The Silver Escort

Didn't make it to Edition then? Any expected finishing dates?

top work mate.

I too just sat and read all 19 pages!! Nicely done!!

wooot! cant wait.

i did say there would be many a wheels in motion after christmas, and there kind of was, but nothing at all interesting that was worthy of a picture.

since january i've:



made myself a set of plugleads and finished all the plumbing and filled it with water

making this:



to go here:



plumbed in the MAF and brake servo



finished the wiring inside (Although it doesn't look it as a new task on the agenda is to make a dash for the carpc n stuff



adapted this to my loom with the help of scaryoldcortina earlier today



and then put a battery to the wiring and nothing exploded! let there be liiiiiiiiight



(indicators in headlights a'la early beetle)

oh, i painted these too, colour coded lips and canary yeller centres



list to do in regards to getting the engine running are:
fiddly petrol fitting big enough for the cosworth fuel pump (standard one is 6mm and the inlet to the cosworth one is at least 12mm! ;D)
run through the diagnostics with the laptop to make sure all my sensors are working and injectors and coilpack, managed to leave it at home today.
go to ford tomorrow to get me a new fuel filter.

so you think they are in upside down? that could be possible! never thought about putting them in the other way around. but now you think about it it could be the truth.

think i;ll have to get my spring compressors back this weekend and have a look at them ;D

i've got some compressors mate,ignoring everything but the engine on a final hurdle to get the it running

started the day by plugging stuff in



a quick look at the ECU threw up 2 problems -



TPS was wired in backward, my own fault as I didn't realise it wound the TPS to fully open as the throttle was fully closed, simple swapping of cables solved it.

the water temperature is pretty high, using the wrong sensor, need to get another one from the scrapyard tomorrow and that's solved it.

getting the right terminals for the cosworth fuel pump proved more than difficult, far too difficult for this sort of job, so I cut it up and soldered some bullets on......



which with a bit of heatshrink it worked out quite ok



had to knock up a fitting for my fuel tank as the original one was about 4-6mm, and in order to stop the pump struggling to get fuel it needed to be at least 12mm......



I get paranoid about things, so I swapped the whole starter circuit - battery to starter, battery earth and engine to body earth to some 35mm^2 cable



when I was testing my injectors, I managed to lose one of the caps in the inlet manifold, so I put henry to work, and got it out ;D

ignore my daft mother :lol:



the starter doesn't seem to disengage so didn't want it running too long incase it burnt it out.

so. that's that then.

my full tale of woe and betidement is as follows

the only task holding me back was getting the fuel system in check. so that I did, couldn't get the fuel pump relay working, after a little looky at the wiring i'd clocked that the cable I shared from the relay next to it, wasn't the ignition live that I thought it was, but the switched side of the fanswitch, therefore instead of using the ignition as the feed, it was using the fanswitch ;D

so I tested the fuel pump, it made a noise.....woo.... at least that works.

filled it up with fuel



this is when I started getting a bit scared, mixing fuel with electrical things i'd manufactured with my own hands scared me lots ;D



got a bit of water just in case, it wouldn't have done curse word in hindsight, as you're meant to use powder or Co2 or something



powered it up, instant spraying noise coming from the back, ignition off, checked under the back, it looked like those fibre washers i'd used weren't for petrol, oh well. popped to halfords got some nitrile ones that are holding up well



fired it up again, could hear the fuel running down the lines, into the henginz, fuel pressure gauge rose nicely to about 2.5bar, I set it to 3 which dropped to 2.7 under cranking, which is what the ECU is set to.

easy JP, yeah, it is.......you going to make it over to edition? plan is to 'lose' the keys somewhere in the show field with the rest of F6 ;D

good meeting you at UD BTW, you lot made my night with your general idiocy ;D