Hi been a member here for few years now, have had a few projects mostly fiestas and escorts but fancied something RWD or even better AWD and couldn't refuse a low mileage wrc my friend had for sale.
spec as current is as followed
CT20B Turbo Ceramic blade
hard piped inter cooler pipe work
huge front mount don't know brand probably ebay special
JE Forged pistons rods unknown
Electronic boost controller
factory extra 5 spokes
estimated power on this spec 300ish bhp possible more
plans for her
strip and check everything for tolerance
clean paint refurbish under body and suspension steering components
re route hard pipes and weld instead of silicon joints
remove air con system and pump
uprate all bushes
and send shell for respray
here's where shes up to
also planning to remake the rear suspension geometry like this one
put a few hours in on her Sunday, something that had been bugging me was when the rear quarter was replaced a bad job had been made of joining new q to old sill. out come the angle grinder and cut away the affected area
then a template was made and transferred to steel, this was then attached using my snap on mig (its older then me and still makes a cracking bead) filed all down nicely using flap wheel and fold was recreated over the sill to look factory
a coat of stone chip was then applied as it was the only paint to hand
also stripped down the back end, off come the diff cradle which was nice and rusty
check out this weld on the diff mount
shocking
not much of a update really, stripped off all the rear suspension, diff and cradle to give the floor a coat of under seal
diff cradle looking much better minus the rust
new drop links and a fresh coat of pain on anti roll bar and i know the brake hose is going the wrong way around the suspension they need to come of for refurbish anyway.
thought i would give the inter cooler a freshen up wist i was at it.
that's about it for now just waiting on loads of parts to come from all around the world got my eye on a carbon boot tho
bought some new bits for the four
got loads more in post
first job was to swap out the leaky clutch slave cylinder check out the internals on the old one, the wrc's must be fitted with trd factory parts
treated the starter motor to a refurb
gave the downpipe some lagging in situ, what nightmare im itching like fook
gave the intercooler pipe work some lagging over the turbo
got abit arty with some card, gonna make a heat shield out of ally keep them temps down
notice this when the starter was out
its blue thats A good thing right
pic of the ct26 twinscroll
ignore the cables ties there temporary. plenty more updates to come
Not a huge deal but it would have been a nice touch.