How cossies should be driven. Just found this worth a watch

 

the scooby looks like its out for a sunday drive compared to the cossies lol

 

anyone got a spec on the Hilux at 3.20?

 

JC and Rob talking to the Scooby driver....so will be driven properly.

Nice little battle with Dave Cos 4x4 and the incar looks like Phil Allenby.

 

nice. first time im ever seen the gp track included in the ring for track days.

 

The 3 door defo looks out of place with the scooby

 

as much as it pains me to say it the scoobys rinsed the cosworths. the camera car is playing with them. harsh reality is scoobys mince cosworths on handling. there again scooby tech is years younger so to be expected

 

Perhaps I should sell my 3 door and get a scooby

The Cossie just looked tbh and just my opinion pathetic like a boat but it looked a minter just the wallowyness of it was bad it has opened my eyes to the jap stuff I am not slagging the Cossies off I love them but on track against the japs a no go

Cue for sale advert of my 3 door lol

 

Cracking video

Did realise how busy it got

 

Get yourself out in a proper set up 3dr and youll not think like that.

If you ever get a chance to, meet Marcopolo and ask him to take you out in his, thats a proper 3dr set up! The thing just works well, he's set it up so well.

 

that cunts bouncing the limiter in every gear in the scoob... yeah the scoob handles better look at the technology the it has compaired to the 3dr

 

i had a saph with konis and powerflex bushes and it handled better but nothing like my focus now and thats stock. love cosworths but their old tech now. unless you spend loads on handling though

 

my mate keeps up with m3s out there no problem in his rs500 thats polybushed with avo coilovers and federal rsr's

 

Your just scratching the surface with a cosworths handling if you thought konis and powerflex was good.

 

I think part of the fun, character of owning a Cossie is just that, a challenge to drive and control. My Evo handles superbly but so it should, the Technology shift is huge , still can't beat a RWD Cossie IMO for fun factor.

 

Exactly go fast and be scared in a cosworth and a 3dr is exactly that a drivers car...get it wrong and they bite.

 

my mate is a little on the heavy side and he sweats his tits off driving his 3dr hard at the ring, says its a workout trying to keep it pointing in the right direction

 

I have the same when ripping the cross up in the 3dr


Yup there a handful if you start throwing them about .

 

I will be meeting Marco soon so I shall ask him for a ride

Don't get me wrong I love my 3 door I love the smells the looks the drive the power everything about it I just never realised how well the japs handled compared to it

I think I defo need to go in a well specked 2wd Cossie and see just what they can do

 

brings back memories that one.

think that was the first or 2ndtime at the ring for myself and Rob,the driver of the 3 door,very good driver i may add too.

Phil Allenby at the rear filming and Rob in the black Scooby.

lol, think Phil was happy to be at the back until he seen JC in the saff,then he had to get past and chase JC, as Phil,JC and Rob in the scooby have been the ring for years and know it very well.

you can just see Rick in the escort mk.2 mexico too, he can over with us.

 

konis and powerflex are good but my point is you can chuck money at the handling of a cosworth and you would still get beat around the corners by another car that comes out of the factory stock. over the years iv been one of the biggest fans of cosworth you can get. i had a passion for them and still do but you can polish a turd and its still a turd. they dont handle well compared to scoobys, evos etc.


or a st170 lol. please dont kill me for saying that now

 

Ditto, he keeps asking for me to take him out , will do sometime this year lol

 

Len get on it dude before I hate them lol

 

Whats polishing a turd got to do with how a 3dr handles.

This is what i can never understand.How can you compare 25 year old sierra to the modern technology of a subaru..

 

iv no idea. ive never tried to or wanted to polish a turd. lol.

it was just a debate on how the scoobys handle in comparison to cosworths but i was just having a laugh with that comment.

if were all honest though if a sierra only ever came as a pinto and cosworth never made an engine non of us would have bought one lol

 

You can make a cosworth handle very well , its only ever going to be as good as the person driving it .

And st170's as piss poor speed wise

 

lol thats so true.

please dont kick me now, you've already got me on the floor.

 

Not kicking you atall mate . But theres always this thing about cosworth vs subarus/evos . Below is a little list of the cars ive had over the last 15 years
mk1 fiesta xr2 - not very fast but great fun and cheap to mod and run
Mk3 fiesta xr2i 1.8 16v - must be the worst ive owned ,heavy and no balls
Fiesta zetec s - not much to say about this , it was 3 years old ,soo slow and rusting already
2004 i got a 4x4 saff ,totally standard and stayed that way for 4 years then i sold it due to being a little old to use everyday . Great car !!!
Also in 2004 i got my 3 door . STILL own this now .
2008 i got a Audi s3 . Not the fasted of cars but would out handle most and was also cheap to run .
2009 i got a Audi a4 s line . Now this car was lowered etc and handled like a train, i do miss this car but i was stupid and sold it in 2012 for

A subaru impreza wrx sti . great car but spent more time filling the poxy thing up than driving it . Cheap interior ,nothing to rave about other than 0-60. i didnt get excited driving it ,infact found it to be fairly boring imo and very common.

So out all of all the above cars i still own the 3 door . 350bhp rear wheel drive and looking to get it to 400bhp this year . A car that still turns heads and has fingers pointed at it Im not really to worried that it dont go round country lanes and bends at 70/80mph because lets face it them days are gone . And i bet in that video the guy driving the 3 door had a bigger smile .

 

i think you have summed it up well harris. i agree

 

Glad to see Jc's sapphire back out there, still one of my fav's.

Can't believe how much smoke the 3drs blowing (unless thats tyre smoke, if so my bad)

nice video

 

I've talked to Phil several times at the Ring, very nice chap and i bet his dad is sitting next to him

 

Why were the cossies white smoking?