Seeing as i spend just as much time playing with this as I do with my nova I guess it's only right it gets it's own project thread. So on Christmas day last year i crashed my nova in a mad rush to pick up my nan in the morning, The original plan was to fix it back up and get it back on the road but after digging deeper and taking some measurement I decided it was too far gone especially as I wanted to plonk an xe in it the torque would have done horrible things to it. Fast forward a month of getting the train to work (I wouldn't wish rush hour London trains to anyone, Especially covered in grease and oil on the way home) My mate calls me and tells me he heard about my car and he has one I may be interested in as I like my 'old shit'. I went over and saw the sierra for the first time, I was amazed at how clean it was, I didn't hesitate and £350 later it was mine. She was a 1.6 pinto 80 something thousand miles, one family from new, a genuine survivor car. Only a small dent on the wing witch was the only thing on it!
After bombing about in it for a while i decided it was way to standard for my liking so first thing was the ride height I worked a bit of magic and installed a set of mk1 focus coilovers to the front and chopped the rears down a bit and fitted renault master rear shocks. I also had a set of cosworth 4 pot callipers modified to fit my standard hubs.
Then i picked up a set of rs2000 wheels for a bargain and painted them grey but I soon got bored of them
Just before I changed the wheels again I was approached in traffic by some bloke who asked if I wanted a cossie interior, so obviously I said yes! I also took the opportunity to install Central locking and electric windows, what a ball ache give me nova electrics any day!
I binned off my standard spoiler for a more sporty cosworth one
It was around this time the stem seals went on the 1.6 so naturally I tore the engine out rather than fix it and put a 2.0 in
I have pics of the swap somewhere but oh well this is the new engine.
And a new set of wheels to celebrate my extra 20 hp Also fitted a cossie front bumper at some point i forget
These wheels still didn't do it for me so i bit the bullet and bought some proper ones