The Recaro Fiesta - the rebuild begins

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Postby jayrs on Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:37 pm

no worries mate, now ya got me number if ya get stuck give me a shout.

lets hope you bepainting the drums and the calipers a new colour :lol:
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Postby knuckles on Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:51 pm

Expect a few more phone calls then :lol: :P

im not looking forward to fitting those poly exhuast hangers. Heard they are a right monkey to get on by loads of people.

Tested the Alarm/imobisiser as well - all is well.

im planning to respray the front & rear bumpers as they are a bit tatty. The rear bumper will have the tow cut out smoothed as the tow eye has been cut off.
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Postby onslack on Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:59 pm

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you are making really good progress clark, keep it up :Q
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Postby heeman10 on Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:17 pm

What's the deal with the bumper light surrounds? Glad it's outside :D Wheels looks good on the white car ;)
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Postby knuckles on Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:26 pm

When i got the xr2i front bumper the fogs surrounds were sprayed grey for some reason. Passenger side inner fog is smashed. Needs replacing.

Got a Green front bumper insert on other white bumper but it has a couple of small digs out of the strip. Really want a mint one. :cry:

Rear bumper has a green insert too :P
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Postby Brammer on Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:26 pm

Coming along nicely mate, i think you will be finished before me :lol: :lol: please paint those fog surrounds black :wink:
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Postby jayrs on Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:36 pm

fock me made a mistake giving ya my number then :P

na its cool mate call what ever.

exhaust hangers can be a bit of a pain but ya be ok, rub some washing up liquid on the rubber and on the hangers
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Postby Ghost on Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:52 pm

yes that strip was fooking irritating!!!! :D

the fog surrounds will be changed... but all is looking well so far :)
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Postby knuckles on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:21 am

h196jne wrote:Coming along nicely mate, i think you will be finished before me :lol: :lol: please paint those fog surrounds black :wink:


Im aiming at end of january for on the road, i think i will still be waiting for my samco hoses by then. :cry:

And of course the surrounds are being replaced - they look horid :wink:
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Postby jayrs on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:59 am

knuckles wrote:
h196jne wrote:Coming along nicely mate, i think you will be finished before me :lol: :lol: please paint those fog surrounds black :wink:


Im aiming at end of january for on the road, i think i will still be waiting for my samco hoses by then. :cry:

And of course the surrounds are being replaced - they look horid :wink:


you be waiting for injector o rings by then mate not the samcos









just kidding :bonkers:
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Postby AW3K on Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:31 am

the end is close my friend, keep it up...... i want the 2i lol

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Postby doggpk on Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:47 am

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Postby ~nomad~ on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:11 pm

looking good Clark, fast progress! You made me laugh the other day "I dont need a beam after all mate" :lol:
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Postby Ghost on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:20 pm

~nomad~ wrote:looking good Clark, fast progress! You made me laugh the other day "I dont need a beam after all mate" :lol:


oh please, just dont ask :lol: :lol:
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Postby jayrs on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:27 pm

knuckles wrote:i opened the ash tray as you do and this humongous beam flew out and attached itself under the car like magic :lol:



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby chris-fiesta on Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:30 pm

looking more like a car now dude :D

keep up the good work
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Postby Choosey on Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:09 pm

Coming along nicely mate. Clear indi's are needed IMHO! Will be good to see it all done and back on the road. :)

And :aaah: :oooh: at the XR red/grey/blinding interior! :lol:
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Postby AW3K on Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:30 pm

Choosey wrote:Coming along nicely mate. Clear indi's are needed IMHO! Will be good to see it all done and back on the road. :)

And :aaah: :oooh: at the XR red/grey/blinding interior! :lol:


the orange really suits it, the original look

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Postby knuckles on Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:41 pm

AW3K wrote:
Choosey wrote:Coming along nicely mate. Clear indi's are needed IMHO! Will be good to see it all done and back on the road. :)

And :aaah: :oooh: at the XR red/grey/blinding interior! :lol:


the orange really suits it, the original look

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Well after seeing h196jne's White Rs looking standard i have always wanted one that looked that nice :)

Im still undesided as to how to style the Rs, but it will be alot of work and effort putting this one back to standard.
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Postby Turboboy67 on Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:34 am

Go for the standard subtle look :D

Looking good btw :Q

Cheers.
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Postby knuckles on Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:12 pm

cheers turboboy, To be honest i want it looking like yours :P

I phoned burton power today and asked how much longer my hose kit will be from samco. They rang me back half hour later saying that it may be the end of January before i get my hoses.

I cant start the engine or anything until i have the boost hoses....

I'm not sure how long the engine has not been used but it has been painted satin silver and looks really clean. I will do a oil change and fit new spark plugs before i do anything.
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Postby jayrs on Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:41 pm

and crank it over without fuel pump fuse in for about 10 seconds to get some oil pushed around
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Postby knuckles on Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:30 pm

Bit of a update : :D

Got a bit more done, Polished this up Friday night with a scourer pad. Fingers hurt after a while :lol:

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Refitted the injectors with new o rings and washers, took apart the wiring loom and re-wrapped it in black insulation tape.
I think i need to replace the fuel pipe as it has been seperated there in the picture....

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Re-assembling the Efi unit - fitting the injectors was a right pain. New gasket on ready to fit. As you can see i make a bit of a mess :P

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It was all going well until this happened. I was trying to change over the old hose for the roose hose. but i managed to salvage another matrix from adams old mk3 dash.

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Removed these from the rear lower shocks and fitted proper ford bolts. Coach bolts..... :rolleyes:

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Managed to get hold of a proper Rs air box after discovering the xr2i one is no good. Thanks frank :wink:

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Notice the differences. Pics mainly for jay :Q

Also need to fit new rear shoes at one point as they look like they have never been changed since 1990. Handbrake cable needs the yoke thing i think to fit.

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Postby jayrs on Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:42 pm

cheeky fock, mainly for me. :lol: :lol:
only cos i didnt know what pipe you were on about.
but now i see, that pipe on the side of the rs box is not for the boost contol valve, thats to the breather pot :lol: :lol:

nice bolts in the shocks, what next, corks blocking holes :bonkers: :lol:

and i see you got the matrix out, again sorry for not answering phone at time, i was trying to get my rs across a nice wet muddy field :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby knuckles on Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:10 pm

jayrs wrote:corks blocking holes :bonkers: :lol:


Forgot that pic :rolleyes:

No worries about the missed call - i just started pulling my hair out because i thought the dash would need to be removed to swap the matrix's.

I'm going to fit a single wiper mechanism until i sort out the flushed wiper hole. What can i do about the fuel line shown as i don't see a way it can be refitted. :-?
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Postby jayrs on Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:36 pm

bugger me i missed that :lol: :lol:

it can be done but if you can get another i would really as it saves messing about as that pipe is hard and dont like coming off/going on
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Postby MarkRS2K on Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:29 pm

looking good matey, gald you're getting your hands dirty :)
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Postby AdrianFRST on Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:38 pm

jayrs wrote:
nice bolts in the shocks, what next, corks blocking holes :bonkers: :lol:



I did mention specifically when the car was collected that it needed new rear beam bolts.

These were the only thing I had lying around on a Sunday evening after removing the ZS beam for IanFRST and giving him the old bolts.

As the car had already had the engine stripped out and was only going to be rolling around for the foreseeable future I didn't go to the trouble or expense of getting the proper bolts.

Anyone who saw the car complete would have noticed that safety was a primary concern of mine and no corners were ever cut in that area (cage, harnesses, fire ext etc).
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Postby jayrs on Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:32 pm

adrian, its obvious why they were in there dude, no one in there right mind would try and fit them to a car to drive around in :lol: :lol:
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Postby onslack on Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:36 pm

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Postby heeman10 on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:46 pm

Don't worry about it Ade, I only used self-tappers in my front windscreen as I didn't have the original Ford rivets ;)

Bad luck with the matrix! They're nobbing little things to get to!
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Postby Brammer on Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:22 am

Just been looking back through the pages and this is going to look very nice when finished, you've done good work so far clark :D

Hose came last week mate forgot to let you know, cheers :D

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Postby knuckles on Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:41 am

Glad it got there ok mate :)

i cant wait to get this on the road and sort out all the little bits that need doing. Adam mentioned putting it on the rollers to check if everything is running right when i get a chance. I aint got a clue how turbo's run but i do know my xr2i runs like new after the ammount i spent on that engine.
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