swapping the engines over in Fiesta Mk4s

It's legal as long as you tell the DVLA. Feasible, sane and economical, possibly not. You'll spend £6-800 on a ratty 1.25 with FSH and then a weekend pulling engines in and out of the cramped engine bay. And then you'll have a car with no engine and a car that's worth maybe a grand. TBH I'd look for a smashed car in a scrapper and pull the engine out of that, or rebuild the engine you've got.

And it is a 1299. So there.

Have a look in the back of Autotrader at the scrap/salvage section.... Loads of rear-ended/banannad cars for a few hundred quid.

Thanks - good tip. I will.

Tony

I don't get who you're replying to, and what point you're trying to make.

To be honest, it's not really worth doing at all, given the market value of that shape Fiesta.

That the 1.3 Endura E pushrod POS is bang on 1299cc. So it's probably not the 1.25 Zetec...

If it was a base model I would agree but the Ghia does have rather more value. And this one has had quite a lot of bodywork done after the other half had a little argument with a crash barrier on the autobahn last summer...

Tony

You're right, the seller has now confirmed this. But the principle is the same. I of course would not change a zetec block for the Endura one.

Cheers,

Tony

So it's worth even less than I originally thought (damaged / repaired) and more likely to rot than one that's never been pranged, too.

Flog it on ebay and buy another.

Which will be my point, then.

You have no idea of how the repair has been done. It's not a cheap backyard job and it was only a front wing and some cosmetic repair to the bumpers.

I am considering this.

Tony

Tony Brett ( snipped-for-privacy@oucs.ox.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It's still damaged/repaired.

Lovely, an' all...

Was the shelf primer stripped off the new panels before properly priming and painting them to the same standard as the originals? Including any stone chip protection around the arch? How about any protective coating on the back? Were the seams sealed to the same standard as the original? Any mud shields inside the wing properly refitted?

Yes - all done to Ford spec. There was only one new panel. Mud shiedls are definitely fixed back in - I checked all that before accepting the repair. It was done by a large repairer that works 24 hours per day and has proper facilites. B&T panels, Thame, Oxon.

Tony

Tony Brett ( snipped-for-privacy@oucs.ox.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I doubt it.

As you wish. Difference is I have the car to see with my own eyes. You don't.

Tony

Tony Brett ( snipped-for-privacy@oucs.ox.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You've had the paint off, then, since it came back?

You saw it go on?

Tony Brett ( snipped-for-privacy@oucs.ox.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Did you? Because, if you didn't, you don't know it's been done to Ford standards - and I very much doubt any insurance repair-by-numbers bodyshop would.