"Ray's AKA demonfire's XR4Ti build up"

AddictionRacing · Post by **AddictionRacing** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:30 pm

It'll be a miracle if we ever have both Merkurs running and driveable at the same time! I guess I was being silly Saturday morning when I thought by the end of the weekend mine would be driveable and yours would be running. The progress continues, though. Hopefully the WTFoRD will be ready for its test and tune on the 21st, and I expect both of them to be ready to rip by the CART members only event on 4/11. Keep up the good work, and thanks for all the help on mine.

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:50 pm

Went out after dinner to finish tying this together. Tighten a couple coolant lines, hook up the instrument grounds (still need to put some of the "interior" back together), put in some royal purple purple ice super coolant stuff, add coolant, 5 quarts of mobil 1, mobil 1 oil filter, some power steering fluid, double check wiring connections and torque on some random bolts, put the car on the battery charger, cross my fingers...

Batt switch on.
Key in, turned to "on". Wait for fuel pressure.
Cross fingers again. Push button to start car and ...

she fired right up. immediately.

Crappy cell phone video. I'll get a better one tomorrow or this weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV_I_47bcSk

excuse the noise, the exhaust isn't hooked up yet. so what you're hearing is about 7" of 3" downpipe.

And matt - it's a miracle. They both run.

I'll try to pick up a timing light tomorrow (joe, can i borrow yours? I still cant believe i dont own one. I might just go buy one)

Post by **hEaT** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:58 pm

demonfire wrote: I'll try to pick up a timing light tomorrow (joe, can i borrow yours? I still cant believe i dont own one. I might just go buy one)

Sure. I'll throw it in the car now and drop it off when I stop by after work.

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:01 pm

thanks. If i remember i will still get one soon - it's something i need.

Post by **hEaT** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:02 pm

demonfire wrote:thanks. If i remember i will still get one soon - it's something i need.

I need to stop by Columbia Ford first before they close and order/buy a thermostat first and then I'll be over. Hopefully I get out of work on time.

AddictionRacing · Post by **AddictionRacing** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:27 am

Did you start mine and video your motor with a crappy cell phone camera to make yourself feel better and pretend that sick looking new motor actually runs?!
Kidding - I guess miracles do happen! Now if we could just get a seat and a shock installed in mine.....
I guess the real miracle will be when they both move (very quickly) under their own power.
Joe - don't bring your car to Ray's house; it may never leave. His garage is a black hole for merkurs.

Post by **hEaT** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:38 am

AddictionRacing wrote: Joe - don't bring your car to Ray's house; it may never leave. His garage is a black hole for merkurs.

Good point. Its been there once before, scraping the whole way up the driveway, so hopefully it will be ok

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:09 am

Matt - even with both cars having open downpipes, mine actually sounds a bit different. Meaner. Like it's sitting next to yours growling. Taunting. Saying "bring it on, bitch. I destroyed you last year and i'll destroy you this year."

Or it has to do with the fact that my downpipe is only 6" long right now. One or the other.

Got both cars timed last night. Matt's is set to 12.5673 degrees before top dead center (or between 12 and 13 degrees). Mine's set for 12.1426 degrees.

BeefFajitas · Post by **BeefFajitas** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:51 am

My car with the A237 sounds nasty with just a downpipe. My muffler mellows out the chop, which kinda sucks.

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:37 am

The car moves under it's own power. Coming up the driveway in 2nd gear... if you dip into the throttle again the rear tires just start to spin. Going to be a "fun" season. Of course, i was on cold azenis, so i hope to crap the 710's are able to get a little heat.

need to get a bright red LED for the air filter funnel

flares are built and on. Right now they're satin black. Going to go monochrome (white) but am waiting on paint.

hahahahaha

How rare is this:

Even more rare - they ALL run. hahahahah

I've got a coolant weep that i need to track down. I think it's the upper radiator hose to t-stat and lower radiator line to secondary fitting.

Got a couple of videos (just of the start up, car is still "off the road" - hah)

Slightly better than crappy cell phone start up procedure video. OMG so exciting </sarcasm>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FlqZsWKNMY

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:39 pm

No real updates - have been working on matt's car mostly and the house and stuff. Car is up and running and is in-****ing-sane. Instant boost and power to spare. Gonna be a crazy season.

Did a little red LED that comes on when the car is running, a la terminator.

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whitelx · Post by **whitelx** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:16 pm

haha

That's cool

BeefFajitas · Post by **BeefFajitas** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:43 am

What do you have for turbo and header/manifold again?

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:52 am

stock t3, cosworth housing, custom exhaust, stock location tubular header (eBay)

RatFink · Post by **RatFink** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:09 am

demonfire wrote:stock t3, cosworth housing, custom exhaust, stock location tubular header (eBay)

Nice, I can't believe what a great mod the Cosworth housing is. If ford had only made the XR with that housing and a decent first gear ratio, they probably couldn't have made the XRs as fast as they sold, really turns them into a fun car.