Howdy yall

I’ve been working on this Escort for quite some time now so i thought it was time to share it with all of you.
After the tragic events of my old Escort, long story short i got my brothers Escort that he wanted to resto. I’m 18 in just over 3 months so this will be my daily, Its a 1300xl 2door mk1 Escort in orange
So far I’ve (… we’ve, my dad helps me with everything) painted interior (floor pans/ parcel shelf and stuff to stop rust + looks nice), replaced bootpan, replace 1300 mk1 front suspension & brake set up with upgraded mk2 set up (leans, need kmac tops), fixed rust in both wells in the boot, fixed rust in both doors, fixed firewall/ plenum chamber (pix later ). Over the past couple of weeks I’ve done heaps on it cause of school hols; Painted the engine bay, changed radiator mounts for 2ltr, undercoated fixed rust, top coated rear, sprayed engine, mounted engine (2ltr), celica 5 speed (didn't fit so we cut the old mounts), mk2 diff

and here she is (about 2 months ago)
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this is the rear about a month ago
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and yes it has rear fill! DROPTANK, the old bootpan was rusted out so we replaced with a mk2 spare one (with mounts for tank attached), then didn't see anyreason not to put in the bigger tank
heres a close up of the finished product
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Repainted - Like a bought one!
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And the boot, if you look closely you can see the seam were we welded the new boot pan in
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The was a fair bit of rust, big bit on drivers door, some on passenders, both boot wells (fuel tanks gone ),also had heaps of rust in the firewall/plenum chamber.. before
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After - all fixed
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Here a pic of the interior as it is now
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I made a mock up of something like i want to do my console... dads not keen [88][88][88]
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Most recent pics, im planing to pain the black part of the brake boster orange and ive got a 2 1/4 inch exhaust to go in
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Thats about it for now, ive got heaps more pics, but there on my dads pc, ive asked him to burn them and ill upload them when i get em off him.[;^)]

Cheers!

Nice one ! Keep the pics coming

Looks to be coming along well.

Rhys

made some good progress

with the 5 speed, did you fabricate your own rear cross member? if so do you have any pics of it? interested in making another one? or 2?
thanks
Shea

Nice going mate, youll have heaps of fun with that. And that garage looks a bit pokey, are you sure theres enough room?

Thanks Guys, i should be able to get some more pics up late tomoz or sat

I took the gearbox straight out of my old Escort, not sure what a cross member, if its the mounts that attaches the gearbox to the frame i alreay had one (of the other Escort), it looks like the original celica, the previous owner had just drilled a couple of hole in the floor pan and bolted it straight in. i think he might have widend the tunnel a little cause in the new car its a little snug so were going to expand it somehow or something [:x)], not quite sure yet but ill keep you all posted. ill look threw the photos and see if i have anything that my be of use, if you have anymore questions just ask

cheers

btw the sheds 9x24 (or something like that) so there should be enough room... already 3 Escorts [88][88][88]

Coming along nicely.

Did Tim end up buying that RS shell?

Nope! he really wants other escy though, hes after a mk2 2door cause we haven't had one yet [:x)]

nice work im more interested in the heater bubble mines freaked like yours was so im just wondering how you went about fabricating that replacment you installed? cheers

Thanks, it was lots of fun to fix... [:o)]

If my instructions dont make any sense, theres heaps of photos which should help, (btw my dad did it all, so yea credit to him)

1st - Removal
There about 12 or so welds around front acrh the heater bubble. There fairly easy to pick out, they arent as smooth as the area around them. To hard to explain, lucky i found a photo that might help
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The welds are along dotted along the red line. To get rid of these we drilled and chisled and it seemed to work well... well we got it off

2 - Clean Up
We brushed back all the rust so there was only good metal left. So we knew what needed replacing and such. Also get rid of any bit of the heater bubble that break off cause off rust, as shown in pic below.

3 - Remove the Intake (circle bit)
Ours seemed to come off fairly easy with a cold chisle (or coal... i can't remeber what it was called). Try to keep the lop intact cause its needed for a template
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4 - Cut bend Repeat
Cut out the bit that can't be used and need to be replaced. When cutting the new peices, several will be needed so shape nicely around everthing. after the shapes kinda right take it to the car and see what needs to be changed. bend it cut it down, repeat till its all good
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just keep bendin and cuttin, we used a mk2 door that we had for the steel.

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Then the circly bit. We cut a long piece and bent into a circle and cut the indents.

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All done!!... almost

5 - Weld
Weld all the way round all the gaps to make it sturdy and such. we didn't worry about making it completely water proof, we used ... um no more gaps? lol that kinda stuff anyway... but for cars
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6 - fill
To make it look all purty we filled bti round the front that would be seen, trying to keep it off the edge that it will weld or screw back on to.
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we then under coated it and chucked some of the "no more gaps" style stuff on it.
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My heater bubble bit was stuffed, we were going to try and fix it, but then thought why not use the near perfect one of my old car, cleaned that up a bit and good as new! Make sure you paint everthing, cause i think the reason they all rusted was cause they werent painted from the factory... were heaps of water goes and it wasn't painted [?]

were going to glue and screw it back on, so if we really have to take it off again it do able.

If you have any more questions im happy to answer