Thanks you guys
Mad Mole -Good to hear from a fellow Brit – liked the look of your site I'll go through it in more detail later. I confess I took the spec figures I put in my initial message from the front of the Haynes manual for Mondeo 93 to 99 – probably not the most reliable source, but all I had to hand. The original Mondeo air boxes I got with the engines had “2.0 litre 136PS” stickers on them. Er..are PS the same as hp?
I imagine the ECU set-up programs are quite different for Contour and Mondeo what with different emissions test and driving characteristics etc on each side of the Atlantic. Both engines I'm running use EECIV computers (one is code DEWY and one is code DEEP) so have the same Idle and WOT set-ups I assume.
OhSigmaChi, thanks for the specs. What rpm is the 125hp produced at? I was really interested to see there seems to be a difference in compression ratio from the specs you sent for the 95 Contour Zetec. If the ratio is only 9.6:1 in the Contour Zetec engine as opposed to 10:1 in the Mondeo one, then even thought the ECUs etc I'm using are the same the Contour Zetec engine will always be slower. Right?
So the compression ratio is different; the UK models had a smaller combustion chamber. Do you know if that is produced by the pistons being different (taller) or changes in the block, cylinder head or head gasket? I'm trying to figure out what work we'd have to do to put the Contour Zetec engine the same spec as the Mondeo one.
Escort 1991, thanks for the positive comments about the Fury. It is indeed a sweet looking car and always raises a lot of attention wherever I go in it.
BBorges, South America is a big place and each market is a bit different. In Chile the market is a mixture of european cars, american (mainly pickups and SUVs), and cheap asian brands. In all that the Ford Zetec engined cars are pretty thin on the ground. More as time goes on, but unfortunately nowhere near as popular as in europe - or Brazil by the sound of it.
This Saturday we're going racing at a drag racing event that's being organized on an airport runway near the coast. Should be fun and I hope to be able to sign future mails with some interesting ¼ mile figures.
