Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

[jason33]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Ordered 1/2BSP -10 adapters today for the new adapter plate.

Now I can focus on plumbing the radiator in....

Now, do any of the hose manufacturers allow you to take the car to them, so they can take their exhaustive collection of hoses and find ones that fit. Or am I stuck with the usual, buy it and try it option?

Ideally that is what you want. I was lucky, as I live 30 seconds from Merlin Motorsport who carry stock of a wide range of hoses so I could take some away to try!

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

I'll email a few and see if they want to get involved for a bit of free publicity.

[david tait]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Graham, i've just sat and read through all of this since you started putting the Duratec in. Attention to detail is great, really wish I had the patience. Look forward to seeing the car finished and back out.

[dobuy]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

brilliant as always Graham

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

The final bits of the puzzle arrived yesterday

The 1/2BSP to -10 adapters and the 20mm Dowty seals.

Actually made the first oil line last night, that links the oil adapter plate to the remote oil filter housing. The Pro-lite 350 Hose from Earls is an absolute doddle to use, compared to the stainless overbraided stuff. Just squirt some WD40 on to the cloth braid, twist on the outer cover, slide the fitting in to the end of the hose, and do the two sections up (carefully) so as not to scratch the aluminium fitting. I'll never use the stainless stuff again. I hated getting pricked to death by the stuff.

Going to collect the Viton o-rings this morning, which'll mean I can fit the adapter plate permanently to the engine. The second hose will be made when I've worked out where to fit the cooler.




I've finished the control box now. The fuse holder is fitted on the end of the box, and I've started on the wiring diagrams. I'll be fitting an intermittent wiper relay too, so I can have them just on, or intermittent on with a 5s sweep.

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Ordering the relays today, and should have the box wired up by the weekend. Then I can crimp the terminals on to the ECU loom connectors, and we should have sparks and injectors and everything else working. (Fingers crossed)

Here's a hires shot of the isolator box and the control box with ITT connector and fuse box fitted




Here is the adapter plate, with Earls fitting and one hose made up so far, using the Perform-o-flex 350 hose.

[Adam B]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

graham, might have been covered already, but are you blanking or keeping the block breather? what benefits would this give? and would anything else need to be done?

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Keeping it Adam, and it'll feed in to the rocker cover breather, and then in to the Mocal catch tank.

Far better to let an engine breath without restricting it by blanking off breather ports.

[Adam B]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

cool, i gotta sort something for mine asap, i've just had a temporary fix of the small breather filter off the rocker cover, and the block venting straight to atmosphere

but the head breathes wil oil vapour which is coming out the filter and slowly covering the engine bay, doh!

have you seen my post re: a vaccum chamber for my brakes? do you have any suggestions?

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Wifey reports that two packages have arrived. One is hopefully the Geatronics dashboard gear indicator, and the other is the vehicle wiring products relay and 6.3mm crimps hopefully.

I fear I'll be outside rigging up the new CCTV camera though. NFH seemed very agitated this morning. Shouting and swearing at me again. Someones rattled his cage.

[mervhill]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Who is NFH?

btw, nice to see you at the weekend Graham, hope you enjoyed yourself! Looking forward to seeing the Fiesta out. Fancy doing some rallying in it?

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Nfh = neighbour from hell

Long story. He served 9months in prison in 99 for clocking 320,000miles off 7 cars, and sells 2nd hand cars from his driveway, £1.7M worth in the last 7yrs. Nasty piece of work. One of his cars was clamped last week for having no tax. Anything that happens, he assumes its me that's reported him. He trashed my mondeo in oct 2000 whilst he was away for 2 weeks hols.

He's a little unhinged....

[mervhill]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

Jeeeeeezus!!! Total psycho! Yeah, I'd definitely have that camera up! I'd be very paranoid having someone like that near me

When I had my old black RS2000, my brother and I saw this guy with a YB powered MK1, seemed like a bit of a wierdo, but thought nothing of it. Then a week or so later I saw him down the local shops, and he came up to me asking where I'd got my wheels from (bearing in mind here that they were RS 6" 4 spokes, just diamond turned, painted and laquered). I obviously explained that it's an RS2000, and that they're standard, and I'd bought the car with them on.

Anyway, he basically accused me of stealing his, to which I told him to go fuck himself, and drove off, next thing I know the feds are knocking on my door at home! They were really good actually, saying this bloke was a right nutter, and more than accepted that they were my wheels, I showed them a few pictures from a while before anyway just to satisfy them. Anyway, they left, but came back about an hour later, saying that this twat insisted that they were his wheels, and they had to take a statement to make it official, but not to worry as they had clearly seen he was a nutter! Never heard anything again. Anyway, where I was actually going with this, turned out he was a neighbour of someone I worked with, who confirmed his insanity, saying he had mental problems, and once accused my colleague of having an affair with his wife (he wasn't married) and stuck a bloody great axe in his front door!!! Time to moooooove!

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

And yes, I had a great time at rockingham. It was nice to get away from the kids for the day, even if I did get it in the ear when I got home. Looking forward to Croft next easter.

[team_zi]

Re: Grahamb's Mk1 Fiesta XR2 Duratec HE Hillclimber

This bloke is so thick, he hasn't twigged that his immediate neighbour is a WPC on assignment with CID. Didn't stop him calling me a c%nt in the street yesterday. Not worth getting asbo's. That'd just be a medal of honour for him.

He's been trying to get planning permission for a huge extension. Surely someone will ask questions about his financial situation soon...