That sounds fair to me.
Plus it means you will be at home in the garage rather than where you should not be.

Had a play with the bead roller making the flat part of the parcel shelf as the factory one has been butchered for speakers in a past life as it was the normal thing to do in the 70s-80 etc, once I rolled in the design the panel was all manky shape, I gave it a few hours with the shrinker stretcher to bring it back to where it should be . It's just held down with cleco pins for now . I'll run a are strengthening bar across the front once the shelf is finally positioned




That's about it for now on the mk1 , had a friend over to oversee the work on his RS, we made and installed the tow hooks front and rear and started on the focus RS seat install. I had no idea the escort RS only has 6mm bolts holding down the seats, that won't be good enough for spirited track driving so I've been given the ok to weld in 8mm captive nut high tensile . Also I'll be removing the focus RS seat runner tabs to be cut, modified to work better in the escort .

Yeah I've still got the van, windowless mk1 , originally used by the RAA which makes it rare and cool. Engine is a 2.1 zetec with extensive work and money spent on it, it's got Gixxer 1000cc Itb's to go on and a few other bits like fuel tank which I stupidly gave away thinking I was going to run it on LPG , not now..

thanks Marty, it looks clean and a nice colour.
 
+1 for the fuel filler flap.
- 1 for not painting the bonnet hinges?? :)
and +1 for the stainless sill trim.
I think you are excited about the new engine..

ha!, um, brain fart sorry. Of course it was more likely to be plated, as if you'd forget to paint them!
 
No, I did not pick up on the shortened drip rails either.
Thats meant to be the sign of a good mod, if nobody notices without you having to point it out :)

Back to the engine stand saga, it's all up and operational with the recently bought engine bolted to it. I'll give 10 points to whoever guesses the engine, except deano as we've been chatting behind the scenes about stuff and stuff


It's pretty easy !

And here's the focus RS seat mounted into the escort RS for a friend.

Thanks Chuff,
Are you prepared to pay about $2500+ a seat , when they pop up, if you get them cheaper, do it. My mate paid about $2200 for a full interior only wanting 1 seat , the focus owner is stripping it for racing.

Escort RS/Ghia don't have floor mount stalks. Legal, who knows but it's bolted down way stronger and welded with thicker steel and bolts (10.9 grade) than escort ever used. I did do captive nuts on a plate then welded into the rib... It's going no where, rear was a hole in the floor with 3mm plate. We used the focus runners to make life easier. The same way I did my mk1 with Hyundai seats.
Considering recaro only have 4x 6mm bolts mounting the runners to the seat frame is strange.