bigmatt4

will be there 2 in bros minji

heres one 4 ya. I am building an escort van with a 4age in it will get it certed and stuff but if i wish to refit the standard 1600 escort motor back in it will it need to be re cetified as the body and crosmember have zero mods to fit 4age so escort motor will bolt strait back in minus driveshaft mod

use 1000 to polish when it was close be aware it dosnt take much to sand like 5 seconds at a time is all i done follow that terry hunt guide it is almost spot on to wot i understood

just worked the whole area between 6 and 10 i use 240 grit wet an dry sand paper emery takes off too much at a time

check all your earths sure to be the problem

yea i done it the way he said my problem was leaning up top too fluked it with the third run my ratios were 14.7 idle 14.2 cruse up to about 80km/h in top then started leaning out to about 16.3 WOT from 100km/h up. managed to get 12.3 at WOT with his method has a cruse ratio 100kmh at 14.6 very light throttle spikes down to 11.9 if you snap the throttle very briefly i only played with station 6 to 10 to achieve this

http://www.mintylamb.co.uk/suneedle/ http://www.terryhunt.co.uk/mini/pics/tech/picsb/pics.htm i have just finished tuning a mini with a hif 44 have a look at these sites they helped me heaps ive got a 1360 fitted with a hif44 and a self modified bbw needle i used a innovate oxy sensor and got the needle perfect in about 3 hours of sanding fittng and testing http://www.sw-em.com/su%20needle%20dimensions.JPG also bdl is the most common hif 44 needle

put a ht lead between the coil and the plug then put a timing light on the lead

does it run on 4 cylinders when it starts? have you checked the float levels and is your firing order correct. just trying to sort the basics first normally a backfire out the carb is a lean thing have you checked for vacume leaks split brake booster or pcv valve hose. How did your issue start did it just happen or gradually get worse over time.

wind mixture screw all the way in wind out 2 1/2 turnes warm engine up get it to idle then wind the mixture screw in slowley till it starts to stumble then wind out 3/4 of a turn

hey with that starter position can you stand the solenoid strait up by the cyl head coz i think you will have hot starting issues being that close to the exhaust fitted one the other day that did

hey man just out of curiosty what jets and tubes are you running on those carbs so i have a starting point for mine

maybe a silly question but i have had that problem with webbers and found that the float was actually a sink it had a pinhole in it and was full of fuel causing it to not float correctly just a thought

another easy way is to put a diesel alternator on it with a vacume pump run an oil feed and dump pipe to pump and your good to go constant vacume

sounds like that could be an issue ive also seen corrosion on the batt post to the rectifier inside the alt which gives the same symptoms easy wat to check this is run the car for a while with lights on ect and see if the alt post gets hot otherwise courier the alt to me and i can fix it after all that is my trade

i would be checking for a voltage drop is that voltage at the alternator or the battery ? also slipping fanbelt which im sure you would have checked an alternator should charge full out at 14.6v. now the sense wire should be connected to the fuse box or directly to the battery not to the back of the alternator it works by detecting voltage drop in the cables so if you have 0.5v voltage drop in the alternator lead the alternator will put out more voltage to achieve 14.6v at that point so it may read 15.1 volt at the alternator.

looms are different enough not to bother modifying ie injector plugs distributor map sensor instead of AFM no tvis some have injector resistors better off with a smallport loom and ecu. yes the blocks have the same mounting points. 16v head will fit on 20v block late model 100kw smallports have the 7 rib block larger journals and pins also oil squirters in the block for the pistons pretty much a 4agze without the pistons of charger so i would go smallport.

another thought i had one of these at work with the same code it was a qr25dd direct injection pulled all the plugs out and found 2 cylinders to be running rich it had cylinder missfire and o2 sensor codes it turned out to be leaking injectors very commin fault had to replace the injectors and rail not cheep though $2500 you cant buy injectors on there own. also on other vehicles like isuzu mu and wizard v6 and a few others have one different coil on cylinder one they look identical bar 1 number in part no and iff it is in the wrong place it will throw codes

yep ill do it is this the one that needs to go south coz im the one with the jetski and pinto block commin north

not likely unless it has shorted to earth as current flows through the gauge not to the gauge. Check that it hasnt blown open circut and your generator / alternator is charging the battery as the charging current runs from the generator through the ammeter to the battery

i had some made by the bolt holder in matamata for an adaptor plate to a 4age to vw bus box a few years back they are 12x 1.25 cost me about $12 each from memory think they were a larger countersunk screw machined down and re threaded

i have the same issue with my v6 struts so i am getting a brake disc adaptor made so i can fit 2.8 discs on mk1 v6 struts

those alternators are common for leaking oil seals normally the shaft gets grooves worn in it from the seal and they leak. You can repair dodgy wise by not pushing the seals all the way home so they sit on a new piece of shaft. you will find the alt full of oil and the internal fan blowing it everywhere i suggest disconnect the oil feed from the alternator block the feed from the block and remove the alt belt and run it till it gets hot

165 50 13 good stretch have them on 13x7 superlights on a mini http://imageshack.us/a/img528/4166/dsc00635f.jpg

was a mean cruze fully enjoyed furthest the escort has travelled in many years and didnt miss a beat hope we have another biggie before the summer is out big upps to amy and karl for organising this event