MK 2 RS2000 DURATEC 2.3 (Registered)

Thats great Bill

I got some more news from my tuner today which I will share with you. Some good and some bad.

The Good
The VCT is not working yet so more horsepower to come. Most likely will see 170bhp at the wheels.

The Bad
Because the VCT is not working and I could not control my alternator from the PMW outputs I may have killed all PMW outputs in the ECU when I connected the Alternator up without control and spiked my electricals on it first start.

So I am going to get the ECU checked out by Haltech next week. Then check my VCT wiring.

No need to control the Alternator now, it has been modified with and internal regulator.

There are a few sump leaks to fix aswell, which is an engine out job but I will fix that after I get her registered. With the engine out I can also sort the engine rubber mounts.

Thats a top result, these little things are just sent to make the enbd result worth while.

and wow 170hp (Somthing like 300BHP to the ton)[}:)]

170 at the wheels will ge a great result..

Congrats Bill, conversion looks very good.

That is sensational. Real credit to ya mate.

Looking good Bill, top marks. Very neat, good power at relatively low revs. All round good package and more power to come.

Good work

Woz

It's certainly come together suberbly [:p]
Well done !

Cheers,
Damion.

Thanks guys

I am going to fix a few issue before registering as there is no rush for me to get it on the road.

I have found out that I need some peugeot handbrake return springs. Right handside was not releasing without the spring.

I will remove the cross member and press out the solid rubbers. Spoke to Burtons last night and a few of their customers have reported bad vibration with a world cup cross members for street so they suggest replacing mounts with Poly 14 Capri M1/Escort Mk1 Leaf Spring Rubbers. The Burtons clients who have done this have reported that it reduced vibration quite well.

Pulling the haltech loom out to run a couple of additional switched 12volt wires to run the VCT and Thermo Fan. I have only just learen't that the PWM ouputs switch to ground.

Need to bleed the front and rear brakes.

Then I will take if for a drive down my street in two weeks and see how those changes work.

Regards

mate could i hassle you for some photos of your rear disk conversion,i bought the kit from geoff from eurospeed but haven't fitted yet,just wanted to see how they look and how they mounted.thanks mate

That is one tidy conversion. I love it.

Top points no matter what the result.

It would be great to see this in action. [;^)]

Is that Geoff's last pug caliper kit I wonder. I have one of his earlier kits also.. but minus the mounting plates. I begged him for his last pair, but it was part of a whole set, that he didn't want to break. Which was fair enough.

Really keen to hear how you find the rear disk setup.

thanks mate have to look into the handbrake thing when i get to it,i'm in a good position where i can nearly get anything fabicated so we might make something ourselves,thanks again for the pics
dave

Mark

Thanks, but the Duratec 2.3 has an added issue, its depth. It is 12mm longer in the block than the Duratec 2.0 and the Cosworth 2.0. So you need to lower the rack position.

Two ways to do this:
1. Get your standard cross member changed. Finding someone to do this properly is not easy and doing it is easier said than done. Once the cross member is modified burtons have the 2.0 oval rubber mounts to duratec but no good for big horsepower they will be destroyed,or put the stabliser in which you have done.
2. Get a world cup crossmember with lowered rack. Then vibration is an issue so you need to modify the mounts.

So I modified the Escort/Capri MK1 Leafspring bush.


Then drilled the other mount to releave some rubber from it.

Weighed the car on Monday, it weighs 940Kg

Completed the brake test and recieved the engineers report on Tuesday.

Going for the NSW blue slip on Friday Morning.

I did it. Just bolted them on.

I have capri legs with alloy hubs. You can buy the willwoods off the shelf either with the correct bolt pattern intergral to the caliper or as a bracket. Mine have the bracket. The bolt pattern on the Capri legs are the same as Mk2 Escy 2lt Legs. These calipers are amazingly light. Pickup a full can of fly spray simular weight.

Discs are Capri standard but Grooved, Drilled and Slotted.

It would be nice to source all the bits for the front legs from one shop but I had to source the bits from about five shops and then just bolted it all together.

while the exchange was good, threw JMC Motorsport in the UK. While the exchange is bad talk to Duane at Palmside NZ.

Congrats Bill....

Another photoshoot, dyno on the cards?

Shaun

Sorry guys will have to remove the worldcup crossmember and install the standard one first then we will get some more video footage. Eurospeed has a taller Type 9 now so I will have to order one of those and change the gearbox aswell.
Type 9 stnd
3.65 1.97 1.37 1.00 .816
Type 9 Modified Road
2.71 1.81 1.26 1.00 .825

Phil

I changed the Mk1 Escort/Capri leaf spring rubbers to nolathane as shown. And it still gave me a big headache.

So before going to the stand cross member i decided to change the gearbox cross member back to standard and do some testing for Eurospeed, just made up some 24 x 24 square tubes and ovalled the holes.

The results was 3/4 of the vibration was removed.. So the world cup cross member with nolathane rubbers is exceptable for everyday use.

I will change back to the standard cross member and test this out. I have a sprigett bearing noise [8~2] so engine has to come out. While the engine is out I will change the gearbox for a taller first 2.71:1 and this should transform it.