500+bhp Mk3 Fiesta Project

500+bhp Mk3 Fiesta Project

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mwstewart

Original Poster:

7,554 posts

187 months

Wednesday 24th July 2019
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The bottom end was built up with the new clutch and it went away at the end of last week for balancing. I'll ask Ian how it went.

B'stard Child

28,321 posts

245 months

Wednesday 24th July 2019
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mwstewart said:
The bottom end was built up with the new clutch and it went away at the end of last week for balancing. I'll ask Ian how it went.
Now that is good news to hear from the OP

Has the M3 gone to it's new home?

masterman

5 posts

130 months

Monday 5th August 2019
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Today is Monday 5th August 2019 ..the 500bhp mk3 fiesta build started in 2011
(jesus christ) and I was interested then but 8 years on and still not completed??
I cant be bothered any more.. the guy has more money than sense
and is continually faffing about to the Nth degree with every little component..

D4MJT

1,253 posts

157 months

Monday 5th August 2019
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masterman said:
Today is Monday 5th August 2019 ..the 500bhp mk3 fiesta build started in 2011
(jesus christ) and I was interested then but 8 years on and still not completed??
I cant be bothered any more.. the guy has more money than sense
and is continually faffing about to the Nth degree with every little component..
Well I’m sure he’ll be devastated you feel that way, at least you were bothered enough to post laugh

What a pointless stupid comment.

I really enjoy reading all of mwstewarts threads, in fact I can’t think of a situation where more money than sense could be less appropriate.




Davie_GLA

6,521 posts

198 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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masterman said:
Today is Monday 5th August 2019 ..the 500bhp mk3 fiesta build started in 2011
(jesus christ) and I was interested then but 8 years on and still not completed??
I cant be bothered any more.. the guy has more money than sense
and is continually faffing about to the Nth degree with every little component..
Would sir like the flounce XL or the regular size flounce?

Cheerio!!

leglessAlex

5,384 posts

140 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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masterman said:
Today is Monday 5th August 2019 ..the 500bhp mk3 fiesta build started in 2011
(jesus christ) and I was interested then but 8 years on and still not completed??
I cant be bothered any more.. the guy has more money than sense
and is continually faffing about to the Nth degree with every little component..
Three posts in six years and you've wasted one of them on that garbage?

Wow, man... Just wow.

TonyRPH

12,963 posts

167 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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masterman does have a point though.

By the time the car is completed, it'll be ready for another restoration...

Perhaps he should sell it off as one of those "unfinished projects" you so often see in car magazines...

Davie_GLA

6,521 posts

198 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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TonyRPH said:
masterman does have a point though.

By the time the car is completed, it'll be ready for another restoration...

Perhaps he should sell it off as one of those "unfinished projects" you so often see in car magazines...
FS, no he doesn't. Who are we to tell the man what to do? it'll be done when it's done for his benefit, not ours.


Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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Davie_GLA said:
TonyRPH said:
masterman does have a point though.

By the time the car is completed, it'll be ready for another restoration...

Perhaps he should sell it off as one of those "unfinished projects" you so often see in car magazines...
FS, no he doesn't. Who are we to tell the man what to do? it'll be done when it's done for his benefit, not ours.
Is the correct answer.

masterman

5 posts

130 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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To those wind bags who have umpteen posts - get a life. I wonder how many enthusiastic readers of his posts have also run out of patience, perhaps meanwhile, he is trying to determine the colour of the wheel nuts, that will take another couple of years before a decision is reached no doubt, providing he can remember where they are of course.

_dobbo_

14,321 posts

247 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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masterman said:
To those wind bags who have umpteen posts - get a life. I wonder how many enthusiastic readers of his posts have also run out of patience, perhaps meanwhile, he is trying to determine the colour of the wheel nuts, that will take another couple of years before a decision is reached no doubt, providing he can remember where they are of course.
Whilst we are waiting, why don't you share the amazing car you are building?

Liquid Knight

15,754 posts

182 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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These things take time and some of the best builds take forever. Look at Red Victor 3 almost fifty years in the making.

This isn't a made for Discovery Turbo "project" that takes months of research and planning to execute in a week or some Wheeler Dealer doing basic repairs and running a polishing mop over before saying it's "fully restored" this is real life, real time; really realistic.

I haven't touched my project car since my father passed away last year. Since then I have lost my job and have a zero hour contract now while I'm being vetted for a new career. Zero hours, zero pay but I'm employed so I have discovered how non-universal Universal Credit (UB40) is. I have had plenty of time, no money for parts; but mostly my heart hasn't been in it.

Life and things get in the way sometimes. So what? If you're worried about this project taking too long; get of your arse and be inspired to start your own.

It doesn't matter if you do a crap job (like my projects tend to be) so long as you learn from it. smile

JackP1

1,269 posts

161 months

Tuesday 6th August 2019
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masterman said:
To those wind bags who have umpteen posts - get a life. I wonder how many enthusiastic readers of his posts have also run out of patience, perhaps meanwhile, he is trying to determine the colour of the wheel nuts, that will take another couple of years before a decision is reached no doubt, providing he can remember where they are of course.
No-ones making you read this thread. Others actually want to see the modifications and details that go into it, that's what makes it so worthwhile reading it. Yes, it takes time, but it's not at your discretion, and I most certainly don't want to see it rushed to finish.

Do one.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Wednesday 7th August 2019
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masterman said:
To those wind bags who have umpteen posts - get a life. I wonder how many enthusiastic readers of his posts have also run out of patience, perhaps meanwhile, he is trying to determine the colour of the wheel nuts, that will take another couple of years before a decision is reached no doubt, providing he can remember where they are of course.
Go away you annoying little turd.

HM-2

12,467 posts

168 months

Wednesday 7th August 2019
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masterman said:
To those wind bags who have umpteen posts - get a life.
You're posting on a thread that a great many people track and find interesting, and which a great many people have a great deal of patience for, telling everyone you're bored of it.

This is the height of worthless attention-seeking. Nobody gave a st about your opinion before you posted and we certainly don't now.
Next time you feel like contributing I suggest you simply don't bother, because it will invariably be worthless dreck.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 7th August 2019
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I'd read his Ferrari thread. He said he's binning off working on cars as he doesnt see a future in combustion engines. So I doubt this Fiesta will get finished.

mwstewart

Original Poster:

7,554 posts

187 months

Wednesday 7th August 2019
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I must have missed the memo about PH turning into a paid subscription forum hehe

The Fiesta will be finished - but I shall not start any new projects at this time.

Davie_GLA

6,521 posts

198 months

Wednesday 7th August 2019
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mwstewart said:
I must have missed the memo about PH turning into a paid subscription forum hehe

The Fiesta will be finished - but I shall not start any new projects at this time.
End of story! Keep at it mate - and anyway we all know cars are never finished... Ever smile

Dr G

15,159 posts

241 months

Wednesday 7th August 2019
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mwstewart said:
The Fiesta will be finished
Sometimes the journey is just as good as the destination; plenty of us around here grateful you share your hobbies with the level of detail you do.

masterman

5 posts

130 months

Wednesday 7th August 2019
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I was not seeking attention I merely asked if the Fiesta had been built and of course I was
a bit miffed when no progress had been made for years. I did not expect ttish remarks
from some of you - I would have expected "no not yet" or perhaps a post from mstuart
with the state of play may have been forth coming. And for the dipstick who said get off my
arse and start my own project - done it son- years ago -Ford Zephyr six engine into a 15cwt van replacing a 1700cc engine with a 2.3 - a whole a lot of work- took about 3 months that was
in 1970/1 when customising was really popular and no substitute for cubic inches was the
watch word. All before fuel injection and re-mapping,computers and mobile phones. I
used to take my boys up to Olympia and Ally Pally for the custom car shows. A lot of us got
our inspiration from a popular magazine at that time called Hot Car , I still have all copies
but nothing lasts forever- the mag started catering for others perhaps with a bigger budget
and renamed it Performance Car. End of an era.