[car_overhaul] Zx 16V Project Pt2, Re-Shell And Power Upgrades....

[Reebmit 51 4 Cars]

I luv a good road trip, car sounding awesome on the rollers, good one Mei :-)

[calvinhorse 870]

Beast!!! Have you had a proper go in it yet?

[dcc 855]

by the sounds of it (take into account hes a cheese eating welshman) he's done about 12 miles

[calvinhorse 870]

Vegan cheese?

[j_turnell 134 3 Cars]

Nice project and it sounds great! I notice a tidy white zx16v on ebay right now..

[welshpug 1,620]

I wish I had this capacity to save and get a cleaner straighter shell to pop this running gear under

 

yeah Daniel is correct, I have driven about 12 miles in it so far, part of the final fine tune is general driving as one would do normally, plus a few acceleration runs from low rpm in 2nd through third.

 

it pulls without hesitation or spluttering whatsoever from under 2k at WOT....

[calvinhorse 870]

But is it quicker than DCC?

Edited March 13, 2015 by calvinhorse

[dcc 855]

not at the moment! haha

[calvinhorse 870]

Winnings winning!

[welshpug 1,620]

it will be soon becasue dan always pulls his projects apart instead of using them

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Does sound very good indeed! Despite it's lack of cylinders!

Edited March 13, 2015 by allye

[S@m 156]

I do enjoy a ZX, i had already clocked that one on ebay after catching up with this project caused me to check what was available.

 

Should be a shock to a few people, sounds great and it's nice to see an RFS engine in its original home.

Edited March 13, 2015 by S@m

[welshpug 1,620]

Fuel pump arrived, fitted, test driven.


ERMAGHERD.

B A R K

[Plumbob 66 1 Cars]

Hope it's going well?

 

I've got a couple of questions if you don't mind me asking...

 

What TPS did you use? and can you remember the spacing of the throttle bodies (the distance between the inner pair of trumpets)?

 

Thanks in advance..

[dcc 855]

its a premade inlet, manufactured by Colin Satchel's team, so the spacing is done for him, the TPS is your standard Jenvey item

[Plumbob 66 1 Cars]

Ok thankyou.

 

I just remember there being a discussion somewhere on here about which one is best to use. I guess the Jenvey one must be fine.

[rallyeash 155]

Ok thankyou.

I just remember there being a discussion somewhere on here about which one is best to use. I guess the Jenvey one must be fine.

 

Jenvey one is too short.

[welshpug 1,620]

these are longer and place the bodies flatter, making more power and torque and helping get a filter under the bonnet with a decent depth and inlet tract length.

Edited March 18, 2015 by welshpug

[Biggles 65]

Sounds lovely !

[welshpug 1,620]

Thanks, will try and get some clips soon, I think getting it mapped still on the standard inlet would have released some extra over the standard ecu as well as making sure the cam timing was correct, with the throttle bodies there is a distinct change at 4.5 where it pulls really hard with a pretty clear note to 6.5.

 

Not sure exactly where peak is now but it does rev to the limiter.

[rallyeash 155]

What's the limiter set too?

[welshpug 1,620]

7500 soft 7700 hard, peak on single throttle was same as standard iirc which was around 6500.

[rallyeash 155]

Think mine was 7600 soft and 7800 hard from memory. Peak power at 7000

[welshpug 1,620]

same cams and capacity?

[rallyeash 155]

Nah 88x87 and cat cam 109's.