My cossies
Thread Starter
Too many posts.. I need a life!!
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 765
Likes: 0
From: Hampshire
My cossies
Since a young age I had always wanted a cossie, My cousin had owned 2 and used to pick me up from school in one. I also used a cossie for my leavers do for school. And it actually didnt let us down either lol !!
I managed to buy my first 2wd sapph cosworth when I was 21 for £2500. When people say theres no such thing as a cheap cossie, they're right!! but I bought the car knowing it was ropey and that it would be built to be used properly.
I SPENT a year saving and building an engine for this car. I learnt a lot about the engine and its components, It also robbed me of a considerable amount of money. I bought a bare 200 block and converted all my 2wd gear onto it.
I was aiming to run around 350bhp using a ut t34.63, greens and msd chip etc. GGr .5 2wd pistons.
800 miles into running the engine I lost oil pressure
I took the sump off and this was the end result.
My 200 block had distorted main cap on number 3 from overheating due to oil pressure,
and the bores were heavily scratched, The reason for failure was the oil pump which I later found out on here was from a dodgey cosworth batch.
Instead of repairing the 200 block I decided to re-use my 205 block.
So once again as you can imagine This is where some serious money and time took its toll on me. I had to get the turbo rebuilt, I needed a new crank, New bearings, New gaskets etc etc. Luckily the pistons were ok to go again just bought new rings for them.
After building the car for a year and it failing after getting tax and mot for it.
It was soul destroying. I didnt give up though but I did feel like beating the shit out the car with a fuck off hammer.
So for the fourth time I by myself pulled out the engine crane, and fitted the newly built 205 block.
My trusty £400 van which I did 80 miles a day in it for a year without no problems.
So with the engine back together, I didnt bother to make everything shiney and looking good on the outside. just new seals and gaskets where needed etc. I ran the engine in with my left eye permanently fixed on the oil pressure gauge. 1000 miles no problems. Changed the oil+ filter, And upped the boost to the chips spec and co etc.
The Car was running superb and the power delivery was to me amazing for my first big power rear wheel drive. But the money I had spent on the engine number 2 meant I was shortchanged for my suspension upgrade, and the car handled like a shopping trolley.
The back end felt like wibbly wobbly jelly. and I knew the bushes werent too healthy.
I started saving yet again for parts. I needed a bonnet and so I bought a 4x4 bonnet.
My mate asked me if we could go in the cossie to milton keynes to pick up his mum and brother and bring them back down to pompey. I said sure. So on the national rs day, tony and me set off for m keynes. We got half way there and the car broke down. I lost ignition. and I coasted the car to the side of the road. Then there was a strong smell of burning and smoke came out the dash. I knew exactly what had happened, the ecu supply wire had melted. I had no tools on me otherwise I would have taken the dash off and tried to fix it. I was really pissed off and I said to my mate thats it, thats the end of this car, I've had enough she pushed me too far. I'm selling it. And so i did to my mate Tony,
So thankfully my cousin tony came, (some might know him from classic ford hes built a space framed ford capri chevvy twin turbo) and with his trailer brought me and tony and the cos home. luckily it werent too far away.
I sold my van to tony too.
With my bad cosworth experience I was disappointed by the cosworth, not solely because it was unreliable, It was only going to be a toy, I had an every day driver my van. What annoyed me was the amount of money i spent on it, yet the car never seemed to appreciate it.
My friend Jade and her 400bhp tt manual supra. (proper toy)
I wasn't driving the cos there so tony's to blame for missing 2nd gear.
So with that I had almost 2 years of cheap worry free motoring until I looked on pistonheads one night. I was looking at series rs turbos rs1600i's and then I spotted something which just seemed exactly what i was looking for.
After asking advice on here, I decided to take my mate with me on a way ticket from Portsmouth to Edinburgh. I just had this strong feeling that the car was the right one.
To be continued
I managed to buy my first 2wd sapph cosworth when I was 21 for £2500. When people say theres no such thing as a cheap cossie, they're right!! but I bought the car knowing it was ropey and that it would be built to be used properly.
I SPENT a year saving and building an engine for this car. I learnt a lot about the engine and its components, It also robbed me of a considerable amount of money. I bought a bare 200 block and converted all my 2wd gear onto it.
I was aiming to run around 350bhp using a ut t34.63, greens and msd chip etc. GGr .5 2wd pistons.
800 miles into running the engine I lost oil pressure
I took the sump off and this was the end result.
My 200 block had distorted main cap on number 3 from overheating due to oil pressure,
and the bores were heavily scratched, The reason for failure was the oil pump which I later found out on here was from a dodgey cosworth batch.
Instead of repairing the 200 block I decided to re-use my 205 block.
So once again as you can imagine This is where some serious money and time took its toll on me. I had to get the turbo rebuilt, I needed a new crank, New bearings, New gaskets etc etc. Luckily the pistons were ok to go again just bought new rings for them.
After building the car for a year and it failing after getting tax and mot for it.
It was soul destroying. I didnt give up though but I did feel like beating the shit out the car with a fuck off hammer.
So for the fourth time I by myself pulled out the engine crane, and fitted the newly built 205 block.
My trusty £400 van which I did 80 miles a day in it for a year without no problems.
So with the engine back together, I didnt bother to make everything shiney and looking good on the outside. just new seals and gaskets where needed etc. I ran the engine in with my left eye permanently fixed on the oil pressure gauge. 1000 miles no problems. Changed the oil+ filter, And upped the boost to the chips spec and co etc.
The Car was running superb and the power delivery was to me amazing for my first big power rear wheel drive. But the money I had spent on the engine number 2 meant I was shortchanged for my suspension upgrade, and the car handled like a shopping trolley.
The back end felt like wibbly wobbly jelly. and I knew the bushes werent too healthy.
I started saving yet again for parts. I needed a bonnet and so I bought a 4x4 bonnet.
My mate asked me if we could go in the cossie to milton keynes to pick up his mum and brother and bring them back down to pompey. I said sure. So on the national rs day, tony and me set off for m keynes. We got half way there and the car broke down. I lost ignition. and I coasted the car to the side of the road. Then there was a strong smell of burning and smoke came out the dash. I knew exactly what had happened, the ecu supply wire had melted. I had no tools on me otherwise I would have taken the dash off and tried to fix it. I was really pissed off and I said to my mate thats it, thats the end of this car, I've had enough she pushed me too far. I'm selling it. And so i did to my mate Tony,
So thankfully my cousin tony came, (some might know him from classic ford hes built a space framed ford capri chevvy twin turbo) and with his trailer brought me and tony and the cos home. luckily it werent too far away.
I sold my van to tony too.
With my bad cosworth experience I was disappointed by the cosworth, not solely because it was unreliable, It was only going to be a toy, I had an every day driver my van. What annoyed me was the amount of money i spent on it, yet the car never seemed to appreciate it.
My friend Jade and her 400bhp tt manual supra. (proper toy)
I wasn't driving the cos there so tony's to blame for missing 2nd gear.
So with that I had almost 2 years of cheap worry free motoring until I looked on pistonheads one night. I was looking at series rs turbos rs1600i's and then I spotted something which just seemed exactly what i was looking for.
After asking advice on here, I decided to take my mate with me on a way ticket from Portsmouth to Edinburgh. I just had this strong feeling that the car was the right one.
To be continued
Last edited by cossieDavedree; Oct 14, 2009 at 09:33 PM.
Thread Starter
Too many posts.. I need a life!!
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 765
Likes: 0
From: Hampshire
But the biatch had to go.
If you do get one make sure you have either another car to use as backup, or get one thats had a lot spent on it.
Good luck
Thread Starter
Too many posts.. I need a life!!
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 765
Likes: 0
From: Hampshire
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 62,772
Likes: 1,050
From: Darlington county durham
Nice story mate.Sorry to here you had problems with it.I know how you feel cause i had loads with my car and i was well pissed off with it.Im happy now thought cause its been a good girl for nearly 2 years now.
Trending Topics
Thread Starter
Too many posts.. I need a life!!
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 765
Likes: 0
From: Hampshire
So part 2 :
Yep so me and tony used the one way ticket on the train, the train nearly departed without us.!! It was a long journey and a restless one too as i was carrying 7k in cash on me and I didnt fancy nodding off. but eventually we got off somewhere in edinburgh,
and Kenny c4 kcb, Arranged to pick us up and drive us to where the car was being kept.
After viewing it I was more than impressed, I dropped him down a few for some niggly's like the heater blower wasnt working and the abs light was stuck on. it also had a cracked dash but after the test drive. We struck a deal, I phoned my insurance and set the sat nav up to get us home.
It was November 2007, and It had 10 year old michelin pilots on the standard wheels, I definetely had some fun on some of the country roads in scotland.
I remember passing an focus st 1 on the motorway and we had a little play.
And some poontang in a range rover vogue v8 se thought he'd try his luck.
tried to play with a civic but they didnt want to play
These are the pictures of the cos the day after i brought it home
It had a full rebuilt engine by Julian Godfrey in 1998, and had covered 30k when I bought it.
The Spec was 300-320 bhp via msd l1 chip.
Stnd 2wd T3 peaking at 23 holding 21 (yer more on that in a min)
Greens
grp a dumpvalve
Rs500 Cooler.
Spec-r Header Tank (always wanted one of these )
K&n Filter
Mongoose single system 4inch rolled out.
I drove the car for another few weeks with the crappy tyres, and it just seemed sensible to take it off the road for the winter. It was too much of a nice car to lose after I had a scary moment on the slipway. But just before I did take it off road something went wrong lol.
I developed a misfire when full throttling the plugs were ik31's but cylinder 4 had a 71c which was incorrectly gapped.. So I went the cheaper option and bought a set of 71c's.
And it was fine all good.
umm no, I noticed that the coolant was pressurising on the spec-r tank and pissing out the overflow all over my wing and bonnet. Yep you got it, nope it wasnt a cracked block, but yep the 10 year old headgasket had decided to give in. Upon taking the head off
I found out the head was a healthy late spec 2wd head with lots of meat left for skimming, and it had a arp stud/nut conversion.
Yer boy !!! Some luck for a change.
Once the head was off it was clear that the gasket had eaten itself due to age,lack of antifreeze and probably my right foot. No damage was made to the head or engine and thankfully it was a case of fitting a group a headgasket from mr lewis, and bolting it all back together. The head was flat as i didnt overheat the engine and it didnt need skimming.
Heres a little video showing ya my monkey 'Bethan' cleaning the pistons for me
Luckily there was no 'fat bastard damage', to my bodywork !!!!
Well from the headgasket replacement, All went superbly well. I drove the car for another week to test for problems and none occured, it was approaching the end of december and so I took it off the road.
Here's some video's I made during the short time i drove it,
Some I have posted before.
to be continued .....
Yep so me and tony used the one way ticket on the train, the train nearly departed without us.!! It was a long journey and a restless one too as i was carrying 7k in cash on me and I didnt fancy nodding off. but eventually we got off somewhere in edinburgh,
and Kenny c4 kcb, Arranged to pick us up and drive us to where the car was being kept.
After viewing it I was more than impressed, I dropped him down a few for some niggly's like the heater blower wasnt working and the abs light was stuck on. it also had a cracked dash but after the test drive. We struck a deal, I phoned my insurance and set the sat nav up to get us home.
It was November 2007, and It had 10 year old michelin pilots on the standard wheels, I definetely had some fun on some of the country roads in scotland.
I remember passing an focus st 1 on the motorway and we had a little play.
And some poontang in a range rover vogue v8 se thought he'd try his luck.
tried to play with a civic but they didnt want to play
These are the pictures of the cos the day after i brought it home
It had a full rebuilt engine by Julian Godfrey in 1998, and had covered 30k when I bought it.
The Spec was 300-320 bhp via msd l1 chip.
Stnd 2wd T3 peaking at 23 holding 21 (yer more on that in a min)
Greens
grp a dumpvalve
Rs500 Cooler.
Spec-r Header Tank (always wanted one of these )
K&n Filter
Mongoose single system 4inch rolled out.
I drove the car for another few weeks with the crappy tyres, and it just seemed sensible to take it off the road for the winter. It was too much of a nice car to lose after I had a scary moment on the slipway. But just before I did take it off road something went wrong lol.
I developed a misfire when full throttling the plugs were ik31's but cylinder 4 had a 71c which was incorrectly gapped.. So I went the cheaper option and bought a set of 71c's.
And it was fine all good.
umm no, I noticed that the coolant was pressurising on the spec-r tank and pissing out the overflow all over my wing and bonnet. Yep you got it, nope it wasnt a cracked block, but yep the 10 year old headgasket had decided to give in. Upon taking the head off
I found out the head was a healthy late spec 2wd head with lots of meat left for skimming, and it had a arp stud/nut conversion.
Yer boy !!! Some luck for a change.
Once the head was off it was clear that the gasket had eaten itself due to age,lack of antifreeze and probably my right foot. No damage was made to the head or engine and thankfully it was a case of fitting a group a headgasket from mr lewis, and bolting it all back together. The head was flat as i didnt overheat the engine and it didnt need skimming.
Heres a little video showing ya my monkey 'Bethan' cleaning the pistons for me
Luckily there was no 'fat bastard damage', to my bodywork !!!!
Well from the headgasket replacement, All went superbly well. I drove the car for another week to test for problems and none occured, it was approaching the end of december and so I took it off the road.
Here's some video's I made during the short time i drove it,
Some I have posted before.
to be continued .....
Thread Starter
Too many posts.. I need a life!!
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 765
Likes: 0
From: Hampshire
sorry for delay in part 3.
Ok so It's may 2008 the horrible winter has long gone and the cars been sat in hibernation for almost 6 months. My cousin and a whole group of us ford nuts who live in the portsmouth area arranged to go to the nurburg for a week. I had just got settled into my new job and so was able to afford the trip away.
With a week before we were due to set off I drove the 3dr to work and back, to see if there was anything that seemed dodgey. So I bought myself some half budget half decent tyres as i didnt see the point in spending lots of money on tyres that would probably die from the effects of the nurburg. Got some milleniums asymmetric.
I know they aren't t1r's or f1's. but compared to the shite I had on before these were fine.
I changed the oil and filter and bought a spare can of mobil 1 to take with me.
Everything seemed fine with the car so no worries
We left from pompey and headed towards the dover ferry in a convoy.
My passengers were my mate tony and his brother wayne,, (two gings).
We had a fellow cossie with us Malcy bought it cheap just to do nurburg and then he was gonna flog it on when we got back.
So cut the story short, It was my first time driving on the other side of the road and all went ok. We remained in convoy all the way through France to belgium rush hour and all the way to germany,I was impressed by the fuel economy of the cos it was averaging 35+ mpg & 70-80 mph.
Anyway we got to the hotel without any hiccups, the car drove faultlessly,
We got shown to our rooms, and setup camp, I took a long overdue shit,
And we chillaxed. The next day we all were raring to go and we explored the nurburg museum and had a look at some views of the track. We all drove to the main entrance and this is where I bought a 4 pass ticket for i think about 75 euros.
The next day we all went onto the ring. I drove first and tony and wayne came with me as passengers. I had no intentions to drive fast it was just a cruising lap.
I'll leave the details out of the nurburg experience as you know how amazing the place is,
Tony drove the 2nd time and 3 quarters into his lap we lost the brakes. After taking it slowly for the last sections of the lap we managed to get to the end safely.
The car had eaten the nearside rear brake pad and I didn't have any spare.
We drove to a Ford Dealer but the earliest they could get some pads would of been 3 days, = too late. Luckily tho for us malc had a set of 2nd hand pads which although not ideal would allow us to continue on.
The hotel where we stayed had 2x double garages in the back garden and they allowed us to use their garage for fixing my car. So I swapped over the pads, rebled the system with fresh brake fluid. And we were all set to go again.
So it was Waynes turn this time and I was impressed by his drving considering he never driven anything like a cossie before.
I think he managed around 10m 30 in the rain, but this was his first attempt.
For the last lap I was going to drive the cos by myself but then Tony wanted to come along, so Wayne went with greg in the zetec mk2 escort. The aim was to get 10 mins or under. And I managed a 9.42, which I was pleased with,, its not a very good time but the car was starting to to get tired, the turbo was on it's way out and I needed to get the car home too.
Here's some in car footage, not particularly impressive though.
And tony ran out of tape on the camera too !!!!!!
apologies for tonys comments ,, hes like a jack russell in a transit van eyeing up dogs as you drive past them, + gets a little too excited at times.
Well after a week in Germany it was time to come back home. The cos did really well considering what I put it through. 4 laps of the ring, and got us there and back !!!!!
There were some issues with the car though, the exhaust manifold gaskets had burn't themselves up and so was leaking, I knew the turbo was going as i had a lot of enfloat play in the shaft before I left for Germany, and it was really smoking heavily on overrun and about every gasket and seal was now leaking on the engine.
So I decided it was time to get the engine out, and give it a clean off and new gaskets.
When I took the sump off and the main caps off to inspect the bearings I found something not too good
Luckily it was caught early and there was never any oil pressure problems.
I left the head on because I had just done a recent head gasket, and the aim was to clean paint and fit new seals and gaskets. After seeing the bearings I decided it was now a rebuild. So I took the head off and the bores were glazed to a mirror finish.
After dti-ing the bores I could get away with a rehone and new rings which I felt was a compromise between keeping the engine going on .5 pistons, or having to rebore and fit 1mm oversize.
Here's the reason for my smoke machine on over-run
The inlet and throttle body etc were looking real mank, So i soon sorted that out and fitted new gaskets.
After I Rehoned the bores and ring-gapped each bore, the block face was then cleaned and then the pistons were refitted.
Then the new pinto hd bearings were put in, (Yes I do oil them before I put the caps on)
Then the new pinto oil pump was fitted with the cosworth cover and spray bar.
Then the new crank shaft oil and aux seal + gaskets etc.
Then the sump and new gasket was fitted, but with a modication to the sump to accept this fitting , for my oil breather return to sump.
I sent the head off to Jim Stokes Workshop in Waterlooville as it's local to me and they did some lock and stiching on my previous cossie head around a fooked water jacket.
If you ever get a chance to have a tour round this place you wont want to leave.
http://www.racecar.co.uk/jimstokesworkshops/
Anyway the head came back and the valve guides were in good shape so didnt need replacing. By now it was Jan 2009, And I had to move my car to my grandads driveway,
The bottom end was nearly complete bar the flywheel and clutch, and the head I was going to put on once the block was in the car,
Fast Forward to March and I'm putting the block into the car,
My friend Darren and his mrs Sarah came along to help me, with the use of my engine crane we pushed the block onto box, it slipped in like a sneaky finger up a rear passage. Put the bolts in job done in 5 mins
The next Day I fitted the head + grp a gasket,
Then things started to fall in place. the manifold alternator etc. I didnt paint the cam pulleys because I'm saving up for some verniers.
The engine bay waas getting messy and the culprit was the wires on the bulkhead,
So I sorted that out and fitted the breather at the same time
my friend came to see if i was allright. He didnt stay long.
Then I fitted my refurbished t3 Turbo, now fitted with a 360 t bearing. I polished up the housing took me a while though.
Tony popped round and so I put him to work, fitting my 500 cooler and radiator.
Fitted the boost pipes and dumpvalve + filter and connected up the bailey breather.
fitted the front strut brace
And then I moved the car into storage where it sleeps at the moment.
Theres still a few things i need like cam pulley verniers,
autospecialists turbo heat shield and cam belt cover.
Now its winter i'm concentrating on getting the bodywork back up together,
and i'm either going to get the wheels refurbed or buy some team dynamic pro race 1.2's.
Then hopefully next year I can get it resprayed and then drive it and take it to loads of shows and just enjoy the car because its been so long sicne I've driven it. I'm pleased the car has taken me to the ring and back. In comparison to my saph, I've had to spend money on it but the car is just so much more reliable than what the saph was.
The future plans....
I've owned a mk1 2000gt v4 capri since I was 19,
and this requires some restoration of which I will carry out myself, Of course this has been put on hold because of my cossie ownerships. The capri will be cossie powered i've had the engine for it for the last 2 years.
I'll probably sell the 3dr after the summer next year,
But then i wouldnt mind a gt30 or rb t4 powered 3dr !!
Thanks for reading my cossie's story and there will be an update to this in the future.
Ok so It's may 2008 the horrible winter has long gone and the cars been sat in hibernation for almost 6 months. My cousin and a whole group of us ford nuts who live in the portsmouth area arranged to go to the nurburg for a week. I had just got settled into my new job and so was able to afford the trip away.
With a week before we were due to set off I drove the 3dr to work and back, to see if there was anything that seemed dodgey. So I bought myself some half budget half decent tyres as i didnt see the point in spending lots of money on tyres that would probably die from the effects of the nurburg. Got some milleniums asymmetric.
I know they aren't t1r's or f1's. but compared to the shite I had on before these were fine.
I changed the oil and filter and bought a spare can of mobil 1 to take with me.
Everything seemed fine with the car so no worries
We left from pompey and headed towards the dover ferry in a convoy.
My passengers were my mate tony and his brother wayne,, (two gings).
We had a fellow cossie with us Malcy bought it cheap just to do nurburg and then he was gonna flog it on when we got back.
So cut the story short, It was my first time driving on the other side of the road and all went ok. We remained in convoy all the way through France to belgium rush hour and all the way to germany,I was impressed by the fuel economy of the cos it was averaging 35+ mpg & 70-80 mph.
Anyway we got to the hotel without any hiccups, the car drove faultlessly,
We got shown to our rooms, and setup camp, I took a long overdue shit,
And we chillaxed. The next day we all were raring to go and we explored the nurburg museum and had a look at some views of the track. We all drove to the main entrance and this is where I bought a 4 pass ticket for i think about 75 euros.
The next day we all went onto the ring. I drove first and tony and wayne came with me as passengers. I had no intentions to drive fast it was just a cruising lap.
I'll leave the details out of the nurburg experience as you know how amazing the place is,
Tony drove the 2nd time and 3 quarters into his lap we lost the brakes. After taking it slowly for the last sections of the lap we managed to get to the end safely.
The car had eaten the nearside rear brake pad and I didn't have any spare.
We drove to a Ford Dealer but the earliest they could get some pads would of been 3 days, = too late. Luckily tho for us malc had a set of 2nd hand pads which although not ideal would allow us to continue on.
The hotel where we stayed had 2x double garages in the back garden and they allowed us to use their garage for fixing my car. So I swapped over the pads, rebled the system with fresh brake fluid. And we were all set to go again.
So it was Waynes turn this time and I was impressed by his drving considering he never driven anything like a cossie before.
I think he managed around 10m 30 in the rain, but this was his first attempt.
For the last lap I was going to drive the cos by myself but then Tony wanted to come along, so Wayne went with greg in the zetec mk2 escort. The aim was to get 10 mins or under. And I managed a 9.42, which I was pleased with,, its not a very good time but the car was starting to to get tired, the turbo was on it's way out and I needed to get the car home too.
Here's some in car footage, not particularly impressive though.
And tony ran out of tape on the camera too !!!!!!
apologies for tonys comments ,, hes like a jack russell in a transit van eyeing up dogs as you drive past them, + gets a little too excited at times.
Well after a week in Germany it was time to come back home. The cos did really well considering what I put it through. 4 laps of the ring, and got us there and back !!!!!
There were some issues with the car though, the exhaust manifold gaskets had burn't themselves up and so was leaking, I knew the turbo was going as i had a lot of enfloat play in the shaft before I left for Germany, and it was really smoking heavily on overrun and about every gasket and seal was now leaking on the engine.
So I decided it was time to get the engine out, and give it a clean off and new gaskets.
When I took the sump off and the main caps off to inspect the bearings I found something not too good
Luckily it was caught early and there was never any oil pressure problems.
I left the head on because I had just done a recent head gasket, and the aim was to clean paint and fit new seals and gaskets. After seeing the bearings I decided it was now a rebuild. So I took the head off and the bores were glazed to a mirror finish.
After dti-ing the bores I could get away with a rehone and new rings which I felt was a compromise between keeping the engine going on .5 pistons, or having to rebore and fit 1mm oversize.
Here's the reason for my smoke machine on over-run
The inlet and throttle body etc were looking real mank, So i soon sorted that out and fitted new gaskets.
After I Rehoned the bores and ring-gapped each bore, the block face was then cleaned and then the pistons were refitted.
Then the new pinto hd bearings were put in, (Yes I do oil them before I put the caps on)
Then the new pinto oil pump was fitted with the cosworth cover and spray bar.
Then the new crank shaft oil and aux seal + gaskets etc.
Then the sump and new gasket was fitted, but with a modication to the sump to accept this fitting , for my oil breather return to sump.
I sent the head off to Jim Stokes Workshop in Waterlooville as it's local to me and they did some lock and stiching on my previous cossie head around a fooked water jacket.
If you ever get a chance to have a tour round this place you wont want to leave.
http://www.racecar.co.uk/jimstokesworkshops/
Anyway the head came back and the valve guides were in good shape so didnt need replacing. By now it was Jan 2009, And I had to move my car to my grandads driveway,
The bottom end was nearly complete bar the flywheel and clutch, and the head I was going to put on once the block was in the car,
Fast Forward to March and I'm putting the block into the car,
My friend Darren and his mrs Sarah came along to help me, with the use of my engine crane we pushed the block onto box, it slipped in like a sneaky finger up a rear passage. Put the bolts in job done in 5 mins
The next Day I fitted the head + grp a gasket,
Then things started to fall in place. the manifold alternator etc. I didnt paint the cam pulleys because I'm saving up for some verniers.
The engine bay waas getting messy and the culprit was the wires on the bulkhead,
So I sorted that out and fitted the breather at the same time
my friend came to see if i was allright. He didnt stay long.
Then I fitted my refurbished t3 Turbo, now fitted with a 360 t bearing. I polished up the housing took me a while though.
Tony popped round and so I put him to work, fitting my 500 cooler and radiator.
Fitted the boost pipes and dumpvalve + filter and connected up the bailey breather.
fitted the front strut brace
And then I moved the car into storage where it sleeps at the moment.
Theres still a few things i need like cam pulley verniers,
autospecialists turbo heat shield and cam belt cover.
Now its winter i'm concentrating on getting the bodywork back up together,
and i'm either going to get the wheels refurbed or buy some team dynamic pro race 1.2's.
Then hopefully next year I can get it resprayed and then drive it and take it to loads of shows and just enjoy the car because its been so long sicne I've driven it. I'm pleased the car has taken me to the ring and back. In comparison to my saph, I've had to spend money on it but the car is just so much more reliable than what the saph was.
The future plans....
I've owned a mk1 2000gt v4 capri since I was 19,
and this requires some restoration of which I will carry out myself, Of course this has been put on hold because of my cossie ownerships. The capri will be cossie powered i've had the engine for it for the last 2 years.
I'll probably sell the 3dr after the summer next year,
But then i wouldnt mind a gt30 or rb t4 powered 3dr !!
Thanks for reading my cossie's story and there will be an update to this in the future.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Russ Payne
Ford Sierra/Sapphire/RS500 Cosworth
1
Sep 25, 2015 08:29 PM