Fisher Fury

Not this week

............and you forgot to mention those ninja pies your powered by

Sorry Billy nothing but pukka Chicken and Mushroom are allowed into my temple of a body

Got the Zetec running for the first time last night. Doesnt run to bad just need to balance the carbs and set up the idle mixture. Also found a small oil leak from where the cast alloy part of the sump bolts up to the block.

I still have the Quaife diff to fit which I reckon will be bank holiday monday rolling road is booked for the 7th September

Sounds good, looking forward to see you in my rear view soon

Well a frustrating weekend after the initial startup my plans yesterday were to getthe carbs balanced and reseal the rear edge of the sump. Sump reseal went well and moved onto the carb balance I noticed that once the engine was warm it was a bit smoky. Utterley pissed off I gave up and decieded to go through the drill this morning. Head gasket tester first the proved to be a negative so I removed the spark plugs. The plugs from cylinder one and two were soaked in oil I removed the inlet and exhaust manifolds and found the ports on these two cylinders again saturated in oil. Left with no choice I pulled off the cylinder head and can feel noticeable play in the valve guides on the Exhaust side of the head

Given the cost of these engine its rendered this one scrap there is no point messing around having the head sorted I may as well find another engine and drop it in. Unfortunatley that means im going to have to pull my entry fo Snett.

Not to Bitter as this is the chance you take with £100 engines some you win and some you lose.

Bad luck mate, on ward and upward. Are you going for another 2lt engine or have you considered an 1800, there is a big group of 1800's in in sports specials.

I was battling with some of the 1800's so they are simular pace, engines are a lot more easy to come buy as well.

I have driven both and I love the punch of torque that the 2 litre has. don't get me wrong the 1800 revs well but you know how it is

I think I may have obtained an ST170 motor but TBC

Tricky to delete the valve techy bit?

numbnuts wrote:Tricky to delete the valve techy bit?

Not to bad as there are numerous kits available to purchase some relatively inexpensive others not so ! but there is now another option to doing the Delete. Motorsport Electronics who make the Nodiz that controls my ignition make a little box called VVT Pro which as the name suggests allows the user to program and control the VVT. Nothing but praise out there for this little box of tricks so I need to have a think but obviously once I have confirmed that I have the ST Motor.

Do the st170s fetch strong money compared to a blacktop 2L ?

Surprisingly not I have had my prospective purchase confirmed I've just paid £300 for 80000 mile unit with 3 months warranty. Blacktops range from about £100 to £450 to £1000 for a new unit.

Ive elected to go with the VVT controler as this should give the best spread of power and torque I not expecting the engine to be mega powerful if it makes what it should (170ps) I will be happy

Well Engine No2 now resides in the Engine bay. After the disappointment of the first engine poorly state I decided to eliminate any area of doubt whilst installing the new engine. So I bit the bullet and lubed up my flexible friend and bought a Raceline Sump. Very impressive it is to.

The engine is in the sump is on. The alternator is fitted . The clutch cable is fitted .The cooling system is fitted all that's left is to fit the VVT Controller and the carburettors and Exhaust. Anybody want to pop round and turn the key for me please.

No problem,

put it all on a trailer, get it to deepest South Lincolnshire and I will help out with the key, I have 2 days off work

Go for it

Raceline sump is a bit of kit.
Glad to hear its going well. Hope to see you out for a blat soon (on road or track)

A blat would be nice Ed just to remind me why im doing this lot lol

A few pictures

The Belt arrangement although this is when it was fitted to the Blacktop not St

A couple of pictures of the St engine its nearly there

Looking good

Its alive

Brum brum brum!!

or

Birmingham birmingham birmingham!!

Dont mention the peasant side of the county

they all look like this from Brum or and finally

its all down to the interbreeding you see

John knows all about interbreeding, hes from Long Sutton in deepest Fenland, which is twinned with itself as theres so much interbreeding there

Thankfully I am a re tread, born in London Guv' and imported into the area to strengthen the gene pool
Now living in the even deeper south of Lincolnshire, Deeping St Nicholas, in a field

Does Nicholas mind you deeping in him?

........and they say all the perverts are in South Lincolnshire....I think they have the map upside down

The engine install is pretty much complete now. Just got to work out which wire feeds the oil pressure sensor light. Then sort out the throttle cable.

Looking like a neat install

billy f wrote:Looking like a neat install

Shame about the driver

Good work.

You have completed in weeks what would have taken me all winter if I was lucky.

Thanks for the kind words gents

Edward I shall get a couple of photos of the back online just to get you used to looking at it

IAN51 wrote:Thanks for the kind words gents

Edward I shall get a couple of photos of the back online just to get you used to looking at it

I pray you are talking about the car?