My 190bhp Zetec is on a pair of 45's, why do I want to spend £1000-1500 more to put it on injection ?
Pauluspaolo
There are several ways you can go with carb set ups and management.
lets start with the absolute billy basic rock bottom budget install.
You can run a Weber 32/36 Twin Choke Down Draught Carb using an old Ford Crossflow manifold and an adaptor plate from the Banger boys, see e-bay for details.
Basically in Mondeo Bangers you cant run injection, you have to run a carb, so the banger racers have come up with various methods of adapting carbs onto their Zetec and the adaptor plate and Crossflow GT inlet works pretty well.
You can also get an adaptor plate which will adapt a CVH inlet manifold to the Zetec and you can use an XR2 inlet, but you have to do some mods to the inlet to take a weber car.
This works well and a good friend of mine had his Anglia van on the roller at Northampton Motorsport and his scrap yard RS1800 engine made a very respectable 138bhp with a stonking flat torque curve making 100lb/ft at 2500rpm, peaking at 125lb/ft and then at the limiter was still making over 100lb/ft of torque.
BUT taking that thought further, you can use a down draught inlet from an XR2 to run a pair of DCNF Carbs and I have seen a car which will hit the classic ford scene later this year with that very set up on it.
Then you get to ignition, you can do a proper budget thing, which again is done on the bangers and use an ESC (Electronic Spark Control) module from a MkIII Fiesta, looks like an EDIS Module but its not, its basically a distributor in a box, so it has a fairly fixed advance curve. If you use this you MUST connect the water temp sensor as it does alter the ignition when the engine is cold.
The next step form that is to use a MegaJolt Ignition Only ECU
And then from there use something like an OMEX200 or a Weber Alpha Ignition Only set up.
All will work.
Dont waste your time with standard Management and ECU, if you start with a 130bhp engine thats what you'll end up with. Sticking carbs on will give you more power straight out the box.
Infact the single twin choke made more power than the factory set up and it still does around 35 to the gallon on a run.