Originally Posted by
Project_Bonus
Yeh I think I will go with the ashley item its £200 on burton power which comes fully assembled, they also do an ashley single silencer exhaust for the mk4 aswell which is about £180 which shuld sound pretty meaty.
If and only if I were to go with carbs at some point would I have to run it on standalone management or are any of the zetec ecu's capable of doing the job? If so megasquirt seems to get a good write up on here so I may go with that
to run a carb or carbs on a zetec, the budget way is to use the original loom from your bonus - the engine loom (which unplugs from the main car loom behind the passenger headlight) has the plugs etc to run the zetec because the Bonus engine uses a coilpack and flywheel sensor like the zetec. Its not as good as aftermarket stuff like Megasquirt or Omex but its good for gettin it up and running. This way is popular with the stock car boys cos its cheap and easy.
My mates that I mentioned before that ran the 4 speed box made 129 bhp from an 1800 zetec with 2.0 cams, 4 branch and single XR2 weber carb - and used the Bonus loom to get it up and running
Another mate (think his username is Marv on here if you search for it) has my old bonus and runs a 2.0 with single carb with this wiring as well and his goes very well and runs perfect.
There is also an XR2 in the for sale section on with a zetec & bike bodies that uses this wiring set up - most folk call it the ESC set up i think
Rosco