Had a productive day, removed two rusty wings and fitted the P80 early 70 series front end.
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Had a productive day, removed two rusty wings and fitted the P80 early 70 series front end.
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A picture speaks a hundred words.
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Parts for the next upgrade coming together.
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From my understanding is the 6+6 billet wheel makes its boost lower down the rev range compared to the 11 blade billet wheel makes it boost higher up the rev range.
I'm running a 6+6 billet wheel...
Haven't done much to old girl since the last update. I've always put Esso super plus 97 and she's ran OK on it but now Esso have gone to super plus 99 she runs like a trooper the little bit of knock...
The kit is listed to fit V70/S70 AWD from 98 - 00
I've put some miles on the bc coilovers and I can report back that the ride is a great improvement over old suspension.
The front have just...
Update time.
Had a MOT last week and passed with 2 minor defects, 2 driveshaft CV boots split which is a PITA as they are only 2 years old and covered 1500 miles.
As just about everything has...
I've been running the VXR bin file for a couple of weeks and all is running fine apart from the fact I'd forgot to change the MAF fault threshold values, This was a bit of blessing as the MIL light...
I've had to put the maf problem on the back burner as I've had a more pressing problem.
The old car started to splutter when the manifold pressure went from vacuum to pressure. At first I thought...
For the last few months I keep getting the same fault code of EFI-355 (mass air flow senso fault) I've fitted secondhand,aftermarket and even OEM sensors but after a day or two the MIL light comes...
It's been a while since I've updated this thread, I've taken up running and have been busy training, over the last year I've completed 2 half marathons and 6 10k's. But due to the Covid-19 out break...
I've been chasing what I thought was a misfire when coming on boost, I've tried 2 sets of OEM plugs which I've gapped them from 20-30 thou and a new set of OEM coil packs which didn't cure the...
I was running my greens with a TEMIN value of 0.24 for years with no problems.
Up date time
A few weeks ago the old girl developed a miss fire when under load so some OEM spark plugs were purchased from FRF. The old plugs looked OK, a nice dirty white electrodes, but once...
Loaded the 609 bin fuel map on the car during the week, the first time driving the car it ran rich on idle and driving (13.9) after a 10 minute drive the car was turned off and left for 30 minutes....
So I had some spare time so I increased the boost threshold at 1770rpm to 1.01 bar and then feathered it down to 0.54 bar at 3000rpm.
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As you can see as the rpm increases the boost is...
Well since the last up date I had the dreaded MOT to take of and lucky enough the old girl passed, it even passed the emissions :)
I entered the conversion factor that I was sure was the right one...
The boost problems continues ...........
I increased the TCV set points from 10 to 12 and when logging a run I got 12 and 5 psi of boost :wallbash:
Did some poking around in a couple of bin...
Finally I've run the engine :) Had a small problem with the AFR's at 80mph it started running lean so the injector basic adjustment was increased.
AFR's at 60 mph
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The AFR's have settled down now I been putting miles on the engine.
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The old red mist came over me when a 08 ST focus pulled up behind me at the lights, didn't give it any welly at first...
Slowly running the 2.5ltr engine in and trying to dial the injectors in.
After raising/lowering the injector constant and dead times it was still running rich. So it was back to basics.
I...
I've found out that I didn't need to increase the injectors values by 8% as I'm running the latest wideband control software.
I'm running the same 608 bin file with the 2.5 as I was running with...
Over the last 4 days I've been removing the 2.3ltr lump and installing the 2.5ltr engine.
It took 2 evenings after work to remove the old engine.
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Then on Saturday it was a...
Up date time :)
Over the Easter weekend and this weekend quite a few jobs were done on the car.
Firstly the old struts were changed for some nice new ones.
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Picked these up from the machine shop on Friday, the large one is for is to replace the heavy crank pulley. The other on is for the idler pulley just waiting for the bearing, shaft and the 2...