Originally Posted by
Neil@FastFord
Hell yeah!
It happened, I don't care, it made me laugh and was one of the many highlights of the day
I wiped out my daily driver, so i may as well get some mileage and pages out of it, i can certainly laugh at myself and not cry over spilt milk.
I need a 2.0 engine loom or injector loom, bit of plastic hose from TB to MAF, some leads and it should run...will have a proper butchers to check where the oil come from. Was either from cam cover or the crankcase breather.
Will be cheap 'n easy to fix....when i can be bothered.
I very nearly stripped it to transplant a 200SX engine and running gear into it as a daily drifter, but i need another big project like a hole in the head.
It is currently in "dead car alley" on my driveway with the rest of the wounded sheds me and my housemate have between us, i need a "cooling" off period before i decide to-
1. Break it
2. rebuild as it was
3. Pikey turbo
4. Go spastic and build something a bit mad and different with RWD....i considered Cossie running gear and ZT engine...but Cossie stuff is rubbish as standard IMO
I seem to remember my missus got a couple of snaps of it. Wasn't the breather a bit on the pikey side
Unless I'm thinking of something else. You didn't look too worried about it anyway, I'm sure most would have been moping and moaning about it!
Gotta keep it and RWD it, would be pukka. Don't see enough modified saloons, so a lairy engine and RWD would be ace!
As for all this tuning business, from Chaffe's point of view, a low budget turbo conversion is perhaps easy enough if he can map it himself. 99% of people couldn't do that, so they'd end up paying someone else to do it, so it would be just as expensive as having carbs set up. You might get bigger gains from the turbo conversion, but both are going to be expensive to Joe Average when you take into account set up costs.