knight7660

a friend of mine wants to convert his s2 turbo in 4x4 can he use a 4x4 cossie gearbox?

he wants to use a zetec block so would he have to get a bell housing mad up if so where would he get one

Turbocabbie

seems a stupid arse way of doing it to me, may as well go full cossie including yb if your converting the floor plan to 4x4 Just buy an old saff with a rotten shell and use that for the conversion

Although you could use the RS2000 4x4 setup which I know has been done a couple of times.

gus

iTrader: (1)

yeah i was gonna say i have heard of people using the rs2000 stuff

Turbocabbie

If he wanted to use the cossie grearbox and 4x4 on a zetec, he would have to mount the engine length wise, best person to talk to would be the fella who runs a zetec in a Sierra.

The bell housing is the last of his problems, custom engine mounts, exhaust, pipework, to name but a few

Hope your mate has deep pockets, doubt he would get any change out of 10k if he did it on the cheap

Mike@pace

You could let you friend know, if he wanted to save a sh1t load of time and money, I have a converted MK4 shell ready to take all the running gear from a cossie....That's if he wanted to do it properly....

knight7660

he's already got a floor pan ready to go in and his shell has been cut, il tell him anyway.

basically hes going for a big power zetec turbo but he wants to know if you can fit a 4x4 gearbox to a zetec block. ive already told him go for cossie but he said its been done

Zetec_mk4_XR3i

a well specced zetec turbo running 4x4 gear from an RS2000 would be a weapon!

Turbocabbie

the running gear will be chocolate and melt with any decent power, never ever seen one yet that holds together with good power

Turbocabbie

I expect it can be done as Dan from fast ford has a zetec turbo in his sierra which is rear wheel drive. He may be able to provide details of where to get a bell housing to mate the cossie 4x4 gearbox to the engine..

I think the reason the cossie has been been done is that it works, I fail to see what your mate will gain other than problems, with having to make engine mounts etc

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

None turbo maybe, A turbo would kill the running gear quite quickly

Evo running gear would be miles better!

Turbocabbie

now that would be very cool and interesting

JesseT

The only thing that I haven't seen done with ease is to fit a 4x4 oil pan with the differential to a zetec. Some serious tigging would be involved.

knight7660

welding isnt a issue, i have to coded welders in my family that he can use when it comes to it

Zetec_mk4_XR3i

does anyone mind the white FRST in Fast Ford a few years ago? It was running a 2.1 zvh and 4wd, think it was mondeo running gear in it but it was supposed to be about 250 bhp?

kevnoize

theres 1 for sale on ebay at the mo!!!! rolling shell.