1988 Mk2 Fiesta. Classicford feature

I am getting close to the engine going back in now.
Changed the last few bolts first. There some that have not been changed mainly the ones I have not removed but if any look to unpleasant I will switch them for new ones once fitted.

Then I cleaned up the thermostat housing and sorted some new bolts.


Then I needed to cut the hole for the wiring before the engine is in my way. Not so easy to pick a spot on these mk2 fiesta compared to the escorts. I chose here.


Which comes into the car just where the carpet meets the under dash carpet. I should just be able to do it without seeing the wires.


I have done a fair bit of reading other people's attempts at this and have seen it going through the inner wing covered in 3 tubes of silicon and even some putting the ecu on the battery tray unprotected and moving the battery to the boot neither of which I fancied, not ideal to be going through the bulkhead in my opinion but there is very little choice.
Last job for today is clean and re-tape the loom. It would be difficult to do this once fitted.

Had to down tools early today for a little 20 mile Road trip to pick up this piece of 80s gold.



It is a top boot spoiler off a limited edition Olympus. I won't fit it unless I can find a matching front chin spoiler but at £31 I had to have it just incase I came across a front one.

Cheers. I am looking forward to driving it with this lump in should be entertaining. These old fiesta's are like mini's everyone has had one or drove one at some point.
I am still amazed at the attention it gets now compared to when I first put the xr2 lump in my dad's old fiesta about 12 years ago. The only looks I got back then was "look at that penniless tramp in that old fiesta" it was great, people didn't expect it to go like it did.

Today's progress is limited to a coat of barbecue paint on the exhaust manifold, no idea if it will last but I will soon find out.

The hole I need to fill with bolts are not M14x1.25 as I thought, it looks like they are m16x1.5 so will need to get 4 of those.
Will get a bit more done in the morning if it's dry.

 just quickly read this thread, sorta   but deffo looked at all the pics tho great read, great work, great job. 

Thanks



I am not holding my breath with the bbq paint and high temp paint wouldn't be any better imo. If your after a look that lasts ceramic coating is the way to go.
The sportex system is larger bore than the standard system so is not going to be as restrictive in this application but it is not ideal as it is slightly smaller in diameter than the down pipe. I will see how it goes and I may have to have one made if I think its necessary.





Not got much done over the last week. I had an hour on it about a week ago and thought I would put the accelerator cable in as I was short on time I thought it would be an easy win as the pedal end was the same fitting but unfortunately the inner cable needed to be about 15mm longer. The problem has been caused by the fiesta pedal sitting away from the bulkhead more on the fiesta compared to the escort. So I hit google and people had come up with many suggestions of which cable was needed but nothing I could find on ebay and I maybe wasting money if I brought one that didn't fit. So I modified the pedal to sit closer the bulkhead.


Then I splashed a bit of paint on it. Basically I had slit the sides twice once to bend it over towards the bulkhead and then once to get the top at a similar angle it was at before to prevent the cable being at an awkward angle after it comes through the bulkhead.



I think I have bolted a few other bits back on since the last update. As it currently stands. I also out of shot have extended the wires for the starter motor which is now at the rear.



The to do list is looking like this.

1. Mod and fit Puma gear linkage.
2. Mod and fit the exhaust.
3. Wire up the main plug on the engine loom.
4. Mod and fit water pipes.
5. Somehow squeeze the air filter/MAF in. (Need to fit water pipes first to see what space I have)
6. Fit ECU behind the dash.
7. Wire a fuel pump circuit in.
8. Modify fuel tank.
9. Fit new fuel lines.
10. Get tyres for the steels or swap the tyres off the pepperpots. (considering going for a slightly bigger profile)
11. Engine and gearbox oil to go in.

Not that much really, I have broke the back of it.

Well I managed to get linkage bolted on and connected. I can select all gears so apart from minor adjustment once running that's 1 thing done off the list.




Also nearly done the coolant hoses. The bottom hose between the water pump and radiator needs more thought before I start cutting them. I have the fiesta bottom hose and the escort one but there is not enough space to do it like I did the on the previous mk4 escort I did.

Also put the exhaust on to see where I was at and the sported system just does not seem to line up with zetec downpipe which is incredibly close to the front crossmember.


The to do list is looking like this.

1. Mod and fit Puma gear linkage.
2. Mod and fit the exhaust.
3. Wire up the main plug on the engine loom.
4. Mod and fit water pipes.
5. Somehow squeeze the air filter/MAF in. (Need to fit water pipes first to see what space I have)
6. Fit ECU behind the dash.
7. Wire a fuel pump circuit in.
8. Modify fuel tank.
9. Fit new fuel lines.
10. Get tyres for the steels or swap the tyres off the pepperpots. (considering going for a slightly bigger profile)
11. Engine and gearbox oil to go in.

Lovely car and a great job mate.

I don't suppose you still have the star mags do you?

Got the Ecu bolted in today. It's a bit tight but has saved taking the dash out and I still have a glovebox.



This leaves me with a nice clear footwell. The under dash carpet should fit as usual leaving no sign of the install.


I finished the wiring in the engine bay.
I have 2 small fuse boxes 1 for permanent live and 1 for switched live.



That leaves just the power wire for the fuel pump to connect all other wiring is complete.

Edited to add the following wiring or future reference.

I have connected the following wires on the ecu main plug
Black/green = 10 amp Ing live
Black = 4 amp Ing live
brown = 85 on fuel pump relay (earth)
Red = 4 amp Perm live
Brown/White = Earth

Wires I have left are:
Red/Black (I belive this is the old fuel pump circuit from the mk5?)
Green (I belive this is for the rev counter that I don't have in my car?)
Brown/Green (Temp gauge I think but unsure where to connect to?)
Brown/Green (No Idea what this does)
Black/White (Black/yellow on the other side of the main plug ie ecu side of the plug)
(No idea what this does either)

I have wired my own circuit for the fuel pump Using a yellow relay from a mk4 escort fuse box.
Positive from pump to 30 on relay
Switched live to pats and then from pats to 86 on relay
Earth to 85 on relay and to the brown wire on the ecu
Perm live to 87 on relay with a 30 amp fuse
I have also put a cut out switch in the feed to the pump.


I have also sorted the water hoses. The bottom hose is made out of the doner escort one with a section cut out of the middle.



The to do list is looking like this.

1. Mod and fit Puma gear linkage.
2. Mod and fit the exhaust.
3. Wire up the main plug on the engine loom.
4. Mod and fit water pipes.
5. Somehow squeeze the air filter/MAF in. (Need to fit water pipes first to see what space I have)
6. Fit ECU behind the dash.
7. Wire a fuel pump circuit in.
8. Modify fuel tank.
9. Fit new fuel lines.
10. Get tyres for the steels or swap the tyres off the pepperpots. (considering going for a slightly bigger profile)
11. Engine and gearbox oil to go in.

Thanks, shouldn't be long now until it runs now.

Got a bit more today. I had a few bits on order of which the last one turned up this morning enabling me to have a go at getting the induction side of things sorted.
I would have preferred it like this.

But putting the bonnet on would have been a problem.



So more pipework was required giving me this.













I have read other people's build threads who have moved the battery to the boot to create space which is not for me. I am not over the moon with it like this but it should function ok and I can live with it.
You can just make out in one of the pictures that I made a little bracket out of an offcut of stainless I had lying about to secure the air flow meter as because the pipework is so long it was hanging on the original plastic intake a bit to much so this takes the weight and really is quite secure now. It should prevent vibration and potential cracking of the plastic section.

The to do list is looking like this.

1. Mod and fit Puma gear linkage.
2. Mod and fit the exhaust.
3. Wire up the main plug on the engine loom.
4. Mod and fit water pipes.
5. Somehow squeeze the air filter/MAF in. (Need to fit water pipes first to see what space I have)
6. Fit ECU behind the dash.
7. Wire a fuel pump circuit in.
8. Modify fuel tank.
9. Fit new fuel lines.
10. Get tyres for the steels or swap the tyres off the pepperpots. (considering going for a slightly bigger profile)
11. Engine and gearbox oil to go in.

8,9 & 11 should be sorted next week.