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Thought it about time I puts some pics up of my latest build, ive had this shell for a good few years and I did sell it a few months back but ended up buying it back, I regretted it the day I sold it as the shell is proper mint, only one small bit of rust on the floor near the chassis rail and that's it, the rear arches, sills and boot floor are all good, so was an ideal shell to cut up.....
How ive done the conversion to RWD so far, started with an escort mk2 world cup cross member from that I knew where to put the chassis rails, I bought the threaded weld in tubes from an escort so the cross member bolts from the underside, im using a 2litre silver top zetec lump, ive got the engine mounts from retro-ford, was hoping the engine wouldn't have hit the rear bulkhead but it did, I could have moved it forward but that would have meant making up my own mounts, so cut out the whole bulkhead and making new by starting with an escort rally car large tunnel to clear the type 9 5 speed and rs bellhousing.....
This bit I was going to keep hidden for a while but nah couldn't keep it secret any longer
ive cut out both inner wings from the mk1 and bought replica inner wings from a mk2 escort and welded them both in to the shell similar to what ford did on their 'Fiescort' I had to trim a bit off and reshape them a bit, not as straight forward as I first thought, ive got the rs top plates to weld in next before I can weld in the strut brace, got a set of standard mk2 escort legs to trial fit so I can see what wheels will fit, not planning on using wide arches on this car lan o making it look more standard on the outside....
On hold at the minute as im waiting for the Ashley manifold to be delivered before I can finish of the bulkhead and tunnel, gonna use an alloy rad for a mk2 escort ade for a zetec so been making the rad supports for that this morning just need to cut a recess into the front box crossmember and add a few gussetts and the front is almost all fabricated, onto the rear then.
Hope you like, hoping that this project isn't going to take as long as my last one
Chris
How ive done the conversion to RWD so far, started with an escort mk2 world cup cross member from that I knew where to put the chassis rails, I bought the threaded weld in tubes from an escort so the cross member bolts from the underside, im using a 2litre silver top zetec lump, ive got the engine mounts from retro-ford, was hoping the engine wouldn't have hit the rear bulkhead but it did, I could have moved it forward but that would have meant making up my own mounts, so cut out the whole bulkhead and making new by starting with an escort rally car large tunnel to clear the type 9 5 speed and rs bellhousing.....
This bit I was going to keep hidden for a while but nah couldn't keep it secret any longer
ive cut out both inner wings from the mk1 and bought replica inner wings from a mk2 escort and welded them both in to the shell similar to what ford did on their 'Fiescort' I had to trim a bit off and reshape them a bit, not as straight forward as I first thought, ive got the rs top plates to weld in next before I can weld in the strut brace, got a set of standard mk2 escort legs to trial fit so I can see what wheels will fit, not planning on using wide arches on this car lan o making it look more standard on the outside....On hold at the minute as im waiting for the Ashley manifold to be delivered before I can finish of the bulkhead and tunnel, gonna use an alloy rad for a mk2 escort ade for a zetec so been making the rad supports for that this morning just need to cut a recess into the front box crossmember and add a few gussetts and the front is almost all fabricated, onto the rear then.
Hope you like, hoping that this project isn't going to take as long as my last one
Chris
as its an 1980 parts vary from newer models....there are very few fiestas for breaking over here 
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