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[RS rob]

welcome home, now get some pics up and more importantly video's!!!!

[SiST]

Less typing and more going out to get a new camera?

[jayrs]

:lol: missing from what

no bullets in them i hope

no bullets in them, just the casings mate.
i started a collection year ago, some im missing, some ive lost, i dont just collect fiestas and all the spares i can get my hand on

[jonyb4]

ok come on list some casing you have? anything from a 9mm and .45 acp to a .50 caliber?

[jayrs]

50 cal rifle sheels were some i was missing.
ill pm you mate save clogging up the thread

[79-85]

Esh took me for a spin in this today, it's ballistic.

[jimmyesh]

Esh took me for a spin in this today, it's ballistic.

Cheers Si, glad you like it mate!

Well, it's been a hectic and exciting few days The biggest development is that the car has now driven over 200 miles on public roads in the last 2 days Thankfully they have so far been trouble-free

Here's some pics I took on the weekend after I'd driven it from my home in Colchester to my folks house in Kent (85 miles). The sponges you can see through the windows are taped to my mountain bike to stop it smashing them when I drive over bumps!








I originally intended on just doing a few local journeys to test it but I've been sent on a course near Reading for 3 months so it made sense to commute in this!

It is absolutely FANTASTIC on the motorway - somehow I randomly made a proper laid-back mile-muncher when that was never really my goal! It has such a tall 5th gear but also so much readily-available and wide-ranging torque that it is almost like driving a powerful diesel at sensible motorway speeds. Staying in 5th, you only need to dab the throttle at 70 and you just get an instantaneous whoosh from the GT28 and obviously a big shove in the back and three figures come round almost instantly!:D The STACK capillary temp gauge rarely even gets up to 85 degrees on a run, and in traffic it's behaved ok so far - I do wish I had a milder clutch though (one with central damper springs!) as mine's a bit "on-off".

Also, another pleasant surprise is the fuel consumption - obviously I am taking things gently at the moment as I'm still running it in etc but even so, it doesn't seem to sup as much as some of my previous fiestas! The Lambda Gauge shows everything's good in the fuelling department though.

I did have some late nights last week sorting some power steering issues which were seriously annoying me! Firstly, I got Hosequip in Colchester to make me this pipe out of a Mondeo MK3 & Fiesta MK3.5 hose - cost me £30 and doesn't leak!



The fluid leak carried on elswhere though The PAS rack that I originally bought from the scrappy had a nasty pinion-seal leak (serves me right for being tight). I fitted another one on Saturday morning and now all is well with no leaks

My brass oil sender T-Piece had a crack in it which was kindly dumping Castrol's finest all over the deck The blue alloy one from SpeedFlow has now been fitted and again, no more leaks



As predicted, the speedo does over-read massively (reads 12.7% over) so 30 MPH is shown as 34, 70 is shown as 79 and 100 is obviously just shy of 113! I tried to use the little speedo healer unit I bought but it made my dials do all manner of mad things - Instead it can be adjusted through the OBD II port using a Ford dealer service tool to change the axle ratio for the speedo cal. Allinking said he'd do that for me one weekend soon .

I did have a bit of an issue with the idle "hanging" when you press the clutch down or stop the car. It was also idling a bit fast at 1100 RPM. Allinking said he might be able to help change the map for the idle solenoid. To see me through until then though, I've made a solid 13mm hose joiner with a 5mm hole through the middle and it's in my idle bypass hose. It does the job well and keeps the idle at about 900 RPM.

All in all, things are good - just want to get a few miles under its belt, then when I have the time & money, it'll be getting properly mapped & set up for a reliable 300BHP It's been getting quite a few glances on the roads - you just don't see many around any more.

[sjoyce666]

Awesome

[Excursion]

Good news mate! Are you using the unsprung SPEC paddle by any chance? Do you happen to know if SPEC do a sprung version of it?

IIRC the standard organic FRS clutch will take 400.

[jimmyesh]

Good news mate! Are you using the unsprung SPEC paddle by any chance? Do you happen to know if SPEC do a sprung version of it?

Yeah I'm using the unsprung "Stage 3+" I think it's called - the stage 3 has the springs. The pedal is nice and light due it being hydraulic - just the biting point's a bit more aggressive than you'd like in heavy traffic. Saying that, I'm getting used to it and drive it smoothly now. When that one wears out I'll change it for the sprung one.

IIRC the standard organic FRS clutch will take 400.

Yeah the AP one, fair point - it'd probably work with my setup pretty nicely. I'll keep it in mind for when this one wears out (hopefully not too soon though as every job is a Bic™ on this car! ).

[Fraggle]

JusWatched your drive by clip...F123ing awesome motor..me missus says would u take 4kids an a staffie 4it Lovely colour that..

[jimmyesh]

JusWatched your drive by clip...F123ing awesome motor..me missus says would u take 4kids an a staffie 4it Lovely colour that..

Got enough on my plate with my own offspring mate! Cheers for the kind words

[Excursion]

Good news mate! Are you using the unsprung SPEC paddle by any chance? Do you happen to know if SPEC do a sprung version of it?

Yeah I'm using the unsprung "Stage 3+" I think it's called - the stage 3 has the springs. The pedal is nice and light due it being hydraulic - just the biting point's a bit more aggressive than you'd like in heavy traffic. Saying that, I'm getting used to it and drive it smoothly now. When that one wears out I'll change it for the sprung one.

IIRC the standard organic FRS clutch will take 400.

Yeah the AP one, fair point - it'd probably work with my setup pretty nicely. I'll keep it in mind for when this one wears out (hopefully not too soon though as every job is a Bic™ on this car! ).

Cheers mate, I will try the stage 3!

[rst-steve]

That looks lovely, standard looks and all that potential power when run in......... brilliant combination

[jayrs]

excellent news mate, shame about the issues you have/had but compaired to what you have done you were bound to get a few, and thankfully, there nothing major

[jonboisescort]

awsome car mate cant wait to see it in the flesh

[Dave G fsi]

This car is absolutely awesome mate, nice one

[FRSJON]

:Q

awsome car mate cant wait to see it in the flesh

+1

[jonyb4]

awesome jimmy

[jimmyesh]

Just drove it home from Reading today - 120 Miles, no leaks or problems and best of all 35 MPG!!! I filled it to the brim before I set off, then topped it up again when I got back and all it took to bring it to the brim again was 15 litres

Granted, it was mostly steady-speed motorway driving (with a few nudges into triple figures overtaking ) at 70-80 MPH (including the speedo error).

Just had an email back from Motorsport Developments up in Blackpool, for them to keep it for a week and live-map/set it up properly they reckon on a rough figure of £500. Sounds good to me Next time Mrs Esh goes up north to see her folks and I manage to have a spare £500 laying around, I'll try and get this up to MSD. I'm using them becuase they're so good at re-mapping the standard Ford ECU's (which mine has).

[jonyb4]

good stuff, jelous of that mpg! mines aroudn that and alot less punch in it

[SEG1]

Just drove it home from Reading today - 120 Miles, no leaks or problems and best of all 35 MPG!!! I filled it to the brim before I set off, then topped it up again when I got back and all it took to bring it to the brim again was 15 litres

Granted, it was mostly steady-speed motorway driving (with a few nudges into triple figures overtaking ) at 70-80 MPH (including the speedo error).

Just had an email back from Motorsport Developments up in Blackpool, for them to keep it for a week and live-map/set it up properly they reckon on a rough figure of £500. Sounds good to me Next time Mrs Esh goes up north to see her folks and I manage to have a spare £500 laying around, I'll try and get this up to MSD. I'm using them becuase they're so good at re-mapping the standard Ford ECU's (which mine has).

good news mate.
try tracknroad.com they do all of burton powers engine/cars.

[jimmyesh]

good news mate.
try tracknroad.com they do all of burton powers engine/cars.

Cheers mate - do you know if they'll be able to "hack into" a Ford Focus MK1 RS ECU and remap it?

[SiST]

Let me know if you decide to go to MSD as I live about 3 mins away from them

[SEG1]

good news mate.
try tracknroad.com they do all of burton powers engine/cars.

Cheers mate - do you know if they'll be able to "hack into" a Ford Focus MK1 RS ECU and remap it?

not sure mate, give them a ring.

[jimmyesh]

Had a nerve-wracking journey home yesterday - got caught in heavy traffic for the first time since the car's been on the road - I suppose it had to happen sooner or later It took me 5 hours to get from near Reading to Colchester - most of which was spent queueing for the thieving Dartford Tolls

After waiting for the fans to kick in the first few times and satisfied that there was nothing going wrong anywhere, I just relaxed and crawled along on my merry way Checked all fluids this morning and nothing has changed so all is good

Done over 500 miles in her now

Gave the car a bit of a clean & polish today - here it is on my drive













I went over to Allinking's last weekend but unfortuantely he couldn't recalibrate my speedometer with the OBDII unit he has - I took him for a spin round the block for his troubles! Hopefully Motorsport Developments may be able to do it when I take it up there...

Bye for now

[jonyb4]

i love that you can simply take someone for a spin to use as a payment or good will gesture

handy thing to have at your disposal


its looking good, i was gonna say f**k your tall, till i realised you were on a raised lawn

[muz]

Had a nerve-wracking journey home yesterday - got caught in heavy traffic for the first time since the car's been on the road - I suppose it had to happen sooner or later It took me 5 hours to get from near Reading to Colchester - most of which was spent queueing for the thieving Dartford Tolls

After waiting for the fans to kick in the first few times and satisfied that there was nothing going wrong anywhere, I just relaxed and crawled along on my merry way Checked all fluids this morning and nothing has changed so all is good

Thats always a Nerve wracking experience isn't it I remember when I rebuild mine and got in on the road in mid August when it was really hot and sat in traffic watching the temp gauge rise pretty quickly fans come on thinking "f**k, f**k, cool down, cool down" as that was the reason I took it off the road for rebuild was because it used to overheat

[jayrs]

thats good news it was alright mate.
the next step is seeing how it copes with a hot summer (if we have one)

[jimmyesh]

thats good news it was alright mate.
the next step is seeing how it copes with a hot summer (if we have one)

Can't see it being a problem to be honest mate The temp when driving, even at modest town speeds is about 82 decrees c - The full-width pro-alloy rad seems more than up top the job.

When time permits, I'll definitely be adding a Mocal oil cooler though. Even the ST150 Fezzer has a little modine one so I'm sure I'll definitely need one when I have it mapped and running 300BHP!

[jayrs]

thats ok then

yeah get a oil cooler on there, every little helps

you running, or plan to run a turbo cooler?

[jimmyesh]

thats ok then

yeah get a oil cooler on there, every little helps

you running, or plan to run a turbo cooler?

I have thought about it mate - not much "real estate" left to put anything to be honest though!

[Ratspeed]

Absolutely brilliant car mate! I cant wait to see it at the shows

[jayrs]

yeah its pretty tight in that bay

[heeman10]

It's such a sweet little car, cracking I miss all those feelings/sounds/smells! Oil cooler will be a must dude, do you have an oil temp gauge in there? I took mine on one single hasty spin and ordered an oil cooler straight away. I actually couldn't do much more than about 4,000rpm giving it welly, otherwise oil temps shot up into worrying territory! Oil cooler sorted all that out with ease