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Drove it into central Londonium due to no parking again at either of the Bicester stations.

Still, despite the torrential rain, it's faster, cheaper and more comfortable that using the railway, even if an XJ isn't the most ideal car for the tight back roads in the city, same issues as driving it through the roads of St Ives

You know when PLA has sucked in too much moisture, as it goes brittle.

ABS is probably the hardest of the "normal" filaments to print, due to high shrinkage (so corners lift during printing) and high temps needed during printing.  Many open frame printers like yours will struggle to keep the bed hot enough, so you will likely have to rig up some kind of big box once you've started the print.

Sadly, as with cars these days, your £100 p/h more often than not buys you a component changer with a similar level of access to Google as you have at home 

Likewise, I bought an old 2 drawer finish cabinet, desiccant in the drawers and then the rolls in the bags they came in, little desiccant bags in there too. Never had an issue, but then again pla is pretty forgiving.

Looks like a remote extruder, via a bowden tube?  If so, not really going to be that good with TPU, as that really needs a direct drive (extruder on the hot end).  Remote extruders were common for a while, as it reduced the weight of the moving parts.

Yes, remote extruder and bowden tube - several upgrades in my case but I doubt they'd help. I can imagine something squashy like TPU compressing and going s shaped inside the bowden, with corespondingly negative effects on actual extrusion rate. TBH I can see me having more use for ABS once I get going on the kit car, but there in lies a different brand of ar$e ache I fear

mine is 74 hc.had it since 1990 .its holding up pretty well as you say they used to rust for fun back in the day .mine is still on its original (untouched)inner wings,sills and front wings and valance so i must be doing something right over the years !!

I used to build the rear axle for them in Ellesmere Port. That was a veeeeeery long time ago 

That explains a lot. Axle on mine was a noisy little bugger. 

I remember in the early seventies a lad that lived local to us put a V8 lump into a MK1 Escort & that was it , no upgrades to the braking system it obviously didn't end well.

Brilliant result 👍

Hmm I bought a scrap A35 in the early seventies to transplant the four speed and ‘powerful’ engine into a Morris a thousand which was equipped with three speed and 803cc of roaring hell. It was sort of a success but so much power you could get the tail out around roundabouts on skinny cross plies!
It didn’t last long as the new found power showed up serious flaws in the rotted chassis that were hidden by pieces of duck hams oil can gobbered in place with underseal. Massive negative camber on one side was not a good look.

Not my finest moment, the rolling shell with no brakes engine etc had to go.couldnt tow it to a nearby village tip as mostly downhill. A mate offered to follow and nudge it as necessary the 2.5 miles to the tip. I had a six foot fence post as a sort of emergency anchor to throw into the transmission gear lever hole. I did meet someone without incident and the gate to the tip was fortunately open and there was a fridge to ram to slow me down.

Was this the same 5 pot lump used  by Volvo, Jimmy?

900-950KG......I wonder how many, if any, cars weigh this little in 2025/6. Most cars are fat bastards these days.

Yup, it pops up in all sorts of places, including the c30, mondeo and s-max. I mean, they probably sold about four in the UK, but a 300bhp people carrier holds a certain appeal. I reckon if I spent a bit of time parting out the donor car, the engine and box would be more or less free. Three door escort estates are a bit of a rarity though (can't imagine why) so finding the actual car wouldn't be easy to begin with. 

950kg might even be a bit of an over estimate, I think the original 1.3 tipped the scales at around 800kgs!

If you want crazy, then this has to be up there (with Opti's favourite Signum engine featuring  )

https://youtu.be/xWCRuovk210?si=x_tmnAitIcNtQ4tT

What a beautifully insane little car.  I wonder if the underbody temps will actually lift the paint at full chat 

mine is 74 hc.had it since 1990 .its holding up pretty well as you say they used to rust for fun back in the day .mine is still on its original (untouched)inner wings,sills and front wings and valance so i must be doing something right over the years !!

I used to build the rear axle for them in Ellesmere Port. That was a veeeeeery long time ago