I'm glad you can purchase direct from Nice and know every detail of what you are getting
 
Rather than to have to rely on some outlets assurance that ""ýeah, they'll fit an Escort,. Right, totally like Mk1 and Mk2, front and rear as well"
 
 

 With the rear wheel studs on the way decided to clean up the fronts ahead of putting them back in, also got started on the h/brake brackets. I didn't have enough material to make two brackets but here is the finished item on the drivers side.


 
The sway bar mount came in real handy . Now it looks like that was always supposed to be there and less questions may get asked about the lack of the rear sway bar now .

Here are some side by sides of the front wheel studs, I've yet to do the second four, I'll get to that tomorrow.


 
 

 
I've also hunted out the brake lines and will start cleaning them up, I almost have all the bits together minus the booster and rear proportioning valve to start putting the brake lines back on. 

Yeah I put an "L" shape on the back of the bracket so it would contact the rail and bite in a little to stop movement but a fastener or dowel would work better.

I want to re-use most of the engine bay brake lines if they come up nice after a clean and some plating, I will remake new front hard line to the calipers though. I am going to modify the front to rear brake line so that it will come straight out of a proportioning valve in the engine bay and heads down to the diff. Then I am going to make a small hard line to go from the brake pressure warning valve to the proportioning valve. 
 
My plan for the diff is to have hard lines running from a T piece on top of the diff to the tramp rod brackets, and have a tab mounted to that bracket and braided lines from there to the calipers.

That's the plan as it stands at the moment so it gets through engineering retaining original safety equipment (even though they don't really work).