In the summer of 2006 I bought a project car from ebay, it was a P Reg, red Mondy v6 si, that had more or less been converted to a ST200, however the owner had give up on it, he said he didn't have time, but as I stripped it down I realised that he had lost faith as it had loads of problems, the wiring for 1 was terrible, he'd attempted to replace the whole loom from the donor ST200. I've lost the pic's I took when I removed the engine and the pic's of the butchered wiring behind the dash (which I butchered further to remove the wiring loom for the remote stalk for the stereo). I only got round to taking the ST200 engine out of the Mondy a few months ago, mainly due to the weather and me being lazy. It had to be done though as my missis was threating to scrap it as she was sick of seeing it on our drive!
So here's a few pic's that I didn't lose of the Mondy
Dash
Clocks (check the mileage less than 33k)
Centre console (now fitted in my Cougar)
Remote radio stalk, controller and loom (now fitted and working in my Cougar)
Mondy less its engine
I scrapped the mondy shell, I stripped it bare and have sold and still have to sell loads of bits on ebay and put the Cougar on the drive
I hadn't used the Cougar for 18 months due to the wishbones becoming unsafe, I hadn't even looked at it for over a year. I left it standing on a mates drive. It was bad, green mould all over the bodywork and all over the dash. So 3 days t-cutting and cleaning the interior and it was back looking like it was cared for (I didn't take any pic's of it before I cleaned it, I was too embarassed!).
ST200 centre console now fitted
Note the st200 gearknob and shortshifter now fitted
Now she's clean time to fit the ST200 clocks, 1st here's the old 1's
And here's the new
Checkout my mileage!
Now time for the engine, here's the old
Coming out
Now sat side by side with the ST200 motor, to check what bits need swapping over
Here's the ST unit
She needs a new power steering pump, the oil is everywhere
Off with the old, and clean up the oil
On with the new (not forgetting to change the aux belt idler pulley bearing as well)
While the engine is out, its prudent to check the condition of the clutch
Too many wheel spins, I can't believe a car thats only done 33k miles has a burnt out clutch (now we know why it was wrote off!) So here's the new clutch
All built back up and ready to fit
Now to prep the engine bay, lets start with the subframe
I have new wishbones, so off with the old, those bolts where hard work
Now this is where I've stalled. Ford want ?ú8.13 for the M10 bolts each! The M12's I will reuse, on inspection they are OK (I'm a little worried about reusing the nylock nuts though). So now I'm looking for 4 off M10 HT10.9 flanged head bolts and 4 off 10 grade flanged nylock nuts at a decent price. I've contacted various suppliers without any luck. I'm going to concentrate on suppliers to the structural steel industry tomorrow, as I reckon I'll have better luck.
I've fitted a new steering rack, new wishbones (less the M10's) and new antiroll bar bushes to the subframe and have refitted the frame in the car. So once I locate the bolts and clean out the bay, more pic's will follow (I hope the bloody weather gets better!).
Cheers
Ste
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So here's a few pic's that I didn't lose of the Mondy
Dash
Clocks (check the mileage less than 33k)
Centre console (now fitted in my Cougar)
Remote radio stalk, controller and loom (now fitted and working in my Cougar)
Mondy less its engine
I scrapped the mondy shell, I stripped it bare and have sold and still have to sell loads of bits on ebay and put the Cougar on the drive
I hadn't used the Cougar for 18 months due to the wishbones becoming unsafe, I hadn't even looked at it for over a year. I left it standing on a mates drive. It was bad, green mould all over the bodywork and all over the dash. So 3 days t-cutting and cleaning the interior and it was back looking like it was cared for (I didn't take any pic's of it before I cleaned it, I was too embarassed!).
ST200 centre console now fitted
Note the st200 gearknob and shortshifter now fitted
Now she's clean time to fit the ST200 clocks, 1st here's the old 1's
And here's the new
Checkout my mileage!
Now time for the engine, here's the old
Coming out
Now sat side by side with the ST200 motor, to check what bits need swapping over
Here's the ST unit
She needs a new power steering pump, the oil is everywhere
Off with the old, and clean up the oil
On with the new (not forgetting to change the aux belt idler pulley bearing as well)
While the engine is out, its prudent to check the condition of the clutch
Too many wheel spins, I can't believe a car thats only done 33k miles has a burnt out clutch (now we know why it was wrote off!) So here's the new clutch
All built back up and ready to fit
Now to prep the engine bay, lets start with the subframe
I have new wishbones, so off with the old, those bolts where hard work
Now this is where I've stalled. Ford want ?ú8.13 for the M10 bolts each! The M12's I will reuse, on inspection they are OK (I'm a little worried about reusing the nylock nuts though). So now I'm looking for 4 off M10 HT10.9 flanged head bolts and 4 off 10 grade flanged nylock nuts at a decent price. I've contacted various suppliers without any luck. I'm going to concentrate on suppliers to the structural steel industry tomorrow, as I reckon I'll have better luck.
I've fitted a new steering rack, new wishbones (less the M10's) and new antiroll bar bushes to the subframe and have refitted the frame in the car. So once I locate the bolts and clean out the bay, more pic's will follow (I hope the bloody weather gets better!).
Cheers
Ste
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