[nass]

escapingoth,Jan 4 2006, 02:37 AM Wrote:

nass,Jan 3 2006, 12:32 PM Wrote:the over heating could be a lot of things. you could have a bad/wrong t-stat. The cluster/ecu is expecting readings from an SPI which I would only assume runs at a totally different temp. range so your gauge could be saying you're over heating while you're not really. I think Zetecs run hotter and given that the gauge is really only a 3 stage one that would make sense. Run 10 degrees hotter and it goes into the red.

You know what you might be better off flipping this car and getting another one cause I forsee many an oddity in the future.
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I was thinking of flipping it, but then someone else would be on this board asking the same questions. lol
Any idea who would be the best person to get hold of (someone with a lot of knowledge on both engines).
Do you think the ecu would be telling the gauge what temp it is. If it does then putting in a zetec ecu might be the answer. This is definetly a challenge. But hey if Ford could screw a nice car up this badly we should be able to fix it.
It seems like once a question gets answered (not many of these yet) a few more come up. At least now I know it's a zetec.
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I highly doubt you have an SPI ecu running the show, there are simply too many sensors on the different engines that do different things for them to be interchangeable but I could be wrong I don't know too much about this aspect. you could venture under the glovebox and find the ecu and read the code off it?