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The one thing I really feared with this latest tuning project was the Newman Phase 3 cams would be a step too far, and idle quality would end up not being to my standard. However, I'm pleased to confirm after three weeks of idle tuning I've achieved a way better result than I ever thought would be possible given all the valve overlap Monty's new proper fast road/rally cams introduce at idle.
To help give you something to messure Stage 3 Monty's idle quality against, I've created the following video with a similarly cammed up Fiesta ST150, hopefully the video will give you an idea of what I've been able to achieve?
Apparently the Fiesta's Duratec is idling at 1,000 rpm, admitedly I am idling Monty fractionally higher at 1,175 rpm, but trust me there's a lot more than the additional 175 rpm going on here to get Stage 3 Monty to idle so much smoother than that grumpy ST150. Back in the day when fitting fast road cams we could only ever dream of achieving such results on carbs and a distributor, so the real prize here goes to my excellent EMU Black ECU
NB: The anoying dog is my Oliver, he's demaning his walk on Chorleywoon Common. TBH I don't think he appreciates idle quality testing quite as much as his father does
