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Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:13 am

so I hear you don't like ford.

umdivx · Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:19 am

Jeffescortlx wrote: .... I really need to think about selling it since I dont have room for 5 car's.

you could always just sell me all the turbo parts off your SPI-T scort

the put the ztech in that, and trash the fugly blue beast.

-Josh

Jeffescortlx · Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:22 pm

umdivx wrote:
Jeffescortlx wrote:.... I really need to think about selling it since I dont have room for 5 car's.

you could always just sell me all the turbo parts off your SPI-T scort

the put the ztech in that, and trash the fugly blue beast.

-Josh

well, honestly I think I'd rather keep the SOHC as my main boost junky ride. I know the Zetec can out perform the flow of the SOHC with it's 16 valves and all, but the CVH seem's to take the abuse better. While on the dyno with my 1.9 SPI (stock internals with high milage) I cranked that little IHI as high as it could go (with in it's range), ran it lean with stock timing and it did'nt even hick-up. The compression is as good today and the day I dropped the SPI head on it. Plus, if I do break something, part's are plentiful and cheap. While the Zetec on the other hand still sell's for $300-400.
I'd rather see the Zetec sedan get sold, and continue to boost the snot out of the SOHC Pony. So sorry, no SOHC turbo parts for sale yet.

iamgod · Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:05 pm

get rid of the stock one!

Jeffescortlx · Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:30 pm

IT RUNNNSSS!!
Yeh I did it! (it does'nt drive yet) but IT RUNS!!

Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:18 am

you are the king of ghetto mechanicism. Sweet jesus.

iamgod · Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:36 pm

i am making you a trophy!

Jeffescortlx · Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:24 pm

lol

When it's all done, my goal is to make it look like it came stock from the factory with a Zetec in 92. Not so getto looking.

iamgod · Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:55 pm

is that thing driving yet? do you have the axles in and shift linkage connected? what all do you have to do?

Jeffescortlx · Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:45 pm

iamgod wrote: is that thing driving yet? do you have the axles in and shift linkage connected? what all do you have to do?

not yet... I wish it could be done. I dont have much spare time with a kid/wife house/full time job.

List of thinks left:
Custom down pipe with O2 bung, and flex section to join from the Focus manifold to the rest of the hacked up exshaust thank's to the previous owner.

Put the belt on, not looking forward to that.

Hook up the power steering line.

Install radiator, hook up heater core and fill.

Few finishing touches to the harness.

Put bumper and head light's back on, changes all the burnt out light bulb's so the cop's leave me alone.

Maybe this weekend it will be driveable, if not I'm taking another day off of work to finesh it.

iamgod · Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:18 pm

i hear ya i got all the same problems...most of my garage work now takes place after 9:00pm (little mans bed time) if you weld i have a cracked race header for the zetec...you can have it if you want...it'll save you some effort cause it has both 02 bungs in it and it never threw a code. i don't have a flex section though but its a direct bolt in.

and who needs power steering?

if you want it give me a buzz 612-296-1533

- adam

-edit- free by the way..in the name of insanity!

Doughboy · Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:39 pm

Hey, I'm pretty sure I still have a spare flex-pipe from FocusSport in the garage if you need that.

Jeffescortlx · Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:50 pm

Yesterday I finished up the harness, it's all wrapped and ready to go. And I did weld up a down pipe, I just reused the Escort 1.9 down pipe with stock cat and O2 bung. I did'nt have a flex section, but the previous owner cut out the stock one and clamped in a section of those gay parts store flexible tubing crap (it leak's all over). The front motor mount is filled, hopefully the motor does'nt move to much and rip up the exshaust.

All that's left to this project is the belt, radiator, heater core and power steering pluming. And then hope it all works.

PS: iamgod, I could fix your header, and then hang it on my wall to intimidate all the stock manifolds

I think the Focus has a different routing underneath the motor then the Zx2's, but I'm sure I could make it work.

iamgod · Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:33 am

if you want it give me a buzz....its just taking space on the floor of my garage!

Jeffescortlx · Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:01 pm

iamgod wrote: if you want it give me a buzz....its just taking space on the floor of my garage!

I'm sure I'll see you at the next mnfoc meet or MNSC meet, or if you go to Rock Fall's?