how about i look after your system while your looking hehehe. The injection head on my car is equivalent and in some ways BETTER then a stage 1 head! think fuel injection gives me a 25bhp boost or more with EDIS and megasquirt.

EDIT: http://i4.photobucket.com/albu ... e/Sierra/aurinkoo004s.jpg hahaha! love the editing there!
Have you seen pictures of my car? would be a few pages back.

think side repeaters are only if the front indicators dont show from the side at all. or if the car is post 1986.

Quote from BigPeBe :

If you are thinking about converting in to a EFi, well then don't even think about that original Ford EEC-IV, it's just horrible piece of crap! I mean it's good on stock engine, but if you want to squeeze more power some day I recommend staying on carbs, or getting ie. a Megasquirt.
I have a modified mass air flow meter, so it fools the ECU to give me more rich fuel/air ratio, but it just ruins the economy side. Even very well tuned carbs can be more economical than a "tuned" EEC-IV.

I actually have been thinking of getting twin carbs and getting rid of that horrible EEC-IV. Well ok, not for the economy, but because I need more power, getting carbs or Megasquirt would be so much more easier than keep using that EEC-IV and trying to get it work properly.

And well twin carbs have teh ballls.

want to swap top heads/fuel systems? would probably stick to EEC-IV at first then change to what ive seen another guy have. Pinto EFi with megasquirt and an EDIS system (no distributor ) also fitted a turbo and bored to 2.1, goes pretty fast! but its set up for economy so only about 160bhp.......

EDIT: seems i was wrong, no EFi or turbo, just bored out with the EDIS and megasquirt and a lightened flywheel and a stage 1 head i think. still gets 140bhp on a standard carb!

Last edited by robt, Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:08.

Quote from BigPeBe :

I actually have that little boot spoiler too. But I have to say that a real Ford-nutter could say it's not a real RS in a second. I know at least I could... It doesn't even have those Cosworth arches.

I'm still a student, so there's no way I could afford a real RS. But I'm maybe able to afford more power to that Pinto. Maybe, hopefully... I want it to be at least faster than XR4i some day.

BTW I just came home from my little roadtrip. Me and my friend just thought that we should drive to somewhere, and we did. 160km and 2 and half hours of driving just for fun.

Little brake around somewhere where sheeps were making voices.
Almost at home having another brake.

im not too clued up on sierra so forgive me more a capri man myself. fancy letting me have the top half of your engine? Looking at turning it into a 2.0i instead of carbs

looks like the RS500 to me. wouldnt that make it a 2.0 twin cam rather then a SOHC?

Quote from pb32000 :

Dude that's an even worse clarification :P The Escort never came with a 2L engine (CVH or Zetec) as standard. The Cosworth YB engine was developed from the orginal Pinto, which never appeared in Escorts - always being used for RWD setups.

But yer AWD is less effecient then 2WD.

yeah, strange that. they go back to an older model of engine to get more power and im sure there was a 2.0 CVH model. zetecs werent even designed back then me loves pintos.

you back hoem then mr_b?

Quote from Bladerunner :

CTo clarify..the 4WD Escort Cosworth had a much bigger and sportier engine that that of the standard Escort.

goign back a bit but...thats a bad clarification! The only diffrence between the cosworth and the standard escort was 8 more valves and a turbo, engine size was the same! Just bolted a twin cam 16v on top instead of the standard 8 ohv head. then added the turbo.

dont change the button control rate, makes catching slides awful. keep steering lock down to about 13 degrees. use the LSD and keep power lock to 50% ish. that way you can almost floor it out of corners and not have to worry.

its all £2000 plus where i am (just down the road from you mcgas) though i found a classic car policy willing to take me on for £1600 FC (capri 2.0 laser 1986) so thats £800 for the car and double that to insure it! youve got a cheap quote mate

Quote from KanseiDneova :

My fps went up 0, lol. Didn't really notice any change in fps.

This may be true for other Y patches, but i was using the driving line today and saw this. Woo, transparent underbody.

think thats due to the driving line/ideal line "floating" above the race track high enough to be above the underbody.

I would come and say hi, but i shall not be joining again. silly boys getting rid of your good xrr driver hehehe. But ill be a nice boy and keeps an eye outs for you

or a slightly more descriptive answer. the rear end of the silencer box fell off, and that photo was taken before the end of the silencer (with the small exahust diameter attached) was welded back on. i think

small capri update:
Got the lights and rev counter working took a few hours (10 to be exact :schwitz also changed the spark plugs and HT leads.
Got all the bits i need to pass the MOT too, the dining room at home is looking more and more like a car parts shop though ive put a lot in/on the capri so its only an exhaust system, wiper blades, and a few other bits and bobs at the moment.

just had a phonecall from the DSA. aparently my examiner for thursday is ill so my test has been cancelled :banghead::banghead: which means i need to pay for another 10 hour block of lessons, which means i gotta wait another month to get my car on the road!!!! im not very happy!

Quote from e2mustang :

oops lawl me=fail

LOL! yep it says laser, dont think they would get many people buying it if it was the new, amazing, fantastic CAPRI LOSER!

@ beefyman: yep, cant wait to drive it about. its a 65 mile drive from where the car is kept to the garage im getting it MOT'd at. So a nice long jurney without MOT or tax to clear out the gremlins lots of roundabouts on the way too, better check the differential works ok

Quote from The General Lee :

Considering I haven't posted in here for a while, I had to reply to a bit of Capri updates May I ask...Why the slow progress? You wanna get a shift on and get the old girl running Good luck on Thursday bud.

wish i could get it done faster. problem is the capri is 65miles away and i have no transport and nobody to take me. And at the moment i need a 2nd person who knows ltos of technical stuff to help. so its a bit tricky to get it all sorted. ill get there soon though i hope. only the long winded bits left to do

wondered how long itd take you to reply, less then 5mins it seems haha. and that tis the girlfriend she likes cars n always comes down to help out when im working on it. she bought half the car for me too, shes loverrrly got my driving test on thursday, so could be on the road next month

Little update on the capri, finally got the plates on it and changed the oil new 7spoke 2.8 wheels too. the earthing needs sorting out, its doin all sorts of things!
rev counter sits at 250rpm with two red warning lights abotu half brightness, press the brake pedal and one light goes out, one goes full brightness and the rev counter reads 0rpm so i gotta takes the car apart AGAIN!! heres a few updated pics.

Quote from spankmeyer :

About the powerline ethernet... Ummm... do you get higher pings and lag if your fridge thermostat turns itself on in the kitchen?

when that turns on my DFP turns off

i see tristan missed the important bit. the reason you cant change down with the throttle down is you are probably driving one of the cars with the sequential and ignition cut?? so for it to "allow" a change down you need to be off the accelerator, hope that helps.

Quote from Mazar :

It is a escape route isn't it?

If on outside of Turn 1 it is the only route back to the track if knocked off there.

im the silly one that manouvers his car between the red and white barriers weaving about. (very hard with 12 degrees lock on a keyboard)

with the tyres, they may get hot, but as they wear down again they cool off. so as long as you can get the car handling ok on hot tyres you can last a whole tank

i know how you feel about thinking you wont be able to do it. but everything apart from the clutches and the leaks/seals can be done with pretty much no knowledge. i thought brakes would be complicated, but like everything on a car its just bolts and screws. sometimes its quite worrying to look at whats holding together what you once thought was a very strong or indestructable part

thats what it might be, or maybe it makes one wheel work totally independantly at full lock