Well here's a short video of the engine running on EDIS only & minus any sort of exhaust (bar a loosely fitted manifold) - the voiceover at the beginning belongs to my Westfield owning friend Matt - he's an amateur thespian in case you hadn't guessed 
The car took a lot of getting going with some fairly spectacular fireworks/mushroom clouds from the carb! It eventually fired up (sort of) but wouldn't idle & I'm not convinced it's firing on all 4 cylinders - quite hard to tell though without an exhaust (which will also affect how the car runs) - each plug was getting a spark. Having read a bit about DGV/DGAV carbs I'm going to check the basic settings when I get home tonight - though the carb was new so I sort of assumed that it'd be set to the basics already
On a more positive note the clutch works as I tried reversing the car despite there being no drivers seat, no brakes & with the engine running as rough as a bears bum
Video shot in May 2012.
http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/pauluspaolo/Videos%20of%20the%20SS1/?action=view¤t=VID00001.mp4
Since the above video I’ve bought, & fitted, a complete stainless steel exhaust system (from another SS1), tightened up the inlet manifold (which has stopped the spitting back/mushroom clouds), tweaked the idle/mixture settings on carb & loaded a map onto the Megajolt ….. the car’s now idling/running much better than it was in the previous video. The map loaded is for a standard cross flow, all the Zetec maps I could find were for engines running twin 40/45’s. If anyone has an ignition map for a Zetec running a single Weber DGV carb then I’d very much like to hear from them. Also does knows what jets to use in a DGV carb that’s attached to a 2 litre Zetec?? The carb was new, I’ve not opened it up, so I’m not sure what the main jet sizes are but the idle jets are: primary choke – 165, secondary choke – 160. I asked for it to be jetted for a 2 litre Pinto (Cortina/Capri etc).
As I say the car’s running much better but I thought I may go up/down a couple of idle jet sizes i.e. primary choke up to 170 or down to 160 & secondary choke up to 165 or down to 155. The jets are only a couple of quid each so cheap enough to buy & experiment with but if I change the idle jet sizes will I need to change the emulsion tubes & the main jet sizes as well??
As you can probably tell I’ve no idea what I’m doing so, once again, any advice would be much appreciated L!!
Anyway here’s another video of it running much better earlier this month J
http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/pauluspaolo/Videos%20of%20the%20SS1/?action=view¤t=Zetecrun2EDIS.mp4
J
Last edited by pauluspaolo; Jul 13, 2012 at 01:50 PM.