What did you do to your cars this week ???

[Mark19909]

Bought a remanufactured turbo heatshield bracket - looks like a very quality bit of work and saves having to try & track down an original Ford one that may, or may not, have already been cracked & repaired.

User on eBay was 4340stuart, if anyone was looking for one. Although i think the listing has since ended / all sold, thought it was worth noting on here as more would probably be listed at a later point i'd guess..

I had 1 on the brackets aswel good quality

[Need to Insure]

Finished the tidy up the brakes, cleaned engine bay and replaced the number plate rattle pad

[Clayton]

Finished the tidy up the brakes, cleaned engine bay and replaced the number plate rattle pad

Out of interest Paul where did you locate the rear number plate foam from, dont need one myself but know of a member who was struggling to get hold of one?

[Marathonman72]

Yes I've been looking for a number plate foam for sometime, and would be good to know if anyone still has any!

[Need to Insure]

Out of interest Paul where did you locate the rear number plate foam from, dont need one myself but know of a member who was struggling to get hold of one?

The pad was from Bam, I mentioned to him I needed one and he had one. Can you not get them from Ford anymore?

[Clayton]

Foam pads are available but not with the circle cutouts, they are oval Paul. Original are NLA apparantly so thought you did well. ;-)

[BartFRS]

I cleaned the car, took it for a Sunday drive through the German Eifel and had to clean it again 😂

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[Co-ordsport]

I cleaned the car, took it for a Sunday drive through the German Eifel and had to clean it again 😂

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Very nice

[Co-ordsport]

evening all

Being locked up for 10 weeks tomorrow I had enough so taxed the car and filled it up, only took me an hour 😂

Some of you may remember the carbon rear engine bay cover I finally got round to fitting it. 🙃😬

Plus quick wipe over ready for a trip to Pete's soon

[Nemo]

Nice looking car mate. Where is the carbon from? What's going off at Pete's?

[BartFRS]

I remember the carbon cover, i still haven't fitted mine! Think the lad was called Darren who organized the carbon some years ago.

[Co-ordsport]

Sorry guys it's been awhile was off a group buy years ago and I was having a tune installed been promising myself some time a stage 4 and it drives loverly😍

[AlexRS2782]

Trial fitted my Morette indicator units to see what they looked like on the car (been years since i bought them ). Decided i do like them, so i just need to figure out whether to either a) leave them in the standard ABS plastic finish 2) paint them gloss black 3) paint them imperial blue or 4) get them layered in carbon fibre - decisions, decisions

One thing i forgot with the indicator units - Ford fitted them with such a stupidly short wiring loom into the bulb holder making them a bit of a bugger to remove the unit from the bulb holder. Thankfully, just like my Morette headlights, at least the indicator units come with at least 3 inches of wiring into the unit making life easier.

Also decided to remove the factory steering column audio control unit as it's been bugging me for years - never used it since as i changed to an Alpine unit shortly after purchasing the car so it became redundant. I then remembered why i hadn't removed it previously - there's now a nice hole to cover in the steering column plastic & i've forgotten what my original plan was, years go, to deal with that I reckon it was probably something along the lines of cutting out a piece of plastic from a used steering coloum and plastic welding it in.

[mattcroft]

I picked up #0005 from Demon.... Underside resto with powerflex bushes. Great job done by Pete.

[Nemo]

Pictures please mate

[mattcroft]

I hope this link works (please delete this and the link if it doesn't).

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[BartFRS]

Looks great that .

[Nemo]

That's mint, very nice indeed. You must be worried about driving it now

[mattcroft]

That's mint, very nice indeed. You must be worried about driving it now

Thank you. I drove back in the rain today, gave it a wash before putting it away, the underside still looked as it did when I left DPC. It's a bit of garage queen.

[AlexRS2782]

Underside looking fantastic there

For my own, i remembered today that the MOT is due on August 4th. What with the MOT extension ending at the end of July, i'd better get that booked pretty soon. So it looks like the first drive for the car this year will probably be for the MOT then. Better get it taxed again too i guess.

Hopefully, now that restrictions are being eased i can use the same time to get to the bottom of the lack of boost / misfire issue that plagued the car the last time i used it in '19. Might even be able to, finally, get it to MAD for the mapping checks, etc.

[AlexRS2782]

6 months tax purchased this afternoon - £181.50 - hopefully should get about 3 months of use out of that before SORN and getting the other 3 months refunded back.

Time to get the MOT sorted now i guess. Of course this is all working on the basis that the car actually starts & runs fine that is . Thanks to Covid it hasn't run since late October last year.

[Westy]

Today..

Mot
Rear exhaust shield
Flame trap shield
Carbon turbo shield..

Although, SCC did it as was in for an MOT. Passed