Also car is booked in at ALLSPARKS PERFORMANCE to be tuned next tuesday.
The cams will finally be getting dialed in, 550cc injectors will be put in and the boost will be wound up to the 20psi region. will be crossing all fingers and toes and hoping that there are no little problems whilst on the dyno and hopefully she pulls some decent numbers.
 
 
 

Best of luck. Dyno time is always a nervous time!

well its been a pretty busy week,
 
car was dropped off to be tuned last tuesday, cams were dailed in, base map adjusted to suit larger 550cc injectors. Then the car had to sit for a day or two while some issues where sorted with the fuel rail and in que for ample time on the dyno
 
Thursday morning @ 10:00, got the pre dyno phone call confirming details of the engine, ecu and we settled on the details of how hard the car would be being pushed, settled on 20psi and 7500rpm limiter.
 
Car was in the process of having the initail base tune mapped and was still only running at waste gate spring pressure of 12psi which found itself creeping to 15psi due to the gate being undersized. Limiter had yet to be set any higher than the previous tunes 7000rpm and timing had been knocked back 7 degrees from previous map for safety sake, fuel ratio where in the 11:1 11.25:1 range which is hugely rich. Car made a full power pull to 7000rpm cleanly then came back to idle with a miss and was shut off by the operation
Car made
208.3rwkw @ 7000
 
then the phone call that i dreaded happening happened, received the call approx 3 1/2 hours later with the news that all compression had been lost from No.3 cylinder. Compression and leak down tests had been carried out and the news was grim.
 
So i got the car home on friday night and started to investigate what could have caused this lack of compression, i had been told to prepare for the worst, ie cracked piston, broken rings ect.
 
Figured the easiest way would be to lift the head off straight away. what i found was interesting, nothing. Bottom end still looked brand new. 
it was upon the inspection of the head that i discovered a bent exhaust valve, only 1 tho.
the other valve directly next to it in the same cylinder was perfectly fine.
 
So long story shorter, the head is off to be looked at the the suspect valve to be replaced, will re assemble and go again.
 

bottom end, no problems here, built strong
 

 
this is where the compression is all going
 

Bummer,
 
But sounds like you may be lucky to get away with just a bent valve.
 
Awesome power figure though!  That will be crazy in such a light car.
 
Matt

hey matt,
 
yeah a bent valve was about the best/cheapest possible outcome from such a lack of compressions, was really expecting to have to build another bottom end due to mass parts failure.
 
power figures are definitely higher than what both myself and the tuner had been expecting.with the positives pre blowout being that the car seemed to be loving every thing that was done and was responding very well to the increase of timing and decrease of fuel, if the power stays on a similar track car should see itself into the 230kw range,
which i expect will be pretty spastic on 175 or 195's

also managed to get myself another gearbox at a rather cheap price (this always helps as i feel bad destroying expensive things often) so while the head is off then bottom end is at its easiest to remove i shall pull the whole lot out and replace the gearbox, as it cannot be done with the engine in situ as the tunnel is far to small.
 
so once the heads back and bolted on, its back to the tuner, back on the rollers with some more boost and when its done ill have the escort in its most complete state since about this time last year, running nicely with all functioning gears.  

SOme good newas then.
 
Well done on the power figure mish..
 
Shaun

SOme good newas then.
 
Well done on the power figure mish..
 
Shaun

Great stuff.
 
Matt