Has anyone on here ever put a cosworth YB in to the front of a mk3 and run it through the front wheels? looking at different engines for my MK3 early 2 bolt strut top shell and was wondering whether it would fit without structural modifcation to the shell? i know the 2 bolt shell is slightly narrower then the later shell.

cheeRS for any help, Luke.

 

Seen it done to an early mk1 xr2 with success so I'd say its possible.

 

Seen it done id day you'd be better off going zetec turbo alot cheaper

 

Someone on here did a series 2 front wheel drive cossie, was a lot of work and very tight on the bulkhead with the inlet.
Had to chop the inner wing on the driver side also to clear pulleys and belts!!

 

ive got a tubular manifold for a fwd cosworth brings turbo round the front by pass headlight, ext waste gate aswell

 

Cheers for the reply chaps.

i dont want to do any cutting panels as the car has just been sprayed and is mint! i want to do something different but without modifying the panels.

 

audi 1.8 20v turbo engine cheap and make good power

 

Here is my s1 I done years ago

 

Thats awesome

 

How does it actually drive?

By is quite a heavy engine

 

I drove really well with the extra weight

 

That's cool

Would of thought it would push on abit in the corners

 

Its just so wrong!

 

How is it wrong mate

 

Looks perfectly at home. My mate had a mk6 with one in fwd. went like a goodun!

 

What FWD gearbox is used to do this?
I'd also recommend ZT but that's purely on price, if you can afford a Cossie build and want one then why not, certainly looks good in the bay! lol

 

Rather use a C20LET

 

MTX Karl at a guess.
Thought about doing the same to my galaxy but its prob a waste of a engine.

Paul

 

Theirs an unfinished project mk4 on ebay exactly this fwd cossie chances of that

 

Blue s2 been on for 3rd time now.

 

It's the std s1 gearbox used and I had a 4x4 flywheel machined down to take a cvh ring gear.

 

is it still about? what power was it running?

 

I've still got it but it's in bits lol. It was running about 340 bhp.

 

Hmmm know that feeling.

 

It's been in bits for about 12 years

 

Here's a cupple of pics of my mk3 fiesta I've been building.

 

Fair play to you for being different.
Save up for a nice alloy block to knock a few kgs off it.

Paul

 

Just noticed the inlet are you going to radius what left of the trumpets.?


Aircon too wow.

 

That poor little BC box! lol

 

Lol. Yeah I've bined the bcc box for the fiesta and fitted a getrag 285 box should cope better than the bc box.