looking good though mate just a few bolts and a gearbox then shes all ready for the open road.

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Yea i cant wait to get it done.

hi all a wee update.

after getting the engine in i decided to take an easy day and have rest from the car for the day plus i dont think my family members could put up with another day of swearing and temper tantrums from me lol.

so today i got up bright and early to make a start on getting the gear box in and boy am i glad i did lol.
i decided to just drop the engine back out of the car and fit the gear box to the engine while it was on the trolley somthing i really should have done in the 1st place.

so the plan was to just repeat the same process as i used to get the engine but bloody hell was it a tight squeeze lowering that car over the engine it literally needed to be lowered a few CM the up round the front to check its clearance then back to the jack again it would have been so much easier with a second pair of hands but all my mates are lasy twats lol.

then i had the problem of the engine mountbolts not lining up with the holes so the gear box had to be jacked up and the very tense job of wiggling and swaying the engine and gear box into place that was one job i am not so keen to do again, the hole time all i could think was hog you drop this engine and your fucked my man lol.

but its in now so i am happy,in truth looking at the engine in the car with box made me smile as when you see it lie that you get the feeling that its all starting to come together and that really is a good feeling today was the 1stt time i have smiled at that car in months so it was a welcome feeling.

some pics







ii will take some pics of the engine bolted in as literally as soon as i too those pics the heavens opened and i went from nice hot sunny perfect working on the car weather to a bloody rain storm which i had to work in the rest of the job lol

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a bit of a update on the fez which has me thinking and thinking hard which hurts my brain lol.

1st of all i seem to have totally fudged up my cam timing up so i will have to sort that.

2nd i had a rather interesting offer today.
story goes back when i had the car on the road i raced a escort rs2000 (on private land of course hehe) and after that i became quite good friends with the guy and found out he also had a m3 fiesta in his work garage that they used as a armature rally car.
so to cut a long story short he came to see me today telling me that the fez he had had been rolled over and twisted the shell beyond repair as with the roll cage and as he had been told my car was off the road due to bodge jobs kicking my arse and the lack of money i have due to only being on training money for the next year he wondered if i would sell him my shell so they could build up the rally car.

he just wants the bare shell and nothing else and he made a on the spot offer of £300 too but i said i will think about it.
so for the next few days i think i will be having a good hard think about it, so if i decided to do it there my be some goodies going up for sale soon as like i say he only wants the bare shell so i will have a hole si worth of parts to sell which probably get me more money than it would if i sold the car hole.

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ok guys the fez is now sold and parts will be up for sale soon as i setup my paypal account

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