1983 Ford Sierra mk1 (awaiting rotary swap)

Hi all,

With the recent sale of my Escort I'm about ready to start my next project.
I've been toying with the idea of transplanting the running gear from a Mazda RX8 into something cool and retro for a long while now. 

(with much inspiration from daan 's E21 thread)

A few months ago I was trawling eBay like you do when I happened across an M.O.T failure.
The price was within budget and within 48 hours I was on my way home with this:




A 53 reg 231 6 speed with 70,000 or so on the clocks. Engine runs sweet and starts nicely hot or cold so fingers crossed.

So now I had a donor car and nothing more to work with.

A month or so later a friend of mine had his Orion written off in a rear end smash and replaced it with a mk1 Sierra.
I'd originally toyed with the idea of buying a cheap (yeah right) Capri project and building it with the RX8 bits but the Sierra just looked right to me.
I'd wanted a Sierra since forever anyway so a Sierra it had to be.

Which brings me to this:








Its an '83 2.0 GL 4 speed and its "quite" clean.

I saw it on eBay in January and decided to watch it to see what it sold for. Later The lad who bought it stuck it up for sale on Facebook and I started to message him about it.
Long story short, my Escort sold and I went over to Cleethorpes in the snow to collect.

I plan on getting it in the garage and starting to strip it over the next week or so. I've already ordered wheels, tyres, coil overs and brakes.

The plan is to use as much Mazda stuff as possible and try to keep the swap fairly simple. 

Will try to update often and maintain an actual build thread for once.

A.J