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Some very tidy results fellas well done, and thanks for your replys-must say thats got me pretty much decided on the way to go... If Im any good with smoothing out filler I think I will have saved myself a small fortune!

Ive been hard at it all day will try post some pics up later.. I hate finding what retards have bodged up... Its not a tidy job hes done but if I can make it look respectable I'l have to be happy with that. I never used to lift my bonnet to anyone... If only I could turn back time

Yeh gloss black to match the car... What process did you do them? Thanks for the tip mate

Hmmm. . . Was wondering if anyone has used rattle cans to do an engine bay before and what they turned out like good or bad? Im thinking about going this route for my car but dont know how it will hold up against under bonnet heat etc... If anyone has got any pics or stories to tell please do whack'em up

It'd make a very very nice banger racer..

To me it looks like its gone fairly well, its a very tidy finish not a fibreglass plastered jobby... wonder if all those lights are wired up tho? And guess what engines he's running?. . . cozzy turbo of course boys!

Not bad not bad just in the process of goin n/a, thus Im broke! Is this guna be the car your new powerplant is goin' into then

Tell me about it mate plus theyre just more expensive for the same parts than anywhere else Ive got a pair of mex wing badges I decided not to fit if theyre the ones you want? £30 posted to ya if you want'em I got them from burton a while ago, their completely mint and untouched. You changing yr decals?

Ah, a fine choice sir!

Personally I think u'd have to be either mad or just plain loaded to go for a zetec... Especially when you can go down the XE route if you want pretty big twin cam power. But a 2.1 Pinto will most definatley deliver and is just plain bullet proof

F**KIN LOVE IT! And check out Arthurs Xpack Mk2 for sale on the car lot... Go' on Terry my son! :thumbsup:1 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/s ... 0020ov.jpg It looks truly oldskool, and remember its still RWD so imagine it screaming round a roundabout sideways on Wide red banded steels with the bonnet off and Pinto!!... Pure TERROR to Joe public and his stuck up Mrs - FECKIN NUTTS.

Theres only room for one black escort in this um... world?!... Ahem, Sort of.

Blatently power makes it much easier, that way you can smoothly accelerate in to get the back out instead of bootin the shite out of the clutch on an old xflow... but it still works!

This blue is the nuts mate.. dunno the code tho sorry Its sorta like Joe Littles crossflow Mk1 in the cars for sale section, check it out...

Last time I went to the hairdressers I was 15.. thats almost 8 years! I remember the yr on about tho I think I do a better job anyway

Nah they'll be fine, Im going n/a cossie with standard capri brakes and no servo!... Just work up those leg muscles!

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!! So come on'did u drive it home? Surley you havent resisted the temptation to blast!

Roof racks are cheating tho boyo!

or turrd poo?

Weighing that in is treason my friend! Someone somewhere will do the work it deserves

Bit stumped then But pop bits of this thread into the WPE section and wayne will have all the ideas, Im pretty sure he checks the forum every evening. He'll def know - he's the man

Thats mint mate! No honestly it dont look too bad, its 1973 so I think its just outside tax free - Ud have to chase up the VIN to see if it was built/regstred before 1st Jan 73.. would be easier with log book but hey good find

Do you have a fuel pressure regulator? it may help if you have a tweak with that.. I would imagine that because yr carbs are now effectivley closer to the head the time/distance for the air+fuel mix to actually get into yr engine has shortened therefore more fuel passing in faster than it did before so now a faster idle... maybe If they were balanced+running nicely before I wouldnt touch the carbs too much, sounds like you just simply need to back off the total amount of fuel coming in... Maybe

Surely you dont mean its idleing at 3000rpm do you? You'll have an empty tank in no time! Balancing them I believe is getting the mix between air intake and fuel just right on both carbs whilst adjusting them to let in the same amount of air/fuel mix on both individual carbs..thus getting the correct idle. have you checked to see if the throttle cable/linkage is backed off properly? sounds like your movement of the carbs is effectivley accelerating/pulling the throttle cable if you know what I mean..