Lee at Devil Developments who's a bit handy when it comes to building a Zetec turbo or two (built a few 440+bhp ones and built a Silvertop that made 500+ bhp on a standard Silvertop pump) is building a very special new Zetec engine for his Fiesta ST demo/project car.

Right now the Fiesta already has a good spec engine (see below), but he's decided to push it as far as it will go until something gives up in the name of developement in order to see what the new all-singing-all-dancing engine will need. This is mainly for the oil pump issue, as right now it runs a totally standard, secondhand oil pump (Blacktop bottom end) which Lee normally uses and has no failures so far on standard dampeners and flywheels. The engine so far has done 4000 very hard miles at 430bhp over the last few months with no issues.

So with talk of the oil pump failure issues and wondering whether it's worth going dry sump on his next engine, he's keen to see if that will break first when he starts putting more boost and higher revs into it.

The testing began today. Spec of the car currently:
- 2.1 Blacktop bottom end with low comp pistons, Eagle steel rods etc...#
- Totally standard secondhand/weathered oil pump
- Stage 3 ported and polished head done by Nick at AMS
- Standard valves
- Standard exhaust cam
- Custom inlet cam; 11.5mm of lift
- Cat Cams valve springs
- KMS mangament mapped by Lee
- Area Six/Devil Developments inlet manifold with shorter runners to produce more power higher up
- Devil Developements/Airtec exhaust manifold
- GT35 turbo and 38mm external Turbosmart wastegate
- Airtec intercooler and radiator
- MTX gearbox with long ratios, Quaife ATB

For the test Lee has fitted some 2000cc injectors so it won't run out of fuel (two 044 pumps already fitted).

I love the idea of seeing what it will die at and using it as a test bed, good to see someone pushing development of the Zetec engine too!

His next engine by the way will be a 2.3 with a stroker crank, Nikisil linered, completely new test/development head and will be fitted with M12 Cosworth stud and nut kit. The aim is 600+ bhp.