Ive wanted a MK2 for a while now having always owned MK3 fiesta's. I got my chance recently when my RS1800 came up for its mot and failed badly on rust, turns out the winter hadn't been to kind on it. I was a bit gutted as Id had it two years but it had done 166k so I guess it was time to move on. So I started searching ebay and thought I found a tidy looking popular plus which actually turned out to be a bit of a shitter so bit disheartened I carried on searching when I came across a nice looking 1.1 ghia that I went to view and ended up buying and driving home that day
I bought it off an old boy who people on another forum have nick named ken so il refer to him as that. The car has done just over 50k with a full service history. Ken had wax oiled the whole car, bought and fitted a new head on the engine! fitted a new water pump because he though it was leaking but turned out to be a leaking hose :roll:
I don't have any pictures of when I bought it
Lowered 50mm:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/DSC_0267.jpg)
I wasn't really happy with how the front sat so I cut a coil off the front:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/DSC_0269.jpg)
Then came some jbl gto speakers in the rear quarter with some halfords stuff that I'm pretty sure is just meccano they repackaged:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/speaker.jpg)
Ashely exhaust I got for £60, ratty but a bargain:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/ashley.jpg)
I had this fitted at powerflow for £40 and picked up some new wheels. RS accessory 13"x6j:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk22.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk21.jpg)
K&N fitted:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/KN.jpg)
Metallic paint:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/ghiapaint.jpg)
Flamming with the ashley on:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk2flamming.jpg)
I got bored the one night so I took the panhard rob and anti roll bar off my car and sprayed them with some moondust silver spray paint I had laying about from one of my old mk3's. Il let the pics do the talking:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/spraying1.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/glitter.jpg)
Anti roll bar was a proper child born out of wedlock to refit:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/antirollbar.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/glitter2.jpg)
All fitted:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/underneath.jpg)
Sporting a rather fashionable head torch:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/headtorch.jpg)
I fitted an adjustable panhard rod and these arrive in the post the other day, brand new in the box headlight protectors :dance:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00438-20100910-1628.jpg)
20 year + old alcohol whipe that hadn't dried out (I opened it)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00437-20100910-1627.jpg)
Fitted:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00439-20100910-1636.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00440-20100910-1637.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00441-20100910-1637.jpg)
Adjustable Panhard Rod:
![](http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs312.ash2/59216_1583925841143_1325640134_31534131_1627187_n.jpg)
The fact the front was sitting so high was really starting to bother me, so today I cut a coil off of the front springs and I'm so much happier with how its sit now. It will do until I get coilovers.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk22lowered.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk21lowered.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk23lowered.jpg)
![:D](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
I don't have any pictures of when I bought it
![:(](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
Lowered 50mm:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/DSC_0267.jpg)
I wasn't really happy with how the front sat so I cut a coil off the front:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/DSC_0269.jpg)
Then came some jbl gto speakers in the rear quarter with some halfords stuff that I'm pretty sure is just meccano they repackaged:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/speaker.jpg)
Ashely exhaust I got for £60, ratty but a bargain:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/ashley.jpg)
I had this fitted at powerflow for £40 and picked up some new wheels. RS accessory 13"x6j:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk22.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk21.jpg)
K&N fitted:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/KN.jpg)
Metallic paint:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/ghiapaint.jpg)
Flamming with the ashley on:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk2flamming.jpg)
I got bored the one night so I took the panhard rob and anti roll bar off my car and sprayed them with some moondust silver spray paint I had laying about from one of my old mk3's. Il let the pics do the talking:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/spraying1.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/glitter.jpg)
Anti roll bar was a proper child born out of wedlock to refit:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/antirollbar.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/glitter2.jpg)
All fitted:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/underneath.jpg)
Sporting a rather fashionable head torch:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/headtorch.jpg)
I fitted an adjustable panhard rod and these arrive in the post the other day, brand new in the box headlight protectors :dance:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00438-20100910-1628.jpg)
20 year + old alcohol whipe that hadn't dried out (I opened it)
![:o](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00437-20100910-1627.jpg)
Fitted:
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00439-20100910-1636.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00440-20100910-1637.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/IMG00441-20100910-1637.jpg)
Adjustable Panhard Rod:
![](http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs312.ash2/59216_1583925841143_1325640134_31534131_1627187_n.jpg)
The fact the front was sitting so high was really starting to bother me, so today I cut a coil off of the front springs and I'm so much happier with how its sit now. It will do until I get coilovers.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk22lowered.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk21lowered.jpg)
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/jamie87/mk23lowered.jpg)