Oh I didnt realise you guys bought it - I was sitting here thinking you were doing a real life car version of resto rescue .

Doesnt take away from what your doing though, her reaction is going to be amazing when it's done! 

did you seen any of the Adelaide Shannons Rally over the weekend?
I didnt realise Colin McRae was in it as well along with , plus a few local hot Escorts and the Datta kept up well.
 
I tried to watch some of the live footage from Friday and Saturday, but mostly saw the BMW/Porsche clubs and drone footage of the roads.
 

Some more small stuff in the mk1 today, which seems to take ages .
The first part is to strip away the factory grey loom tape and just check over the wires and then I decided where to re wrap the loom, since this is a 1300 loom and I'm fitting a pinto there's a lot of lengthening and shortening of wires plus try to neaten things up while there.
As the fuse box will be inside the cabin instead of the usual bulkhead position ,I needed to design a bulkhead plug. After an hour on tinkercad I had created a plug using the site new radius maker. Anyway I changed the filament to TPU and got printing.

Mk1 had the trailer style plug plus the added side bunch plugs on the fuse box as seen here

While here I lengthened the headlight wires since the H4 plugs were brittle, the headlights came with new plugs but the wires are very thin so I dissected them and soddered thicker wire. Making then longer allowed for the amount that's inside the car now


Some of the loom is still exposed as I'll need to tap into some wires so once I've got that sorted it'll be all taped up

Ain't that true, doing such simple stuff becomes a chore.

Retro fitting modern parts into an old car like simple headlights today, I bought trendy crystal style lights years ago and apart from 1 having the lens glued on slightly skew whiff I needed to drill in a spot for the parker bulb but my haste I had drilled it to low which means slotting the backing bucket adjuster so the plug can fit. And then I installed the lights only to find that the locator slots are miles out so needed to grind new ones in place, and then fitting the chrome ring, the light was loose... What next! Then I glued in some high density foam to take up the slop which worked. I did none of this on the other side and just held it there till the time was screwed up tight

Are you going to tape up the satin parts then blast it with the yellow inside? or just go straight over with deadener?

Must be a world record for me painting 2 cars in 6 months. Here is the rally pack in it's original Pine n Lime . The compressor went well without a problem as well.

Thanks Mark
I used a different brand of 2pk from my mk1 , I won't get in the technical side but warm weather really helped (35°) , there are some great areas and some that'll need a cut n polish but overall I'm well chuffed , I'll do the blackouts around the sides and grill slot plus the sill strip this week then I can remove all the tape and plastic sheets.
We're onto the parts cleaning and checking process now , yesterday we stripped the struts apart and to our surprise , well mine mostly cause team member isn't savvy on mech, the strut inserts was expecting to be boring old oilers but no, they are the classic Pedders Red gas jobbies and still feel plenty good to reuse again.


I'll be doing my famous trick of cutting the spring platform off and dropping it 1in and welding back on, this should level the height a bit better.

Ok so onto my mk1 now, place of research with ignition barrels of which I'm sure the mk1 didn't have one when I bought it, interior was burnt and stripped. Anyhow my mission is to find the difference between mk1 and mk2 barrel blocks to see if they are interchangeable, all I can see the difference is the half notch for the column is deeper, not to much different as pics show.



Ok I removed the key barrels for more studies, for good reason, 1 , to see how they come apart for future readers . First the mk1, it needs a hole drilling where shown here

This spot has a spring lock and needs to be pressed in then the barrel can be pulled out, as you can see I attempted to drill the barrel so I could turn it but wasn't needed, just some force to knock it out..
Mk2 is more user friendly for extracting the key barrel where the spring tab is exposed as seen here..

So you do need a key to turn the ign on to the first notch (acc) then it'll virtually just pull out with the key.
Now the kicker part , research and more research , back in the early days I was told that a EA Falcon ign barrel will go in, never done it but have seen it in a friend's RS bank in the late 90s , but now we're in the 20s and finding stuff out is easier. So my theory is and should fit with minor mods is the Focus mk1 ign barrel which it dates back to around 1987 in the Transit van plus gallons of other Fords ever since up to about 2010 , Mondeo, Focus, fiesta, Kak etc , so I've bought a new barrel with keys from good old Alispress for $25 which comes with 2x for locks as well, no transponder . The back of the jet barrel looks identical to mk2 Escort so we'll know when it arrives. I can make stuff fit so I'm not too worried if there's a little modding needed, I'll keep youse posted ..