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Your probably right. I'm on standard springs my jacks are just too tall! One is for motorhomes and goes silly high.

If your jacks are all old and tall like mine you'll have to lift the rear to fit one under the front anyway.

Used to do night driving in a 3.5T LWB Sprinter down mostly B roads. I never got tired of B roads. I never had to fight to keep my eyes open like I did on the motorway. But yeah when you just want to get home a 60 or 70mph average speed is all you want!

Cam timing? Who did the last belt change. In all fairness a genuine 160bhp TDI isn't going to be slow.

Lack of disposable income and time killed driving for the sake of it after my first year of driving. Glad I can this year find a little bit for a weekly short blast and a good few track days. I can't help but envy people that live properly out in the sticks. I'm losing all the national speed...

Take the Cup for a quick blast most Friday night's to clear out the cobwebs after my wife and son have crashed. Keeps the car running well as it has limited use and doesn't encroach on family time. Usually go out to the middle of nowhere. I avoid Dual carriageways as you need 5000bhp to play...

Nor do I. I was just trying to get to the bottom of wether the IB6 would be a limiting factor on the tunability of these cars later in their life. I know I'll be keeping an eye out for one when they can be had for a few grand! Will be a tough call between the old Clio 200 and one of these...

I did look for pictures on Google for you but they weren't much help. Not had to work on mine so the routing hasn't sunk in. If no-ones answered by the weekend I'll try get a look under my car.

Not sure if that's any help. Can't get under mine until the weekend to look. Sorry.

Cool! I wondered why it wasn't approved for towing

Good someone who knows. Ignore my load of codswallop :P

Good. Just turn the radio up and enjoy it!

Get some breakdown and wait for it to die. My mum moaned of her clutch slipping in her TDCI focus (DMF) at 120,000. I said drive it more carefully ie don't demand loads of grunt from it as she has no money and I have no time for a job that big at the moment. That was 10,000 miles ago. Still...

Knowing a mass car maker disconnecting the spring was probably the cheapest way to stop the rear's locking up under heavy braking and it probably came from some low spec model that needed more rear braking as most ABS systems have electronic brake force distribution and don't need bias valves...

I would assume adjust the bias depending on what the axle is doing. The cup has very low rear braking and so is setup differently. Exactly why someone else will have to answer.

Definitely no spring on my 172 cup.

Yes way! I replaced the bumper as it had a cut out so the glue on that is gone but it's still along the paint on the boot lid under and round the number plate. Polished up it passes a six feet test but get up close and the stupidity is clearly visible. Thank Christ he let his wallet do the rest...

You could use super glue like the previous owner did on mine. It'll never come off and you get a nice crispy white finish that is impossible to remove on the surrounding paint where it dribbles down from applying way too much! It's awesome!! Everyone should do it!

The opposite of winning the lottery. Just a couple of feet to the left and he'd probably of been ok. Videos of crashes are good reminders of the risk but running it in slow mo and the super slow mo was not cool.

Never enjoyed riding a motorbike but can watch nutter on bike vids all day!

LIf it was an N/A engine in the fiesta I wouldn't have brought it up. However it is a turbo engine and when warrantys run out people will start to push them further and further regardless of what power the car can put down. Yes the box in my 206 HDI has a rubbish shift (linkage rod type) but it...

For God's sake. I suggest you don't type IB5 broken into Google then. From Google "Hi to all! I have an MK6 Escort 1.8 16V 115hp with IB5 gearbox. My diff broke badly yesterday... And I got an MTX75 gearbox for free. So my question is will the MTX75 fit straight in, and if not, what mods will...

Well absolutely no info around on the torque limits of the IB6 box anyway so we'll never know. A quick search of Ford forums still shows the IB5 was no warhorse. Hope the IB6 has addressed those issues especially as the 1.0 ecoboost is happy with 200bhp. Surely your right foot is a torque...

Agreed but it refuses to die. I can live with rubbish shifts but weak gearboxes are annoying. Worrying about 3rd in the Clio and making sure I get a clean, tidy shift is the only thing I dislike about the car. Again all I asked is are they still weak. If they''re not why is the torque limited...

No I'm asking why the fiesta is not running full torque until 3rd or did I touch a nerve in your world of perfect Ford gearboxes. I don't have to worry about my 206 box exploding running 30% more torque than standard does the ST? Surely that's of interest to people for when these are out of...

Anyway enough thread hogging I was just curious as to why Ford was still limiting torque.

Didn't the XR3i use the MTX75 instead of the IB5 and that only produced 120lbs/ft. I was and am still more of a Ford fan. I just run a clio cup because it is a more aggressive car standard than the fiesta ST of the same era and much cheaper to buy. When I nodded my fiesta XR2 finding a good...

The IB5 had the torque limited through it in 1st in the puma, the 90ps tdci fiesta being re-mapped causes all sorts of gearbox issues as a guy in a motorclub I was in found out and I ran a BC boxes that used IB5 bearings and the limits still weren't that high. It's an ok box it just didn't have...

Interesting on the boost front. Ford gear boxes still made of cheese or it just doesn't need it?

Had a boost issue on my turbo diesel family wagon. A nice big leaking air woosh sound under load. Turned about to be a completely loose jubilee clip. The only accessible one on the turbo pipework on my 2.0 HDi lump thank christ! The turbo and pipework are all tucked down the back with no access...