Josh's MK2 - last pictures before it goes PG. 4

looking good mate!
when are you bringing it around [;^)]

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Originally posted by jase

mmm 4 doors. very nice. where is the rocker cover from? what's it like?
cheers.

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looking good josh excellent job. the rocker cover is from jezza on this forum.

looks good mate. i bet its fun to be driving around in again.

i reckon you should spray the trumpets the same colour as the car they look really maroon next to that bright read.

Looking very nice and neat there Josh. Good to hear that she is alive again.

that really does look quiet noice

i like that look, smooth and clean, with a custom touch.

Well done Juiceman. Looking good!!

Looks real nice, Well done

As of today I am free of the world of peg leggers... on Sunday I shattered a pinion into over 20 pieces, quite an effort I thought. So this arvo I bought a locker off maxrs and threw it in tonight, just got back from testing it, it's good fun and I haven't found myself facing the wrong direction... yet!



This will be the last update with the car for a while, I leave on Saturday to go and play on a cruise ship for 3 months, so when I come back in March there should be a few little updates and I'll get it dyno tuned and what-not.

Josh.

Thanks mate, I try my best!

I saw your car in one of the Ford magazines, verrrry nice, and as for the full spool...hell yeah!

For those who don't know, I've been in the Caribbean playing in a band on a cruise ship since December and will be here until March 15th or so....Sooo I told my brother he could take the car out once a week if he really wanted to and I find out the other day that the clutch is rooted, so I guess he might have been a little hard on the Escort, but that's what it's made for I 'spose. I have to laugh though, it seems you can't escape unreliable cars even by leaving the country!! hahaha.

Yeah! At least I can make a positive out of it hahaha. Ahh it's alright, at least I don't have to deal with it breaking on me when I get home now!

If a vicious vibration occurs when you use the clutch.
Make sure the Gearbox bell housing isn't cracked.

Nah not just yet, it's ready to be plucked out, just got to get around to it. At least I can do it at home this time around, won't take eleventy zillion years this time [:x)]

On another note I ordered the pedal box with braided hoses from Smckaperformance today. Can't wait to have some brake pedal feel again.

Hey mate I'm not sure about that, PM him and ask. I have to fix a few things with it though. The O-ring at the bottom of the filler cap doesn't line up properly so oil leaks out of there, so I think I'm going to weld a baffle in, that should hopefully stop that...and it doesn't have the grooves down the side for the tabs in the gasket to wedge in to which makes it a right pain to put like the gasket up. Then I might grind the weld around the filler tube down if I can be bothered haha.

Pulled the motor today. Problem found...3 of 6 flywheel bolts had snapped in half. I guess that's what was making the clunking noise!

Me too, but it was my brother driving it when it happened so I can't be sure of anything [}:)] Thanks Mark, have fun getting the RS back on the road!

Hahaha yeah he's helping me. He's letting me use his XR6 turrrbo ute to cart the motor over to the reconditioners tomorrow to have the snapped bolts pulled out and he helped me yank the motor yesterday and will help me put it back in. But still, he's not getting the keys anytime soon [88]

Haha yeah I'm already realising that, the bike broke yesterday on its first time out. It may or may not have something to do with the fact that I got stuck in some water.....hahaha.

Anyways, this arrived today from SMCKA, and I'd just like to say that Stephen was an absolute pleasure to deal with, and the product looks like great quality, I highly recommend his company.

Yeah I decided to give it a crack myself, I figured the chances of me somehow screwing it up were pretty slim, and they came out no worries. Saved myself a very few pennies, sweet deal.

Finally got around to getting some new flywheel bolts this arvo, ARP ones...but I'm not sure if it'll be going back together just yet, I have something big in mind for the car and I haven't made up my mind whether I'm going to drive it as is for a little while or wait until I've gather all my secret bits and pieces for it. Chances are I'll drive it as is because I'm pretty sick of driving the NX that's for sure.

Well, stuff it, I can't be bothered trying to keep secrets haha...you guessed it Matt, efi and turbo is the plan. GT28RS to start with (will probably change the rear housing to maybe the same as the HKS GTRS once I get used to it), and 50mm side draught EFI hardware throttle bodies, like theeeese.



For management I'm grabbing a Microtech LT8S.

Oh and I'll need a decomp plate, I don't really like them, but I have to do it haha.

Anyways, watch this space I 'spose.

Very good point...even the XF throttle body would be enough come to think of it.

another thing you could look into if you wanted your throttle bodies is run a fuel rail setup on your manifold and take out the chokes and aux venturii's in your weber/dellortos and you would have a nice set of 40mm throttle bodies get the injector bosses from efi hardware and try and track down a factory fuel rail that lines up, i picked up a vl commodore fuel rail and pump for 30 bucks at the swap meet today, i've got access to a tig welder at work so will come up with something when i get around to it

So I'm in a bit of a situation...I don't know whether to get the car resprayed or get the turbo and EFI gear happening. I had a motorbike fall onto another bike, then on to the car tonight and it's ripped a sh!tload of paint off. The whole car needs a spray anyway, and now that there's some missing paint it seems like a good excuse, but then again it's not the end of the world because the primer is still covering the bare metal.

At the moment I've got the money for one or the other...

What would McGuyver do?

Paint or power, tough choice.. both can easily blow out of proportion cost wise !

If you can find a standard bore pinto block I will have a set of reasonably priced standard Cossie pistons for sale in the near future [;^)]

Hahaha yeah well I'm actually kind of leaning towards the paint which is odd for me. Because I really want the blackout between the tail lights, and I really want a solid matte black RS stripe to break up all the red, but I don't want it to continue past the rear wheel.

I really want the turbo gear too, but I think with a decent tune and get the cam timing right this time it should put a big enough smile on my face until I feel the need to break traction in 3rd...that's when I might go for the turbsssss.

Also that alloy rocker cover is total rubbish as I discovered when I pulled it off. There's gauge marks on the inside from parts rubbing against it, not too happy but there's not much I can do about it, so it's back to a stock one for a while, no big deal, doesn't bother me at all actually! The stock one might actually hold some oil too which would be super.

Doesn't look like much I know, but I'll get it cleaned up and whack a T04B on it one day (was going to use a GT28RS, but then decided it's too girly and small). I'll get the car painted one day too, maybe even a colour change. If I don't burn the thing to the ground before then. We'll see.

Yeah I've decided to just keep saving and do paint and the turbo at the same time, I might need to get some venting happening on top of the bonnet. Thanks for the offer Mark, I'm going to use a front mount but I will think about it, seeing as it already has a hole in it, rather than cutting up a good solid bonnet, I know how difficult a good RS bonnet is to find. I'll let you know!

Yeah I still get a good giggle out of the skyrine skid, that was a fun night. It's a hilarious car. At least it doesn't have a body kit on it though!

Sure looks a treat in the latest pics - it's going to a good home!

I'm sure he can't wait to get into it!

Naah best tools are 1 hammer 1 bigger hammer