Hi everyone, I live near cambridge and got a S2 and have got my heart set on putting a cosworth lump in her. I know its possible to do this but is it possible to mount the engine so its transverse with fwd? Is there enough room in my engine bay and what gear box would I be looking at purchasing? Any help would be much appreciated thanks

 

the question is why?

 

Cause I love the shape of the S2 and love cosworths so want to bring the two together for my benifit only by putting cosworth lump in my car. Plus it would give a bit more power than any one could possible want through fwd. Hopefully if this is possible less work is needed in fitting the engine as well. Can it be done??

 

I saw it done in a S1 track car once - a yellow thing, used to compete in the vecta challenge in the 90's . Dunno what box he ran tho!

 

Bare in mind the chassis legs will need to widened by 60mm in order to accomondate the YB. I had to do this on my twin engined fiesta, BUT was easier to do when you're making it from scratch.

The only forseeable option is to cut out the chassis legs out both sides and replate the legs on the wheel side to put the strength back in.

 

is it nearly finished the twin engined fiesta Karl. or isnt

 

if you want a s2 with a cossie engine,, i would personally rwd it

 

if u r gunna go through the hassle of fittin a yb on a s2 then make it rwd m8!

 

AVA managed to get a YB into a FRST transversly and mated it to a FRST gearbox. It was not straight forward though and lots of chopping and strengthening was required. It was in FastFord a couple of years ago.

Got to say though that if you are going to the expense of putting a YB into your S2 then you may as well make it RWD at the same time. 4x4 would be cool as fook. You can chase those pesky Scoobies with a decent RST anyway, imagine being able to beat em round the twisties as well

 

nuff said

 

lol deffo, you dont want any more than 230-250 bhp thru the front wheels...

the rate of tyre death just becomes silly then lol

 

agree with the masses, wots the point in FWD'in it?!

 

agrees with.. well common sense.. unless you wanna spin the wheels through all you gears and plough on through bends when you give it to much.. RWD EVERYTIME!!!!!

 

sad i know but i was reading that article again the other nite.was gonna put up a post to see if anyone knows how the cars coming on or what happened to it.in the magazine it was standard and there was talk of it getting tuned.anyone know if it got tuned or whats happened to it now

 

dav
im pretty sure i heard at the weekend its for sale m8

 

mmm that would be nice.you know of a price mate

 

Karl,

Sorry im not TOO familiar with your fiesta project so a couple of questions if you dont mind.

Does it retain the fiesta bulkhead and brake bar thing? Or are there major complications with fitting the turbo in there?
Does the CVH box mate up easily?
Does the lump physically fit between the standard mk2 inner wings?

IMO there's sh*te loads more work in RWD than FWD, so its not just a case of "might aswell go RWD".