Januarys Project - mk4 fez

[Matt]

Heya all

Alter hearing from a mate about a crash damaged fiesta not to far from me last weekend i initially though 'eh ok' and wasn't really to bothered. Then he said it was non recorded, starts, drives and has a genuine 39,000 miles on the clock with all the past mots and other paper work to back it up.

so i went to see it and and this is what i found




front end fairly smashed up and the windscreen broken but other wise a nice little car.

had a proper look round it the crumple zones had not been damaged and it had not twisted the chassis. I asked how it became to look like it does and found it was a young lad's car who had not long passed his test and came a cropper on a country bend and ditched it, hes lucky as it was a tree branch that popped the windscreen, but only his pride broken.

went away and did some phoning round and found all the bits i needed to replace the cosmetics and the result of that was I bought the poor old fez for £100 lol

on the tow truck


got it back to home (well my finance's mom's house (thanks Janet!)) and had a proper look at all the damage (it was going dark when i saw it first time)

here is some pics of the damaged parts





Got it back nice and early this Saturday and me being me though no time like the present and set to work, i should say that by this time i has found a chap breaking an exact same car in the same colour so ive pinched most of his bits

even found a brand new genuine ford windscreen on ebay for £90 !!!



new front end bits

[Matt]

Continued

Stripped the front end off within a hour of getting it back and pushed the worst of the bented cross member out with a hydraulic ram





Being fairly happy where the cross member was i decided to trial fit the new bumper, you can still see it needs a little more reshaping to get it perfect




that aligned up pretty well so did a full trial fit of all me new bits



And after a bit more fettling with the n/s headlight



i have to say i was chuffed by how well the first fitting went, still have a bit more shaping and pulling to do but its very close now. At that point i decided to cut the damaged wings off and have a look for any inner wing damage, there's a tiny bit on the near side but it does with out saying considering the damage to the wing

the bumper is in the correct place



Wings Removed



this is the stage where ive had to leave it for this weekend, i cannot do the final reshaping of the front end untill i get the new wings which will be this weekend along with some of the fez's 4 spoke alloys. but should be pretty much done next weekend :D

[capri v8 driver]

i like these kind off cars, easy fixable damage, nice profit at the end.

[Matt]

Hey all

Had another good weekend on the Fez, looking a lot better now, but i have a problem, got the engine running again and at about 2500rpm it makes a horrible knocking noise, im hoping it just a fecked belt tensioner but has anyone else had this issue?

That aside here's some updated pic's

old screen out




New screen in



Had to buy New pattern wings, but they match up really well, also got some fez alloys to



and all fixed up, just need to spray the wings and give it a good clean but a job well done me thinks, note the misses with the daft hat too! lol

[TwinTurbo]

Hmm can't see any of your pics.

TT

[Matt]

Hmm can't see any of your pics.

TT

Hmm odd, got the same error on ford scorpio to but the first post worked ok

does this link work?

http://pict.com/album/76700/239d25819a]http://pict.com/album/76700/239d25819a

Matt

[capri v8 driver]

i can see the pics.

[TwinTurbo]

pict seems a bit broken, or very slow.

TT