Originally Posted by
carcollector
plus it must be based on a ford block as zakspeed did not use his own
another slight hickup in the history :
the stroke of the zakspeed 1,7 (supposedly BDG by all books) is 72.75 which corresponds to the twincam engine not a BD.....now go figure....
The Zakspeed capri only ever used turbo engines based on the BD series engines, crossflow iron block (machined to suit, 1.3 bored)for the 1.4 and alloy block for the 1.7, Ford tested the RS1700T engine(block) in the Zakspeed capri.
Group 5 regulations, the block had to be from a production engine.
Steve
PS Zakspeed escort never raced with a turbo engine