OapEM wrote:Still up for Ford Parts (:O I said a bad word on here) in the morning kiddo?

Yarp.

WHO WANTS TO HEAR SOME NOIZEZ??????!!!!!!!1
I popped down around 10pm and couldn't resist firing it up. Almost idles now.

This takes a while to start as I'd just had the hoses off to change the idle jets to 58s:





O HAI NEIGHBOURZ, WAKEE WAKEY:

John you pwn!
my clio has owned me a few times im lovin the roflcopter and thumbs up again to you john!



EDIT: owww vids aswell wow man sounds mental! i rekon your right, sounds like an airleak and its defo on the lean side, firing through.

Does not sound french at all, this is a good thing

OOOF that is epic, that 16v revs up nice and quick!

Awesome did you find a reason for the non start before?
Adam

Not really, just went round, cleaned and double-checked everything, then it went with a push start. It seems like it'll be a good starter, which is one thing I was worried about with the carbs. I'll be hunting air leaks today, then get it round for test one day this week.
I'm properly excited, I've been waiting ages for this.

Oh, one thing that may have helped was a new king lead (340 1.7), but the old one wasn't too bad so I can't understand what the bother was. The compression's a bit all over, 120/120/150/170, but it has stood for a while.

Good news is its going dude!

work pcs have to sound.
Phone wont run the flash.

My new mission in life is to watch these vids.

Right stat asap now!

Sweet, thats awesome news man, i did a compression test the other day got all 10's

Dan

Nice one chap!

what renix are you finally running?


that whine sounds like the noise my old B14 used to make when the crank case ventilation was blocked. so check that

loving the back flash through the carb aswell!

As great as the Injection sounds on a valver, you just cant beat the noise of twin Carbs!

Congrats!

kaos wrote:what renix are you finally running?

1.7, but I'll be trying to find out exactly which one has the most appropriate spark map for making moar powah!

kaos wrote:that whine sounds like the noise my old B14 used to make when the crank case ventilation was blocked. so check that

Yeah it's coming from the cam cover breathers, I'll have to stick little filters on them or something, didn't leave holes in the manifold for that purpose.

WooDooUK wrote:As great as the Injection sounds on a valver, you just cant beat the noise of twin Carbs!

Amen brother! Awesome induction noise and the odd puff of flame are more than enough to make up for heavy fuel consumption!

Thanks for all the congratulations fellas, and support when it was all looking nightmarish. I'll pay you all with MORE VIDS soon.

This is good stuff!! Love the sound of it, the looks, everything. I want my carbo's!

You've got DHLA's right (what kind?)? Tomorrow im going to check out some DHLA 40H's. So mind telling me the settings when its all running well?

Cheers man, they're dell'orto DHLA40, with 190 air corrector jets, and 58 idle jets. Once it's running properly I'll let you know how many turns the idle screws are at. I'd have to say the dell'ortos are a little better than webers, they have 5 progression holes compared to 3 on the weber IIRC, giving a bit more flexibility to the power. In reality though, there's little difference between them.

Well done, John!!! What size chokes have You got? seems like not enough fuel on tickover..tweek idle screws.
CAN'T BEAT NOISE OF TWIN CARBS!!! I think I'l get some vids..