I then fitted my new valve springs, got head skimmed then bolted it down
I fitted everything else on the engine and wired in the ecu
and yes the bloody thing didn't start
I spent a few days going over it and found a broken wire at the main ecu plug and it fired straight up, I was a very happy bunny
small crap vid - runs abit ruff but it will do till I can get it mapped
Can anyone recommend somewhere to get megasquirt mapped on the rollers? am in south kent but I WILL TRAVEL ANYWHERE cos I'm dedicated in getting this done for classic ford oh and my sanity as this car has taken so much time and effot as have done most of it on my own I need to have it done before it kills me lol
Then thought I'd drive it out of the workshop for the very first time, I even had an audience then realised my mis match of clutch wasn't right the pinto clutch bearing needed a spacer so I walked down a few workshops and I asked my engineer friend to make up a 15mm spacer, I carefully welded the spacer to the blearing without overheating it
After fitting the spacer the clutch worked an absolute treat was really happy and theres no way its going to slip on boost as its got the typical paddle judder when pulling away but if your seeing that then pulling away like a pussy
But to fit the spacer I had to do this
while the engine was back out I gave my home made remote thermostat housing a tweak and now works perfect with the water return for the heater matrix and my threaded nut for temp sensor
Theres probably a whole day of thinking chopping and welding just on this one piece
fancy stainless clips
custom 3" downpipe I made, going to be heat wrapped
genuine ford timing belt
I've got a few more bits I want to do tomorrow so will keep you all updated step by step
Oh and plans are, I want 350hp out of this at maybe just over a bar of boost (shouldn't be a problem with my setup right?)then next winter i'll take it out and put some shiney strong internals in it.
Thanks for any comments its what keeps a man like me sane as the misses couldn't care less and thats why I understand that picture of the bird tied up further up ^^ lol