Finding an engine

While the body was in paint I was keen to maintain progress, so I started working on sourcing an engine. The initial plan was to find a wrecked car for salvage on one of the auction sites, bring it home, strip out what I needed, and sell the rest!

Few problems. The auctions were very expensive and didn't have exactly what I was after, I didn't have the space to house another car, I didn't have the time to strip it and I din't have the first clue about what I needed or where to find it in the wrecked donor.

So using a shopping list supplied by Bryn (FigJam on Ozclubbies.com.au), I shopped around a few wreckers for late model write offs (rear first obviously). Thank goodness for P Platers!!!. FORMAZ spares at Smithfield had just received a 2009 Focus 2.0 litre with 13,000km on it that had been hit heavily from behind. The guys at FORMAZ were more more than happy to collect all the parts from my list, and crate them up for pickup for me. This saved a huge amount of time and embarrassment from not knowing what a charcoal canister looked like!. End result was an engine at home after 3 days of shopping, mounted on the stand waiting to be stripped. Two nights later it was stripped and cleaned and ready for some new go faster bits!