Originally Posted by
big_wasa
Ah gotya,
That is the knock sensor and the ecu uses this to listen for detonation.
The vvt works on oil presure. The valve on top of the valve cover is the solenoid that lets the oil into the vvt pulley. The ecu knows where the cam timing is by the cam phase sensor.
I havnt done the belt yet but it looks like its the same as any zetec except you have to hold the vvt pulley with a spanner.
The oil cooler is as much an oil warmer as anything elts. Its designed to get the engine up to tempreture quicker to reduce emissions on warm up.
Having spoken to a few people, most arnt bothering with the extra plumbing. As there are lots of zetec's out there over 200bhp with out one.
ok thats brilliant knowledge there, im just stripping it and trying all different zetec parts on it to see out of interest will and will not fit.
so far a black top exhaust manifold fits direct, not that youd wanna fit it lol.
got a silvertop 4-2-1 to try on tomorrow.
ideally i wanna fit a silvertop water pump but we'll see........