1988 Ford fiesta mk2 - Retro ride on a student budget

[Firehawk]

Say hello to my new purchase ha.

1988 mk2 Fiesta L 1.1l
Bought as a new daily while my chevettes off the road for the winter - thread here retrorides.proboards.com/thread/184303/retro-student-budget-vauxhall-chevette
48k on the clock and pretty solid overall.

Only cost me £600 to insure aswell ( 1years no claim at 18yrs). Which is a lot lower than some so very pleased.

 The day I bought it.








 

[Firehawk]

I've only owned it for a week so I've only really found the time to wash it and give it a good service. (Oil, plugs, leads, dissy cap, rotor) , coolant and give it a general bit of tlc.






Also collected these for £100 . with good tires allround. Half way through refurbing them as we speak.

[wannabemechanic]

That will look good

[bortaf]

Do love a small engined car you can thrash the tits off without getting into too much trouble speed wise
the 1.1 is a nice revvy little sod

[Firehawk]

Busy weekend.. It's probably had it's first polish in 10 years, wheels are now on. - it looks and drives a lot better! Horn was dud, so upgraded to a 150db air horn because why not?! Going to repaint the trim panels and bumpers next week and finish off lowering it as I only had enough time to do the rear yesterday. No pictures of this yet, but the rear Has been lowered using springs from my old mk5 zetec s.

[ProjectBobcat]

Lowered on pots is a great way to go with these in my opinion, keep us updated. I really like the retro side stripes too.

[Battles]

This is going to look great.
Great price for insurance too, I think I was paying more than that for an '88 Fiesta in the late 90s!

[Firehawk]

Thanks, I've seen quite a few with pots so painted them ford titanium grey to be a bit different. Very pleased with how the paint turned out after the polish.
Before and after a clean...

[Firehawk]

Also note the dodgy wing rail,  it's on the todo list along with that plate by the arch. 

[Firehawk]

Ignore the jack - this was the stock ride height at the rear.




And after...



Bumpers temporarily off whilst I respray it. Although I'm tempted to keep it bumperless - opinions?

[ProjectBobcat]

Personally I think they look loads better WITH bumpers. A popular thing to do is replace the later bumper centre section (coloured with plastic inserts) for an earlier one which was black and solid metal with no inserts. You can achieve the same look byt removing the plastic inserts and welding up the holes, then respraying the bumper black.

[Battles]

+1 for black metal bumpers.

[foldy]

Looking good mate. What's that, -50mm drop?

[dikkehemaworst]

Nov 24, 2015 20:08:58 GMT Battles said:

+1 for black metal bumpers.

as said

[Firehawk]

Time for an update,

Bumper removed

Nasty









The sanding began...





I soon realised i wasn't going to have enough black paint to do the whole bumper so used the proper ivory paint.

And the finished result!

[foldy]

That looks better. Unsure whether to keep mine red or go black aswell.

[Firehawk]

Getting sick of seeing that red oxide paint by the arch so tidied it up the best i could temporarily until i get the welder on it!
Also finished off lowering the front.
That pretty much summarises this weekends work. Getting there... little by little.

[Firehawk]

Nov 23, 2015 23:43:41 GMT Firehawk said:

and for reference.... stock height

[retroslide]

Wheels look great on that. Rare to see one in white!

[Firehawk]

Nov 29, 2015 18:47:58 GMT retroslide said:
Wheels look great on that. Rare to see one in white!
ha it's more beige on beige