3.0 essex question

[mk2escortmad]

hi guys,

just a quickie, can i run my essex engine on unleaded? does anyone know whhere i can get one of these conversion thingys so i can?

 

cheeRS in advance

[azz-bo]

yeah just use lead replacement additive, as runnin it on normal unleaded wears down the valve seats. Have never heard of a unleaded kit, I know you can run it on pure unleaded if you get the heads done and have some hardened valve seats put in.

[Vista]

Use castrol valvemaster + with it, available from Halfords.

[mk2escortmad]

cheeRS guys, ive heard of a metal pipe that connects to the fuel pipes so i can run unleaded, has anyone knowheard of this too? are they any good?

cheeRS

[JP.]

You'r talking about Fuelcat, they are available as a metal pipe that sits in the fuelline or as metal balls in a net to put in the tank.

They supose to increase octane from 95 to 99 to.

 

Have six Capri's and a motorbike running on the in-tank version with good results. Have them all running on 95 unleaded with no pinging or whatsoever.

 

Had a mate running it for 10 years in his Essex Capri with good results also. He just pulled the heads and found no damadged valveseats or whatsoever.

[mk2escortmad]

brilliant cheeRS JP, do you know where i could get hold of the fuel cat pipe? does the metal balls in net got in the tank or down the filler neck?

cheeRS

[JP.]

You can get them here : http://www.fuelcat.co.uk/index.html

Or you can buy them for instance at the Ford Fair where he will be. He'd probably do some show discount to if you buy them there.

 

I normaly buy them on the Ford Fair when I am over from Holland.

 

The one in the left above corner are the balls in the net that you throw in your tank by sliding through your fillerneck.

 

Did a small test a few weeks ago on our 560 mile trip to the Capri event in Speyer Germany. Capri is running a very healthy 2.6 and running for two years now on Fuelcat. Fuel I use is only 95 unleaded while Ford advised to run these on 97 octane. Fuelcat advertisement says that it increases the octane to so there's no need for octane boosters.

In Germany Shell V-Power is 100 octane!!!!! but bommer it wasn't worth the extra money The 100 octane made no difference at the Autobahn comparing to the Fuelcat I am running.

So in my experiance Fuelcat proved to me that it raises octane to.

[bortaf]

Personly i'd have the seats changed, i've tried the pellets and the tank bag and i went through 3 heads before i finaly got wise and used VSP then went to unleaded unserts (pinto)

Tested over 50K in a disabled minibus i used to drive 6 days a week, also the fact that not one of these things has ever passed any test by the powers that be and mags, most wont even let thier product be tested.

Most engine if used "normaly" will do thousands of miles if kept cool and drived with a light foot usually the same motors that have the pellets that claim to have saved them.

[mk2escortmad]

ideal cheeRS guys, will try and get one if i manage to get to FF