Rossco

Right, my future brother in law has just brought his first turbod Ford and suprise suprise its playing up already

Its a FRST thats been converted to a T3 turbo, as far as i now it is standard other than the, oh and its got a lovely bleed valve!!

Its running 10psi at the mo, and he says it keeps missing under load, any sujestions what could be causeing this, is it running to much boost for an unchipped engine?

We checked the plugs last night and there were all a nice shade of dark grey, did not have a feeler gauge so we could not check the gaps, but they did not look massive.

What do you think guys and gals.

Cheers Ross

essexrsturbo

if it aint chipped the car will over boost at about 9-10psi, sounds like wots happening

Stu @ M Developments

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10psi T3 and standard engine can easily = DEAD ENGINE. LOL.

Seriously though, if its the boost limiter it will cut dead and then run less boost until key off/on procedure.

Rossco

Yeh thats what i thought, told him to see if he could screw the bleed valve in and get it to run less than 7psi and see if it cures the problem.

FordFans

I had the same problem with my ERST, was fine off boost but on boost was popping and banging and misfiring, I see you have checked the plugs and looked fine, so did mine, but a new set cured the problem straight away, so I would say thats your problem, not so much the boost, but I would also dump the bleed valve, they're an engine destruction tool

Paul

JAP CRAP

Ross. havent you heard

FIXED IT didnt even have to put on my overalls

took the bleed valve off all together

Rossco

Nope did it last night mate Did you see what boost it was running last night after you took the shitty bleed valve off?

JAP CRAP

no, forgot to check that. didnt want to look at the fast and furious boost guage its not running much. got no misfire at all now though

its a very nice little car once those 2 little bits of rust are sorted I want a black FRST badly now

Rossco

Yeh looks like a good little buy, but he rang me this morning Dom and said it was still missing a bit last night on the way home

JAP CRAP

really??



are you busy today then?? why dont you come over and have a look at it with me??

Rossco

His in Colchester, said he was gonna pick up some new plugs on the way home and call in on the way past.

JAP CRAP

do well