fiestaturbo.com

[StreetDragster]

sounds like a good guy to know


john

He is, but can he can be annoying when he starts to take over your garage with his stuff, got a nice dremel though!

hi John, welcome to the forums

Matt

[StreetDragster]

http://www.StreetDragster.com has now been updated with a build guide

Please visit and let me know what you think, check out the rest of the site too!! Although its not all finished yet

Thanks

Matt

[andyhardy]

www.StreetDragster.com has now been updated with a build guide

Please visit and let me know what you think, check out the rest of the site too!! Although its not all finished yet

Thanks

Matt

I like the site Matt - the car features are a good read!

Cheers,

Andy

[StreetDragster]

Cheers! It was about time, the last update was in '03!

Thanks

Matt

[heeman10]

I don't see a build guide Just a very short piece about your car with two pictures and writing about what you plan to do with it.

[StreetDragster]

Homepage>Cars>Big button at the top

Matt

[Sphinx]

Just been looking through your website and i'm loving the snakes names 'Zetec' and.......'Dave'

[gtir1281]

looking good matt

john

[StreetDragster]

Just been looking through your website and i'm loving the snakes names 'Zetec' and.......'Dave'

LOL Yep, the one that died was called Zoltan, then we had Zetec, so Dave was funny, then Zoltan died and now Zetec sound stoopid

Car wise, new gearbox, clutch, and quickshuft is in. Going to take some getting used too to drive it but the clutch is surprisingly smooth compared to the AP.
And the diff gives some, erm, interesting, driving habits

120miles to go

Matt

[heeman10]

Interesting driving habits? Explain.

I can still see some mistakes Matt, I think you only skim-read what I sent you! Good build site though, pictures make allll the difference

[StreetDragster]

Interesting driving habits? Explain.

Well, the clutch makes moving off a bit more digital than the AP, but without judder. The quickshift obviously makes gearchanges quicker, but also have to be more precise with the stick, and its a bit notchy, but in a good way. The diff appears to make the car pull a bit once a bit of power is applied. I'll only be able to test it properly though once its on boost.
Just needs a bit of getting used too. Taking the car out for a long drive tomorrow so i'll give a better report then.

I can still see some mistakes Matt, I think you only skim-read what I sent you! Good build site though, pictures make allll the difference

All your corrections where put in i think

Thanks

Matt

[heeman10]

All your corrections where put in i think

Was that a joke? "Where" instead of "were" was one of the things I changed a few times, so I wonder if you're just being ironic saying that I'm just a nit-picking git, I'm sure it's fine for the non-pedantic folk reading your site!

[StreetDragster]

Nope, i definately altered it, i'll check it against the copy i have a work to see were the differences are, i may have uploaded the wrong text

[FezzR]

could also be cacheing or propergating issue

[StreetDragster]

Now Run In

Oil, filter and injector swap this weekend and mapping on Monday

Thanks

Matt

[heeman10]

THE TIME IS NOW

[FezzR]

Now Run In

Oil, filter and injector swap this weekend and mapping on Monday

Thanks

Matt

woohoo

[gtir1281]

about time matt ill neip round on sat



john

[StreetDragster]

Ready for mapping, oil and filter has been changed, and injectors are in.

Did a few little things in prep for FITP as i doubt i'll have time to do them in the week.
New sunstrip-

And Back Lights-



Much Better, fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Thanks

Matt

[CRF]

The lights are the cleanest bits on it!!!

Looking good

[AdrianFRST]

Looking good

Are you not worried that people will see the Area Six logo and think it's one of Ian's engines? I'd have got a "Streetdragster Race Engines" or something on there, blow your own trumpet a bit.

[wjs1259]

im impressed my tht mate

[mrviper]

so what sort of power are you expecting after mapping then

[StreetDragster]

The lights are the cleanest bits on it!!!

Looking good

Cheeky bugger, you know where it is when your at a loose end, i have bucket and a sponge

Looking good

Are you not worried that people will see the Area Six logo and think it's one of Ian's engines? I'd have got a "Streetdragster Race Engines" or something on there, blow your own trumpet a bit.

Cheers Ade, Narr, not worried, i'd rather be wearing a Ian Howel banner than one of my own, shows a level of pedigree

im impressed my tht mate

Cheers Mate

so what sort of power are you expecting after mapping then

No idea mate, as long as it drives great with a healthy bit of power and i'll be happy Got an RR session on saturday though so i'll find out what it actually has then, 300bhp woul dbe nice

Thanks

Matt

[mrviper]

how did the mapping go mate

[Excursion]

Sundissential, didn't know you were into that scene Matt

[StreetDragster]

Sundissential, didn't know you were into that scene Matt

Have been for a long time mate Not quite as much into it now as i would like to be, but i love a bit of hard house

how did the mapping go mate

Well, as my friend John said yesturday, 'These things are sent to test us'
Basically, dropped the car off in the morning, i've had no problems with it at all, but whilst i was stood there chatting to Kenny about its setup and stuff it started a little leak from its bottom rad water hose.
Great, so luckily Kenny had some pipe the right size and that was repaired and we left.

Then, at 15:45 i got a phone call about Kenny having problems setting the base idle as my Zetec throttle body has no idle adjustment screw, its done via management, but the FRST management (Which they are live mapping) requires one. So it was time for emergency improvisation.
Luckily, next door to MSD is a fabricators called 'Simply Steel' and the bloke there is a god send. What Kenny/Me/John/Mike worked out, is that the insert from a bleed valve could be used as base idle adjustment, if the boss on the top of the TB was threaded and a hole into the turbo side of the throttle flap drilled.
Then a hole from the engine side of the throttle flap could be drilled to join the two holes together, and the bleed valve thing would regulate the air flow, and thus, the base idle speed.
Which was all great, but the holes weren't quite drilled out enough so i'm going back this morning to eremove the TB and get the holes drilled out further.
A massive thanks so far to MSD and Simply Steel, they were both there until 18:30 last night solving this problem and they didn't have to.

And they haven't even started to put the car through its paces yet! Worried!

Lets See What Today Brings!

Thanks

Matt

[FezzR]

i thought there was going to be some bad news then but building a bleed screw is far from the end of the world

glad to see someone using eec-iv and fingers crossed it being mapped properly

you've got me thinking now weather things like ISC could be added by adding code to to the eec-iv

[heeman10]

Sounds like a novel way to work around things Good luck with today, you know the car has a lot of potential

[StreetDragster]

Just finished a new nightmare.

Basically, whoever had my turbo before me had access problems and rotated the actuator on the turbo housing. This slipped through the net when i installed the turbo and only showed up today when kenny couldn't get stable boost. So i've been working from 18:00 until now to fix it.
Basically, as the actuator got rotated, the radiator needed moving forward, so the slam panel needed modifying, then the intercooler needed moving forward, then the bumper needed recutting.

Absolute total ballache, and i have now lost my stealthy look as i have had to remove the fog/driving lamps for intercooler clearance, and the bumper cut isn't the tidiest, it can be tidied up later but may be a mess for FITp, if the car makes it down there!!
If they have any problems mapping it tomorrow then its not going

Fingers and toes crossed this time

Thanks

Matt

[mike_wall15]

Good luck mate, be good to see your car there!

[STOKE7UP]

good luck mate looks a demon car

[FezzR]

ballache mate
lets hope you can make it look top notch again

[StreetDragster]

Yep, the major problem is time really, it could be tidied up but i won't have time before FITP, so if its tatty at the show, no cheeky comments!

Thanks

Matt

[andyhardy]

Sorry to hear about all the problems Matt - I think everyone who's done a conversion like this or less of one (like mine) hits loads of problems like this that never even hit the radar when planning the project out in the first place!

You can join me with having a scruffy looking turbo at FITP - I doubt mine's gonna even get a clean at this rate!

Cheers,

Andy