newbee hello

Posts : 5 Join date : 2011-07-01

hi im jay 24 from luton. I have a 1.3 fiesta as a daily drive, and a sierra sapphire as a toy. B4 that i had a mk2 fiesta xr2 running rwd and a 2.5 v6 24v duratec engine

Subject: Re: newbee hello Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:02 pm

Welcome along mate glad you could make it. Get some pics of ya saf up I not even seen it yet lol

Posts : 126 Join date : 2011-07-03 Location : South Wales

jay wrote:: hi im jay 24 from luton. I have a 1.3 fiesta as a daily drive, and a sierra sapphire as a toy. B4 that i had a mk2 fiesta xr2 running rwd and a 2.5 v6 24v duratec engine

Hi Jay,
I'm Gareth, 31 and living in Cardiff. I bet that Fiesta xr2 with the V6 went well Cool

I had a Ford Mondeo ST24 for a few years which I used to take on track at Castle Combe and modify at home. Great engine, really loved the V6 burble Smile

Driving a 2003 Honda Civic Type R 30th Anniversary Edition at the moment which is pretty good but nothing compared to my old 96 JDM WRX which unfortunately died in November Sad

God rest her Sh*t unreliable £7k engine Rolling Eyes

(Through a con-rod through the block & destroed the engine for the second time in two years!! First time the big end went).
Anyway Welcome fella cheers

Subject: Re: newbee hello Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:08 am

GMballistic wrote:

jay wrote:: hi im jay 24 from luton. I have a 1.3 fiesta as a daily drive, and a sierra sapphire as a toy. B4 that i had a mk2 fiesta xr2 running rwd and a 2.5 v6 24v duratec engine

Hi Jay,
I'm Gareth, 31 and living in Cardiff. I bet that Fiesta xr2 with the V6 went well Cool

I had a Ford Mondeo ST24 for a few years which I used to take on track at Castle Combe and modify at home. Great engine, really loved the V6 burble Smile

Driving a 2003 Honda Civic Type R 30th Anniversary Edition at the moment which is pretty good but nothing compared to my old 96 JDM WRX which unfortunately died in November Sad

God rest her Sh*t unreliable £7k engine Rolling Eyes

(Through a con-rod through the block & destroed the engine for the second time in two years!! First time the big end went).
Anyway Welcome fella cheers

ouch!!!!

theres a scooby in my dads yard thats done the same thing on a forged engine too

Posts : 126 Join date : 2011-07-03 Location : South Wales

fq-craigus wrote:: ouch!!!!

theres a scooby in my dads yard thats done the same thing on a forged engine too

Yeah I was really bummed out about it. I'd put so much money into the car as a whole too but when the engine went again I'd had enough of that particular Subaru so it had to go. Sad

Was built by a good engine builder and I looked after it better than most owners I knew with oil changes every 2500-3000miles, Mobil1 motorsport 15W50 oil used with genuine filters etc etc but that engine still went wrong.

My friends going through a similar issue with his engine build at the moment in his my99 JDM Impreza WRX STI Type RA V-Limited. Luckily the builder has excepted some responsability as when his engine was built with Cosworth pistons, rods & pins they DID NOT use Cosworth cir-clips on the pins & that was found to out to be the leading main cause of his engine failure ~ He ended up melting a piston in the end.

Hopefully things will get better for him when he gets the engine back this time. Anyway Newbie thread hijack over Laughing

Posts : 11 Join date : 2011-07-08

Hello, I'm new too Laughing

I served my 'performance car time' driving XR2s.... I had a 1.8 sierra based CVH MK1 and RS tub powered MK2 (amongst many others)

Subject: Re: newbee hello Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:35 am

any pics of past motors buddy

Posts : 5 Join date : 2011-07-01

thanks for the welcome boys! and i never finished the V6xr2 (i blame the baby and lazy mrs lol). and yeah the V6 duratecs are quality engines when modded right mine had:

R1 40mm throttle bodies,
stage one heads,
secondairy butterflies removed (24v all the time not just at high revs),
EGR system removed,
decat,
3" stainless exhaust,
tubular headers,
pas, air con and abs pumps removed,
removed top tensioner,
ally bottom pulley,
lightweight flywheel,
bored out st200 lower inlet manifold,
st200 injectors,
10mm leads,
baffled sump

not huge power only about 240-250bhp but in a stripped mk2 with enough torque to spin the world backwards it would have been a laugh :-)

and not sure what to do with the saffy atm, coosworth YB's are piss poor for the costs. thinking about strapping twin T34's onto a 2.9 24V cosworth lump, or getting a RB26 DETT skyline lump. or just save the pennies and get a westfield megabussa!

Posts : 126 Join date : 2011-07-03 Location : South Wales

Nice spec on that V6 then Cool

Posts : 5 Join date : 2011-07-01

thats only a baby build for me lol. will get some pics up soon when i get photo bucket sorted out

Posts : 11 Join date : 2011-07-10 Location : West Yorkshire

Welcome along buddy!!

Subject: Re: newbee hello Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:31 pm

Welcome aboard.