Yea my hiss is pretty much the same sound level no matter what range.
I might have to peek at that bov adaptor and pawn it off to a local friend if it's the same. Thanks for the review Jack!!
Yea well maybe I hear things differently so don't hold it against me if it sucks!
I never called it anything else?
That's not correct at all, the Duratec engine which descended from the Sigma is unrelated to the Pinto/Lima and the Mazda L (which was also branded Duratec to make it even more confusing).
I know a few people inside Ford Australia, and it absolutely was a "we installed the wrong head gasket" issue. Ford Australia even publicly commented as such. As unfortunate as it was, the supplier of the head gaskets was sending the Valencia engine plant the wrong head gaskets (not the updated RS version), as we now know there are differences in the cooling passages at the top of the deck vs the earlier version of the 2.3. I have three friends that had their cars recalled (it was a 100% recall in Australia for vehicles built prior to the discovery being made) and one had the whole head replaced as the engine failed the compression test as part of the recall. The correct head gasket was installed and the cars are running perfectly fine now. It's a shame it was never picked up from day one.
There is no logical way that is true. Had that been the issue, it would have been addressed much faster (like that month when the supplier shipped out the right ones) and the wrong gasket would not have been used for over a year. There were engine failures in the US in the fall of 2016 due to head gaskets failing, the car was only out about 4 months at that time. Also, there would not have been a new revision before addressing it. Every 2016 and almost all 2017 until about a June-July production date in 2017 were delivered with the wrong gasket. That story from Ford was just a PR story. In March of 2018 when the recall (well, in the US it was only a TSB, I'm guessing that was more for the stockholders since actual recalls go into the national database here) was finally released I got mine in the shop After almost a year of complaining to them about the coolant lose and the shop saying nothing was wrong. I got the new revised head gasket and the head replaced.
