Swap Begins: Escort GT -> Escort GTX

[Lex]

Well, coming home tonight, I hear this metallic object hit what felt like my exhaust pipe .... and all of a suddent this "fluttering" noise comes from the turbo.

Even at idle ... it's like a fan hitting papers. I stopped the car and left it there for the night. I don't know what's wrong as it was nightime and couldnt look - I will come back tomorrow.

The car was running well before, with EGTs under 800 when this happenned

Is it possible to have broken off a fin off the turbo on the exhaust side? After working on this project for so long, I want a break - if the turbo is gone, I would be heart and bank broken

[Lex]

ok, found out I lost a bolt (one of 4) off the exhaust housing - how that happenned I dunno. Now it's time to go look for a bolt on the road - ummm fun times

[elscotto80]

Thats really weird. Tighten them down well.

[redfox]

put lock washers and Loctight on them and they will never come out....

[Lex]

found another bolt that fits on the housing perfectly (as the one on the street is history) and found that a second bolt on that housing was finger tight. I never touched the housing and now I realize I should have checked things.

Either way, noise is gone and problem is solved

[scortadict]

good to hear you got it working. got any problem when you put your light on?? i heard that someone had that problem with the canada egt.

[Lex]

They have that problem because they removed the resistor box that is used for the daytime running lights and is located on the passenger side strut tower

[scortadict]

good to know, i got mine removed right now hehe

[D323]

congrats on teh easy fix with not too many headaches....

[Lex]

yeah, that should not be removed - IT IS NOT an injector resistor box

I promised pics and I will have them shortly

[redfox]

my swap goes down tommarow....the engine is together....im just waiting for the oil pump from Ryan(BPT323) to show up b4 it gets started....wednes day it gets towed out to the exhaust shop so i have to get it swaped tommwro :\

[Lex]

redfox, are you doing this one day? Have you done it before?

[redfox]

i have swaped the bp in and out of my car so many times i can pull the engine change the clutch, front and rear main seals and install it all and have it running again in 6-8 hours... last time i had help and it only took us 5hours...

[driftscort]

"Did a bit of a drive on the highway, some hills - loaded the motor as well as ran it lightly ... normal driving conditions. Pulled the sparks at the end of all this and they are finally the tanned colour I was looking for"

How many clicks more than stock setting did you move it to get it finally running where the plugs were a nice tanned color??

[Lex]

well driftscort ... the thing is that I have an rx7 vaf and I have been playing around with getting it right - I am not sure how many clicks it is exactly but I can look - do you also have an rx7 vaf?

With the stock GT ECU, I still run too rich at idle/part throttle if I want to be safe at full throttle up to redline. It is a bit of a compromise, but I would rather be safe for now - going to get her on the dyno soon and see how much I can back off the vaf because running too rich although it's safe - it is not optimal for economy OR performance.