Steering

[hypnodoc]

Hi All

I had my car in for the brake fix last week and the dealer relaced the front rotors with DBA drilled/slotted golds.

Noticed that night a subtle steering vibration at exactly 80kph on smooth or bumpy surfaces (doesn't feel like wheel balance), also noticed that the power steering was jumping when turned to reverse out of the carpark.

Now to my horror of horrors the steering makes a very loud clicking/knocking sound which you can hear quite loudly at idle when swinging the wheel left to right about 3 inchs. Any Ideas?

Perhaps the Ford God is punishing me for missing Marcus's brilliant win, so good to see that big nosed (in more ways than one) Expensive Daewoo driver finally get his come uppance :banghead: :banghead:

[XR6T4ME]

Hypnodoc,

I get the same problem when reversing or turning the wheels left to right, the steering wheel just vibrates as does the power steering.

Ford know of the problem as when I took it to the dealer they said we will fix it on the 3000km service. The service manager was fully aware of it being an issue.......take it back to them.

And I saw the SBR win for Sir Ambrose - faultless drive. How sweet to see Skaife and Murphy cop a drive through penalty hehehehehe. :banghead: :banghead:

[hypnodoc]

  XR6T4ME said:

Hypnodoc,

I get the same problem when reversing or turning the wheels left to right, the steering wheel just vibrates as does the power steering.

And I saw the SBR win for Sir Ambrose - faultless drive. How sweet to see Skaife and Murphy cop a drive through penalty hehehehehe.

Cheers, I thought it might be another build gremlin. The cars going in for some bigger injectors and a unichip retune on monday, then in for a new diff centre thursday (they got the wrong one last time), so it looks like they'll have to use their spanners on the front end to. I'll be glad when all these nasty little annoyances have gone, still worried about the loud chinking/clunking noise turning the wheel left to right when stationary

My claytons XRT: The rocket you have when your not having a rocket :banghead: :banghead:

[ducatijb]

Yeah Doc,it is an easy fix,just have to retighten the bolts on the steering rack

Now to the real problem,missing MA blitz'em-bad boy bad boy :banghead:

[KrasH]

  XR6T4ME said:

Hypnodoc,

I get the same problem when reversing or turning the wheels left to right, the steering wheel just vibrates as does the power steering.

Ford know of the problem as when I took it to the dealer they said we will fix it on the 3000km service. The service manager was fully aware of it being an issue.......take it back to them.

And I saw the SBR win for Sir Ambrose - faultless drive. How sweet to see Skaife and Murphy cop a drive through penalty hehehehehe.

hahaha, and they were the ones who were saying "The pressure is all on Ambrose" during the week.. haha, I recon Ambrose just psyched them out to be honest

[chief]

Hey hypnodoc,

U said your going in for a unichip retune and bigger injectors. Do you have Phase 1 upgrade or other mods? Just curious as am thinking of getting the phase 1, also whats the preformance like?

Cheers

[hypnodoc]

  chief said:

Hey hypnodoc,

U said your going in for a unichip retune and bigger injectors. Do you have Phase 1 upgrade or other mods? Just curious as am thinking of getting the phase 1, also whats the preformance like?

Cheers

Hi cheif.

Initially I had a stage 1 UNICHIP fitted, running up to 7psi boost. This lifted the engine kW to 287.

I then chopped out the centre mufflers and fitted an XR8 snorkel into the front of the standard airbox with K&N high flow filter, noticed pinging at high revs and the boost went up to 8.1psi. kW back to 265 at engine with a noticable loss of power down low.

Fitted a 2.5 stainless mandrel bent centre muffler, back to dyno. No change in power or detonation UNICHIP dealer shrugs shoulders and mutters something about all the codes checking OK, after forking out over $2000 he really couldn't give a sh@t me thinks.

Found an interested UNICHIP dealer here in WA "FORMAZ" and took car in yesterday for bigger injectors but somebody sent the wrong ones.

They did however put the car on the dyno while I was there, and showed me how lean it has been running down low, said I was lucky I didn't have holes in pistons, and that by increasing centre muffler size, boost will lift marginally, car loses power down low as computer retards timing to stop detonation.

Anyway they are fitting the injectors today and also a cold air system from the GT-P and retuning the UNICHIP, replacing the BOV and lifting boost to rise to 10psi.

The UNICHIP is great and I have every faith in that product, Reiner at their head office is more than happy to talk.

If your in WA and you want a UNICHIP fitted, I have learned the hard way. Go to FORMAZ they are interested, they know what they're doing, they experienced performance mechanics, and you won't get some inaudiable muttering and a fob off if you have a genuine issue. I'm hanging for three this arvo. I will post a report tomorrow re results

[Falchoon]

Re:steering

There is a known fault with the intermediate shaft that goes from your rack to the column. The dealer informed me of this last week when I took my car to be serviced (no probs with mine). Not sure if they just tighten it or replace it.

[chief]

Thanks mate, I was thinking of getting a hi-flow cat done at the same time as the chip so that it would be tuned properly. Let us know how the injectors go and the $$$$cost.

[hypnodoc]

  chief said:

Thanks mate, I was thinking of getting a hi-flow cat done at the same time as the chip so that it would be tuned properly. Let us know how the injectors go and the $$$$cost.

According to the people who have nothing financially to gain, the standard CAT will flow 350 flywheel kWs. And that is big grunt in anyones book. Look deeply before you spend money on the hearsay of others and you will save plenty, either that or just go straight for a stage 2 UNICHIP Kit