Escort Van GFU


Welcome to my newest purchase.

MK6 Escort Van.

1.8D .. Escort Si interior .. Electric Windows (slightly tinted) .. Black Escort RS Alloys

Using it till end of month while pickup is being sorted
It will then be taken off the road until after summer so I don't have to use the pickup when the weather gets shit, and then I can recover the use of my spine!

The van has done a good 150,000+ miles and it shows, with various bits of rust appearing on the sills and one of the wings. Rear doors have some showing, and in the door shuts various little bits of rust showing.

Although I'm not complaining, it should last a good few years yet, at the worst I would have to replace the full sills and a wing so far. And if I get majorly arsed, replace or sort the rust on the rear doors and then sort out all other bubbles out and spray it.. although I doubt I will


I have already patched up the hole in the drivers sill after the pictures were taken, along with stone chipping both sills black. Looks alright, but I prefer the all red sills. But this will help them last a while longer now


Mods I am planning:

Escort TD engine (which I already have)
Front Mount Intercooler
Up the fueling
Up the boost
Stainless exhaust from turbo back with no boxes (side exit)
Limo Tint rear windows

Things which I could do:

Fit PAS if I get fedup of manual rack, although it isnt that bad to be fair
Sort out all rust etc and respray it.... or just leave it as is.






In reality I wont be spending much on this van, and thats what a run-a-bout is for...although knowing me I will end up sorting everything out on it as I do like the van

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Daily isn't so Special. And it makes me sad.
Need space and time and I'll crack on with Jams si!

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sweet looks like a good work horse

Rat

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Rest in peace Ben "Jam" Elvin. Gone but never forgotten.

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Daily isn't so Special. And it makes me sad.
Need space and time and I'll crack on with Jams si!

Catch me on Facebook as I'm rarely on here.

Escort Pickup lol you know you wanna!

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Nope. Nay. Never.

The only plans I have are the above ones.

And I'm struggling wether I want to do it matt black or not, as it looks pretty good red

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Daily isn't so Special. And it makes me sad.
Need space and time and I'll crack on with Jams si!

Catch me on Facebook as I'm rarely on here.

Nice runaround you've got there paul, looks in pretty good nick for its age!

It would be better left in red imo

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loving the scort van paul, slam it ..............................now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rip Ben Elvin (jam)

Its staying red now, as ive seen one in matt black and looks abit crap.

I'm now figuring out the TD engine.

The engine I have is an Endura-DE with all the wiring and ECU. It needs PATS to activate the fuel pump.

The ways around this are.. swap the fuel pump for an older one and run without the wiring.
Or.. figure out this wiring and run it as it should.

The problem would be sorted easy but we binned the escort it came out of a few weeks ago before I knew I was going to get the van... sooooooo I think I'm gonna end up getting a full loom from one at the scrappers, and use its key if it has one

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Daily isn't so Special. And it makes me sad.
Need space and time and I'll crack on with Jams si!

Catch me on Facebook as I'm rarely on here.

ah yes. i know that van altho if you leave it alone you could put a royal snail sticker on the back indicating its slowness!... i take it your on about that donor escort in the trailer?!

just leave it alone and run it about. but lower it for the love of god!

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Rip Ben Elvin (jam)

Yeah the doner engine was from the escort which was in half.. well you saw it in one peice

You know I cant leave things along


Lowering it is an arse as its leaf over axel, which would mean moving the leafs to the bottom of the axel and knowing my luck that would kill me somehow

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Daily isn't so Special. And it makes me sad.
Need space and time and I'll crack on with Jams si!

Catch me on Facebook as I'm rarely on here.

So i suppose its running a spring over axle? Yeah, you can run it with the spring under the axle, or remove a leaf? I ran my Suzuki SJ with the spring under the axle.

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Daily isn't so Special. And it makes me sad.
Need space and time and I'll crack on with Jams si!

Catch me on Facebook as I'm rarely on here.