adampotten

Hi guys I was wondering if there are any tips on quieting down my escort engine as its so tappety. I know about getting the tappets adjusted which is on my to do list. Is there anything else I can do?
I've been told that I can use the under bonnet sound proofing to help.. Is this true ?
And I've also been told that some of the Ka's had a redesigned rocker to compensate for the noise.. Once again is this true?
Cheers in advance

RichieST

iTrader: (2)

Just adjust the tappets! Will be fine then.

sallan81

Ford did a insulated rocker cover for this engine to lessen the noise of the tappet, you might get lucky and find one in a scrappy

St3V3_C

I spent ages trying to adjust one of these. Still sounded like two skeletons shagging in a biscuit tim.

CrOwSoN15

They're just naturally tappety (real word?) Mine's only done 34k, and at 28k it still sounded like a tin of nails.

chalkey

I spend ages trying to shut mine up replaced the whole rockershaft and cam buckets, no luck they are just shit, only way I shut it up was to rip it out and fitted a cvh

Mr.T

Or zetec. Much better. cvh gets noisy to. The hcs engine is just a noisy engine. No way you find a good one. they all sound like they are falling apart.

CrOwSoN15

They'll go on forever, but from day 1 sound like they've had it

chalkey

The zetec had only just come out when I did it

botters

iTrader: (2)

you can make them silent if you adjust the tappets properly you cannot set them like a normal 4 cylinder car as they have an unconventional firing order of 1-2-4-3 so you cannot use the rule of nine method otherwise they will be set wrong and be just as noisy if not noisier!

Mr.T

you r right at that. But the noise