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Project: MK1 Escort 2ltr turbo (Tango)
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Here we go with another project, this one was called Tango. It came in as rolling shell. 1st job at cbc is to remove the running gear, put on our spits, we have been using this design in spitting a shell before blast since 1995 it is so easy to get round the shell and lock into an area you want to work on.
The shell was blast cleaned inside, underneath, engine bay, boot area.
The customer wanted a fast road car that would look great and be easy to live with & that is what we gave him.
This has turned out a real stunner. As you go through the project you see the attention to detail by us through out this restoration project.
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We had to do a fair bit of prep as the previous owner had had some repairs carried out so we had to remove all the repairs to see what had been done |
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NS wheel house
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Drivers floor |
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Passenger floor
Tango was fully seam welded
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Front panel & NS wing
All the panel gaps were checked throughout the project |
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OS sill
new sills were fitted |
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Tango was then 5 linked, Turreted, double bulk head support plate fitted,large gearbox tunnel, diff tunnel, fire wall,seat rails,weld on strut brace, a ram air air filter fitted under drivers wing, modified front panel for intercooler and rad, holes cut in front panel, gearbox mountings for T5 Gearbox,
and a full roll cage picking up front and rear turrets Tig welded in
Here we are fitting the seats they are on adjustable sliders
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After Tango came out of fab it was reblasted and inspected |
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Then into the paint shop. The hours that go into paint nobody would believe, the preperation is the key here, without it you do not get the end result.
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A full bare metal respray was in store for tango.
Full baremetal rub down
Etch prime
Sealer
Primer
Stone gaurd
Etc Etc as you will see in the pictures alot goes into painting a car at CBC. |
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Starting to look the part.
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This is the etch primer |
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Starting to apply the stone guard
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Underneath all stone guarded |
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Prime everything again 2 coats
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Going blue at last Hang on how can we call this car Tango it's blue !!!
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Here we are in primer ready for a rub down. The customer went for Electric Monza blue on the outside of the shell and engine bay. The inside of the shell and the inside of the panels went Kermit silver.
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After a rub down all break throughs are coated with etch primer |
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All ready for bass coat.
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One coat of bass coat |
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Two coats
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Three coats |
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Bake it for 30 mins and cool tack of any over spray
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And start to apply 4coats of high sollid ppg clear coat |
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More clear coat
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Now we mask of all the sprayed areas |
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First prime coat after guide coat and block by hand
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Another 2 coats of high build primer |
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Rear panel in primer
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Guide coat for the final time
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More guide coat on coach lines to get the line sharpe |
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Heavy guide coat on roof ready to be blocked by hand
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Four good coats of Monza Electric blue
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Last coat going on.
after a good bake it will be into oddie for a full on flat and polish |
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As you can see there is no orange peel. After the paintwork is baked we then flat down the car to remove any imperfections, then the paint work is polished using a three stage process.
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Starting to fit up the car |
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Mocking up the boot so we can fit all the fuel lines etc
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Running gear on |
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Group 1 Atlas axle being fitted
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I think we might need to go for 15" wheels these look a bit lost |
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Right hand side rear
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The engine and gear box has been cleaned. and the engine has been stripped and painted all the other parts are being blasted and powder coated or painted we are using a 330 BHP cosworth YB Turbo attached to a T 5 gearbox ( supplied by the customer) |
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Starting on the wires.
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Loads of wires here |
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Wiring up for the back lights |
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AP caliper and disc with GP4 hub
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Rubbers and windows fitted |
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The boot is finished |
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And here we are after three days YEA RIGHT I WISH if only this could be done in three days.We wouldn't have a waiting list.
Notice no boot lock!. The customer wanted an electric boot lock, with a button on the dash.
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Decals of the mexico strips, no petrol cap to get in the way. |
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Suspension & Brakes:
Rear 4 linked, semi floating atlas axle with a panard rod, bilstein coil over adjustable platform dampers, cosworth disc conversion.
Front adjustable platform bilstein dampers with adjustable TCA's and compression struts, grooved and vented discs AP calipers.
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The large black hole by the O/S indicator is the ram air intake for the air filter.
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Interior:
Bespoke to the customers spec.
Sparco 2000 pro seats.
Sparco 6 point harnesses.
Flocked dash, flocked alloy door cards and C post covers.
Smiths motorsport gauges.
Full roll cage Tig welded in.
Fitted carpert to the front. |
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The hole car looks great from any angle. |
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Clocks look the part.
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Engine and Gearbox:
2LTR Cosworth YB turbo 330BHP
Gearbox T5 5 speed.
Supplied by customer.
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The air filter is a sealed type induction filter housed under the O/S wing.
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Fuel system:
Alloy shaped fuel tank, swirl pot in tank, single motorsport fuel pump and filter all sealed behind firewall. |
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Soon to be seen in the retro ford mag. |
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