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Swapping Xflow 1700 to ST170 Focus in a narrow body SE

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Roll Cage

Last year after seeing a photo of a Caterham stuffed under some Armco on the internet and being horrified by just 4 x 8mm bolts through fiberglass holding my windscreen away from my face I started making some phone call about buying a cage For one reason or another I could not buy one off the shelf, have a delivery date or I would have to trail the car halfway across the country then do the same trip a few weeks later to pick up the car again With this in mind I started looking at retaining my
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Shifter Lights Homemade

I've been asked to put together how I made my shifter lights so here we go I went to Maplins and bought A small box 3 x 470k resistors 1x green bright led 1x yellow bright led 1x red bright led 1x small board 1x inline fuse OVERVIEW The LEDs are all wired 12v live via the fuse The earth return of each LED is through a 470k resistor to an earth trigger wire from the ECU The trigger wires can then be programmed to earth at set RPMs on the ECU Everything was glued into the box with a h
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pickmaster Andy Lowe

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Baffled fitted in ERA sump

After fitting my Westfield with an ST170 zetec engine a year ago I've done 2500 miles on road and track and thought it was time I upgraded my ERA sump with baffles made of alloy and welded in So here are some photos of my efforts I'm having problems with loading photobucket link so I will try again in a few days I'm having a complete nightmare loading photos to this post but the links have gone as comments below to give you some idea as to windage tray fitting, and how I made cardboard templ
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pickmaster Andy Lowe

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Engine Swap Xflow to ST170 and 4 speed to 5 speed box

Hi I've had a lot of interest on my engine swap Xflow to ST170 Duratec or {Black top Zetec} with a Duratec badge on it And 4 speed to type 9 5 speed box at the same time. So thought Id have a go at a blog to assist owners with the process and put any info in one place A quick over view is ST170 Duratec is for the ordering of parts a Black top Zetec {carbs on the off side} Engine fits on to a type 9 gearbox with a flywheel from 1800 Zetec modded to take a cable clutch {retro ford} Alte
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