Thanks Shaun, I chose a colour that hopefully won't date like modern pearl/metallic colours, and fits in the era of the car. The other colour was Hyundai N Performance Blue, glad I went this way..
Graphics, yes but not the everyday mk1 escort stripes we all see, however, my choice is on some mk1s

Not too much going on, lots happening behind the scenes.
I did manage to get the drivers guard main part in glass today I won't show how it's done as I've already done that with the other guard.

Goes to show, just a small amount of encouragement a few years ago with an old 3D printer, and we have created a monster!
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I've been also tinkering with the ute again over the past few days, I also caught a stuffy head cold which all but going now, at least my neighbour 70mtr away could hear my sneezing, after a bunch of sneezes I got a " I heard that Marty" ! Suppose working in industry all my life you realise if the guy way over there can't hear you sneeze, you not good enough.
Back to the ute, long readers here will know I turbod the courier for fun, but it was more a problem with oil vapour and leaks so I just removed the lot but leaving my hand crafted exhaust manifold and the rising rate regulator. After refitting most of the stock parts back on again I went to make the exhaust header extention from the T3 turbo flange to the V band, luckily I had a few extra pieces spare from other builds that I used up, 1x T3 flange, 1x half v band and 2x 90deg elbow 2.5in SS which was fitted up and lightly trimmed before mig welding, after seeing Deano dry weld his pipes, I thought, yeah I can mimic that..
Here's the ute engine bay all undone to access 1 oil T piece


Here is the replace stainless pipe fitted after a water test for leaks

And this is it all back together, I'm not going swamping so don't require a snorkel

Went to crank it over and wouldn't fire, I checked the pressure gauge and wasn't moving, great, another fuel pump died so that got replaced today and it runs a lot smoother than with the turbo kit, I'm still finding the fuel pressure sweet spot, but for now it's on about 34psi which is about right I think, when turbo was on I had it at 41psi, any less the fuel wouldn't be high enough to compensate the pressure up to 1 bar

Haha thanks, I'm not sure about tuned as I followed others on YT but they were getting similar oil issues, the efi system kinda coped ok (pre OBD2) I can't tune or check so it's try n see. I did a 0 -100 in under 10sec seeing 17psi in 3rd got me worried the head might blow apart !!
Some things I needed to change was run on 98ron, and get colder plugs, plus closing in the static timing nearer to tdc .
It's back to nearly stock now and more reliable which I need over speed, until the k24 swap goes in..
Recently bought a Hondata intake, it's a knock off from a real one but I'll be modding it to suit and a super light flywheel with a USA Clutch Masters HD 6puk made for the Civic turbo so should be plenty bomb proof. running behind this a also overkill, a Navara D40 6sp connect that to a 4.0 V6 courier diff, I think it'll be a nice cruiser and mud slinger!


Unsure when I'll start this project and will consult engineer again as last time they said I can go up to 4.0 n/a .. I going that is their limit is cause in most other countries, Thailand, India, Africa and maybe NZ had the 4.0 V6 as standard option..

^^^ orders being taken now......
Its going to be quite a catalogue of parts available in your shop soon.
I suppose thats how alot of places started.

Nice, I've read somewhere (maybe here) that the holden door pins are good replacements for the escort ones. Would be good to see the photos when you have it fitted up.

Been waiting for some panels to arrive to just about finish the cnc I'm building so I moved to the mk1 project today.I hadn't done much bodywork on it for months, been sidetracked with other projects.
I bought a hand sander that uses 5in Velcro pads after seeing it work on Dave's Garage vid a few weeks ago so thought it can't be bad , it works quite good and is very forgiving when you encounter edges. Anyway here's a couple of pics after a couple of hours sanding. I'll be hitting it with another layer of 2pk primer filler which will be the final coat before the colour.
The red patches are the old fashioned knifing putty , no mixing just apply and wait for it to set. Yellow is rattle can primer to cover the bare metal .



Maybe more updates coming more frequently soon!