Vovchandr

No personal experience but please spend time to watch this series at night or whenever, there are 3 of 4 episodes where the guys go into their experience and suggestions They have road tripped A LOT on their channel, doing cross country drives at least once a year with different missions in different compromised cars

I think there's case use for somebody like me who's never done an alignment on the 7 and would at least like the ballpark values dialed in If it gets close enough and can do a number of cars in my fleet I think it would pay for itself with just a few uses

I'm in the same boat with my Pectels. I'm getting a feeling that it will be easier to just sort out pectel as is instead undertaking a swap even though I have a wiring harness and new ECU already. If there was a Pectel to Omex adapter that would be convenient. I'm also in same boat of not having knock sensor and not having wideband wired. Data logging is still a struggle too

Not going funny but rather sincere. The tool for snaps was expensive but made any job on the Cat that required them a breeze Also Thermal infrared (Flir) gun is quite useful for car and home use.

Hard to tell but did you not run the wiring through the headlight mount cavity and ran it underneath the mount?

I really need to dedicate a good amount of time to play with the ECU/Map/Settings in the driveway for a test and tune. I'll update that once that happens.

My TPS situation perplexes me. When I bought the car it had an IAC with ITB's with a vacuum rail plugged into all the runners of ITBs going to the IAC. I couldn't figure out how Pectel controls the IAC so I bypassed it. All vacuum lines are plugged and ITB's idle with air sneaking by the butterflies. Here is my TPS data

Saw them again in a video I posted and it reminded me of this thread

I will admit, these have grown on me

He won a brand new Caterham! | Bridge Classic Cars

Entry Level Caterham Sevens

Over the years its hard for anybody to follow, including myself. There's no self mapping option on Pectel but there was a major change when I towed it down to NC for TurboFocus to put it on the dyno and tune it. If I recall since last update I did the whole headgasket fix, adjustable cam gears installed and timed by tuner, cat converted removed and maybe a few other changes. Fuel pressure should still be spot on at 40. I'll follow your suggestion and do another health check with compression and leak down test, check for misfires with temperature gun again etc. I'm not expecting any solutions from the crowd but I do enjoy the audience for this adventure. Eventually if the timing is right maybe I'll just throw a towel and swap to another Zetec and new ECU for a fresh start or commit to cutting a hole on other side of the car and throw in the Duratec I have sitting.

We need to know what zetec you have. Likely a contour one that's vct or similar and it's going to be different than a Ford focus one. I went through this issue when I did my clutch. The car came with a clutch from a focus as a spare but it didn't work with the existing flywheel and after swapping flywheel it didn't work with the existing starter so I had to do a full conversion at that point.

Here we go again. 25%

Wow that's actually a great call on white wheels Someone missed this

Are those fuel lines? Is that an FPR?

I would like to report that after years of troubleshooting, discovery, fixing, tuning and I movements my latest calculated mileage is a whopping ... 11.8mpg Short trips end up eating up half a tank or more. With the wideband live reading the problem is sort of obvious. I'm extremely rich at most of my fuel map and the sensor pings out at the lowest allowed sensor reading of 10:1 for most of the drive. God knows how low it truly is, so I'm running very very rich. Next step is to rebuild the map and see where that gets me. Good old chatGPT gave suggestions. Time to have AI fix what human intelligence hasn't been able to figure out so far

Since when did this become an OR proposition??? Feels like it's been an and my entire time here

This needs to be the cover photo for a little bit somehow for the entire forum

Honestly I think tinkering with it is part of the experience that makes you connected to the car, but this should be more known/announced. I come from a world where tinkering on everything is standard practice so its not a culture shock for me or unexpected. Especially considering I bought mine used with a questionable and interesting history. For somebody who orders one new or pays top dollar for it, who has high expectations for value per dollar spent and expects high reliability from a $50k+ purchase and doesn't want to tinker or expect it, I can see how that can be an unwelcome factor in ownership.

Many words just to describe that @vovchandr is right.

Did you swap the flasher relay for an LED friendly one too? (JAL sells one I think but they are very easy to source anywhere)

I actually like that quite a bit

To you its THE car. To any regular mechanics its just A car that will be more pain in the ass, more scrutinized and pay the same or worse than others for the time invested. There's just no business sense for regular shops to care for special cars. Special cars need to go to special mechanics which will demand special pricing for special treatment which isn't a lot of people are willing to accept. I will venture a guess and say @Croc knows quite a bit about that with the amount of specialty vehicles he deals with and outsources the work on. This is why I do pretty much all my own work on it. You should hear the stories that real exotic car owners have to deal with. There are as much as 5 and as little as 1 person in the whole country who can do certain work and you have to ship your car to him and wait for availability. That's just the name of the game.