ok so here we go with being away for a few months ive been playing with something else i brought my old zetec for £1400 and i ended up selling it for £2500
So i decided to treat my self to something good which was this
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ford escort rs turbo
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excuse the front bumper cause that got changed back to standard as a pic shows below
so ive had this for about 2 months now, and just over a month ago i went out with a mate and he thrased me in his corsa sri considering my zetec beat his corsa i thought that i need to be getting my car to torque of the devil, awesome bunch of guys there wouldnt fault them. so time come round to wack my car on the dyno for its setting up session.
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day was going well found out my fuel pipe was actualy water pipe with springs inside it and found out i was running the wrong spark plugs after all this got changed the runs began (here's the funny bit) first run will explan why exactly my mate thrashed me
first run = 88.4bhp
LOL
yep first run sucked after about an hour and a half lots of tweeting we finally got this
once we got this we decided to do one more run just to see if we could get 170bhp, but then my car decided to crap its self and spin its bearings.
so a sucessfull day coming to a quick close on the tralior the car goes again for its journey home.
yep so a week later i decided to kick my arse in to gear and start rebuilding the car considering the engine is gonna be fully out im gonna do this properly.
pics to follow
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one thing that sucks about removing engines from rs turbos is that they have to come out the bottom and when you have no ramps or anything it resorts to this
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after the engine came out was then left with this mess and 21 years worth of dirt.
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started to clean the engine bay up pretty sharpish for some reason before i started to dismantle the engine lol. only ended up cleaning a 1/4 of engine bay cause my brother (alfacossie or may have been alfaholic75 who had the cosworth engine in his alfa 75) came home and had ago at me for not taking the engine apart so engine bay looks like this now
i then turned and started concertrating on engine
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once it was literally in bits i checked out the bottom end lol what can i say check the left big end bearing out
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i then checked crank and found the journal on the crank was crap and scoured prety much beyond skimming.
so 3 days later this turned up
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about 2 weeks after this turned up (which is today) i braved the cold got out side cleaned the block and crank and head up and took to southern rebores engine machiners.
The guy there checked whether my head needed skimming which was a no so it started off good he checked the crank for me as this was an unknown crank to me and i got told its fine just needs polishing, hes also gonna measure the journals for me, so i then thought it couldnt get any better really. and it didnt it got alot worse instead of the planned honing to the block it now needs to be bored as theres is a big gaug in the bore which i completly miss DOH!!!
so because of that ive now had to ordered 1mm over sized pistons from burton power, i got a qoute off of them for 1mm over sized standard pistons which were £400 or i could have for an extra £110 forge pistons so what ones did i go for
forge of course so there order pics will follow.
after i got back from engine shop i though i cant hang around all day so continued work on the old girl started heat wrapping the mani and started painting rear drums black as they were red lol. drums still need a few more coats yet
unfortunatly i run out of heat wrap half way through and also only held on with cable ties at the mo till i have my proper heat wrap ties turn up.
front anti roll bar gear linkages and the stabilizer bar are all now painted black
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So thats as far as ive got with it so far hopefully have pics up of the pistons soon. and also will have lots more pics of cleaning that will be going on.
hope you enjoy would love your comments and sugestions
o and 1 other thing my group a coil turned up other day