Then i decided i've had enough of N/a power, its expensive and decided i wanted a turbo instead....

I picked up for cheap a frs turbo and manifold, injectors, focus inlet, frs top elbow and a loads of other bits.

a 4k mile old zetec



Brand new frs pistons which i fitted to a set of free frs rods


The head as it was removed



I then set about cleaning the exhaust valves. Im fitting focus rs valves but they needed a clean up first, so one by one i put them in a drill and cleaned them with a brass brush. They came out rather nice! I lapped these in afterwards and replaced all the valve springs with the focus rs version. You can see in the pictures that it is a much thicker coil.







This was then reshimmed on the exhaust side to get the clearances of the solid lifters correct because of changing the exhaust valves.

I also picked up this focus rs breather pot along the way for £5



Also this difficult to get hold of adaptor/gasket for fitting a metal throttle body to a plastic inlet manifold



On christmas eve i got pretty close to having the package ready to drop in, but disaster struck and i accidentally over-torqued the idler pulley and snapped the bolt. The left over bit of bolt came out the head fine but due to some confusion at ford, getting the right bolt to replace it wasnt an option, turns out it only comes with the pulley itself so i got a complete new INA pulley from eurocarparts for £15 This is how i finished up before xmas







After advise from Mark Stewart i've ordered a single piece inlet manifold instead of the 2 piece i have fitted. I should imagine it is far more susceptible to splitting under boost being a 2 piece.

Then today this happened





All i need now is some moly lube to put the arp rod bolts back in, modify the sump for oil return and bolt it on