My Xr4i Track Cars Life with me so far :)

[Dom]

Well I bought the car of my fiancés dad who bought it off someone who had tried to do the 24v conversion and failed at the last part fixed it up and I saw it sit in his workshop for months until  he finally let me have it :)

This is what it looked like then:




I had already decided to race the car before I bought it but it as it already had the engine swap it put it in a higher class so It needed some extra safety features:

That's collecting the cage then fitting:


Fitted some seats and harnesses at the same time:





New bumper headlights and grill:


Had to change the rear boot to before it rusted off the car:


And she got a nice new set of coil overs half way thorough the season as it felt kind of like driving a canal boat:


Then we did the rest of the season which she would have one her class all she had to do was complete the lap on the last race and the alternator let her down:(



After that I made a few purchases the first was a trailer after the nightmare of getting her home with a broken alternator


And the second me and the missis saw online fell in love with and ended up coming home with :) oops


Then the season was ended and the decision was made for her to have a year off and a complete do over and become a proper race car :)






This will carry on there is loads more pics yet but its lunch im hungry and im scared that my pc will have a crazy moment and delete everything I have done so far

[Dom]

She got new wheels :)




Once the engine was out I could repair all the rusty holes and add all the cage structure to the front and down the windscreen and get the car ready for the body shop :)








new boot and lights :)


Off to the body shop she went :)




Lastly so far m8 that's been helping me in his free time cheesy picture lol :)

[cossiemk2]

That's a nice project there mate.

Apart from some minor rust was the 4i solid as they can rust as hell under all that plastic.

[Mik]

Nice work there fella, coming along nicely.

Mik.

[Dom]

That's a nice project there mate.

Apart from some minor rust was the 4i solid as they can rust as hell under all that plastic.

Cheers I have enjoyed it :) and Urm well she was structurally quite solid but under rear plastics she was quite rusty and under the tank was to but nothing to bad Luckily

[Lemon-Ade]

That's a lot of work you have put in there well done and I like the frs too  keep up the good work.

[Dom]

That's a lot of work you have put in there well done and I like the frs too  keep up the good work.

Thanks a lot m8 it a addiction fast stiffer it's at the body shop still as you might have noticed I have been building it in a old marque that I welded up because it kept falling down so I,m trying to build a workshop in the time it takes him to spray it
And yer the frs is my sexy car the sierra is my angry car :)

[Dom]

Its Back from the body shop I couldn't be happier let the re-build begin :)

[Lemon-Ade]

That's a good start to the new year then  time to get building 

[Dom]

That's a good start to the new year then  time to get building 

Yer spend most of this New Years nights with it
I want to order some metal to cut the spare wheel well out but the car is up my lock up and my dog is due pups so I can't leave don't suppose you know the metal thickness so I can order some do you ?

[phatfordxr4i]

nice work well done, what championship you racing in?

[Dom]

nice work well done, what championship you racing in?

At the moment it's semsec sprint series but I want to go into time attack with it when she is ready :)

[phatfordxr4i]

have a look at blue oval saloons cracking championship and great calender this year if intrested pm me ill give you more info would be nice to have two xr4 on the grid
http://www.csccgb.co.uk/

[Lemon-Ade]

I would like to pop along and see / hear some action this year

[phatfordxr4i]

you have the dates ade if you do come and say hello hopefully get to see yours

[Dom]

have a look at blue oval saloons cracking championship and great calender this year if intrested pm me ill give you more info would be nice to have two xr4 on the grid
http://www.csccgb.co.uk/

That actually looks like really good fun

[Lemon-Ade]

you have the dates ade if you do come and say hello hopefully get to see yours

Will do mate 

[Dom]

This next part some of you may like some of you may not but its my project and when its done I think it will make one awesome track car


So Next Was Engine and this is what I decided on! 



First Test fit!


Steering rack you are in my way


So this happened!


And its in obviously not quite that simple mounts made gearbox mount made etc!



Made the front end re fit and mounted radiator also test fit the bumper as its only cheap fibreglass one as its race car doesn't look bad tho if you ask me :)





Sorting out the steering rack as we speak but not done yet whilst im waiting for parts started on inside welding up the seems and any holes

things started small


but quickly ended up much bigger

[robrs2]

What are you doing for the steering rack. Moving it back or down causes problems unless the hub steering arms are altered.

[Dom]

What are you doing for the steering rack. Moving it back or down causes problems unless the hub steering arms are altered.

The steering was actually the most difficult part of the conversion swaped the hubs around and the rack is now behind the subframe :)

[robrs2]

Been thinking of mounting the rack further back to get the zetec standard sump to fit instead of a rear converted sump.
Any photos