Hello All,

Purchased this from a very nice chap on Sunday:


Which was powered by this:


45 Minutes after getting it back it looked like this:


Hour and a half and we were here:


With this lot here:


I have a rather lovely 200bhp Mazda MZR waiting to replace the Pinto


Along with a huge pile of bits including swirl pot, fuel pumps, 4 pot fronts, disc rear, lots of aeroquip, shiny new bell housing etc. etc.

Deciding whether to reloom the whole car or just do an engine loom at the moment as I'm aiming to have it done by the end of the week I may just do engine loom. Still need to sort a dash but I have a spare Stack/Farringdon wheel should needs must. I also desperately want to fabricate some new lower front wishbones as the standard Sierra stuff is a bit :vomit: Aside from that it's a lovely thing and with only pinto power went sideways quite well Should go even better with nearly twice the poke!

The MZR is a lovely engine and one of my personal favorites achieving well over 200bhp with just simple revisions to inlet/exhaust and cam timing. VVT on the inlet cam really helps with a smooth torque curve and emissions compliance to IVA standard is easy as a result of having control of the overlap. I am really looking forward to getting it in this chassis :-) Here's one I did earlier at 215bhp on a single DBW throttle body!



Let's see how well the Type9 gets on with it as I suspect a matching Mazda box may need to go in shortly!

as the kids say...

Phat!

check the top wishbone inner brackets that bolt to the top of the shocks they have a habit of failing on the supercat if they are not beefed up. had two fail in as many weeks in our local south east club. also make sure you beef up the chassis engine mounting points as they have a tendency to fail. other than those issues they are pretty bomb proof its near on impossible to destroy the sierra rear beam ;-)

Progress update:

Getting there! Bit behind schedule as work has been very busy the past few days but engine is in on it's mounts and bolted up. MZR to Type 9 is a doddle and mainly bolt on. It also drops straight into a Cat with only a couple of extra holes in the engine mounting plates.

Done so far is:
- Clutch cable
- Throttle cable
- Steering column mod to get some more height into the wheel
- Pedal box mod to make some more room in the tunnel
- Bonnet cut to clear throttles
- Engine in (obviously LOL)
- Fuel system (just a simple setup with Facet lifting to swirl pot which gravity feeds an 044 via a standard filter. Reg is in the back so single 3.5bar pressure fuel line from reg to none return fuel rail).
- Front suspension done with new lower wishbones fabbed that use Alfa 164 ball joints (same taper as Sierra).
- Rest of front suspension tidied and made pretty
- Wilwood 4 pot solid disc setup bolted up.
- Rear converted to disc, found a disc that saved having to machine the hubs so that was nice.
- Engine wiring loom built.
- New smaller lights fitted.
- Engine mount plate buttressing.


Still need to sort:
- Cooling system plumb up.
- Alternator setup, may use an old TAG permanent magnet alternator but at 25 amps it's a close thing.
- Air filter (just need to work out which fits nicest).
- Exhaust manifold.
- Might remake a few brake lines as ones on there are a bit in the way/untidy.
- Fit Stack/Farringdon wheel/display.
- Calibrate ECU
- Bolt prop back in.
- Thorough and absolute bolt check.

Didn't have chance to get many pics today as was flat out with this and other things but here it is in. Hope you agree it fits very well



Ash G had a good look at the top wishbone shock mountings and crack tested after we had blasted them. No issues that I can see, this is quite a late car (probably one of the last Cats built) so not sure if the design was updated but they are pretty beefy and well welded. Generally you find twist is the one thing that can really pull mountings off stuff quick but the shocks have pretty compliant bushes in the top and the wishbone pivot is bushed with nylon so there should be very little twist there. I'll abuse it all ASAP and report back, hopefully nothing comes astray!

Update on progress and a pictures worth a thousand words and all that jazz



Front brakes, just waiting on the lower wishbones to come back from the powder coaters.



Rear disc conversion done. Again waiting on bits of rear caliper to come back from coating.



Body work trimmed to fit. Will have to use a cheeky ITG JC DFV filter though as the more standard Megaflow type backplate won't quite clear the bonnet.... shame as I've flowjetted a nice Carbon backplate already LOL



All buttoned up, also new front lights on so bit less frontal area now! Want a nice 6 way DTM on the end though... whole thing was wired with insulated push fits so they've all had to go!

Not far to go now

Looks nice.

Now you have fitted it then you might want to remove that engine from e-bay. Its going to be annoying having to take it out again!

Matt

It's okay we've got 7 200bhp ones in stock at work at the moment! This one is mine all mine though :-) A present in return for having done 90 hour weeks for most of this year!

The one in my first post is actually a Mk2 Escort Rally spec one that we do quite a few of in Europe, hence the power steering pump, cast ally mounts etc. etc.

Mine is a boggo crate spec one which I've fitted the 200 spec cams etc. to. Couldn't "nick" a proper built one LOL

[Edited on 12/5/13 by Matt @ TDF]

Didn't realise this was yours matt.

What you doing with the old pinto? ;-)

[Edited on 12/5/13 by theduck]

Old Pinto is off to live on in an Escort mate It is a very nice Pinto as Pintos go so sure it'll have a happy time there.

Interestingly I weighed it when we removed it and with carbs, inlet manifold and alternator it was 132KG! MZR is 96KG with throttles and alternator.

Can believe that mate, bloody heavy lumps, still a better pinto would have made for easy upgrading for me. Good to see you active on a forum I visit again.

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Originally posted by Matt @ TDF
Interestingly I weighed it when we removed it and with carbs, inlet manifold and alternator it was 132KG!

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Put an MZR in it!! 96KG and sniff over 200bhp :-) I'm looking forward to scaring myself silly in this one - not had anything silly quick since the Cerbera and whilst the Porsche had poke it was so boringly capable that I ended up using it as a commuter, put 20K on it in 6 months!

This Tiger is very much my play thing so this is personal rather than work! Sure I can help a few people with their leccy issues though