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[Seaneylad]

Hello! Thought I'd say hello properly and stick up some pictures...
I've always been an escort fan and picked up a mk1 last year which still needs work but I love it! It's a 1300e she'll with 2L pinto with a few upgrades with Capri struts etc etc

But I have picked up a ford pop100e to restore, completely different car. It cool in a different way! Should be cheap to insure as I'm 23 as well I'd like to go down the route of a 1600 xflow etc but I'm going to stick standard and just restore it for the time being, not with a big budget either .. So will be a slow project!

The only thing I would like to do it lower the car a bit, use 1 1/2 or 2 inch lowering blocks on the back, not sure how I'd get the front to match, of there an easy way. I don't want to go down escort/Capri modified front end?

It's a fair weather on the drive project .. My escort takes the garage place

Thanks

[D4B]

Hi Seanylad,

Love the colour of your MK1 Escort And looks like you are getting proper stuck in to the 100E. Welcome here and best wishes with your projects. Steve

[Rick]

Great to see both Fords

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[Seaneylad]

Thanks, all good fun .. until they break down

[Seaneylad]

[Seaneylad]

Any advice on how to best patch or repair this?

I'd rather do a proper job and not just patch over it if I can

Thanks

[D4B]

With some difficulty where it is.... If it were me (and I am no expert) I would remove the suspension and cut out the rot, but only remove as little as possible, and do it a bit at a time.... similar to what I did here, except yours needs to be structural so perhaps edge setting and an underlap required?

sorry to contaminate your Ford thread with japanese rot but here it was:













And here is edge setting:

[Seaneylad]

[Seaneylad]

[Peter_L]

Hi

I used to see some 100E Fords with lowered suspension at Croft. They achieved this by cutting away the inner fender where the struts attach, and then fabricating a new top mounting plate above the original fender line.

The strut would poke through what was their original mounting surface.

Not exactly sure how much lowering was achieved or if they had to "dome" the bonnet to accept the intrusion.

This was real budget racing back then, (mid 60's) huge fun though.

[Seaneylad]

not the best set up .. but go no room anywhere else

and a random photo from FF of my escort thrown in

[D4B]

Looks like a good job ~ well done good fabrication

[Seaneylad]

Its getting there slowly

some random pictures, of little bits we have done

[Seaneylad]

Just plodding on ..  #frontgardenproject

[Seaneylad]