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The all new improved Desert Spoon thread
4x4 Cosworth stress relieved block with low compression racing pistons
Modified “winged” sump
Blueprinted and gas flowed Head
Modified Hybrid Cams
Modified RS 500 plenum chamber
8 injector sequential set up
Modified Garret T04 Turbo
Specialist individual design radiator
RS500 Intercooler
Charge Cooler
Mainly Stainless tanks and Aeroquip braided piping
Specially commissioned 6 speed gear box (can’t remember make, I’ll find the bill eventually, but it was made in America to spec by a company specialising in drag racing kit and was over £5k. Got fed up with breaking the standard gearboxes!)
Oil cooler
Up-rated diff (but can’t remember what)
Diff oil cooler
Variable boost control
TMC Powermax 700 Adjustable Nitrous System
Adjustable race suspension
Race logic traction and launch control (needs re-configuring)
Strut Brace
Up-rated, vented, grooved disks
AP 4 pot callipers, Twin callipers on front
3” stainless exhaust system with twin 4” tail pipes
RS500 Front lip spoiler
Andy Rouse Light-weight Rear Spoiler
Originally was around 580bhp without the Nitrous. The Nitrous is set to give a very modest extra 35-40bhp but the jets could be changed to give more. This car has been in various magazines. One magazine recorded 179.6mph at Bruntingthorpe, that was before the nitrous was fitted.
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im really interested in the twin turbo conversion and why it was not developed further, was it purely financial in as much as customers were not willing to pay for it or was it a technical reason.
Im also curious to know what Tony's favourite Cossie is or was
Im also curious to know what Tony's favourite Cossie is or was
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the cars ran US spec gearboxes I believe, can't remember what ones though
I would also like to know how the cossie scene has changed for Tony over the years
I would also like to know how the cossie scene has changed for Tony over the years
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some awesome cars built by T-BAG respect, probably some of the most well recognised cosworths of all time
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After SnowStorm this is another one of my favourite cossie's and I recall Tony telling me someone with a shotgun stuck it in the drivers and face and asked for a drive, obviously he obliged and the car was never seen again nasty people out there, the owner must have been heart broken
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Pretty sure Tony has said not many people wanted to spend £5k on the twin turbo / k-gate setup.
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the spec list in the fast ford feature classed it as a ford motorsport item??
https://passionford.com/forum/showth...owstorm&page=2
just writing what i read??
https://passionford.com/forum/showth...owstorm&page=2
just writing what i read??
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the spec list in the fast ford feature classed it as a ford motorsport item??
https://passionford.com/forum/showth...owstorm&page=2
just writing what i read??
https://passionford.com/forum/showth...owstorm&page=2
just writing what i read??
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After SnowStorm this is another one of my favourite cossie's and I recall Tony telling me someone with a shotgun stuck it in the drivers and face and asked for a drive, obviously he obliged and the car was never seen again nasty people out there, the owner must have been heart broken
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I turned into this 180+mph monster :
https://passionford.com/forum/pictures-video-and-photoshop-forum/60798-the-legend-that-was-my-sapphire.html
https://passionford.com/forum/pictures-video-and-photoshop-forum/60798-the-legend-that-was-my-sapphire.html