It needs to be exactly as it is!

@@alexh193 I suspect the joke went right over your head. Sorry. Obviously you misunderstood what I was saying.

Well, without any smilies or anything, it just seemed to be a serious comment… And I’ve tried very hard to make mine unique… not every Granada needs to be a sweeney look alike…

This was after replacing 150+ wires between Ecu and the connectors to the engine and sensors.

The UK had the coupe slightly later than Europe and by then it had lost the bulging wing (known as Cole bottle). It had a more direct line front to back and from that moment Europe had the same model.

It’s a drum brake setup in the rear. My thought was the brake shoes dragging and releasing when hot. As only when hot the noise is there as audible as this. But I adjusted them back and it still happens. So either must adjust further back or there’s more to it or a different cause. I also eliminated the wheel side cv joint as far as I could…

Turned out to be the handbrake adjustment that was out of spec.

Don’t know where you’re from, but in Europe on the frog eye ford Scorpio this was the standard cosworth package. It’s known as the cosworth Bob with matching al4de gearbox. I just took this complete setup and retrofitted it to my Granada. The earlier Scorpio cosworth boa also had an automatic only that was less sophisticated and non electronic.

Ps. Seen now that you are from the UK so you have had that same combo in your country as well…

Heeft er wel mee te maken. Brandstof en pomp werden te heet. Filter vervangen verdubbelde de flow alweer… ga dikkere leiding plaatsen… kan er meer benzine door…overigens is dit tussen tank en swirl pot. De motor krijgt genoeg van een 2e pomp. Alleen met dat hete weer en de al wat hogere Bob temp werd door gebrek aan flow door de swirl pot de temp te hoog en verdampte de brandstof.

I fell in love with this unit when it came out 20 or so years ago?! It’s awesome in features and power. And the blue matches the interior lighting… the two subs do the rest. To me pioneer has always had a very good price vs. quality.

Tja car drives like a modern car mostly. It’s a fast cruiser. It’s a hobby car so it gets taken to work or for drives on nice sunny days. It lives in its own garage the rest of the time. If the car is willing to not break down for a nice long while you’ll sure be seeing some more material of it. As for fuel, it can be reasonably economical it’s just that it is too much fun to make long pulls from slow/stand still. But generally cruising it does pretty good!

@@alexh193 thks 4 answer man), I will watch your channel.

I do and it is better than ever!

@@alexh193 Ahh wonderfull news! this vid popped up and I commented without cheching your channel, good uploads. 👍👍

It’s in the Netherlands so yes, left hand drive. Thanks for the compliment. I love it very much myself!

Yes, a well known issue. I took a gamble when I had to resort to a second engine as the first had an exhaust port stuck open. I opted to transplant the perfectly running engine with original engine/box loom thinking it would be a proof of concept solution. But as it kept working the permanent fix got postponed until the inevitable happened. She’s now back together after a year of on and off working on it retracing your original work and redoing it.

@@alexh193 What inevitable happend?

@@capriv8driver a small but serious enough meltdown in the loom to the Ecu. So started a mission to replace 175 wires from the Ecu back by finding new Ecu and connector pins and crimping new wires….

@@alexh193 I wish you told me. I know these 30 year old electrical parts are rare now but I still have a few spare EEC5 ECU connectors and other connectors. Leftovers from other conversions and savaging at the car breakers. The ecu can burn out as after 30 years the soldering dries out and the cap's blow creating a high resistance and then something has to give. Ford never intended that these parts were used for so long.

@@capriv8driver I’ll keep that in mind… a spare tack Ecu is nice… but don’t you also need the pats box and key to match