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we needed a second car as red bull want us to do some more overseas events and that would mean the car will spend most of its life on the water and we would be unable to compete in all the local events which is important to us, so eleventh hour bought the 8 to compete, a friend of mine used to own the car and raced it in the production seris last year and did us a mean deal on it, for this weekend it will be stock as a rock! 175hp or something,

thanks man, we had lots of help from the yanks keeping us going, we used the mopar teams workshop one night and while we were there sorting the car the dudes house was burning down!

yeah man, pretty much just me and mike are the team, crew chief, mechanic, tyre changer, tea boy thats me! we will be at puke tomorrow with the other car for the last round, if any one is there come up and say hello and check out the rx 8

Hey guys, just got back from the US, mean trip! we had water pump problems pretty much straight away, i managed to bodgie it up to get through practice untill another one got to long beach, the picture of mike and rhys was our first run on the track so we were on the money right away, fitted the new water pump fri night which lasted two laps before it died! we have run those pumps from day one and could'nt work it out why two new pumps failed, as a result we managed a half hearted qualifying run hence the low placing. T he bmw had a mean line but was slow as 19mph down on the average i think, so he proved easy pickings with the water staying in and the engine temp staying at 90. Next up was carl ruiterman who had a bye in the first heat, we had a re run against him and carl clipped the wall straigjhtening up and smashing our front splitter which in turn lodged under the front wheels leaving us with no steering or brakes at 100+mph! into the barriers and smashed screen and rear wing gone, we were given the win as carl caused the accident and also was unable to complete the next pass, so once again out with the string, tape, cable ties to put it back together in 20mins! got it back out in time for our battle against tanner ( 2x formular d champ) mike went in real hot to try and keep ahead of tanner and with no areo slid wide and tanner gained a advantage, next pass mike was chasing and went even faster, clipping about 5 plastic water barriers into the air and knocking the concrete barriers all the way around the sweeper but did'nt breathe the throttle once! had the entire stadium on thier feet cheering!

so all in all we did pretty good, highest placed overseas driver and crowd favourite by miles

go for the new link, do away with the afm, easy to program, and cheap for what you getI will be fitting one after talking to a tuner mate of mine, he also re maps std ecu's and reckons the new link is the shit

yeah seems to easy really but there you go! next up 4 link rear!

ok, thermostat in, the stat was a standard jobby, 85 dergrees, my temp gauge must be fairly accurate cos the temp rose up to 85 then came back to 70, drove from west to penrose on the motorway just cruising and it got up to 90, gave it a squirt for a bit 4000rpmish and the temp came back to 70-75, so i guess this would indicate not enough airflow? my escort has'nt had the holes drilled in the front panel like some others, but a definate improvement with the stat, thanks again guys! and also the mixture is all good if anything its a bit rich

thanks , got a thermostat today so will fire that back in, i have checked the timing as well and thats fine, so that leaves not enough airflow or stat or both!

CA=the problem

the ca= all good just a few minor teething problems!

ca18det=good fun at taupo track day

thanks guys, had'nt thought about the timing issue, and no thermostat, the rad hoses are all good, no kinks at all in the top hose and a very gradual bend in the bottom hose, the temps i quoted are just at normall road speeds 100kph (ish) start to give it a hiding especially in the taller gears and it goes over a hundy, i have'nt kept going to see just how high it gets as i get scared over a hundy degrees, thanks again, i got some things to look at now

ca18det, cheap, common, go hard as a stock motor but easy to get power out of

all i have done is brake into the rear line into cylinder then back out again, can be a bit of a pain to bleed up without a pressure bleeder, we are sponsored by redline so i will see if they can do a sharp price if your interested

can anyone tell me how to check the efficiency of a waterpump, i am having over heating issues with the ca, i have done the usuall things, flush, waterwetter, brand new ali rad, new electric fan but still cant stop it getting hot, 80 to 100 degrees, the rad is a aftermarket ca18det. when i slow down at lights or stop the temp will come down slightly but motorway driving and it creeps up, i am a bit lost!

D2 hydrollic handbrake, redline performance, easy to fit and work well, i have fitted one to each of our drift cars and was sceptical at first but they have proved mean, not bad price either

yeah mate in aucks, will see what shizzl wants to do

Interested if he isn't.

Are you in auckland?

hey man, pm me, i have a 2l and box, 4 and a 5spd i am not going to use ( sticking with the ca18det) they dont owe me fuck all and i am heading to christchurch for the drifting in a couple of weeks, so if you are keen i can even get them to chch for you

starter all good? earths and battery terminals clean and well connected?

if you look at my project thread you can see what i did on the front, as above, good fit, tack in, hammer and dolly, what happens is when you weld it expands then as it cools it shrinks, problem is it shrinks more than it expands creating distorsion, theres probably a million ways to go about it but what worked for me was low amps, and spot welding, cooling as i went and hammering out, hope that is some help,

sounds like the drive plate in back to front

less life more flow for me, would it be a option or possible to use heavier inserts on the valve guides to give it some more life?

good to follow this thread, nice work on the ports, maybe i should just send my head to you!

Thanks!

What would you go for with a ported head, modified guide bosses and less high lift flow or max flow and short life valve guides?

good to follow this thread, nice work on the ports, maybe i should just send my head to you!

yeah i am going to build it to cope with a hiding, i bought the escort as a trackday car so it has to be reliable, head work forged pistons, steel rods and i am going to use a old dry sump set up off one of my old formular ford motors, i would like it to be as quick as it is with the ca18det but this may not be realistic, i'm not going to build it half assed, do it once and do it right ( hopefully!)

What sort of build? judegeing my the books a a revving, big head build? got any particular aims for it?

pinto build is starting! any info on finding bits would be a good help, or any pitfalls to avoid, i have a couple of books, Des Hammill, vizard, and have built engines in the past but never a pinto, so all feedback welcome, cheers

mite be a bit late, but you can check out my seat mounts, all cert'd by neil fraser, simple and easy,

how long have your injectors been unused? blowing them with a compressor wont clean them, i had a similar prob with my cossie and the injectors got sent away for cleaning and came back mint