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It was then time to take care of the bottom end of the engine with some ARP conrod bolts The sump needed modding, to clear the starter motor and offside driveshaft, plus add oil return for the turbo and breather return. Then I built it all up,

Cylinder head removed and sold as I won't be using the v v t ftom the st170 engine. A brand new cylinder head was purchased, the valve springs from the st head were fitted into the new head, that was a boring fiddly job. The st spring is the one on the right, these are much better for turbocharged engines. The new head Modding it for the cvh thermostat housing and the coolant temp sensor for the engine management.

A plan was formulated with the help of karlos G's guide on passionford. With its last or 1 of its last trips out to a local classic car show A shopping list was compiled and my pockets started to cry. 1st on the list was Got it home and onto the engine stand, focus estate is great for shifting engines about.

Hi ollie, transit connect starter bolts straight on, just needs the trigger wire connector changing. You need a diesel starter though, about £70 new on ebay, I can get the link if it helps people.

the cvh I fitted at the time of the megasquirt conversion turned out to have a cracked block so after driving it only 3 times I spat my dummy out good and proper, cashed the tax back in and sulked for a while whilst wondering what to do next. Over the next few weeks I started removing the engine once again, once it was out I decided to fit another cvh bottom end I had sat in the garage, as it was only gonna cost me about £50 in parts and my own time, so once this was fitted I used it for the summer or what was left of the summer, the engine was a bag of cack too, oil light would flicker when properly hot at idle, etc etc, it made alright performance also had good economy, I put this down to the mapping skills of rick@unicornmotordevelopments. But I still wasn't happy regarding this engine so a plan was required.

so with loads more money spent we started the rebuild 630cc injectors for lots of boost transit connect starter motor and wideband lambda set up with the engine now back in, 1 of 3 cvh engines it had in the bay last year. Mid way through wiring in the new engine management system

Well I'm new on here guys, thought I would give you a quick run down on my project upto date. I purchased the car when it was running cvh turbo, mfi set up I then got talking to jano oddkidd at fordfair who convinced me to convert it to efi using cosworth engine mangement set up, to cut a very long winded story short I eventually got so sick of the problems the car gained running this system, I ripped it all out and me and my mate bob converted it to run on megasquirt This was when we got it running on the cossie set up, (when it would run) So when I say I ripped it all out we went to this. Got rid of the abs, had the gearbox rebuilt with a lsd added