... in the mk6 RS2000?

Been having a chat with someone on the Escort Cabby club forum and the guy was saying he was going to Cossie a Mk6 and use the 4x4 transmission.

I told him most of the strength came from the floor so the conversion would need to be done properly. To which he replied....

Which is where I went can't be right can it? If it didn't have a tunnel, where the fuck does the prop shaft go I mean this is a 4x4 escort we are talking about an not a ranger

I was always under the impression that when the sales of the Escort Cossie slumped Ford had all these cossie shells they didn't know what to do with so stuck in the cheaper RS2000 engine and floged em.

 

hes talking out of his arse

the escos shell is actually a modded saph shell and it nothing like a escort of any kind

as for the 4x4 running gead, that dont work either as the rs2000 is transverse and the cossie engine being RWD based is inline,

the rs2000 uses a fwd system with a transfer box to drive the rear and the cossie 4x4 uses a rwd with transfer boc driving the frount

so the cossie engine will be mounted sideways with cams facing the drivers wing and not the front

as for the shells thing, when the sales slummed they already had loads of cosies being made so they sold em cheaper



a escos is a saph floorpan modded though thats why the escos are bigger than the replicas, there different cars

 

doesnt the escort cossie shell basically share nothing bar the roof with a normal escort shell?

 

i thought the escort cossie was based on the three door sierra i know it got the running gear of a four wheel drive saph plus it seam welded not spot welded like other escorts

 

having had both they arent anywhere near the same

 

nothing like the same.

 

An Escort cos is basically a short wheelbase sapph,in fact if you lift the rear of the carpet on the earlier models you can see half a grommet hole outline where the sapphire floorpans were cut and shortened(the pressing tools were changed for the later cars)...
The floorpans were then built into a 2 door escort shell at Karman in Germany(Clever blokes who are good at small model run specials).
You are fairly right in saying only the roof is original as the quarters are different(longer and slightly taller)wings,etc,etc,....all you are left with from the standard escort shell is....Roof,Inner quarters,scuttle,and Front upper panel...

Hope this helps....

 

RS2000 is an Escort
Esc Cos is a butchered Sierra

a million miles apart

(that's basically what the above says, but in simple terms, lol)

 

the cossie engine sits inline, the RS2000 4x4's engine sits transverse

 

nice to see ya read the post radders

 

 

So the RS2000 4x4 is nothing but a normal mk6 Escort shell? No difference from them what soever?

Interesting.

 

It only has different rear suspention setup and I think back of the floor is different. Just recently driven one. Handled like crap but it was typical condition Polish car

 

different rear subframe and boot floor hence why u got a space saver wheel in the 4x4 as the normal wheel is to deep to fit in the well

 

I think the rear setup of 4x4 looks much more superior compared to normal Escort, very much like WRC stuff in layout.