Absolutely smashing
missed the whole magazine thing as I’ve not checked in on your thread for a little while. Will try to pick up a copy , but well done mate , cars a Screamer.

 

Thanks sammy mate , hope your well .

 

yes all good at the moment. Trying to run the workshop until Friday, get as many cars out as I can . Can’t get any parts now though all dealers are closed as of 5pm tonight. Trying to keep the family well, so staying in as much as possible. How are you finding it yourself mate hope you’re keeping well ,
regards Steve

 

Keep safe mate , wish you and family well .

 

Well I decided I was going to tackle the under reading rev counter. Since id gone over to management it always under read by 50%. I asked the question on the simtek forum and Andrew Gallagher told me I could use an Omex tacho driver into pin 9 of the ecu and to the ford tacho wire. So I ordered 1 and fitted it and it still under read by 50% until Mark knight told/guided me through the tacho edge table grid in the ECU. we had a play and guessed some settings that were luckily spot on.























Also with being a key worker in the health sector .armed with my ID I took the car to work and managed to grab a few pics and also managed to find a pair of NOS 80 spec seat base covers ( like rocking horse shit ).

 

Little vid of the tacho edge table grid set up .

 

awesome work as always fella, pics look great not a bad little vessel to get you around on your duties

 

Thanks Andy mate , just little jobs to do that I've put off for a while to make it that little better everytime ,

Just ordered a new fuel pump from MSD

 

Are you gonna go balls out still mate and go for over 300 hp or leave as is ?

 

I'm leaving it just over the edge of 300 as it's not breaking a sweat mate .

 

Think this ones seen better days, on prime up it squeals and the makes this noise even with a full tank.

 

well mate nows going be as good a time as any to do any of these little jobs i reckon. Totally agree on on these little bits making it even better also.

Top news on the fuel pump that should be the last piece to the puzzle, dya reckon the current one got fried a bit on the initial set up you were telling me about?

 

Yea I think running it to 10bar with the mitty valve might not have helped

 

Ah yeah it just might of shortened it's life a tad 😂

 

Remember smelling fuel but no leaks at all , then pretty sure mark said no wonder it went to 10bar at the reg Irrc

 

I think the most impressive part of this build so far is sourcing those 88 spec base covers! Where the hell did you find those??

(in all seriousness - great build all round!)

 

I totally agree mate , I spotted them come up for sale and without Rs tax I immediately drove 60mile round trip to go get them .

they are spares as luckily my trim is split mint .




Thanks mate , hope you and yours are all good .

 

Plenty in a lightweight fwd pal, does it need anymore mapping or is it just fit pump and run at 300 hp ?

 

It's going back for the alteration bud , better safe than sorry ., its plenty for a car that's built for the welsh bends .

 

Fuel pump arrived from MSD .

 

Today I went all perverted and got a few areas cleaned and coated that haven't been touched in just over 4k mileage , it's never going to be perfect has I've built this to be used , the car to say it's been used in the dry , rain and light snow/ frost hasn't done bad at all . The buzzweld is faultless.. just need to get the other ARB powder coated and back on now .

 

Got a call out last night to one of the hospitals me and my team maintain , it was 1800 and the sun blaring , so decided to chuck a few tools in the boot and take the turbo and stretch its legs ..grabbed a few pics on the way home , 73 miles of lovely driving





Had a quick play for 2-3 miles with the ALS engaged doesnt half push you through the bends , especially when you've only got a pair of 80s spot lights lighting up the B roads through the bends .











Finally got home , to glowing manifold and hot brakes

 

I used to like the drive home when back shift = quiet roads, and a glowing red turbo on arrival 😁

 

bang on , can't beat it .

 

i remember friends lighting a cigarette off of the turbo on an RST

 

Got back from roasting a M3 other month , to it glowing to the flexy under the bulkhead .

 

Fab pics there, scenery stunning,Escort just looks so classy there. fair play for doing your bit for NHS, cool work car too lol.

 

Thanks mate, yea the scenary is stunning , and thanks it's hard at min but I'm told we are making progress, so keep battling.

 

On a 4 day RnR so today I dragged the car out and cleaned the garage out . Took some pics playing with the camera phone.

 

Well today I checked all my fuel fittings to try and find my fuel restriction , it turns out they are all good and will flow plenty for what I need , so the noisy 044 came off and the new 044 from motorsport Developments was fitted ..just need to get out now and check what the fuelling is like .

 

Looks like an essential journey coming up then😉mint work mat

 

Not many mate 😉.. and thanks

 

Looks good matey. Shere did you get the seat covers?

 

Cheers Lee mate . They are off Ebay.

 

awesome news mate, that should be the last little thing now

you will have to use it for work again on a call out

 

wow, not been here in a while. came out a pretty jewel. so neat that in some pics, at first glance, she looks like a hi end scale model.
very well done Mat.

 

Stunning car Mat.

 

wow.what are you doing with your old ones

 

Thanks mate , I'm no god with a camera but got lucky with these .

Thanks mate .


If you mean the Daytona seat base material then the new ones are just spares as my set are mint , if your on about the seat covers then in only have one set that I bought of ebay mate.

 

Well the pump was my fuel restriction .happy days ..now to get it book back in to MSD .