Ecoscort - 98 Ford Escort ZX2 ecomodding thread

[BabyDiesel]

I'm back from my Kentucky mission trip y'all! It was a blast. Between helping build a bathroom for a man living in a rundown shack, helping needy children with clothes and school supplies and participating in a children's rodeo where we shared the Gospel of Christ to them, it has been quite the exhilarating week! I made many new friends, experienced the everyday struggles of living in coal country, and became quite the beast at Kemps

I came back and my car was freshly painted! It is fresh y'all, no joke. I will have pictures up tomorrow for everyone! Just to give a idea of what the color is - Massey Ferguson tractor + clear coat + sparkles

My mother told me that no more aero mods were to be done to the car... this made me upset, until I realized that the real problem was with my duct tape usage. So this gives me the chance to add more aero mods with a more permanent solution, i.e. metal bar, screws, bolt, etc. Win-win right there!

Tomorrow the oil will be changed with 5W-20 Wally World brand full synthetic, along with the addition of a new belt. The new belt will have to be about 33 inches shorter, however... in order to accommodate the A/C and power steering delete! Also being swapped is the crank pulley for an UDP

Tank mpg is 46.1 right now. The driving done without the mods is showing about a 2-3 mpg loss on the tank average. I'll have to see if I can squeak a 50 mpg fill before I go lean in August. Having the deletes should put me over the edge... but I am fighting the law of diminishing returns now. Y'all will be the first to know how it goes!

BTW Russell, congrats on breaking 200% over EPA! That is a milestone I have wanted from day one, and it is good to see someone else achieve it

[pgfpro]

Very nicely done on your mission!!! If everyone would do this once a year it would be amazing the difference it would make for our country.
God bless you and major kudos!!!

Now get those pics up.

[BabyDiesel]

This is the best one I have right now. I'll have better one's up later today!



Compared to how it used to be!

[whatmaycome14]

Whew! i had to turn down the brightness on my computer screen...

[dirtydave]

looks good!

[pgfpro]

Looks Awesome!!!I love the color

[dirtydave]

how did he paint it?

[Daox]

Originally Posted by pgfpro

Very nicely done on your mission!!! If everyone would do this once a year it would be amazing the difference it would make for our country.
God bless you and major kudos!!!

I agree! Missions work is not only very rewarding (it is better to give than receive after all ), it also really puts your life into perspective with the gross amount of luxury we have in our lives when you see people living SO happily with SO much less than we consider normal or even poor. Good job BabyDiesel!

The car looks good too.

[BabyDiesel]

Dave, my brother painted the ZX2 out in our backyard. I'm not even joking! He mixed his own paint and sprayed it himself. The paint is 3 layers of Rustoleum Professional Safety Red, topped with 2 layers of Massey Ferguson tractor paint, that is topped with 2 coats of auto grade clearcoat with some automotive paint glitter. The Rustoleum came out more of an orange red, so he added the 2 coats of MF paint to redden it up a bit. Using the tractor paint fits my country boy persona beautifully

It is not perfect, but it is so much better than before

Edit: I forgot to mention that he told that he will color match my boat tail when I get it completed!

And thanks y'all! It truly is a bigger blessing to give your time, energy and self to others than to take take take. The area is rough. It used to be one of the biggest coal mines in America, but it has shut down since Obama took office. Method is rampant, and so is alcohol abuse. People are third world kind of poor too. Mr. James lived in a 300-400 sq. Ft. shack with no insulation on the side of a mountain. He ia only one out of many in Eastern Kentucky that are like that. It is a truly humbling experience each time i go.

[BabyDiesel]

With the rear skirts on, it looks so much like a Honda Insight