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#1 User is offline   Kizza 

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Posted 11 May 2013 - 09:34 AM

Hi all here is my daily driver, doesn't look the prettiest with its cracked bumpers and dinted bonnet but I bought it for £400 over 12 months ago and have done nearly 20k in it since then without any major problems. my plans are to rebuild a 2.0 engine and fit that with maybe a set of cams a little remap and a custom exhaust.

body wise I want to make it wider by 30mm wheel and flair the arches to suit the new stance.

suspension wise for now to get it through its mot im fitting cheap stuff and then fitting better stuff at a later date. Im going to be lowering it by 30-40mm all round with springs and shocks but for now I may be very cheeky and just cut a cheeky curl off the springs to drop it 20-30mm.

pics of the work to follow, im rebuilding the front suspension this afternoon.

Cheers Kieran



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Posted 12 May 2013 - 05:00 PM



Hi all,

Here is the first update of my Mondeo, rebuilt the front end up with new wishbones, drop links and arb bushes. Im going to be building up the front end soon ready for the mot. as most days when I plan to do something it rains and yesterday was no different, I had to push the puma into the back of the garage and nose the Mondeo in so I wasn't getting rained on while working.

here are a couple of pics of the job itself.

here is the box of goodies

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stripping the drivers side down.

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I found that my oil filter was leaking :nono:/> I wondered where the few drops of oil were coming from so while I had her in buts a gave her an oil and filter change (she was due for one anyway :beer:/> )

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here it is all built up.

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the other side was basically the same and as it was getting wetter and colder I only took one picture of this problem child that I had to remove this a hacksaw and fit a new bolt from underneath.

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I did chop a cheeky curl off each spring as the mk1+2 Mondeo sit stupidly high at the front compared to the back, I sisnt take a picture of the before but I nicked one of a 1.8 with the same wheels.

Before.

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After

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I will add more progress in a couple of days when the back has been rebuilt.

Cheers Kieran (FibreBuild)




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Posted 17 May 2013 - 03:54 PM

PASSED MOT WITH NO ADVISORIES!!!

well I rebuilt the back end replacing the arb bushes, drop links and all the other bushes as well, the car did had new rear wheel bearings, front springs and front pads for the last mot and a complete new rear brake set up including handbrake for the one before so there isn't a lot that the car hasn't had over the last couple of years.

I was told that it may need new shockers on the front and left rear but the wasn't bad enough to be put on the advisories list other than that he told me I had a good solid car and good work for looking after it so well :beer:/>

looks like I may have to buy a set of uprated springs and shocks in the next 12 months.




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Posted 17 May 2013 - 04:03 PM

Nice. :) btw you wouldnt happen to know if the rear seats, amd doorcards of a sedan, fits into a station wagon?
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Posted 17 May 2013 - 04:07 PM

im not sure tbh pal.

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Posted 17 May 2013 - 04:28 PM

Ok.. Btw, how are the rear seats in your sedan fixed at the top? You know the releace bit. A buddy of mine has bougth a wagon, and has found a sedan whit an nterior he wants to swap, but we cant figgure out if it wil fit or not :) iwe had several mondeos, but newer realy botherd to find ouut if they are compatable :)
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Posted 18 May 2013 - 08:07 AM

I've had a lot of fords over the past 6 years but my dad has had ford all his life. I know the rear plastics and parts of the rear suspension from the estate/sedan are different to the wagon/hatch back but im not sure about the seat if im honest, my first thought would be that they wont fit because the seats out of the escort estate/sedan wont fit the wagon/hatchback. sorry I could be more help but like yourself ive never wanted to change over the interior from one to the other.

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 06:05 PM

well due to some mindless vandals on Saturday my mondeo was turned into a scrapper. the windscreen was smashed and the fact that the crafty bleeders that my insurance are I'm not covered for windscreen damage :rant:/> so because of this it will be taken away soon to the big scrap heap in the sky.

I have had to buy the first car I can for £300 (after just moving house its all I could spare) so tomorrow I'm picking up a fiat brava 1.2 16v in baby blue, its a 5 door, only done 65k and its got a TOW BAR!!!

going to be using it for a couple of months them flogging it on once I can get a better car.....a ford :lol:/>



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Posted 23 August 2013 - 12:10 PM

my mondingo will be saved!!!!! after much ringing up my insurance and giving them lots of shite over the phone about how on my documents it says I am insured its getting replaced today for £50 :woot2:/>

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Posted 23 August 2013 - 07:42 PM

the mondeo now has a new windscreen........WHOOPA!!!! :woot2:/>/> :woot2:/>/> :woot2:/>/>

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Posted 23 August 2013 - 11:29 PM

Good on you pal the great to see a saved mondo I had one as a company chariot for 100000 miles of all across the country and could not fault it, was a diesel however so not the fastest chariot in the world.

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Posted 24 August 2013 - 07:54 AM

thanks V4FRP I'm over the moon to get her back, I've borrowed my dads mk3 over the past week and I couldn't wait to get back into my trusty mk2. my dads Mondeo may have a softer ride but its slower to pick up, corners like a ocean liner and just doesn't feel a nice to drive as my Mondingo :rolleyes:/>

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Posted 25 September 2013 - 07:54 PM

Well just got a chance to work with another engineering company today for the foreseeable future so I will be giving the mondingo an overhall over the next couple of months in steps. I know the money I will be spending on her I wont get back but I would rather spend lots of money fixing her faults then send her to the scrap yard and buy another car.

first thing first will be a couple of major thing that need doing!!!

replacement sump

drivers rear wheel bearing

2 new tyres and tracking done.



then once they are complete I will be doing a well overdue major service on her.

oil and filter change

spark plugs and ht leads

clutch& slave

water pump

new aux belt

new alternator

cam belt and tensioner

and anything else that needs to be replaced



then over time I will be spending money on the running gear.

new steering rack

new/ recon drive shafts

replace the remaining wheel bearings

new hand break system

gearbox (my sycro's are noisy)

fix air con



then i will start modding/upgrading

poly bushes all round

uprated suspension

300 front brake set up

5 stud conversion

18 inch st alloys


body work!!!

I may make some sort of wide arch to fit to her

a colour change to panther black may beon the cars

followed by spacers/ suspension rebuild.



i know its daft to spend so much money on a car thats worth less than £800 but i wont be spending it all in one go and tbh i would rather keep the mondingo on the road over buying a 2k car anyday.

will update as i go but there wont be much for a couple of weeks yet.

cheers Kieran


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Posted 06 March 2014 - 10:15 PM

she needs a clean but here are some up to date pics
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what do you think.....be kind!!!

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Posted 07 March 2014 - 11:08 PM

View PostKizza, on 06 March 2014 - 10:15 PM, said:

what do you think.....be kind!!!

Ummmmm.

I can't do both. You've got to pick one ;)

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