hi lads & lasses, i want to buy a mark 2 escort shortly with a cossie conversion.
wat i need to know is are there any of these cars with cossie engines on the market or r they like hen's teeth?
if there are how much approx would one be worth. id like the bodywork to be in good condition.

sorry for the newbie type questions but i am serious about getting one. my neighbour has a mint 1600 that i might buy and do the conversion myself but i would rather buy one already built because conversions r very costly.
i built an m3 evo engine & gearbox into my 328i bmw & have spent alot of time effort and money on it so i dont want to go thru that again.

thanks

seamus

 

Its not as easy to do the conversion as people think , and you need a superb shell to start with ( thats the hard part )
Easier to buy one done , but expect to pay 10k plus for a good car

Paul

 

i was expecting around this sort of money. my mechanic has a capri with a cossie engine in it. goes real well but i prefer a mk 2 rather than a capri

 

there are quite a lot of the escort mk.2's getting cosworth engines fitted now.

seem to be a popular conversion for the escorts now.

mine will be another one too.

be a while yet though,but got a good car and a cosworth engine there too,just got to finish building the garage to start the work on it.

have a look on Turbosport forum,plenty of old school cars on there and lots of advise on doing this conversion.

good luck on your one.

 

cheers for the info lads. i hope to be starting or buying my project in 3 or 4 weeks from now.

 

when i went to a ford show at santa pod a few weeks ago, there were about the same number of cossie mk2's now as pinto powered!
not many of the cossied ones for sale though

 

Hang out on www.turbosport.co.uk

This seems to be the forum that most of the Cossie Powered Escort boys use.

Also keep an eye on out www.oldskoolford.co.uk too as there are some guys on there.

They crop on e-bay pretty regular too.


As Paul says... with any old Ford start with the best shell you can get.

They were never designed to stand the torque that a cossie motor can generate so when you look at a car check to see if any additional prep has been done on the shell.

Seam welding, gussetting, cage etc

 

I put a rally version one up for sale on here a few weeks back

Look in the cars for sale bit or click below

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=205800

 

Here you go. Standard heavy duty mk2 (euro spec) with a cage and Cossie motor
http://www.drifting.pl/dproject.htm

 

there is both a mk1 escort and a mk2 both cossie powered on ebay at the moment.

 

cheers guys