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  1. £600 for an RS? U'd have to be buying a rust box at that price, £900 is the minmum i'd budget for an RS. Its possible to buy a GTi for you budget but expect 100k+ and some rust/scratches.
  2. well coolant would smell sweet (the antifreeze is ethanol-glycol) well most are now i think... thats a very sweet ester. Exhaust fumes will make you feel drowsy and no excessive smell to them... just a dirty warm smell. Petrol fumes are vivid and you will know what these smell like Oil burning - a very warm oily smell... hard to describe but you will know if it is. Check all breather pipes (like from the camshaft cover to the air box) and connected. Get a mate to stuff a rag in the exhaust pipe... does the car stall..... is there lots of pressure in the exhaust? Smell the engine bay... but be carefull of heat. To be honest... if theres a blow in the exhast... your gonna hear it. Manifold to head gasket is unlikely as the original manifold is unlikely to have been removed from new.... my guess is the donut ring between the manifold and downpipe is not seated correct or cracked, this ball/cup type connection allows movement in the exhaust and if you've hit the exhaust on a speed hump or summat, then it might have distubed the donut sealing ring. Undo the 2 bolts and springs.... Lower the downpipe and replace the sealing donut ring. Your old one will look ceramic and solid. The new one will be a metal mesh... like a donut made from a brillo pad. Fit the new sealing ring and tighten the bolts/springs. As the engine is run, carbon deposits will clog in the sealing ring and this ensures the ring becomes sealed.
  3. on my last escort... cheap arms lasted 2 months and killed a set of tyres in 4000 miles.... down to the wire! On this escort, before even doing the cam belt... i changed the fubar wishbones for genuine ford bones. That was 18 months ago. Every day i drive up and down a kerb to park on the drive by my house and with 17's and lowered 40mm, the wishbones are as good as the day i fitted em! Cheap really is cheap. There is a reason why ford's bones are double the price of the budget ones.
  4. Each to thier own with regards to mods. However let me re-cap why the mk6 will never become an ESCOS. An Escort Cosworth is NOT an Escort. Its Sierra Floor Plan Sierra Wheel Base Sierra Running Gear Cosworth engine from the Sierra Saphire Cosworth Suspension from a Sierra... All the escos is a Sierra with ESCORT body pannels put on. You wont get "cosworth" power out of a mk6 escort full stop. You could get an RS2000 4X4 and tubo that to Cosworth spec, the costs for a decent turbo spec will run into the 1000's and then the 4x4 transfer box would $hit itself with the power and die anyhow. You could turbo a 2.0 zetec and go for 200hp and near as 200ft.lbs (a little under cossie spec) but with front wheel drive your gonna spin that power away. An LSD would help but is still not a patch on 4x4. Take the guys advice, if you want a cossie... buy a cossie...
  5. I watched about 10 seconds of it, it grossed me out so i turned it off. It brings a whole new meaning to going "dutch" Dont get me wrong... we all have some intrest in the odd fetish.... but SCAT..., EEEEEW. As for the eat $hit for 100k remark... all those who said they wouldnt are just lying. The one and only thing i'd be thinking about is finding an ESCOS for sale... and i'd say pretty much everyone else would too if they ever got offered 100k to eat shite.
  6. why do people change the spark plugs but not the leads? They go together on a service.
  7. I too have a toad AI606, insurance were not that bothered tbh. Just as well that i have the toad alarm/imobiliser, as with the 2.0 ECU i have no ford imobiliser. I found the AI606 installation manual on the net... aparrently its got 32 black wires from the main control unit. Coloured tags are on the wires before installation and are removed by the approved fitted when the alam/imobiliser is fully installed... I'd hate to try and fault find the alarm with 32 black wires! Mind you, the 606 offers alarm, imobiliser, remote central locking and 2 addition functions... (i have the remote boot popper)
  8. CVH and PTE are the same engine. The PTE had a black rocker cover but the emmisions were strictly controlled via the fuel injection. P.T.E = Pent top high Torque low Emmisions
  9. not cheap thats for sure... With any turbo project, you have to budget for parts, budget for labour and budget for mapping... then add 50% of that budget ontop as thats what it will probabbly come to. - Decompression from 10:1 down to 8.5:1 or 8:1 (depending on the spec your building) - Fabrication of exhust manifold to accomodate the turbo (or belt arrangement and charger housing if using a Super charger) - Engine strengthening... again dependant on power... but i gaurentee that as soon as its built and your running your "mild spec" you wanted... you'll want to up the boost and fueling... this now means you gotta pull it to pieces and uprate the engine internals for stronger bits like forged pistons, arp bolts, stronger conrods and Goodeon pins. - Oil feed and return for turbo - Extra water cooling for engine - Oil cooling for engine - Intercooler mounting/fabrication And Management/Mapping... management can be bought and built, this will cost a little... but mapping...this will be pricey, 99% of people dont have the know how or equipment to do this. I've never even considered it myself due to my financial position... but PLAN, budget, Plan more, Budget even more money and get advice from the tuners/mappers that you will get to map it... Certain tuners only deal with specific management, so they can offer great advice on what works and how they can work with it to get a good turbo conversion mapped nicely.
  10. Glad ur ok. Sore wallet and pride with the car... but they can be replaced. LOL at the vultures "i'll have this bit... and that"
  11. Just make sure its the later 115ps 1.8 and you'll be fine. Engine code RK. The air box will be the give away, it will say 1.8 115ps
  12. just what i need for the idiots that cut me up at junctions/roundabouts
  13. 85 Rob? Rob is a sound lad, tho i havn;t seen his 2.5 V6 mondeo in person. I know it was an ex-police car tho... and its white. He Lives in Ludlow.. about an hours drive from where i live.... Anyone else here from ludlow/craven arms.. Even Hereford....
  14. I had a ticket in an "iceland" pay n display car park, ran by TCP parking. I ripped the ticket up. 4 weeks later they wrote to me. I replied saying i had no intention of paying as i work for iceland. They got a debt collection agency to write to me... and the fine went up. I wrote to both parties, i gave them my iceland employee payrol number (from 4 years ago when i worked there) and threatened to claim harassment if they continued to request money from me. This has been going on since August... I had a letter last week stating that they are sorry of the inconvenience and they on this occasion they are revoking the ticket.
  15. Nope..1.8, 1.6 vary... I have both 115ps 1.8 and a 90ps 1.6 air box (both from post 95 escorts) and the 1.6 air box has a smaller hole for the MAF. The bottom section is the same on both... and yes... those bloody plastic pegs/legs always break off. It irritating as i swap between a drilled air box (in winter) to a non drilled air box (in summer) depending on ambient air temps, the "non drilled" air box came from a 1.6, so i have to use my air box's top section
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