Paul D Jones

If its a cut and shut [Dunnell] type then it could be little holes [perosaty] in the welding not a lot you can do with it only grind the weld back and reweld Paul. See My Car Here

Windy gun for undoing Paul. See My Car Here

Flat in second over the mountain at Cadwell has that effect. Paul. See My Car Here

It's all a compromise The ride hight needs to be correct this is easy use a ruler and can be the same both sides as it should be The ride high with the SBD widetrack suspunsion I have requires the wish bones to be parrellel with the floor [level floor] the ride hight can be further adjusted with tyre profiles. This is best done with driver. Then the tracking needs to be as required then back to the ride hight to check nothing has been compromised Cornner weights with driver and car as used [track ,road, touring etc] If you move the damper platforms to adjust the corner weights you buggfer up the ride hight and the tracking etc. so after hours of fidilling I have this set up that is sbout as close as I can get it with the car the way it is I intend to move components when I fit my Duratec so as to try and balance the car better as this is now the only way to get the cornner weight closer [moving the weight around in the car and not jacking the damper/spring platforms up/down. you just go around in a big circle untill the gains and improvment are so small as no longer worth the effort. Paul. See My Car Here

"I was in the car when it was done as was told this is the way it should be done " Unless you carry a passenger ALL the time and then do it with a passenger in as well My car was cornerweighted with no fuel but the above figures are for it fully fuelled and me in it and out of it probably best to do it when the fuel tank is half full [normal tank sizes] Paul. See My Car Here

Nitron and have them made to measure to your own spec around £220 each inc spring but plus VAT Ask for Guy Evans 01993 849449 He will need to know Open lenght closed length Amount of bump from ride hight anount of droop from ride hight spring poundage [lenght of spring If you know what it is] Paul. See My Car Here Edited by - paul.d.jones on 3 Jul 2004 11:10:44

I cornerweighted my car myself and set the ride hight at the same time the cornerweights where re weighed at Couborougher Westfield sprint day on Adrians scales results from Adrian Below are the details of your car from the weigh in at Curborough. Firstly start with the bare car details: Total unloaded car weight: 566 kg This breaks down from Left Front: 138.5 kg Right Front: 137 kg Left Rear: 149.5 kg Right Rear: 141 kg Loaded with driver the car weight was 644.5 kg This breaks down to Left Front: 139.5 kg Right Front: 154 kg Left Rear: 171 kg Right Rear: 180 kg Or in percentage terms for each corner of overall weight Left Front: 21.644685802948022% Right Front: 23.894491854150505% Left Rear: 26.532195500387896% Right Rear: 27.928626842513577% The front of the car currently sits with 45.539177657098527 % of the weight. The cross weight percentage (LF + RR vs RF +LR) is 49.573312645461598. Paul. See My Car Here

Hi "ps you are most welcome on this side, especially as you have such a valuable item to contribute....." No a veiw shared by all though E-mail paul.jones37@ntlworld.com Contact details on my site are on the links page [think you have to scroll down a bit] The copy I have is a paper copy of the FORD CD [so will need phot coping] and I have only the pages for the engine including the torque settings I am also collecting Ford part numbers for the Duratec. Paul. See My Car Here

I have a copy of the FORD workshop manual for the engine bits only But being from the other side and not a club member you will have to hurry before I am locked out Paul. See My Car Here

I would guess that they where not shot blasted before powder coating and the twisting of the bar has caused the bond between the steel and the powder coat to fail and fall off then it all goes rusty Paul. See My Car Here

Polo/golf rads are only £40.00 ish Westfield use them on most cars X flow, VX, Zetec, Duratec, but not on the V8 [ I belive] Paul. See My Car Here

Petrol is 0.72 kg's/ltr My car weighs 541kgs with all fluids etc but next to no fuel. Paul. See My Car Here

It's easy if you know how you need to make a soft thin plastic sleeve to slide the seal over the step in the crank shaft I used a peice of a large pop bottle. Paul. See My Car Here

Have you damaged the loom when swinging the new motor in or damaged an earth cable I had an earth cable fail it looked OK the srink wrap was holding it together but it was burnt and arced away inside and pulled apart in my hand with a light pull on the cable. Paul. See My Car Here

Mike I have one or two in my garage at home they are available from RS components they are not big money but could get some through work and get a discount P.S. have you fitted the clamps OK Paul. See My Car Here

Was it factory built then your stuffed If not and Amateur built then for emmission purposes only it is traeted as pre 1975 Vis smoke only its all in the MOT testers hand book Paul. See My Car Here

Parellel and a fair bit of castor [6 deg] Paul. See My Car Here

I will look up the Ford fins number tommorrow afternoon if needed I am at work till 7am then in bed till lunch time. Paul. See My Car Here

Have you considered a standard Duratec with TB's around 190 bhp Cost could be less Paul. See My Car Here

Same as an F16 fighter jet they both have a total loss oil system 😬 Paul. See My Car Here

Fit a crossland 659 I posted some pictures of this filter in another thread a few days ago. This thread here Paul. See My Car Here Edited by - paul.d.jones on 23 Apr 2004 23:57:16

The filter used and sold for £10.00 plus vat by Mr P Dunnell is in fact a Crossland 659 about £2.50 inc but Paul spends an hour T cutting the numbers off so that why its a tenner See here and here Paul. See My Car Here Edited by - paul.d.jones on 21 Apr 2004 21:44:46 Edited by - paul.d.jones on 21 Apr 2004 21:45:29

Find the center line of the car I did this by measuring between the two sets of inner wishbone pick up pionts on the chassie at the front of the car I then marked the center line on the chassie clammped a straight edge to the two lines and projected the line forward onto a wall a few meters away with a lazer line I placed and locked the rack it the center of its travel side to side and used a lazer line on the rim of the wheel to project the track forward to the wall as well as measuring the track near the car and compering the measurments to the ones on the wall I managed to get the car set up to within 0.5 deg I did all my setting up with the weight of a driver and a half full tank of fuel I lifted the rack and lowered the steering arm pick up points and used this set up to check the bump steer and it is now almost gone [my the way my car is a Westfield but it all applies the same] Paul. See My Car Here

Ring Chris Baker 01472 211222 post it to him good job and sensiable prices. Paul. See My Car Here

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