Francob
Well-known member
- Location
- Cheltenham
- Real Name
- Mark
I picked up a 1994 Chaste White FD back in July, I’ve always fancied one so took a bit of a punt on one with what looked like a decent spec to build on. (At least on paper)
The plan was to leave it alone and just use it for a bit of fun and perhaps build on it at a later date.
The spec according to previous owners sales ad is as follows;
Engine Rebuild at 93,000
New Exedy Clutch
Turbonetics T62-1 Single Turbo Conversion
Battery relocated to the boot
Rota MXR 18's 10j fronts 11j rears
Large Front Mount Intercooler
Custom Hard piping by Pro4m
Large Radiator
Greddy Manifold
Greddy Intake Elbow
Greddy Type R External Wastegate
Greddy Profec B Boost Controller
1650cc Secondary Injectors on a DM Motorsport Fuel Rail
Custom Downpipe
FEED Silenced Mid-pipe
HKS Hi-Power Silent Cat back exhaust
HKS Turbo Timer
Front & Rear Upper Strut Brace
HSD adjustable Coilovers
AEM Wideband
Boost Guage
Coilpack Relocation
Apexi Power FC ECU with Hand Controller
Fuel Lab FPR
Some pics;
Amongst quite a bit of history it came with a rolling road print out of just above the 400hp mark so plenty quick enough to enjoy for the rest of the summer. Or so I thought !
After driving back from Manchester area almost 150 miles just cruising all seemed well, I just cruised it home with everything working as it should although idling a little high in traffic (1500rpm) I didn’t really get a good chance to open it up on the way home so parked it in the garage and left it 4/5 days until I could find some time on the weekend to properly test the car.
Sunday morning came around fast and following warming the car up and getting everything up to temp it was time to try some full throttle runs, this is where things started to get interesting. I quickly noticed the map was shite, it was only running around 0.8 bar but AFRs were flats 10s at wide open throttle, although not ideal still running very rich, likely in the 9s as the AEM gauge doesn’t go any lower than 10.0 and was flat 10s at all times at WOT.
I’d say I’d only opened the car up 3 times at WOT before I properly broke it, I came off a roundabout in 2nd gear, put my foot down and around 6000-6500 felt a little miss as was instantly down on power with the car wanting to stall. My first thought was I’d fouled the plugs due to massively over fuelling.
After swapping out plugs for new ones unfortunately the issue was still present so at this point I was pretty certain it was rebuild time. I tried the chuff test I could audibly hear one rotor down on compression.
At the end of August it was winging its way down to Southend for Stu at Rotor Torque to work his magic.
The plan was to leave it alone and just use it for a bit of fun and perhaps build on it at a later date.
The spec according to previous owners sales ad is as follows;
Engine Rebuild at 93,000
New Exedy Clutch
Turbonetics T62-1 Single Turbo Conversion
Battery relocated to the boot
Rota MXR 18's 10j fronts 11j rears
Large Front Mount Intercooler
Custom Hard piping by Pro4m
Large Radiator
Greddy Manifold
Greddy Intake Elbow
Greddy Type R External Wastegate
Greddy Profec B Boost Controller
1650cc Secondary Injectors on a DM Motorsport Fuel Rail
Custom Downpipe
FEED Silenced Mid-pipe
HKS Hi-Power Silent Cat back exhaust
HKS Turbo Timer
Front & Rear Upper Strut Brace
HSD adjustable Coilovers
AEM Wideband
Boost Guage
Coilpack Relocation
Apexi Power FC ECU with Hand Controller
Fuel Lab FPR
Some pics;
Amongst quite a bit of history it came with a rolling road print out of just above the 400hp mark so plenty quick enough to enjoy for the rest of the summer. Or so I thought !
After driving back from Manchester area almost 150 miles just cruising all seemed well, I just cruised it home with everything working as it should although idling a little high in traffic (1500rpm) I didn’t really get a good chance to open it up on the way home so parked it in the garage and left it 4/5 days until I could find some time on the weekend to properly test the car.
Sunday morning came around fast and following warming the car up and getting everything up to temp it was time to try some full throttle runs, this is where things started to get interesting. I quickly noticed the map was shite, it was only running around 0.8 bar but AFRs were flats 10s at wide open throttle, although not ideal still running very rich, likely in the 9s as the AEM gauge doesn’t go any lower than 10.0 and was flat 10s at all times at WOT.
I’d say I’d only opened the car up 3 times at WOT before I properly broke it, I came off a roundabout in 2nd gear, put my foot down and around 6000-6500 felt a little miss as was instantly down on power with the car wanting to stall. My first thought was I’d fouled the plugs due to massively over fuelling.
After swapping out plugs for new ones unfortunately the issue was still present so at this point I was pretty certain it was rebuild time. I tried the chuff test I could audibly hear one rotor down on compression.
At the end of August it was winging its way down to Southend for Stu at Rotor Torque to work his magic.