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[Dave G fsi]

Looking good mate! Your getting there

[luca]

:o wow this threads changed a fair bit sinse my last visit!

Glad to see your cracking on tho luke, as everyone else has said its an epic car was good to chat to ya again at f.i.t.p again and im going for them carbon canards you told me about

Good luck with the new build anyway

Cheers mate.

I have an update to follow tonight/tomorrow.

[FRSJON]

cant wait...

[Matt_fez]

come on then....we're waiting

[jonboisescort]

chop chop give us an update

[luca]

8am - 6pm been hard at it.... Im going to pub now will return and update.

Looks wild though

[FRSJON]

come on!!.. i heard one shandy and your on your arse..... you must be home by now...

[Turboboy67]

Tum tee tum, we're waiting ..............

[luca]

Im home now

[luca]

Where to start well I guess from the idea and reasoning to why the hell I decided to strip the car to nothing more than a Rolling shell.

Yes afer the slightly dissapointing news of the engine last week, upon removal of the engine I decided to have the engine bay freshend up.
Main reason being that onced the engine was fitted last year I decided last minute to have some eccentric adjusable top mounts fitted..
This meant out with the grinder and the welder then a brush and some paint. Not the best approach but it looked acceptable.

With engine out it was time to have this painted nicely, then I thought well the roll cage was welded also after I had the inside originally painted.
The evolution of the car was moving ahead and no time to paint, again this be the time to paint the inside too!.

Then I kinda got carried away and thought, well remove the sound deadening while im at it so we then have the issue COLOUR?????

After going to Classic Ford show and seeing Gus's imacclutaley built S1 Escort I after speaking with the old chap on colour used, to follow along this line on mine.
Lighter "motorsport" themed interior. Bt Grey was therefore going to be the new colour.

So today saw me at Anson Autos where my mate Mark was kind enough to work the day on the Fes and get it looking tip top!.

Upon arrival this morning at 8 o clock.



The masking task begun, which believe me after 2 hours seriously started to bore the s**t out of me..



Once we had masked 90% of the shell it was time to push into the spray booth and warm things up a little. We finished masking and then began to degrease and panel wipe the car ready for the BT Grey paint.



This is when the day changed for the better I think - well lets see if you agree after

I last minute panicked and decided to maybe change the colour

Not something I had planned to so I can tell you!.!

A few phonecalls later and we decided to go for Ford Frozen white

WHAT WAS I THINKING!




How the hell this actually turns into white is beyond me


A quick stir and woop wooop we have some frozen white




Tech term slips my mind but this is the first bit of paint applied.



Naturally I was there for moral support and considering we spent 7 hours doing it
and applied in total 2 1/2 litres of paint The gloss is awesome.




Painted and pictures straight after a 20min bake at 60degrees







Outisde shot to see the colour in daylight





Over the moon with the finish and am sooo looking forward to the next stages of the build.

Im fooked now though great day and BIG BIG THANKS to all those that assisted in transportation, advice and hard graft over the past week and today.

[xrsi]

looks stunning but thats going to be a Bic™ to keep clean!

[jonboisescort]

great colour choice

[Turboboy67]

Frozen White is the future

Top work mate, as has been said you must like cleaning

Chop chop then, you can start to put it all back together again now, no rest for the wicked you know

[Minstral]

the white looks awesome against the black/grey of the exterior

[FRSJON]

looking good mate... now get it built and put back together for combe....

[~nomad~]

frozen white is defo the future

[HCS PIMP]

lol that colours ACE !!!

[Dave G fsi]

Looks awesome in that colour, the contrast works really really well! Enjoy the full time occupation of cleaning!

[jayrs]

dont like it mate, as i said on PF, looks like a white car painted green now

sun reflection is gunna be a right b1tch too

[- Danny Boy -]

Im with Jay on this, although its your choice, i would have personally gone for a darker colour, maybe the same as the outside. But, as said, its your car and it might look better with everything put back in place.. so get it all back to how it was and i will make my mind up then

[jayrs]

should get the whole inside flocked, now that would be trick, and something thats never been done before as far as i know

[luca]

dont like it mate, as i said on PF, looks like a white car painted green now

sun reflection is gunna be a right b1tch too

Its been thought so fear not mate.

Front screen has a large sunscreen due to the seats being low in the car. This sheilds alot of light into the car.
The other source of sunlight baracade is in the form of bronze tinted windows.

The dash is flocked therefore to elimnate any glare or refection onto the screen.
As for flocking the inisde, sooooo not going to happen its like a dust haven FOR THAT !

appreciate your views and others too.

[jayrs]

i was taking the pi$$ with flocking the whole inside mate , i can guess what the dash is like to keep clean, let alone a whole car!
although i still think it would look trick as no ones done it before

should of painted inside red, tis better than white

[luca]

Im with Jay on this, although its your choice, i would have personally gone for a darker colour, maybe the same as the outside. But, as said, its your car and it might look better with everything put back in place.. so get it all back to how it was and i will make my mind up then

It will hopefully be back to fully fitted inside this weekend.

Would be sooner but the "wife" is in town and im finding it hard to escape

[FRSJON]

whats shaun doing in portsmouth??... looks great...

[luca]

No he is the beatch!

Ordered some goodies up today, so hopefully progress will florish soon enough.

[Ratspeed]

The interior looks ace but not sure about the engine bay though. As Jay says it looks a bit white car painted green. Cant wait to see it rebuilt

Still the best fiesta in town though.

[RS rob]

one part of me is saying YES as i have a frozen white runaround
the colour is really awesome and the reason white is making a comeback

but as the owner of a 106 track car with resprayed interior and flocked dash
all i can say is i feel sorry for you!!

[Turboboy67]

No he is the beatch!

When you hoping to have it back on the road then mate ?

tbh, colour is a personal choice, as long as your happy thats all that matters,

at the end of the day most people will agree this is the best mk3/3.5 out there

[luca]

Hello there me ol mucker

Not really sure on compleation date tbh!.

I have now begun from scratch again with the whole car, decided to renew the layout etc.

This will all be done pretty quickly but the new engine is going to take a little longer and due to the time needed to have built this brings us to the end of the season.

I shall be showing the car at Ford Fair in its new look but its not going to be running / mapped until Winter. /

I love the building stages though as much as actually driving it, so im really enjoying myself right now.
Although the wallet is getting lighter by the day

[FRSJON]

so is the new engine going to be around the same power or more??.. did the turbo die in the end??..

[M1K3Y_B]

I don't really know what to think of the white.

I kinda like it but also kinda hate it at the same time

[luca]

I don't really know what to think of the white.

I kinda like it but also kinda hate it at the same time

[M1K3Y_B]

It might be completely different when its all put back together

[luca]

It might be completely different when its all put back together

Its growing on me by the day, with each new bit going back in.