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[EvilDes]

Wow, what a story! Andy, great news that you've found out the cause of your problems

And I gotta say, big round of applause for Andy B! Proper legend!

[Brycey]

Wow, what a story!

Didn't you know? It's a hollywood blockbuster!

[andyhardy]

lmfao - that's quality mate!

The sequal is out soon...











'Revenge of the Turbo'

[andyhardy]

Got a small bit of an update on the car

Ordered a new CPS today - will be arriving tomorrow.

All I need to do now is sort out the bracket, so I'm taking that off of the car tomorrow.

A mate of mine works at a local Ford dealership and I got him to look up the Sierra 1800 CVH cambelt cover/CPS bracket that I need to cut down to replace the broken one on the engine now.

He called me back a bit later as he had trouble finding it and told me that the price excluding VAT was £150! I appropriately said something along the lines of 'fudge me!' and started to think of any local scrappys that have any Sierra's at all, let alone one with a specific engine!

Once I've got the bracket off of the car tomorrow I'll be running it over to another mate of mine in Eastbourne who is friendly with a local fabricators to see what can be done with the bracket - the hope is that the clamp can be retapped after welding.

I'll let you guys know how it goes - I should have the new CPS tomorrow and hopefully get the bracket back and repaired ready for re-fitting on Friday!

Such a pain in the backside considering what a rather insignificant part that's at fault.

Ahh well, (starts singing) 'Always look on the bright side of life'


Cheers,

Andy

[EvilDes]

Ahh well, (starts singing) 'Always look on the bright side of life'


Cheers,

Andy

All the best with it Andy, hopefully will go without a hitch

[sexy-aRSe]

Big up Andy B and grove

Hopefully my cabrio is being mapped today tomoz oooooh i can't wait to get it home Did ya see it, did ya, did ya lol

[andyhardy]

Big up Andy B and grove

Hopefully my cabrio is being mapped today tomoz oooooh i can't wait to get it home Did ya see it, did ya, did ya lol

Yeah - I saw it, it looks lovely Faye, me and Andy were having a good old gawp around it at Grove!

[andyhardy]

Had CPS bracket fixed today, and new CPS arrived at dealership with a friend.

Put it all back together after carefully after gapping the CPS from the pulley adapter (using a slice of credit card rather than anything metal so as to stop the magnet in the sensor from being affected).

Turned the engine over - no spark, loads of fuel as has been the case for the past week now nearly and nothing.

I've held my finger to the CPS whilst turning the engine over and can feel no knocking from the sensors, so if anything it must be too far away.

Unfortunately the fix on the bracket is using a allen key head and unfortunately there's not enough room between the chassis leg to get anything onto it in place, so the whole lot has to come out again, which includes alternator complete with bracket (used to reposition it to accomodate extra pulley adapter on end of crankshaft) and it is a nightmare job!

I'm leaving it for today - before I get written complaints from my neighbours about cursing/swearing and generally looking angry!

I'm going to contact my mechanic friend Simon to come round and help me with it tomorrow evening, I've got better things to be getting on with like doing business paperwork and painting my newly repaired fence!

Anybody wanna buy a FRST rolling shell?

Oh yeah - to add insult to injury, because the car is only moveable by push power it's a bit close to one of the walls and I managed to scrape the driver's door against the garage wall and take a chunk out of the paint right on the lip!

Wish I'd stayed in bed today or just got on with gardening.

Cheers,

Andy

[TIL13R]

spork news mate sorry to hear bout this! im sure ya gonna get it sorted soon!

Go and have a sit down and have a kit-Kat

Tiller

[Ghost]

you poor poor man

*walks away, looking at the floor, shaking my head*

[sexy-aRSe]

Big up Andy B and grove

Hopefully my cabrio is being mapped today tomoz oooooh i can't wait to get it home Did ya see it, did ya, did ya lol

Yeah - I saw it, it looks lovely Faye, me and Andy were having a good old gawp around it at Grove!

Awww thanks

Looks like we are both jinxed with CPS problems They mapped my car and it was detting found out due to the our local rebore place drilling the cps hole in the wrong place So gonna cost me more money to sort out and waste groves time doing it just glad that grove can sort it for me I got to have a 1800 bottom pulley etc or something now same set up as you have instead of how the frst cps sits

Im not happy with the place that mucked it up A letter coming there way if they didn't know what they was doing they should not have done it!!!

[andyhardy]

Yeah - I'm still having troubles with my CPS.

Tried gapping the CPS in so many different positions today to try and get the car to fire and the engine just wouldn't fire.

I adjusted the CPS so many times in fact that the thread on the fixed bracket has broken again so I can't adjust it into position!

I swear, if I hadn't spent so much money on the car there would be a complete socket set smashed through the windscreen!

I'm not working on the car any more myself - it's stressing me out big time so a mechanic friend of mine is coming round next week to see if he can find the problem for me.

Cheers,

Andy

[sexy-aRSe]

I think the problem is Andy CPS have to be exactly 100% spot on If not you can get all sorts of problems as you and i have found out

[andyhardy]

Believe me - I know that, but now the bracket is broken it's gonna take me 2 hours before it's in a state where I can adjust the CPS again.

I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's more than just the CPS causing the failures but an intermittent loom failure somewhere.

If it's a loom failure then I'm going to strip the car because I've not got the money to fix that kind of problem and have more important things to be getting on with.

Cheers,

Andy

[sexy-aRSe]

Sorry to here that andy! But come on keep ya chim up we all want to see the finished project at shows and events im sure with a bit of time and patients you can fight your way through it Its going to be worth it isn't it

[andyhardy]

It's just a major downer for me - this car has had over 10k spent on it over this past year and it still doesn't run.

I'm now nearly broke and trying to start my own business struggling with paying a mortgage and all the bills etc. so my life is pretty stressful anyway.

If anyone seriously wants this car as a project to continue then PM me with offers over £4k.

Cheers,

Andy

[heeman10]

Can't really reply with much This is all just too bad

[t2rst]

andy youve spent far to much money to let her go for just over 4k i was speeking to power engineering about a different management for my car i sugested cosworth he tells me that the problems with that particular managment is all the bits used are getting old now he tells me alot of cosssey boys are haveing problems with loom and ecu breakdowns now

i would personally take her off the road and sort her out when you feel like it dont get stressed about it its only a car and at the end of the day it will run just needs a little time to pin point the fault i know how it can get to you as it always feels like 1 step forward 10 steps back but thats the whole fun of owneing a ford just picture yourself sitting on the 1/4 mile pulling some really good times all the fun is still to be had andy dont let someone buy all your hard work and let them have the pleasure of enjoying your hard work.

keep on it andy it will all be worth it when shes right

dave

[Ghost]

dont worry bud, just leavve it in the garage and get back to it another time............just leave it until you have the stability to continue on it

i know youve got a bit of cash wrapped up in it, but you dont need to sell it, just stop spending on it! and leave it alone!!

[andyhardy]

It's not a matter of money so much now but options.

I've tried everything to fix the car and it doesn't work - so what am I supposed to do?

Polish it up every now and then and go to everyone who comes round - oh yeah it's fudgekin rapid for one day every year.

It's just a joke - I took the car off the road back in December 2003 and the car has NOT run any amount of boost through it since then except for the day I picked it up from Grove Garage.

When do you say enough is enough? I've tried adjusting the CPS in all sorts of strange gaps. Bar hitting the end of the CPS on the adapter notches there is nothing I haven't tried to get the car running. I'm going to wait for someone more knowledgeable to come round and sort it out for me but I know for a fact that every time I drive the car I'll have to double check I have my mobile and AA card on me. After spending the amount of money on the car that I have that kind of mentality is shocking, but something you have to accept with these cars.

I really wish I'd just scrapped teh car when the engine went and bought that Honda Civic Type-R, something tells me I'd be alot happier with the smaller bhp figure throughout the last 16 months than I am with the 'potential' (got to love that word!) higher bhp figure that this car is supposed to be pushing out, if the spark plugs would actually fudgekin work.

Rant over - I've given up on it for this week.

Cheers,

Andy

[MotorcyclesFish]

All too often this is said lightly but: I really feel sorry for you mate. You've done everything humanly possible imo.

I guess now just do what seems right.

[mike_wall15]

Don't get rid of the car mate, that'd be a total waste of money.

Good idea on getting your mate to work on it though, hopefully he can sort it out!

I'll keep my fingers crossed mate, and hopefully when I see you at FITP you'll be looking back at this and wonder what all the worry was about

[t2rst]

if you would be happier with lesser bhp why not change it back to the good old ofab/ofac management at least youd have a working car but seriously i would stick it in the garage save up some pennys and give it to grove to sort out there is only so much one person can do why spend all that cash and not see the end result i know anuff is anuff but i bet you £10 when its sorted you will be so happy and most of all your car will ripp and it will be worth all the pain stress and hert ake that she has cost you andy dont sell

dave

[andyhardy]

I'm leaving the car until next week now (in terms of finding out what's going on with the CPS).

All I'm doing tomorrow is taking the alternator and it's bracket out, removing the CPS holding bracket from the car and then taking that to my friend's garage where he's going to work on it ready for when he comes round to mine next week in the evening some time.

He has quite a bit of experience with this type of problem so hopefully he can shed some light on the cause of my problems. The stupid thing is - we had the car running on Friday night using the old knackered CPS, the thing stopping me from using the car properly was the fact that the bracket holding the CPS in position was broken!

I then got the bracket fixed, put a new CPS in and gapped it correctly to 1mm from the adapter notches and the damn thing doesn't work again. With all the constant adjustment and loosening off and re-tightening of the CPS the thread has gone again so I need to get it all re-machined again before I bother re-gapping the CPS!

Vicious circle - pretty crap setup really as the bracket is made from s**t aluminium and the bracket from Ford's new is £150!

The ultimatum with the car is now set - it's either fixed ready for FITP or it's being stripped and sold for parts (total value is about £6.5k going on good secondhand prices for all the parts).

Cheers,

Andy

[Captain Tightpants]

Mate, thats terrible news.

I know absoloutely zilch about the cossie management setup, but whats the reason behind using the CPS anywhere but the flywheel? Is there a different amount of lugs?

Steve

[Ben_frst]

i know how you feel mate mine run 4 days in 16 months of ownership ive spent a small fourtune on bog all

and im stuck with no bloody spark

get it running and you wont sell it you'll miss the grin factor

[Stoned]

i know how you feel mate mine run 4 days in 16 months of ownership ive spent a small fourtune on bog all

and im stuck with no bloody spark

get it running and you wont sell it you'll miss the grin factor

I dunno how you lot do it to be honest. But well played for taking the cars this far.

[t2rst]

Dedication



dave

[Dave106gti]

Sorry to hear this, as has been said above though, i dunno how you all can put up with such unreliablity and expense

Mind you, having put uip with it since Dec 2003, another couple of months will surely be worth it

[Richard_xr2i1800]

Sorry to hear this mate, dont give up yet would be such a shame to see it broken.

Rich

[GavStyli]

know what your going through andy, will be such a shame to go all this way and then flog it. sort it out and use the fiesta as your demo car for your business. Your cars mint, perfect base for that
youve spent alot of money on it so far and havent got it running right yet so you aint got your moneys worth our of it.
if your money situation is fuked up big time and theres no other way to get money then sell it but only as a last option if u know wah t i mean. innit...!

[acrebo]

I think the problem is Andy

Well, that's not very nice is it!?!

Sorry to hear you're having so many problems mate, but keep going... do you really want to own a breadvan!?! (CTR)

Maybe the best bet if your mate can't sort it is to pay (yeah, I know) to get Ford mechanics to look at it. It may be modified, but it's still a Ford and I'm sure they've worked on a plenty FRST's in their time...

[GavStyli]

Andy, I think the problem is CPS have to be exactly 150% spot on If not you can get all sorts of problems as you and i have found out

here u go faye, english lesson for you!

ps. thanks again for the pod pass

[~Tony~]

Andy I know this is gonna be tough but if you have to sell it you have to. there is only so much you can take. if there is anything i can do for ya i'll do it.

whatabout getting the ally bracket made up from steel, might help and try using the old cps it may not look pretty but it works and thats all ya need.

seriously mate anything i can do it'll be done.

catch us on msn sometime.

i know all to well the frustration of fiesta's.

good luck. it can be done

[Modder_J]

One suggestion could be to garage the car up for a while, concentrate on getting the business going to get money in, buying and trying might get the RS working in the end ... but you could run into money problems.
If you had the business up and ready by FITP, you could use FITP as a advertising campaign

I would hate to see the car be sold off as parts, as you really do get into it when talking about the ole RS on MSN, and I think you would regret it big time (even if it worked out).

I'm sure everyone will back you up on your choice ... but remember, its your choice.