A guy on an Evo forum owned a car with the following spec:

It was a 87 Seirra Shaphire Cossie, I brought the car from an ex ford works mechenaic, he was the second owner. It was owned by Ford for 15 years so had all the bits on that never made it to production, the motor was out of a 4wd escort cosworth engine & converted to RWD, still only a 2L, I brought the car already done but i know it had a lot of work done, it was running a T04 turbo, 8 x 770 injectors, group A bov, huge front mount, 550 lift cams. It ran 28psi & was a bomb on wheels. The thing was so touchy to drive on the road, just changing 2-3 it would light the wheels & you would be going down the road sideways without trying. Great fun to drive nothing like lighting the tyres up in 5th gear doing 100mph. I only owned it for 6 months & only put 1400mile on it as i had the EVO as well which was easier & cheaper to drive. 1 tank of fuel would get 115miles & at 85 pence a litre was not cheap. The guy i sold it to wrote it off with-in the first week, sad realy, it was a dam nice car, I would jump at the chance to own another, i was only 26 at the time & didn't have the money to run both this & the evo so i sold it . I will try & find some photo's to put up.

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I am not up on all my Cossie bits but a T04 would be a T4?. 8 Injectors is RS500 territory but I havent heard of 770, could they be 807 Greens?

Am not looking for a "he is talking shit", just interested if anyone has seen this spec please.

Thanks

 

I don't think saphs came out until 88.

The Escos did not come out until about 92.

Greens are 803s, and about half the flow rate quoted.

I think he might be telling porkie pies

Steve.

 

cant help then, cos he is

 

Maybe he means 770cc injectors, as that what most Jap car people refer to when mentioning injectors. whereas Cossie people always refer to either colour or part ref (803s, 400s, 403s etc)?

However, the fact that he mentions "parts that never made it to production", always makes me cringe and my ears INSTANTLY prick up, and I think (and would ask) "Like WHAT?" .

It sounds like he is quoting Jap nomenclature to go with Cossies, which is a bit odd, unless it was tuned in your country using Jap parts?

 

Thanks for the replies guys. He owned it in the UK as we were talking about fast UK cars and quoted a cossie and GTR he had owned.

Mike - a lot of people do that now I have noticed with Jap talk on makes like Ford. CC was the only thing I could assume he meant and who knows where I got 770 from for greens, I meant 803's!

 

So he bolted a 2wd gearbox to it? big conversion

 

That was my final question, as I have never heard of it being done in all my years of reading Ford mags etc. Is there a benefit to doing this?

 

Yes it saves paying 3K + for a 4x4 gearbox that will take 500bhp

 

sounds like a lot of crap to me

 

That is a joke right? My Sapphire (2wd) was rebuilt as a 4x4 engine (minus sump) and nearly every rebuilt Cossie in the world is done to this spec .

 

LOL! shows how out of touch I am now Of course the engines are not hugely difference it is the gearbox and drive shafts that differ between the 2wd and 4wd.

I make no claims to be an expert in anyway shape or form, just an enthusiast keen to learn