Luke_ZS

Has anyone on here ever put a cosworth YB in to the front of a mk3 and run it through the front wheels? looking at different engines for my MK3 early 2 bolt strut top shell and was wondering whether it would fit without structural modifcation to the shell? i know the 2 bolt shell is slightly narrower then the later shell.

cheeRS for any help, Luke.

155lee

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Seen it done to an early mk1 xr2 with success so I'd say its possible.

smiley

Seen it done id day you'd be better off going zetec turbo alot cheaper

Gadget

Someone on here did a series 2 front wheel drive cossie, was a lot of work and very tight on the bulkhead with the inlet.
Had to chop the inner wing on the driver side also to clear pulleys and belts!!

stuart collins

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ive got a tubular manifold for a fwd cosworth brings turbo round the front by pass headlight, ext waste gate aswell

Luke_ZS

Cheers for the reply chaps.

i dont want to do any cutting panels as the car has just been sprayed and is mint! i want to do something different but without modifying the panels.

stuart collins

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audi 1.8 20v turbo engine cheap and make good power

s1cosse

Here is my s1 I done years ago

bigryrs

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Thats awesome

gus

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How does it actually drive?

By is quite a heavy engine

s1cosse

I drove really well with the extra weight

gus

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That's cool

Would of thought it would push on abit in the corners

jessie_rs

Its just so wrong!

s1cosse

How is it wrong mate

jonfoc

Looks perfectly at home. My mate had a mk6 with one in fwd. went like a goodun!

Karl @ FPT

What FWD gearbox is used to do this?
I'd also recommend ZT but that's purely on price, if you can afford a Cossie build and want one then why not, certainly looks good in the bay! lol

Fullflush

Rather use a C20LET

costina

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MTX Karl at a guess.
Thought about doing the same to my galaxy but its prob a waste of a engine.

Paul

smiley

Theirs an unfinished project mk4 on ebay exactly this fwd cossie chances of that

costina

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Blue s2 been on for 3rd time now.

s1cosse

It's the std s1 gearbox used and I had a 4x4 flywheel machined down to take a cvh ring gear.

costina

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is it still about? what power was it running?

s1cosse

I've still got it but it's in bits lol. It was running about 340 bhp.

costina

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Hmmm know that feeling.

s1cosse

It's been in bits for about 12 years

s1cosse

Here's a cupple of pics of my mk3 fiesta I've been building.

costina

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Fair play to you for being different.
Save up for a nice alloy block to knock a few kgs off it.

Paul

costina

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Just noticed the inlet are you going to radius what left of the trumpets.?


Aircon too wow.

Karl @ FPT

That poor little BC box! lol

s1cosse

Lol. Yeah I've bined the bcc box for the fiesta and fitted a getrag 285 box should cope better than the bc box.