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my pepper red five door project!


scottybo

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mine has loads of flaws...

 

few shades of white

cracked paint under pass door

cracked rear bumper

small patch of rust on bootlid ive been patching for 4 years lol.

 

jog on bongo yours is the best on here lol

 

ill just scratch it up to the fact that my escort is a work in progress....a working mans progress as i dont have anywhere near the cash that some of you guys have so things take time for me and all my mods have to be done on the cheap lol

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kept getting told there were 2 different lengths of handbrake cables for focus hatchbacks.......even ford couldnt help me without seeing the actual car. which of course i dont have

 

so ive bought both, ebay specials £20 a cable, and im sure i could just return the one that doesnt fit. hopefully full steam ahead. i will also be redismantling my zetec head soon as i made a bit of a booboo last time.

 

at least im learning as i go and i havent done anything that cant be easily repaired!

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there are 2 different lengths...

 

st170 which i got told are 16mm longer due to the bigger carrier to space the caliper out further on the st170.

 

normal.2.0/1.8 which i have are a tight fit around the tank etc...even though 16mm is naff all ,it will help a bit.

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  • 4 weeks later...
started rear brake conversion this weekend, had to stop because there are some bolts snapped off in the hubs themselves.....and the easy out tool i bought from halfrauds snapped off as well, pics up when i can
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Can you do a write up on the rear brake conversion as looking to do this myself

 

certainly can do my man, i was a bit worried about doing it myself at first but it appears a lot easier than you would think

 

good old fords, just get a bunch of random parts from other cars and it all fits perfectly!

 

the only issue would be the fact that the focus parts space the wheels out quite far, so the rear arch would have to be cut back or rolled, of course dependent on your choice of wheel, once again this sounds very daunting but ive done a few before and isnt as hard as it sounds

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Do you know how much it spaces it out? i did a 106 gti rear axle conversion on my 1.1 before was done in a few hours once all the parts were collected, really interested to know how much it spaces it as was thinking of rear spacers on mines and this just makes the rear disc conversion sound even better for me!
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