the car seems to get very hot even on small journeys???? plus thimorning, there was a puddle of water underneath the car, on i nspection it was coming from the headertank cap!!!!???????? the water is filled just below the max level, i dont know if its just water thats in it though??????????

 

Flush the whole system and refill following the instructions on the bottle of antifreeze. If you still have no joy, check the usual things and start saving for an alloy rad.

 

if you over fill the header tank, it will piss out when hot

its an expansion system IIRC, so when hot the water level rises up

maybe it pissed out when hot, and when you switched it off etc... it will get hot, they all do, thanks to the turbo being part of the cooling system route...

have you put an 82 degree stat in it yet ? and 4x4 fan switch ? to help in the short term, then get an alloy rad, and turbo cooler, i.e. like the pro alloy one

 

cheers guys!
i havent actually done the mod yet however, when im driving the fan is usually on, i think the tank is classed as an expaqnsion tank system, i have seen the lid leaking a tiny little bit but i tightened it up a little so should be ok now!!!! :-( did i see right somewhere that other than antifreeze theres another additive that you can add that will help cool the water????

whats the best way to flush a system out???

i need to look at the turbo coolers, mine is an s1 turbo unit on an s2 and it seems to get very warm also!!!!! :-(

 

an S1 turbo unit is not water cooled, thats why

GET WETTER WATER, thats the additive what your on about, i dunno where to get it from tho!

flush with a running hose pipe, backwards and forwards thru radiator etc...

 

oil cooled i believe????


wetter water, thats the stuff, maybe not much point in that though if im to upgrade anyway but will defo do the flushing this weeknd and will also try to get hold of the stuff to do that mod eventually!!! busy weekend this weekend, got loads to do to the car!!!! the list gets bigger and bigger!!! good job its a bankholiday!!!

 

oil cooled yes, which i think = dogsh!t

 

ahh!!! i was going to ask what the advantage of it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

nothing i dont reckon, thats why they updated it to water cooled as well, in the series 2...

oil doesnt cool as fast as water, i think

 

oh well!!!! another possible problem then????

on a nice sunny day like todaqy i fpound out the fuse box leaks!!!!!! :-(

 

probably wont be helping your temperature situations, every little helps...

althought water cooled ones, heat the coolant up as well, turbo coolers are best

how come it was leaking ? you poured water down ?

 

turbo cooler, i need to know more!!!! how much for a start!!!!


yeah, just a little bit, it doesnt help havin no fuse box cover either!!!!!!!!

 

turbo cooler from PRO ALLOY Ł100, ideally needs to bolt to the side of one of their intercoolers tho!

no fuse box cover!!! WHY NOT ???

get a cover asap, and then think about repairing it, welding needed i expect

 

hmm, sounds good! how do they plumb in?????

i was looking at their coolers anyway with thev2 fans!!!!!!

never had a cover!!!! :-( no welding will be needed!!!

 

get a cover, you dont want water pouring into your fusebox and knackering it out...

coolers plumb in to turbo coolant lines from main water coolant system, just 2 pipes...

get a cover if i was you

you got an ERST S2 or a puma ?!

 

both!!!!!!

i have temporarily put gaffer tape over it to keep the water off it!!! im bidding on a chrome cover on ebay as i cant find one ih a scrappy, i realised though that they clip over the originals, doh!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

you have both, how come ?

which do you drive etc... specs... ?

 

the puma is off the road at the moment as it doesnt want to start at all!!!!! i think its the clifford alarm! the rst is the new toy really, only just got it so its all new to me!!!!!
the puma no longer has the wheels on it that are in the siggy, it has the frp wheels on it now and the front and rear brakes are now st170, evertything else on thatcar is pretty much as it looks! full frp interior, full racing exhaust system, 4-2-1 manifold, modded ecu, air filter bit of a stereo, lowered but i hate it now its that low, needs to go back to standard springs on the konis!it needs the rest of the graphics doing on it, hopefully before the shows!
the rst is also red, 4" scorpion, -31, s1 turbo, chipped, bleed valve and thats about it, doors and boot are smooted and delocked! in the process of getting the bonnet smoothed off and getting a 90 spoiler, needs a very good tune doing to it abnd soring out of the wheel camber, bodywork is a little shoddy but will come up good! probably get some small white graphics on that aswell as having the wheels powder coated too.its also got green stuff pads with ebc discs, im not too keen on this set up either!!!!! this is also stupicly low, im after a set of original springs to go with the koni dampers for it!!!!!

 

No it dont

 

where abouts in manchester do you live ??

 

i actually live in ashton under lyne!!!! do you know it?

 

This is what Ford thought when revising the oil cooled turbos in S1's




pahaha

 

where is A-U-L ?

 

Well ford are wrong

 

near oldham.......ish!

 

Sounds like you need to flush the system, go and buy a new header tank and cap from ford (cheap enough) and see how you get on