Project FakeCos.

[tezmanian devil]

this is now for sale again on passionford someone please buy it and finish it, best sheel out there and deffinatly deserve's to be finished and put back on the road!

[Dan_Trials]

WTF the guy must be off his head!

[muz]

Well, it's not set in stone yet. Trying to sort things out now.

[muz]

I did a little work on it yesterday. Made a start on the front bumper. I followed the shape of the hockey stick and the remaining bumper with fibreglass matt then resin painted it so its gone hard in the rough shape of the bumper. The other side however had a lot more material missing so I used aluminium mesh to make the shape the bumper should be, zip tied to the bumper than coated it in fibreglass. No pics yet, but its starting to come together.

 

I then went round the car sortign out a few little niggly bits like the fuel filler area needed a little finishing, as did the side skirt joins etc and I decided to have a bloody good clearup of the workshop and it's a fooking mess and my borther needed room to work on his mates MX5 for the MX5 race series.

 

I forgot to take a picture before I satrted but this picture shows the state of the workbench and the ammount of crap just lying on the floor around the car.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_13131.jpg

 

Half way through

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1554.jpg

 

All clean and cars in properly

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1598.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1597.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1599.jpg

 

 

Much nicer place to work now, if only I could do something about the dust!

[muz]

And finally shes ready for paint. Just waiting to hear back form the bodyshop as to when they want it. I still have a few tiny little jobs here and there but the shell itself and all closes are ready to go.

 

The troublesome fuel filler flap is smoothed in and finished

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1621.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1622.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1623.jpg

 

The even more troublesome sideskirt joins are finished

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1625.jpg

 

There are a few little sanding marks still in these, but the whole cars getting a good coat of high build at the body shop which will remove these, rather than waste my paint.

 

The bonnets had the stone chips removed, guidecoated and flatted

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1617.jpg

 

And the car as it stands.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1619.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1619.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1620.jpg

 

The front bumper isn't finished but I'm toying with the idea of buying a replica bumper for now to get it on the road.

[Ahmotorsport]

She's certainly getting there! Can't wait to see it finished.

[muz]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1618.jpg

[Craig855S]

Got any close up pics of the bumper join?

 

Workmanship looks great, whats the colour going to be?

 

This pic below, has this mark in the doorshut area filled?

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1625.jpg

Edited September 19, 2011 by Craig855S

[muz]

Got any close up pics of the bumper join?

 

Workmanship looks great, whats the colour going to be?

 

This pic below, has this mark in the doorshut area filled?

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1625.jpg

 

 

No close ups of the bumper, it's still in rougth fibregalss. I'm going to buy a rpelica bumper and see if the genuine bits like grill, washer jets etc fit and use that for the time being.

 

The deep scratch on the left? Yes, I blew it over with high build then sanded it out.

[muz]

Received the new front bumper today. I was using the genuine bumper as the replica ones are obviously fake with the wrong size lower grill so genuine mesh doesn't fit, no tow eye hole/cover, molded hockey sticks and lower splitter etc and basically completely the wrong size so nothing lines up. However it still needs loads of work, and I stumbled upon this....

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/escortmk5cosworthbumper2.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/escortmk5cosworthbumper.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/escortmk5cosworthbumper3.jpg

 

The bloke makes them himself. They are dimensionally EXACTLY the same as a genuine bumper (and are molded form a genuine bumper) expect with the slightly longer sides due to the floor pan differences. They have removable hockey sticks and splitter, washer jet holes, genuine mesh fits and a tow eye cover! I put it next to my genuine bumper, and bar the side length, are exact. I'm also happy it has removable sticks and splitter as I like the bare bumper look but can put them on when I like.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/SV200616.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/SV200617.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/SV200620.jpg

 

and the best bit, which really bugs me with replica bumpers, the bottom of the bumper is level with the bottom of the side skirt like on a genuine car, not an inch too short.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/SV200622.jpg

 

 

:king:

[Ahmotorsport]

YES! <3

[Jordan99940]

this car needs to be on the road, far too long has it seen dusty workshops keep up the work and don't give up!

[muz]

Well it's booked in for paint and goes Monday 5th, so should be painted a week today. With that in mind I decided to go around the car and replace all the self tapping screws holding the kit on with rivets. I mean, come on! A rivet gun and rivets costs a tenner! Why bodge things, again.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1841.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1842.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1843.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1844.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1845.jpg

 

etc

 

Then I thought, well so much of this car has been bodged, I wonder if they filled the rear 1/4 panel voids with expanding foam....erm, no! So I got the hole cutter and drilled a few 20mm holes and got busy with the foam cans. Its made with bits of real gorilla, so you know its good ;-)

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1839-1.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1840.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/387809_10150398321824355_510514354_8383546_1543088244_n.jpg

 

I'm confident its gone into most, if not all the areas as I stuffed the holes with paper towel afterwards and put tape over the top to stop the foam pouring out and it pushed the paper and tape up!

 

With this done I decided to modify my AH Fabrications cold air box to fit the RS2000 as these engine sound awesome with an induction kit but suffer from heat sink badly.

 

Started off like this;

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1439.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1440.jpg

 

Its too long and fouls the servo/master cylinder. So I got creative with a grinder, Tigerseal and rivets and wha la'.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1847.jpg

 

I've enlarged the intake hole on the side and it retains the original RS2000 induction pipe and RS2000 K@N filter.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1852.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1850.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/murray_eversham/FakeCos/IMG_1851.jpg

 

I'll paint this matt black with a yellow lid when I get round to sprucing up the engine bay to match the matt black cam cover with yellow coil cover.

[bongo]

you'll be needing a cold air supply for that box.

[muz]

you'll be needing a cold air supply for that box.

 

 

Already in hand. Theres a 60mm Dia hole in the bottom of the box directly under the filter which will either go to the fog light cut out on the front bumper, or, if I decide to run fog lights, into the wheel arch. You just cant see it on the pictures.