Project Orange!

So I bought another Van a couple of years after selling my sundowner, which unfortunatley had too much rust for me to spend the money or time on fixing.
 
Picked it up with a bit of rego and a "recent" paint job, 2 ltr pinto with a quick shift 4 speed box and twin sidedraught dellortos. at first drive it was a little stiff in the front end as it had been lowered and from what i could see the suspension needed a little work, i knew some bushings were buggered and front spring needed replacing.
 
with all that i puchased it, and trailered it back to the Mid North Coast nsw (kempsey) and started the parts search for the Van.....The I took it to my mechanic for a check up and came away with two job cards full of stuff that needed to be done.....thankfully stuff i can do with out a massive amount of cash to be outlaid.  so instead of just redoing the suspension and keeping it on the road i got a bit motivated and called a bloke thats keen on doing some panel and paint on it and thankfully because i got good quality spares (front doors, bonnet, extractors, grille, spare glove box and gearbox) i am able to send him some work and get the whole thing underway.
 
at the moment its Blood Orange with some painted on flames, i had to remove a heap of stickers and what not, but the next stage is removing the front guards and the drive train to get at the engine bay and start the stripping process.
 
so here is what it looks like at the moment
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and one of my old van (bright yellow) with a mates for a photo shoot a couple years back...
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orange is a great colour for a windowless van...
 
and im with you windowless vans look way better than sundowners or windowed vans

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Probably just like to point out something every escort owner knows, but the bloody brake booster is a bit of poo poo to get off if you havent done it before.....

Didn't know that, and have to do it, so is there a secret?

UPDATE!!!
 
so work holidays have gotten in the way of any major work untill this week in which i stripped a lot of parts of the van including the dreaded heat bubble and got a better look at the floors
 
so here are a couple of pics of whats been going on... and i think ill try adding a vid of the engine running before i took it out...
http://s155.photobucket.com/user/brad_80_scort/media/Project%20Orange/IMG_2527.mp4.html
 
BEFORE

this is what the heater bubble looked like after i drilled out the holes, got sick of waiting for spot weld drills to turn up
 
AFTER:

not too bad considering some of the ones i have seen. some of the welds werent drilled properly and tore away some of the thin metal, going to plug these up and grind back nicely.
 

removal of doors with the pugs Franklin (fawn) and LeeLoo (black)
 

found this nasty little surprise in passenger guard
 

rear doors off, learnt a thing of two taking them off
 

interior coming out slowly
 

both front sections of the floors are liek this unfortunately so that sucks the hard one... out comes the grinder of death
 

and out comes the engine... bit of a task but i got her there.... plan is full rebuild with a bit better cam and get her to breathe a bit easier too.
 
 

A few pics

Headlight surround


Drivers side guard off


Looking a bit worse for wear at the moment