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Looks good so far. Great that it's solid too. Rust really slows a project down.

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got a few things done  .....painted the guards and bolted them on properly ,  found a horn (that worked ) and bolted that on..got the grill and lights from the rusty wagon and cleaned them up ..painted the grill and light mounts..straightened one of the bumper brackets and bolted that on.....starting to look like a car......oh and some indicators  

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thought i would pull the front subframe out and go over it .....glad i did.

it was only held in with 3 bolts ..NO NUTS and 2 out of the 4 subframe to chassis bushes ...also found the steering rack to be held on with 2 bolts (same side)    and 1 cut brake hose..and no sway bar mounts......just the sway bar

so found 2 new bushes and 2 pretty good ones...bolted the rack on ...put some better hoses on ..found all the nuts and bolts to bolt the subframe back in and sway bar....to be honest all feels nice and tight.  even bolted the brake lines on.

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the rear end next

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1 hour ago, Deano66 said:

Looking good mate,you've been busy :thumbsup:

yeah getting there .try and have a legal driver by new year

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Hi all.

been a bit slack lately ...due to little motivation , family life , work and the 1.3........mmmmm1.3 xflow thats been bugging me a bit more than i thought it would. I have found a few 1.3 motor to buy but i know ill be disappointed.... but i also wasn't keen to make it a bigger project than it actually is ..so by the time i put a 1.3 in the hole i could spent a couple of hundy more and get a cert......but i dont want to cert just a 2.0 ...so made the decision last week to go for a cert for a pinto turbo...(have motors and most of the bits to do it....

so this gave me some motivation and i got a few things done 1.. got all the heater bits and bobs together and went threw them all .cleaned,fixed and just made better the lot even down to foam around the heater core so no air is wasted....i then got it all in the car (not as easy as i thought as the car was preface lft and now face lift  and its not a bolt in job) but its all in there ..2..got the dash loom in and all everything pluged in ..(even the glove box light)... cleaned all the dash parts and got it all back together .

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so the motor setup ive decided on is a pretty easy setup that i have thought of for a while and not tried.

so for now a standard 2.0 pinto the manifold is one ive had for agers now a mate had made to take an evo turbo (plenty to chose from now).its a evo4 turbo on there now...internal wastage ...an intercooler to fit without hacking the front apart...3.9 falcon CPI (adapter for bolt to standard weber manifold).make a turbo hat for the top of it ...hale effect dizzy for trigger ..link atom x ecu. and coil on plug with built in ignitors.... then build a motor later on..

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Good to hear that you've been doing a bit mate,looking good :thumbsup:

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A turbo'd pinto should be fun!

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10 hours ago, nascar66 said:

A turbo'd pinto should be fun!

I think so.....should go better than a standard one

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got a small part sorted ....the EFI ....i was on the hunt for a falcon 3.9 CPI and i remembered JWG had a plan for some that are no longer needed so i grabbed one.

as you can see they are pretty close to the Weber 32/36 and a mate has done this before using some adapter plates..

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i just made a 8mm steel drill guide to the weber pattern and just redrilled the holes....bolted straight on. 

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just need to make a turbo hat for it now

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just a small update.

the motor that is in the car at the moment is just for mocking things up ...but will eventually be the motor built for the car...it came from the rusty old wagon and has been sat since 194 and looks to have been never opened so hopefully its standard bore and standard bearings.

so i dragged another motor out from under the bench to go in it and hopefully last till a build a better one...i have run this motor in my old mk5 and it went ok just had some leaks and a tappity up top..

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so for the sake of $100 odd bucks ill put a full gasket and seal kit threw it....so i pulled it down to a block with crank and rods and head with complete head.

i did fid the sump full off thick crappy looking oil and the pick up was pretty badly blocked so i pulled the pick up and pump off and cleaned them out.....and then cleaned the cam spray bar as well..

i cleand the gasket areas and gave it a paint (have decided not to go the normal black or ford blue as i allways do.)...painted the block in aluminum sliver.....might even paint some other bits in a anodized purple ive had sitting around for a while..

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just a small update.

the motor that is in the car at the moment is just for mocking things up ...but will eventually be the motor built for the car...it came from the rusty old wagon and has been sat since 194 and looks to have been never opened so hopefully its standard bore and standard bearings.

so i dragged another motor out from under the bench to go in it and hopefully last till a build a better one...i have run this motor in my old mk5 and it went ok just had some leaks and a tappity up top..

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so for the sake of $100 odd bucks ill put a full gasket and seal kit threw it....so i pulled it down to a block with crank and rods and head with complete head.

i did fid the sump full off thick crappy looking oil and the pick up was pretty badly blocked so i pulled the pick up and pump off and cleaned them out.....and then cleaned the cam spray bar as well..

i cleand the gasket areas and gave it a paint (have decided not to go the normal black or ford blue as i allways do.)...painted the block in aluminum sliver.....might even paint some other bits in a anodized purple ive had sitting around for a while..

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well i got the motor ("will do for now motor" completely standard) stripped down and cleaned i did end up checking the main bearings and they seem like they might last a bit as long as it has oil...so thats good.

cleaned all the parts and only ended up replacing all the seals and gaskets...put an old thermostat in it (only done 600ks) i did drill a 6mm hole in the face of it as that seems to help things .

put an old water pump back on  as well as timing belt and tensioner   again all done only 600-1000ks.....re done the valve clearance ..drilled a welded an oil return in the sump (with a small hood over the hole on the inside).....stripped and cleaned the falcon CPI   and then paint it in some .y .y purple......i dont hate it and i think it will look good. cars staying black and getting a set of standard wheels with hub caps on it so perfect amount of im a .er for it...

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oil return done and i found some fitting that will work to the water pipes.....just need to sort an oil feed now.

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bit more done on the black mk3...

got the engine bay loom all in ( with new mounting points...all removed by previous owner)..

park.head.and high beam lights work now...wipers.( both speeds.) and starter.

heater is down an earth and no bulbs to try indicators yet...

not bad considering rear half of the loom is missing where i had to cut it ........figure the front out and then make the rear from there

its never had a loom since iv had it and the lights and loom from the rusty old sat since 84 wagon.......make it very steve kings christine like

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Just don't install central locking !!!!

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2 hours ago, GhiaMk4/5 said:

Just don't install central locking !!!!

lol.....not installing any extra gadgets....other than a ecu

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