Richie Russ

As some of you may know, Harvey Gibbs built me a new engine and turbo from scratch (431 bhp) and thought i would air my opinion.

After a quick oil and filter change, i was ready to unleash some power and more so, wondered what i had got for my money and for my patience as being without the car for 3 months when i had just bought it was a killer as some of us well know.

I took the car out (on my private test track) to see what all the fuss was about and bloody hell i wasnt disappointed !!! It pulled so hard and so quickly that my stereo flew out, CD's everywhere, i even think i saw a fighter jet pilot give me the nod !

Although a little laggy low down, about 3000 rpm it starts to wake up, and boy does it wake up with the hump, it literally tried to lift the front wheels off the road, it calms down a 'little' at about 5000 rpm and i was a very happy chappy, then at 5500 rpm, it again started to take off and leave me with the biggest grin possible as some poor chap in an Audi RS4 found out (he was invited to my test track obviously)

Now after owning a few Evo 6's with 360 bhp, Japanese technology, active yaw control and other fancy gimmicks, i thought that i would find it hard to like the Cossie as much, how wrong i was.

Although the steering in the Escort leaves a lot to be desired and i found myself hoping and praying it would kind of go in the direction i wanted it to under full throttle, the fun factor was so much more than the Evo, not only that, it is better on fuel too which pleasantly surprised me.

I know a few from here who are / were contemplating an Evo instead of their Cossie, well, i would say think twice about it, for reliability the Evo wins hands down of course, newer car etc etc, but for fun, the Cossie is my personal choice.

So big thanks to Harvey Gibbs for the excellent build and set up and those who are either thinking of having a rebuild done by him with a few added extras, you will NOT be disappointed

Rock on summer

ian rst

Nice one sounds like a good job done.

MATCOS

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Glad you like it
Harvey seems to make a mean engine

Mat

Dunccoss

what turbo you runing, same as me a trick harvy T34-63 ? or not. i remember the first time i hit full boost in mine and the stereo fell out and me phone went flying they do pull well i hit max speed in mine half way at brunters, mine pulls to 7200 in top no problem

THE RADMAN

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sounds great mate,thats just what im after next,could someone pm me a rough figure of how much these rebuilds cost,cheers

Richie Russ

Yep, same turbo as you, and also it pulls to 7000 + rpm no trouble and wants to keep going but i run out of gears

Dan

Speak to Bernie @ CTS and he'll sort that problem for no worries!

Sounds like you really love your car, hope mine can go like this when I get one!

JohnP001

What gearbox and diff's you running on that kind of BHP?

Cheers
John

Micky The Finn

ive got a harvey gibbs group A motor,much better than my mountune to be honest.

Richie Russ

Just standard jobbies, they seem to be coping well,,,,,at the moment

Franco

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Richie Russ,

If you dont mind me asking Rich, how much does a like that cost??

Speedy G.

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You said it right my friend.
AT THE MOMENT

Richie Russ

Franco you have PM.

Speedy G, yes, im waiting for them to go

Azrael

You better order some uprated stuff from Bernie before they go Mate over here in Poland had rear diff explode (literally) with only about 300bhp.

Richie Russ

I have a host of spare Cossie bits, but all seems to be in good shape at the moment, its only a weekend car too but it doesnt get driven hard anyway.

Azrael

It's mortal sin not to drive such car hard

justin.e

Richie,
the scort is going to Harveys on Friday week for a new engine

Richie Russ

Good stuff mate, you'll lurveeee it

maxest

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Richie Russ- when you gonna get some pics up!