Originally Posted by
steveboyslim
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
that is completely wrong. the spaceframed escort was used with a turbo engine, theres pics floating around on the net of it being stripped down with the single turbo and aswell racing.
it was the testbed for the capri later down the road.
i did research quite a bit on those as i own the press car.