mk2 fiesta ghia turbo

[Sloth]

still a good place to do it, ya tea sits nicely on the kerb

[Vausey_Nova_Knotla]

love old fiestas xr3 (Y)

[burgo]

well we aint got anywhere else to do it. my saloon and me mums mr2 are in the garage

[blacknovagsi]

this is a nice car, i love old fords and wanted one of these as a first car but ended up with a mk2 astra hahaha

[scott.parker]

In the first pics it's just like my first car looked!

Cool...

[40ies]

WARNING WARNING, if fords affend your eyes go no further

anywho ill copy and paste basically the piston heads advert and then begin the story

Engine: Full OFAB Fiesta RS Turbo engine, loom and ecu, 195 superchip, beige injectiors, Kent cvh31 cam shaft, stage 2 hybrid T3 turbo, full custom mongose exhaust with magnex 4" backbox, stage 3 head with big ports and valves, ported inlet to match, fully rebuilt bottom end with .5 forged pistons, balanced rods and crank, organic fast road clutch, RS Turbo LSD box with equal length driveshafts, grp A cossie fuel pump.

Suspension and brakes: Fiesta centre 50mm springs trimmed down to 65mm, new xr2 shox all round, xr2 front brakes.

Wheels: 14" 1600E RS snowflake alloys with 185/55/14 rubber

Body: Standard mk2 ghia shell with trims painted black.


Interior: Full Fiesta RS turbo recaro's front and rear seats, standard early grey and black dash, rev counter clocks, early centre console and XR2 steering wheel.








that was the spec we beleaved it to have and that he paid £1600 for which is fair money.

we took it to get set up and on 0.9 bar it made 160bhp and 175lbft which wernt bad but abit low imo. anywho we got it home and the fun began. after a day of having it the clutch started slipping like fook and a couple of oil leaks appeared. so a phone call to the bloke we bought it off and he agreed to send him a new clutch.

all good we thought so we proceeded to drop the engine and box as this would be the easiest way to do it imo, this is where the fun began. on removing it we found this list of faults

3 bolts missing from the gearbox to the engine. - rubbish
Only one bolt holding the equal length driveshaft set up and that was loose - never took the box out so rubbish
All the wiring just twisted together and taped - told you the wiring needed sorting
Cross member just cut and bashed, not "done properly" as we were told - all the member needed and still strong
Standard brakes - got the pictures of fitting the xr2 brakes so rubbish
No new shocks on the back - only said it had new fronts and rears were near new wen i got car
Completely standard head, cam and inlet - complete rubbish, was a stage3 head, ports were huge and smooth
Standard turbo - rubbish, turbo technics stage 1 turbo(turbo technics cant confirm that by a part number, turbo has to be dismatled, already asked em)
Bodged up not custom exhaust - told you it was a FRST sytem modded to fit therefore custom
Standard bottom end - if .5 oversize forged pistons and balanced crank and rods is standard then ok
Standard clutch - valeo stage 1 organic
Standard 1.3 gearbox - told you that when you picked it up and you said fine
Radiator and fan not fixed in at all - fan was bolted into the front panel rad pipes kept rad in place

im sure there was more but i cant remember. anywho so a call back to who we bought it off and a day of fooking about but he eventually got £500 back

so basically we have now stripped it and started again properly so new post for new chaptor

so in all this man is full of ****, he bought me no prove of this crap, jus rung me and spouted out all sorts of bollox, i have sold hundreds of cars and 4 of these conversion previous and never once had a complaint, it was bought as an unfinished project that needed work, he walked in the garage and offered me cash, didnt even look at the car so who's fault is that really

offered you a full refund but you said you needed to use to car this week but as i see its in bits, lying little fooker,


i have to say i still have a spare key for this car, anymore bul**** that come up on here and it will dissapear, fat little ****, **** you, im keeping the clutch till you give me the engineers report of the engine i asked for that proves you arent making the **** up, i know that engine was forged and the head was modded, you screwed me out of 500 cause my business partners soft, well i ****in aint mate. if you wanted a proper speced fiesta you pay around £3k not £1600, it was cheap already and if you werent happy you shudnt of bought it in the first place. if you want to see a bodge jus look at that nova estate, thats fooking dangerous,

[Martin]

pmsl.. how is it dangermouse?

its not like its got bolts missing from the gear box and stuff isit..

have you got any proof of the "forged" engine?

[burgo]

WOW looks like this thread got ubber interesting. james any more of threats like that and you will be getting a visit. i shall now go and take pics of this said forged/modded engine and post and let the people decide for themselfs who the lying little **** is

[Martin]

james any more of threats like that and you will be getting a visit.

:D :D Can i come?

[burgo]

we could have a meet martin. ill go home and get the post code for you