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[ollieRS]

Lol my first one was blue an i hand painted that bad boi looked propper hardcore

[Rs Adz]

shame about wot happened to the black one but bet the red ones it miles better

[beanyfrst]

Shame about the black one, red ones are faster lol. It's looking awesome keep the pics coming

[ollieRS]

not updated on here for a very long time but will be getting up everything i have done since the last update over the next few days

[ollieRS]

So finaly i can do some updating on here. its been a good few months since i updated an since then i have done quite abit, nothing to major but enough to keep me busy at the weekends as i dont have an inside to work in .
ever since putting the engin in with the stg2 box an 6 paddle clutch i have had the problem when ever you go to pull away you get this massive judder thro the whole car coming from the box an also on the down shift you get a judder as well.
it wasn't since i asked my mate to pull forward gentely with the hand brake on i noticed the arm on top of the box the cable attaches to was vibrating up an down like a pornstar on speed .
As i have never come across this prob befor i was quite confused so the first thing i wanted to no was if the box was ok so a phone call to bernnie was made at cts an then a trip up to see him. he took it for a spin did some test an turns out the box was solid an he was addiment it was the wrong relice bearing was inside. when i got the time i pulled the box of an the bearing fell out on its own yep it was about 5mm bigger but this was just the start of the prob the hardest part was trying to find a 30.5mm bearing my first thorts was to ring up burton power as they are usaly good with this stuff and didn't wanna go to ford as they were the nob ends who gave me the wrong bearring in the first place. so after being passed around for weeks i ended up ringing burton an yep thats right they had the right one for me.
fitted the new bearring got it on the road an was lots better but still quite bad i put it down to the 6paddle judder as the mounts are not worn an i couldnt think of anything else so i put a lid on that box an accepted it.
I changed my rocker cover gaskit an cleaned up around it as it was leaking but when i put a new one on it was a tad bent an must off moved abit when i fitted it as it created an bigger leak that went all over the box ( i also found that when i was doing my gear linkage the main breather pipe at the back of the block was perished from being done up to tight when i fitted the engin an was in a rush to get it done( hate being rushed) an that pissed oil out all over the back of the bay every bloody were, so replaced it cleaned up as much as possable did the rocker cover gaskit again an thats how i left it for a while as the weather has been rubbish plus was not really feeling happy when i was driving it due to the judder.

Which then brings us on to after xmas now i have to say big thanks to Jayrs an for my phone calls an txts which consisted of me going so mate i need to pick ya brain also steve (rs220bhp) for all the nice things he has sold me. My first purchase was a set of gaz coilovers and compbrake lower arms.
i fitted the coilovers that weekend set it to i ride hight that was simmiler to the black one but went abit lower just to see what i had to play with. took it for a drive to see what she felt like an guess what NO MORE JUDDERING!!!!!! only the usal paddel clutch when pulling away hahaha i should of been blonde
I did find tho that the driver side rear shock was rubbing on the wheel even with 5mm spacers an the passenger side there is about a 10mm gap?? i am thinking the beam is bent as i changed the wheels around no diff jacked it right up on the springs no change al tho when i jack the car up it comes of the wheel but then goes back on when i lower it to the floor.

i picked up a zs rear beam ages ago and also polybushes for it so now is the time to get the beam on along with focus rear discs ( which i am gonna be using the rs2000 handbrake cable) if anyone has done this please drop me a pm as i am still after some tips.
now for some pics i am in the middle of having 2 weeks of an have made some purchases and gonna be using the time of to get as much done as possable.
things i have brought-

new hubs
new alternator
new starter motor
new frst drive shafts
omp steering wheel with quick release boss
ford raceing gauges boost, oil pressure, fuel pressure, battery volts. ( with piller mount an steering cowl mount)
samco water hoses
white dials
omp pedals
turbosmart dump valve
black carpit and extra black cut out carpit.
arb polybushes

things to come
omp seats - harnesses
omp rear section cage with door bars
front hi spec 300mm brakes

I am gonna be repraying the car in may but not gonna be saying what colour as its something that will be DIFFERENT i hope anyway as i have not yet seen it done.
Best way of getting bushes out


the beam just to say its not red lol crappy iphone does not do it justis

new wheel an gauges, white dials.

resprayed the roof lineing ages ago needs another going over but decided to put it on for now

black carpit

extra black carpit the battery is not staying there.

stripped ready for a big clean an new bits



comments please

[ollieRS]

also forgot to mention i got a low millage gear linkage as mine was so lose now its spot on.

[FRSJON]

looking good mate,nice parts off steve,i got some too

[ollieRS]

he really is santa claus lol thanks mate

[jayrs]

about bloody time you updated this, you been saying you would for a month

nice to see it coming together mate

[ollieRS]

Haha I am bloody useless mate you no me gonna try keep on top of it now wel I mean ile TRY lol

[Maxwell]

What is your running gear a 1.8/2.0/2.1zvh?? What is the spec of your turbo? Any head work? And what chip/management you running? And of course power aim??

Havent read through your thread. Just desperate to know as my cvh is about to blow and i have a 2.1zvh 90% built and im gonna have to get it into my fiesta. But im running OFAC, with an msd chip, a standard escort t3 with a .48 housing and beige 701s. But if i put this 2.1 in im gonna want bigger power, so i would rather change chip/turbo/injectors all at once

[jayrs]

lol, best do mate, other wise i will be texting ya at stupid oclock in the morning asking where the update is

[ollieRS]

Maxwell- wel mate it's a 2.1 ZVH t3turbo running on ofac with an msd chip and it's 200bhp but with 320lbt.
Now the internals from the info I have managed to gather is that it's was in a s2 running between 300 350 bhp now to me things don't add up I think jay knows more about the engin than I do but because he nobed the blokes wife who built it haha we cant find out? The running gear was dropped into my black Frst I got then I dropped it into the red one because of the accident.
In answer to ya question I reckon a good wel built bottom end an a thoruly worked head you can get a 300 bhp ZVH but with these built engines it's all about tourqe. Mine at the mo altho it was cowboyd set up from enhanced performance it pulls like a monster on speed pilled up lol.
I would love to know what my engin consists of???

Jay- just for you I am gonna update by the hour an I will tell the wife of yours ime tall blonde skinny with massive funlumps lol

[Maxwell]

Because of the 16psi boost limit in an ofa , will an msd do away with the boost limit??

I really need to sort this fiesta of mine out but i dont wanna stick it all in now and get 200bhp if you get me. If i can get a bigger turbo and somehow trick the ofac ecu into giving me more boost and effectively, power....i will be happy. Don't really wanna get into changing management and engine looms and getting mapped etc.

[jayrs]

Jay- just for you I am gonna update by the hour an I will tell the wife of yours ime tall blonde skinny with massive funlumps lol

[ollieRS]

yea max stu can map the chip to surpas the limit at msd.
the best thing is to give him a ring mate an explain to him what ya have an what ya after as that way ya wont be disapointed but yes he can map ofac past the limit

jay i told ya i would stick to my promise lol.

so to day was a quite a sucsesfull day the plan was to spray everywere with tardist an jet wash the whole bay an engin to give it a nice clean then tidy up the bays loom as when it was first put in it was a case of that will do just to get it done .
first of i got cracking with the cleaning what ya think.

i got carried away abit like usal stripped the whole bloody lot god knows were it all goes back lol.

gearbox come up really good
befor

afrer


then i sorted all the loom out as it was chucked in


gonna crack on with getting it all back together to mo with the new alternator an starter cant put the hoses on yet as i am waiting for clips to arrive but lots to do an more cleaning lol

[Dave G fsi]

Looking brilliant mate, good work

[Maxwell]

looking good bud!!

yeah i spoke with MSD this morning, but Kenny the guru wasnt in! supposedky he can give me the full info

[ollieRS]

thanks guys. yea max very helpfull bunch of dudes there hope ya get what ya after .

[ollieRS]

Today was a good day i got most of the bay all back together new starter motor on an alternator.
ran into a few probs an abit confused on why tho. anyways here is some pics from today

starter motor all plumbed in along with some hose to protect from the heat.

an here is the alternator.


so after getting it all back together i wanted to conect the battery up so i could pop my alarm on. wel here is the prob it tried to turn over on its own!!!??
luckly the battery was flat the alarm didnt come on either so my thorts are that because the battery is flat the intelli start is trying to kick in??

thorts please guys ta.

[russ-RST]

Are you sure youv wired up the starter motor correctly ? If there's poweer to starter its already earthed so coul turn it over..
I'm
Not insulting your intelligence iv done it before

Cars looking cracking btw bud very clean and tidy

[ollieRS]

wel tbh mate i think it is that as i have a memory like a fish lol and i have a relocated battery so all my wires are diffrent an i cant remember them for shizz.
god its anoying

[ollieRS]

so to day i woke up wiuth the same headache i had when i went to bed an that just made me feel like rubbish so there was no motorvation at all today plus the weather was crap an was gonna turn anytime sooner.
what i did get done was i sorted out the prob with it turning over on its own an that was the live, earth and alternator cable which is all on the same bit of the starter wel the alternator cable was touching the black an red wire so was arking it lol.

I craked on with the drive shafts, hubs and the lower arms but with my lack of enthusiasm i only got one side of the shafts in got the hub of polybushs in (one side). then it came to do the lower arms so i stripped it all down got the old arm out an i looked to see how the lugs go in to the combrake lower arms, now looking at it you would think "right wel them two go in there an the other two go in ther" WRONG so now i have the problem of working out which lug goes were for the arm to fit snug in.
after that as you can guess i lost all intresst packed up an went inside lol.

if anyone has fitted combrake adjustable lower arms befor please please lend me ya knowlage for abit

the starter motor fix

lower arms with both size lugs

comparison of both arms

the lugs in the joints which i thort was right

thanks

[ollieRS]

Not much Of an up date really I spoke to Dave at compbrake about the lower arms an the lugs ya get with them, wel it turns out that they were the wrong ones an are to big so I am having the right ones sent out for Monday.
Knowing that I decided to finish the rest of the jobs around the arms including changing the driveshafts, hubs an also putting in the polybush top mounts in. Got a few pics but I am updating on the IPhone lol.

What I will say is doing all this work is kinda anoying me as if I had the choose I would strip the car an start with the restoration which I am gonna be carrying out after this years shows. I can't start it now due to obveusly money an time playing a big big part espically money and also Its my only car. It was always ment for everyday use as I belive in cars are to be drivin not make a garage or track or stand look pritty I want it for this years shows and after the last one take it of the road strip her down have the body brought back to life with my new colour have all bits powder cotted which needs to be an freshen everything all up.

Just a shame I can't do it now as I see bits of rust/ suffice rust bits that need a coat or spray of something an I can't do it until the time comes.
All sounds abit of a sob story but wanna no if anyone else has been or in the same sittuation
Thanks.

[- Danny Boy -]

Car is looking good mate

One thing though, a lot of the cossie boys dont rate MSD at all, they are really bad at mapping ecu's/chips and I have heard of a few engines basically melting.

Only reason I know this is because I was out with the West Sussex RS owners club the other week at a rolling road day down at devil development and they was all saying about it. There was a escort cossie there which didn't pull the power it should and it generally wasnt running right, and Terry a guy on fiesta-si and WSRSOC has a sierra cosworth and his boost and/or fuel map was all over the place on an MSD chip too.

[ollieRS]

Long story dan Pm'ed ya lol

[ollieRS]

I have been busy over the past few weeks with finishing of putting everything back together and getting it back on the road for the summer.
I had the wrong lugs sent out from compbrake again so have not been able to put the lower arms on yet. I got all the new coolent samcos on which imo looks nice an fresh
here are some pics
top mounts

new samcos

had to extend the water feed to the turbo

with everything all bolted back together gave it a good clean ready for the rsoc meet
and the first time with it being back on the road and the drive up there was very intressting as i had 2 noticable problems the first being a boost problem which turned out to be a lose clamp
on the crossover pipe which i sorted when i got to the meet. Now the second is still confusing me an that is in first, second and abit in third an high revs i get this grinding sound coming from the alternator
area but with it being a new alternator that is the confusing bit also when i floored it it would lose power (electrical).

the next day after work i decided to check out everything around the alternator befor i got dark.
First of i losened of the belt as that was very tight check both conections which were fine so took it out for a spin but still no joy ran out of light by the time i got back.
The next evening i took the alternator of to check if there was any noise when i spun it of the belt but NOPE no noise an felt good altho i did notice it was very close to the adjusting arm so put it all back together took it for a spin
felt good but then had the same noise an loss of electrical power
pulled into my mates workshop left it running to cool down for a max 1 min with the bonnet up i walked back to the car an on the way back i saw water an steam piss out the back of the engin quickly turned it of looked round the back an it was the bottom pipe on the heater mattrix that had crumbeled inside the pipe.
so wipped everything all of changed the matrix cleaned the pipe just incase there was debrie inside.
with it all back together an all bleeded thro took it for a spin was running a tad higher than normall but put that down to lack of coolent inside. Pulled up outside the workshop left it running for a few mins turned it of went back about 10 mins later and this is were all the problems start!!!!!
as soon as it turned over there was a loud tappety sound with also lack of compression an white smoke bellowing out of the exhaust .
i limped it back to my house which was a 10 sec drive tucked it away till the weekend.

which leaves us with what i did today an what i have found. i will let the pics do the talking.
compression test first

the reason for the tappety noise

compared to the one next to it

start of the strippage

adapter plate turns out i have an mfi head

first pic as soon as the head come of

pistons an bores



send this pic to jon (FRSJON) to conferm what pistons they are an from that they are calibra red top forged pistons.

head gaskit turns out its a genuine ford st170 multi layer one

with the gaskit of



from all of these pics you can see that there are no tell tell signs of the gaskit going which is abit anoying
also spoke to ian howell an he has said the reason the liffter had been stuck is either a manufacturing fault with the lifter or oil feed issues.

i am having the head stripped by my mate to look for ware on the lobes on the cam check the vaulves are not bent ect give it all a nice clean up.
few pics of the head







if anyone spots anything i have missed please comment for me as it will all help.
also big thanks to jay an jon for the mass txts an phone calls all day lol but big big help thanks guys
also sorry for my lack of spelling i am useless lol.
comments please
ollie

[jayrs]

no probs mate.

nothing to say on here, ive said it all by text and calls

[mikeymikeyp]

id be looking to put a efi head on if i was running efi

[ollieRS]

What would be the difference as they are the same are they not. Plus if this head is working correctly I won't change it as it has had alot of work done on. Would seem a waste of money but I am only saying that due to not knowing if there is any diffrence.

[FRSJON]

What would be the difference as they are the same are they not. Plus if this head is working correctly I won't change it as it has had alot of work done on. Would seem a waste of money but I am only saying that due to not knowing if there is any diffrence.

the only reason you would change it ollie is to loose the adapter plate but looking at your pics it would cost you a few quid to replace..you have 1 piece stainless big valves in there now i still have this rattling around in my head what the effects would be of a cylinder firing but the exhaust valve not opening due to the lifter?..

[ollieRS]

the good thing about if the head has gone then i have a spare 21k head an i will use all the same internals including new lifters an have my mate do all the ports exactly to how the current head is at.
hopefully the cam is in good nic along with the valves. is there anything else i am missing mate?
gonna strip the head tomo night my first one lol.

[ollieRS]

Tonight me an a mate checked over the head and GOOD news everything is all sound gonna get it all cleaned up also checked the cam an that is sound and it is a kent cvh35 so all good
turned out the liffter that stuck down wel it colapised inside its self so what we are gonna do is take out the lifters from the 2i head as its only done 21k never been thrashed so will give them a clean check them all over that they will
be good that way i wont need to fork out the £240 for the genuine ones or get s**t like the ones from matt crap lewis lol.

what we did find is as you see in the pics from above in the center 2 bores the vulve heads were a nice dark colour but the outer 2 bores the vulve heads were a bright sandy colour.
ollie

[jonyb4]

glad youve found a happy ending there mate, is that price for a full set of lifters then? harsh!

take it the N/A and turbo lifters are the same issue then

[ollieRS]

yep its a stupid amout of money for genuine. gonna make a few phone calls tomo to see were will be the best place to get the closest to genuine as tonight we took all of the liffters out of the head an after 300 mile with these ones from matt lewis they are all f**cked an could of caused so much more damage also cant use the ones from the 2i head as they are fecked to
ollie