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The gauge isn't inaccurate, its filtered because average joe thinks it a sign of quality when the temp needle just sits in the middle. Even though no engine actually hold temp like that. Has a negative impact on overheating as people don't see the needle creeping up it just jumps to the red...

Engine is up and running. I have a water leak that I traced to fitting the wrong bolt in the thermostat housing and the injection pump wasn't running when it had 12v at the connector. Stuck it on the battery and the pump ran. Examined the connector more closely and one of the pins had become...

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Not without reducing the bore and ending up heavily under square. At them moment the most cost effective way it just a good condition block.

Na the 1.7s are nakisil lined. They are lightly servicalble but over boring isnt possible. Ive looked into having the linjng recoated which is possible for motorbike engines but nowhere ive found does it for auto engines.

Fitted up the Luk quick Connect to An-3 connector. Fits perfectly was a bit unsure on what thread the an-3 was supposed to have on it but got it spot on. I also played a bit of a gamble and bought the kustom karl type suspension kit. its quite good quality. Im fairly happy with it...

The engine is all in the fiesta now and I'm just waiting on a few things to get it back on the road. Top of the list was this little thing. I changed the CSC when I had the engine and box out as the old one was well quite old and crappy but what i didnt realise is that around 2008 ford...

New Turbo has arrived. Looks pretty good haven't compared it to the old one yet but it does look a bit bigger looking forward to getting it back together just waiting for my engine crane to come back from a friend then full steam ahead. ​

Yer have a oil cooler fitted. Im gonna plumb back in the water cooling for the turbo but it was the map that melted the turbine. Head has come back from the machine shop. Had a few hours after work so got it together and... One engine ready to go in bar a few bolt on bits. I did...

I found the source of the metal that went into the engine. It has been running pretty hot which is the problem of not running enough spark advance. The new engine is almost ready, picked the head up from the machine shop so it is skimmed and ready to go on. Just waiting on the turbo to...

New engine has turned up although it was pure luck that someone was at home. Company didn't tell me they had even sent it let alone when it was supposed to arrive. Comes with a few spares bits and a link shaft bracket, which is very good as i was having trouble getting someone to sell me one on...

Went for country lane drive the other night and fiesta started to misfire heavy under boost. Nursed it home and let it cool off before trying to diagnoise the fault. Started with pulling the plugs. Doesnt look good at all for cyl 1 and 4. So i stripped the head off to be sure the engine...

Got the brakes properly fitted and plumbed into last night. Didnt get a chance to bleed them because it started raining and i must be getting soft as years ago i would have just sucked it up. I also weighed the calipers to see what the weight saving is. New comes up at just under 2kgs...

Re: E36 Track Day Hack (v2) Thats good drop in the assembly. So you have 2 rod lengths and 3 different piston heights. Are the pistons and rod interchangable i.e. same piston pin dia? You have a deck height of ~1.8mm to play with. The engine in my XR2 has a deck height of 0.2mm. The best way...

Re: E36 Track Day Hack (v2) You do have the opportunity to increase the compression further by using the M52B28 pistons and rods or mix in between before risking piston to value contact.

Re: E36 Track Day Hack (v2) Do you know what the difference is between them all for compression ratio? I assume compression ratio is what drives the different overall piston heights. Do you know which ones give the lowest piston and rod weight? Given its going to spend most of its life at...

Re: E36 Track Day Hack (v2) Did you have all the dowels to tie the head and block together in and were they in good condition. Looks like the head has been moving and damaged the head gasket. Same reason K Series engines fail.

Finally got round to getting the brackets made to fit the 4 pots. I had bought some ally when i bought the calipers, however the brackets are thin in places so i needed to get some high grade steel. Gave them a dry fit the other day and they are spot on. Just waiting on some high...

Finished up the Lower torque link. The old one was a bit of a rush job and it has been bending a bit under the stress. Old ones New one Much stronger. Coupled with the new gearbox mount it should be solid

I have finally got around making a new gearbox mount as the old one relyed on a threaded bar running through the middle of it to hold the gearbox up and this created a lot of NVH. Not to mention it was a bar with a rubber around it and was very flexible resulting in bulkhead contact under hard...

My goodies have turned up. My New front brakes. Best i can get under the pepperpots. Then i made the new brake lines My new springs also turned up. The front wasnt as low as i wanted it to be and the back needs to be stiffer to complement the front springs. So i have the Rallys...

Made a start on striping the fiesta done for a load of things i want to do. hopefully this wont take too long as im itching to get back out in it. Fit new front brakes One of the CV boots has split Oil Change Bleed brakes there is a small oil leak from the turbo change the coolant routing...

Finished updating my Det Cans. Some much better. Much less background noise coming through them now. The bits of vac hose go into your ear. Made them using phumatic hose that is more flexible than the garden hose. smaller and more durable and the quick connectors mean its easy to...

Dont know. Prob averaged 4 hours a week for 3 years. Im not gonna add it. Long time.

Got some bits done on the firsta the other day. Managed to fit the Oil cooler that i got at a bargain price. It is a in water to oil type cooler that is fitted on the Ford 1.0l Fox turbo engines but fits perfectly well if had better water hose was a bit of a pain getting the water hose round...

Couldnt resist the picture at work. lol I stopped the car after the drive back and the bonnet was very hot almost too hot to touch. so i got out the sticky back aluminium foil to and lined the bonnet with it to try and keep the heat down. I need to try and isloate the air filter from the...

Took friday off work to get the car sorted out for the test friday afternoon. Front wheel bearings changed Rear shock fixed as it dislodged itself from the body on the way home Misfire cure. Was a wet plug 5mins with plug over the hob jobs a gooden First run in oil change Now mot'd and...

Re: E36 v2 If your using an F4R as your benchmark for engine weoght your prob gonna find most engine block seem light bar ford fox engine.

The car goes for its MOT tomorrow. Just spent the whole weekend do the last few things. The list of fixed bits for the MOT goes: Fit new springs as the current ones were too low and the lack of ground clearance was already annoying me. fixed the horn fixed the handbrake, had to recut the...

Re: E36 v2 Dual Mass Flywheels are supposed to have a small amount of freeplay in them. The flywheel looks fine. Everything else though is pretty shagged.