Bonzo's progress

[Enoch]

Looking good Ronnie I love the colour, very striking.
Enoch

[spud69]

Very nice Ronnie, and good to see your build coming on. Does look nice in that colour to.....

Keep it up.....AndyH

[K4KEV]

Yea yea yea....Traffic Red Rocks must get on wi mine

[Wgroove]

Originally Posted by Bonzo

Sorted Wim

Thanks for the pictures Ronnie !

Looking awesome ! Nice job !

[Bonzo]

Some of you may have read that I wanted to try a plastic inlet manifold out for size !!??

Got busy first thing this morning & took the hacksaw to the engine bay brace ( TR5 ) .... Ohhhh, that felt so naughty

Before I did any cutting, I had a quick measure up just to make sure that I was not going to run into any major setbacks ( Concerned about the engine mount )

Well, what a difference, fits like a glove

I'll have to re-route the steering shaft a little but I can live with that.

Here's a couple of pictures, I have placed a batten accross the scuttle & nozecone to give some idea of levels.

Here's the original Alloy Zetec manifold fitted, way too tall !!??



Here's the plastic inlet manifold fitted, see how much room has been gained.



All in all, it should give me a head start towards an early engine run .... who knows, even a wee test drive !!

[Wgroove]

Nice job Ronnie !
Did you made the plastic manifold by yourself ??

Greetz,

Wim

[Bonzo]

Hi Wim

No, the manifold is a standard Ford one

It came from an 1998 Ford Escort Mk5/6 .... Alloy inlet manifolds were originally fitted to the earlier models & were replaced by downward hanging plastic inlet manifolds in about 1997/98 ?

They were fitted to the late 1.6 & 1.8 Zetec engined car's

I am not sure if this manifold was also fitted to the later Mondeo's !!??

The one I picked up was from a 1.6 litre model .... Easy got as it was laying on the floor, next to the car.
Next time I am at the breaker's I will collect the correct 1.8 Litre version, I strongly suspect that there will be a difference in the size of throttle body between the 1.6 & 1.8

Just need to do a slight modification to the steering extension shaft & the job will sorted

[richardk]

Nice work there Ronnie, glad things are improving for you as well my mate, Car looks fantastic and that colour is going to look very striking indeed. Take care mate and see you next year hopefully!

Rich

[Bonzo]

Thank's Rich

This year has been a long hard slog for me but at last Things are moving in the right direction

I would love to park up alongside you all next year but more likely to be 2012

Mind you, if my energy & motivation holds up .... Never say never, long time between now & next May

[alga]

Always nice to see progress pics! Nice job, Ronnie!

Wim, this manifold has been fitted to Mondeos. I have one of those. Ford Focus blacktops have a similar one too.