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[Gus!!]

That'll make it to fitp!!

[dontpannic]

I prefer the darker blue too....

[jayrs]

4 wheels on my wagon



That is all.

I only see 2 wheels.....

[jonyb4]

[Smo]

So so weird seeing two doors missing!

[Tweek]

Got the turbo back today, nice and flat, no blowing now.

I can't see this car being on the road at all this Summer the way it's going...

- Still massively overfuelling
- New water pump's pissing everywhere
- Oil pressure is 80psi idle, 100psi blipping the throttle


Probably just gonna shove it in the garage for now and come back to it at a later date

[Max M4X WW]

I'm having the same feeling, about 3 of my Roose hoses fit!

Just persist with it, I can talk

[Smo]

I'd be happy with an engine that doesn't tap/knock/tick/donk.

Stop moaning

[dontpannic]

Got the turbo back today, nice and flat, no blowing now.

I can't see this car being on the road at all this Summer the way it's going...

- Still massively overfuelling
- New water pump's pissing everywhere
- Oil pressure is 80psi idle, 100psi blipping the throttle


Probably just gonna shove it in the garage for now and come back to it at a later date

Pfft, that's nothing really. What are we talking there?

A map should sort the over fuelling
New water pump gasket/water pump
Oil pump?

I can make a list of the things wrong with the Saxo if it makes you feel better...!

[Tweek]

Water and Oil pumps are brand new though

[jonyb4]

sounds like something blocked to me, easiest check is the pick up! worst is taking head off to check the gallies


take a breather and crack on another day

[Tweek]

Pickup's clean, I did all this when assembling the engine. Even if the pickup was blocked though, wouldn't this cause low oil pressure due to starvation? The more I read though, the more I'm seeing 80-100psi is "normal" for a cold zetec which is odd to me.

I'll try and find some motivation to get under it properly at the weekend. Probably refit the Nissan injectors too, may as well try them since the 440cc ones are too big for what I'm putting out now anyway.

[rs220bhp]

Oil pressure seems fine. Shame about the injectors but as said a good mapping session will sort that.

[Tweek]

Cool, that's good to know. Hopefully will look nicer when it's warmed up a bit. I started to panic as the pressure gauge went off the scale!

That said though, my dipstick is getting pushed out of the tube. No breathers are connected up yet, just open take-offs.


Also, this is how useless the water pump is. Was brand new, new gasket, torqued up correctly etc and this is what it does!

[dontpannic]

Sure that's the pump and not a hose? When my water pump went it only leaked when the engine was running.

[Tweek]

It's leaking down the side of the sump up behind the pulleys, that's the pump The outlet hose is much further forward.

[jonyb4]

hopefully its as simple as the gasket torn or misplaced

[Gus!!]

It may be a new pump and gasket, but i'm pretty sure you have to connect it to something to stop it leaking?? everything else looks pretty tidy under there though buddy!!

[Ratspeed]

As already said the oil pressure seems fine. My RS used to run at 80psi on idle when cold. Then went down to 25psi when it was hot.

s**t about the water pump though. These little knockbacks make it all worthwhile when its done.

[Tweek]

To continue the theme of bad luck, I had someone weld a boss into my stainless intake pipe to relocate the Intake Air Temp sensor. Did a cracking job on the welding but somehow forgot to drill the hole out of the pipe for the sensor to go through *migraine*

After some faffing around this evening I managed to get the hole done without damaging the thread too much, end result:


(New phone, new camera!)



Also still trying to work out why my dipstick keeps blowing out the tube? All the breathers are still unconnected open take-offs at the moment.

[Smo]

Is your cam cover one blocked off there, though?

[Tweek]

it has some loosely fitting masking tape so it's free to "flap" if something comes out

[- Danny Boy -]

How did he forget to drill a hole? Jeeeeeeeeeesus lol

[FRSJON]

are the o-rings on the dip stick ok ?. mine runs 75 psi oil pressure when cold. this engines never been a zvh has it? just thinking out loud about your water leak(extra holes for adapter plate)

[Tweek]

O-rings? Never seen any I'm guessing they'd be at the base of the yellow handle on it?

Engine came straight out of a mondeo when I got it, water pump went on fine, it's a bit gay.

[FRSJON]

O-rings? Never seen any I'm guessing they'd be at the base of the yellow handle on it?

Engine came straight out of a mondeo when I got it, water pump went on fine, it's a bit gay.

yeah the yellow part that goes in the dip stick tube will have one or two o-rings on it to make a seal...

not the best pic but you the little black bit


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Zetec-Di ... 3cd18c2fd4

[Tweek]

I'll check that out. I remember It did seem to feel like it "clipped" in though. Hopefully tomorrow and Sunday I can get some motivation and get this stripped down, change the pump gasket and get it all back together and fired up properly once and for all!

[Tweek]

Got it running (albeit with a s**t water pump). So far I've discovered:

- It doesn't idle at all. Only a screwdriver in the throttle is keeping it alive, then it falls out and stalls lol.

-The oil pressure did fall back to 30psi once warm so that's a relief!

- The exhaust and chatter sound epic, however, it's in a pretty bad way looking at these:




More smoke and some chatter:

[Tweek]

Well, I guess that's that explained then!

[Razer]

lot's off play on the shaft mate ?

[Tweek]

No, that's the thing. Very very slight side-to-side movement, nothing else

[- Danny Boy -]

That's a shame

It does sound nice though!

[FRSJON]

id speak to a turbo company and see what it would cost to rebuild. is there any chance there is too much oil getting to the turbo/(as in the same as a gt series turbo having a oil restrictor ?)..... oil return ok ? oh and mapping will sort the idle,mine wouldnt idle for s**t lol

[Tweek]

The oil return isn't perfect, it does have a very slight kink in it but it's a big hose and there still looks plenty of room for oil to travel down etc.

There's a restrictor in place that I stole from that GT28R that I had briefly. I kept it so I could retain my braided oil feed.

I think the idle is ISCV related, plugging/unplugging it makes no difference lol.

[FRSJON]

The oil return isn't perfect, it does have a very slight kink in it but it's a big hose and there still looks plenty of room for oil to travel down etc.

There's a restrictor in place that I stole from that GT28R that I had briefly. I kept it so I could retain my braided oil feed.

I think the idle is ISCV related, plugging/unplugging it makes no difference lol.

looks like a replacement then as for iscv's, jim at jkm took mine off so i now run with out one