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  1. On 2/17/2024 at 11:42 AM, wowblaauw said:

    Now sold
     

    All, I have a complete set of shocks for a Zero - as imaged. Units have done 1000 miles from new. Just upgraded to shiny new ones from GBS.

    Yours for £250 plus ship

     

     

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  2. All, continuing my clearcut this year, I have a set of rear calipers. These were on my Zero, covered around 500 miles when replaced them for Hispecs. Been kicking around the garage for the past 6 years or so. Will require new seals etc but otherwise good calipers with new pads. Also includes the googridge hoses.

    Yours for £75 plus ship

     

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  3. All, I have a complete set of shocks for a Zero - as imaged. Units have done 1000 miles from new. Just upgraded to shiny new ones from GBS.

    Yours for £250 plus ship

     

     

    Gaz Shocks - 1.jpeg

    Gaz Shocks - 2.jpeg

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  4. All, finalising my nut and bolt rebuild of the Zero, I am selling off some stuff. I have a type 9 (sorry gearbox has gone) bell housing which was modified to suit the zero standard. 

    £50 collected?

    email any questions

    Thanks for looking

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  5. All,

    Having nailed all my other issues, the clutch has been bugging me so I bought another AP pressure plate in the hope that it was my pressure plate which was causing this issue only to find that the replacement didn't fix this issue. Back to the drawing board so I removed the engine gearbox ahead of the final build to replace the whole clutch. My question therefore is, which clutch is favoured by the Zetec turbo to MT75 builds?

    Thanks again for all of your help, it is very reassuring to know that there is this pool of knowledge ready and waiting to help the poor souls like me. That said, if your Apple product Mac or iPhone or iPad breaks, then bring it to me...

    Cheers

    Craig

  6. All,

    As I am now in the final stages of this long winded nut and bolt rebuild/major upgrade - if it isn't the chassis, it has been replaced/upgraded - and am looking for one point of either advice or confirmation.

    I am using a Owen Developments 54 frame GBT turbo and am draining the oil from turbo via -10 line to sump via one of the scavenge ports and letting the scavenge pump back to tank. 

    What are your thoughts on this? Any help/thoughts will be gratefully received.

    Thanks

    Craig

  7. On 12/26/2021 at 10:18 PM, richyb66 said:

    The ETB sensor has an led in the back of it where the wires go in. When it's powered up, the led will light when it detects a bolt head or magnet passing it so you can adjust the gap to get a good reading off each trigger in turn.

    I didn't know that - nice one Richy, guess what I'll be doing next time the magnet falls off...

  8. This might be relèvent might not. When I was wiring my 2b back in the day I had an awful time wiring up using vicky greens wiring harness schematic. In the end, a mate of mine a local auto electrician nailed it down to direct shorts and failures within the switch gear. I had three sets and all three were faulty. I did get there in the end with an exchange set from GBS. Just a thought 

  9. I made a bracket which sat the sensor on top of the prop shaft flange to diff and calibrated it on the speedo if I remember. One thing I do remember is the instructions said two magnets in opposing positions on the prop which recorded double speed against my satnav so I removed one of the magnets, and with no further calibration (I might actually be wrong here) I had a speedo. I then fitted GBS’s p&p loom and the speedo stopped so I wired it directly between sensor power and the dial. Only fails when the magnet falls off so I used some Jb weld and voilà hasn’t fallen off in 500 miles. 

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  10. 18 hours ago, wowblaauw said:

    Thanks all for your thoughts. I am now thinking that I can take off from the cylinder head temp sensor as this is just a sensor with no output. I have the GBS thermostat housing which provides me with both temp sensors for ecu and dial. But, there I was thinking this is straight forward that its a 1/8' npt so i ordered a 1/8" npt to an4 fitting to run coolant to the turbo and then on to the rad. Fittings arrived from Torques this morning and have just tried fitting them and no, the thread is finer than that of the npt. Any ideas would be gratefully received. 

    Scrapped that thought, I just bought an adaptor plate from J9 which will sit between the GBS thermostat housing and the head which has an M14 x 1.5 take off for the turbo coolant feed. Gosh, I'll have this running next week, thats going to be dangerous lol

  11. Thanks all for your thoughts. I am now thinking that I can take off from the cylinder head temp sensor as this is just a sensor with no output. I have the GBS thermostat housing which provides me with both temp sensors for ecu and dial. But, there I was thinking this is straight forward that its a 1/8' npt so i ordered a 1/8" npt to an4 fitting to run coolant to the turbo and then on to the rad. Fittings arrived from Torques this morning and have just tried fitting them and no, the thread is finer than that of the npt. Any ideas would be gratefully received. 

  12. 1 hour ago, richardm6994 said:

    So I’ve basically I connected the turbo cooling with a smallish (6 or 8mm, can’t remember exactly) bore hose from the cylinder head to turbo then from turbo to bottom of rad.

    The water jacket around the turbo core helps keeps the oil temps down and acts as a thermal barrier between the hot exhaust turbine and cold air turbine. Short term running without water cooling isn’t going to cause any issues but long term, wouldn’t fancy it myself….especially on an engine kicking out nearly 280bhp….also running without inevitably creates higher air intake temps.

    Shouldn’t cause any issues to a correctly set up cooling system either - well at least it’s been fine on the two zetec turbo’s I’ve built to date.

     

    Richard, that’s great and thanks. But, can you tell me where on the cylinder head you took your feed from?

  13. All,

    I hope you are all finding solace in your respective builds while this pandemic is raging.

    I started my nut and bolt rebuild to my GBS Std last December - with the rear end done and finished in no time with a completely new rear end, suspension, diff, drive shafts and hubs and brakes, I started on the front end. With the all of the suspension sorted in no time, I started on the engine bay. A refreshed hybrid ST170 block with RST pistons and steel rods ARP bolts, ported flowed BT cylinder head etc to make for a really strong engine. I have been beset by problem after problem with components being too large or not the right size - you know the gagg. One thing is changes and the repercussions and causality...

    I am now plumbing my newly acquired TOCA BTCC Owen Developments turbo in. While oil in and out is straight forward, my issue is where do I take the coolant feed from - there are. several opposing views on this, taking the feed from the lower intake from the radiator to the thermostat for take off. I also read somewhere that there is a port on the rear of the cylinder head for which a coolant take off could be had. Given my cramped engine bay and ease of access to the rear of the cylinder this would be my preferred option. 

    My question is this, would it be OK to remove the 1/4" or 3/8" (not sure which at this time) plug and replace it with a coolant feed - my concern is that this isn't a plug for coolant? If anyone has an idea for this i"d be most grateful.

    Thanks in advance, Craig

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