My big ZT thread > 15.4.08 25bhp/20lbft extra and track prep

Post pics of your Fiesta here.

Postby dontpannic on Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:15 pm

This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever.






















Jokes!

I'm absolutely loving your car, James, very well done for the hard work on it, looking brilliant! Very shiney! Hope to see it in the flesh at FITP!

Keep up the good work - shame about the rust patch. Think yourself lucky you aint in my shoes!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :cry:

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Postby knuckles on Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:28 pm

dontpannic wrote:This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :P
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Postby dontpannic on Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:56 pm

knuckles wrote:
dontpannic wrote:This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :P


You forgot to quote the "Joke" part... :D:D
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Postby Jeroentje Racing on Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:22 pm

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Jeroentje - I am not accepting that from the Mad Dutchman!! :lol::lol:


Neh allready thought that. :D
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Postby heeman10 on Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:29 pm

dontpannic wrote:Think yourself lucky you aint in my shoes

I do, every morning when I wake up :)


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Jeroentje - ;)
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Postby knuckles on Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:40 pm

dontpannic wrote:This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever. :rolleyes:


I didnt scroll down that far :lol: :lol: :wink:
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Postby heeman11 on Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:04 am

Don't like red.
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Postby heeman10 on Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:05 am

heeman11 wrote:Don't like red.

Me neither, it's as though we have something in common :)
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Postby knuckles on Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:12 am

OMG another heeman ! :lol: :lol: :cry:

one is bad enough - is this a wannabe or your alter ego james ? :-?
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Postby heeman10 on Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:14 am

It's one of two people! I will kill/sedate both individually in a process of elimination :) Trouble is, one lives 160 miles away, the other lives 280ish!
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Postby knuckles on Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:19 am

That milage is nothing - worth the petrol to find out :wink:

Just realised the piss take in the sig too ! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby dontpannic on Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:08 pm

heeman10 wrote:
dontpannic wrote:Think yourself lucky you aint in my shoes

I do, every morning when I wake up :)


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Postby heeman10 on Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:15 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby heeman10 on Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:41 pm

And I return, with a big grin on my face! :D

How the rust patch was looking after some grinding/sanding/rust gel treatment:

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A skim of filler (preceeded by metal filler to fill in the cleaned-out pits):

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Sanded back:

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A few skims went on, trying to build up the multi-faceted nightmare that is this particular area! :lol: So it was filled and sanded back quite a few times:

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I then gave it to the bodyshop on Thursday morning, around 8am. At 9:30 the following day, I got the call to collect it! :D He touched it up further still, then primed and sprayed it! I still can't bring myself to touch it, as I've spent over five years making sure nothing goes within a foot of this rust patch, but I'm absolutely over the moon with the results!!

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He's done a stunning job of it, and if I'm still living here when I decide to "put the car through the bodyshop", I'd be more than happy to give it to him. He has a Mexico in storage that he's fully re-working and bringing up to better than factory mint...which is always nice to see!

If anyone in the north is interested, he's called Ian Bainbridge, and works in Shap. http://www.yell.com !
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Postby mike_wall15 on Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:47 pm

Looks a hell of a lot better! Glad it's all turned out for the best :aviator:
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Postby Ghost on Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:56 pm

what does he charge for doing that little gem? :)

how well was it blended??! we need some daylight pics :D
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Postby heeman10 on Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:07 pm

Mike - You're right, I think this is my all-time favourite mod!!!

Ghost - I don't know the cost yet, I'll await an invoice. Hopefully under £200, but he said in passing that pretty much anything is £100 minimum, given the materials and time involved in such a job, which I fully appreciate. The blending is invisible. Granted, it had been sat in the rain, but from twenty metres away to up-close, there were no visible lines anywhere. As I say, he's capable of extremely thorough, painstaking restorations, so anything less than perfect is a bit of a mystery to him it seems :) It'll be hard not to ask him to spray my front bumper properly, and to spray my rear bumper when I've smoothed it and touched up the chips etc!
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Postby Excursion on Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:38 pm

Nice match! Finding a good bodyshop is priceless, contacts to keep :D
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Postby Sphinx on Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:06 am

Glad to see you removed the rust instead of 'converting' it :D
Those are some shiney metal pits....
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Postby Ghost on Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:09 am

Excellent!

Excursion wrote:Nice match! Finding a good bodyshop is priceless, contacts to keep :D


and fully agreed, thats why I asked. I may need a good body shop in a few months and it may be worth me travelling to get the job done right!
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Postby MarkRS2K on Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:48 pm

looks good mate :)
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Postby RS rob on Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:45 pm

nice to see a good match james,

some further back daylight pics will be good now,
saying that pics still might not show it,
as my car looked ok in pics before the bodyshop when really it was one dog full of filler lol :lol: .
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Postby mk3modda on Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:57 pm

that looks mint cant wait to see your car at FITP :aviator:
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Postby heeman11 on Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:24 pm

Yea it's so good, I may even put an appearance there myself to check it out.
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Postby MAD_Adamski on Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:05 pm

BANG and the rust is gone :D
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Postby knuckles on Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:36 pm

adamski frst wrote:BANG and the rust is gone :D


Rust never sleeps :P :lol:
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Postby Brammer on Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:24 am

Excellent work, so your finally having it painted then??? :D
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Postby heeman10 on Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:51 am

Thanks everyone :)

sphinx - Indeed! :lol:

I've done 50 miles or so since the car was painted, and it's had a night in the rain, so it needs a good washing and polishing, then I'll get some proper pics to show it off, but it looks great where he's painted it.

Chris - That's always been the plan...sort out the mechanical side of things, then sort the cosmetics, so that's up next. Not before this show season's out though, I'm trying not to spend money on the bugger!! :lol:

Had it out for a really good blast in the blinding sun today and had a whale of a time. These days are what it was built for, and it rocks the little wiggly mountain roads! :aviator:
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Postby Brammer on Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:00 am

heeman10 wrote:
Chris - That's always been the plan...sort out the mechanical side of things, then sort the cosmetics, so that's up next. Not before this show season's out though, I'm trying not to spend money on the bugger!! :lol:


:lol: :lol: its inevitable
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Postby sLec on Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:01 am

God damn right it looks good, would never of guessed anything went on there :o
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Postby heeman10 on Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:21 pm

Update :o

The last three weeks have been majorly frustrating. As usual, the car's been sitting there all polished up to the max, ready to be driven, but nancy boy here decided he'd had enough of despising the chrome charge carrier, so chose to have it powder coated. The very next day, this incredible band of amazing weather landed in the UK, and I only got it back this morning, so it's been very frustrating missing out on all the sun! Even so, at least it's done now, and although the quality isn't spot on, it beats the chrome hands down :)

Lightly placed in position:

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I've also been playing with the rear bumper; it needed the top recess filling, and the whole bumper needed a bit of a tidy up as you cane see:

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Light rub marks in the long oval:

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Top strip removed to leave the usual scraggy mess:

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Cleaned up a bit:

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Let the sanding begin! Most scratches and chips can be sanded out with ease, and at the same time I decided to sand back the ridges left at the corners where the separate mouldings are joined:

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Then it was off to Halfords in the Mk6 to choose the best match possible from their many, many colour charts!

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The choice was "Hip Hop Red", 'cos I'm gangsta like that.

So I was getting into the swing of things, and while the bumper was drying in the sun, I decided to hack off all the old, dried filler from my mixing board...using a flat blade screwdriver. We all know the scenario :lol: Push...push..PUSH...skid...ow...blood :lol:

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2.3 seconds later:

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It's just about stopped bleeding now, taken a good couple of days though! So work can hopefully resume tomorrow. I plan on repairing a chip to the front bumper and respraying it in its entirity if the colour match on the rear bumper is better than the colour I chose from the front, and I'm still hoping to get a set of thoroughly mint Escort GTI 15s to replace my current "vgc" set in time for FITP :)
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Postby Sphinx on Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:34 pm

I rekon you'd have done the entire job in half the time if you didn't stop to take pictures of EVERY SINGLE THING!
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Postby heeman10 on Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:38 pm

It only took about 40 mins to get it to where it is now, and I ran out of materials just before the skidding incident, the photo's were just to ease the boredom :D
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Postby bakewell001 on Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:15 pm

If you're feeling rich James you can buy a set of GTI wheels off Fordpartsuk.com - £459.96 inc p+p :o
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Postby Excursion on Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:43 pm

Excellent stuff, get the charge carrier bead blasted mate, give it that showroom look. I've been busy welding/cutting/grinding today...shame that working in the garage means I don't get any dun :lol:
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