New Member from France

Hello everybody,
I'm French and I bought the FRP#407 in London, on August.
There are some repairs to do, because the former owner wasn't really careful, but it's a really beautiful and great car.




kind regards,
Guillaume

Welcome
First photo is lovely.
The steering wheel may come up clean.
Carefully use water and something like a Fairy soap bar and using a clean white t shirt dab and work carefully at the material to lift the muck out. Do not rub (it will bobble if you do that) and do not soak the wheel as the alcantara might seperate.
Use another fresh white bit of cloth and using water damp press the lose grime out.
It will eventually come up clean.
The drivers seat can be repaired, though you will need to watch out on say ebay and buy a peice of alcantara to repair it with.

Thanks for your welcoming,
The alcantara on the steering wheel has two holes on the right side, and I'm looking for a piece of alcantara for the seats and if I still have a piece, I will use it for the steering wheel.
Sorry for my english, because I'm french .

You may find that the seat fabric you replace could help be used to make good your steering wheel.
Your English is very good, far better than my French

[V4FRP]

Welcome to the forum. Keep a look out on eBay for alcantara it comes up for sale every so often. Like Kate I'm afraid my French is no where near your English.

Welcome!

speedline wrote:

The drivers seat can be repaired, though you will need to watch out on say ebay and buy a peice of alcantara to repair it with.

Here it is, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-FORD-RACI ... 2ecb8cc7f5

Gaydek wrote:

Welcome!
Here it is, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-FORD-RACI ... 2ecb8cc7f5

That could be perfect if the price was more reasonable.

[V4FRP]

guigui697 wrote:

Gaydek wrote:

Welcome!
Here it is, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-FORD-RACI ... 2ecb8cc7f5

That could be perfect if the price was more reasonable.

Why not ask the seller if he would sell you just 1 metre as that is quite a long roll and has been on eBay for a long time.

Welcome to the site

Nice to hear that you plan to repair the car.

Welcome !

I changed the center caps, because the originals were damaged,
Before:


After:

[V4FRP]

Looking good changing the centre caps makes the wheels look 100% better.

hello,
The clutch on my FRP had given way, some people said me to put this for replacement: SACHS : 3000 951 024.
what do you think about this?

I think the Focus mk1 clutch is not favoured as the peddle feel is soft so I would not personally fit that one in your link
I think some members are using the Fiesta ST150 clutch with the Puma release bearing but it wont fit perfect and might need the flywheel skimming or something.

Or just fit the Puma clutch again with a new Puma release bearing, I did that in my FRP (as others do too) as I am happy with it and it survived many track days and a few Motorsport events and has so far done about 35k miles and still going.

Thank you for your answer

I saw than my right drive shaft is broken, can I just found them in Pumabuild or there is a other website?
Thanks.

[V4FRP]

Pumabuild is best for you they have a good stock of driveshafts

Hello,
My FRP is back, I changed the driveshaft, and I bought a new exhausts manifold, a piper exhausts on pumabuild.com, because mine was with holes, and full of rust.
I changed spark plugs by denso ITV20.
So if I list things I did on it I think that will be a huge list:
- I changed the oil in the engine and in the gearbox
- Oil filter
- Cabine air filter
- Air filter
- Water pump
- Cam belt
- Accessorie belt
- Two tyres
- Fix parcel shelf
- center caps
- tie door panel
and I probably forget something

I apply belgom alu on inlet manifold, I will take picture when I can.
Holliday on Montpellier With FRP

Made great progress
Is it driving very well now?