool box too.


Got to have a smiley face.


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Supplies








Rear Escort Cosworth disc conversion.


Strut brace

Ive spent the last 20 minutes or so trying to make some pictures smaller but photo bucket is being a Grrr so i apologise.

I took more pictures the other day. Not sure if theyll come out big or not though. I got fed up editing the others so if a mod wants to they can delete the oversized ones cause im not sure how to edit my posts. Ill preview the new ones before i post this time though.

Heres the newens too.











New tacho/shiftlight and boost guage


New bulbs


A picture i edited too.

Im going to cry.

Ive just gone through all of those pictures on photobucket and resized them but theyre all the same size. I give up.

Some great pictures there.

How many cans of red bull u had???

Update.

Cars been sitting around for the past few weeks but ive fitted a few new things.

BOSCH Coil, New plugs, new dizzy cap and rotor arm. Also had the lifters out and had a look at the cam. All is well but the problem hasnt gone. Its actually far worse now. Next suggestion is the fuel pump, which leads me to the order ive just made.

Proper uprated fuel pump rated to 350bhp. Supposedly hard to come by, and i got the last one



While i was nosing around, i thought eh, why not?

Single pass FMIC to go with it.





Requires a small amount of trimming but it nothing i cant do. Mounts the the bumper mounts apparently. Comes with fans etc. I reckon ill leave the grille off like the second picture.