24vcossiemat

Ive only seen a select few granada's with it on, is it like rocking horse sh*t or not.. I won it last night on ebay, i wanna put it on my magenta granada 24v saloon, but i'm thinkin, should i maybe repair the front bumper and put the kit in the loft for a few year if its that rare, the problem is, I wanna use the bottom half of the front bumper an mate it with my original bumper an do the same with the back an modify the side skirts, but should I?? so the question is, put it on the car, or in the loft???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=230387286870

24vcossiemat

also, what do you think of granada's with the rs kit on, like or dislike??

Karlos G

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I personally like this shape and RS kit.....



Used to have on in white years ago, great car for chewing up miles and general bruising about

orionmojo

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Karlos is that for the same shape granada then? i thought it would be for the rounder "teardrop" shape.

They look similar to the si bumpers to me, which i dont like anyway on the fiestas. they're too round for a boxy car, same for the Granada.

If it were a mk2 granada Ghia X Kit, then you could retire on that

It's Czech Mate

Looks like a boggo kit from a bugeyed scorpio to me?

1.9 xr2 on 40's

tis fairly rare but your are putting a bodykit on a granada, that seems alien to me

dont think i'd bother myself and thats a fair pile of money to pay too, these were fairly regular cars we took away on a sec 165 (no insurance etc) i loved smashin em up before we crushed them, quite a few cossie grandads too

Karlos G

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I dont think it is no, slightly more rounded.........



i prefer the older shape.

24vcossiemat

no its the kit for the granada mk3 from J to M reg. ill find a photo, like above^^^

Karlos G

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Although this one looks like the older shape with the 'Si' style kit on?

24vcossiemat

well you shouldn't of smashed the cosworth granadas up, ive been breaking one and have made 450 quid so far. the engines still sell for between 100 and 250 quid. and one with this kit on will sell for what i paid, the kit i mean. i won it for 2 quid more than someone else was willing to pay, its all down to what we like i suppose, some people like the granada's, others don't, for instance i don't like escorts, yet some of you would think i was insane for that. but in other ways maybe ya should smash up the granada cosworths, for each one you ruin it means mine gets rarer. lol

24vcossiemat

this is the kit. but the front was very slightly different where the headlights and grill are because this is the before J reg granada

24vcossiemat

well this is mine,
http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/y...mat2000/f3.jpg
my plan is to take the bottom half of the front and rear rs kit and mate it to my bumpers, i have a spare front and rear bumper so if it don't go to plan i can just keep my car as it is, I don't like how bubbly the front bumper is, so taking the top part off and using the skirt and fogs is the plan. with side skirts and the rear spoiler is already on my car anyway. as many of you would, I'm more than happy to spend 1000's on my granada, i don't ever plan on gettin rid of it so i may as well.

24vcossiemat

here's a similar pic of mine
http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/y...mat2000/f5.jpg
and heres a pic of one the same colour with the rs kit on
http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/y...elygranada.jpg
different wheels I know, but thats a future plan.. now this one with the kit on was on ebay a few months ago an bid upto 2300 quid. mine has less miles and has never had welding, the ebay one had

24vcossiemat

here's a similar pic of mine
http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/y...mat2000/f5.jpg
and heres a pic of one the same colour with the rs kit on
http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/y...elygranada.jpg
different wheels I know, but thats a future plan.. now this one with the kit on was on ebay a few months ago an bid upto 2300 quid. mine has less miles and has never had welding, the ebay one had

das

it will look very nice mat my dad had a white one about 15 years ago dont no if you can remember it bud

Karlos G

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I must say that last one does look nice..

24vcossiemat

hello das, ain't heard nothin from you for a while. i'm gonna do it. cus it will add value to my car.. got it back on the road now

andym209

does any one know if a scopio bug eye back bumper will fit a mark 3 series 1 back bumper granada im thinking of doing a conversion but i need to know first and does the rs front splitter come off or does it stay on the bumper cause i want to take it off my series 2 and put it on my 1

Glenn_

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I do like grannys not the smelly type either.

cozzyspud

Elliot Morley the Labour MP used to have a black one and it was Hideous, but thats only my opinion!

jason_nike

Not a fan of Granadas to be honest, but liking this one a lot

andym209

yer i like it youre the one who out bid me then the guy contacted me and asked if i still wanted it yer i like them they look the bollocks

andym209

can you still get the kit for the series one id love that tell me if you here of one

24vcossiemat

yeah, i got made redundant the next day so i had to back out, paid his listing charges as a good will type thing, i value my feedback. hope you got it then mate, i still wanted it really but couldn't justify spending 150 quid when i had no job, luckily found a job the next week so i could have had it after all

andym209

wot horse powers your cosworth ive had mine rolling roaded and its 214 bhp it can do 135 in 3 gear im glad you found anouther job it cost me anouther 60 pounds on top to go and pick it up im like you i love me grannys got to ones got a small block chevy in 300 bhp

andym209

that reply should have gone to you bot youre cosworth

24vcossiemat

ive never had mine rolling roaded, its had no engine mods. so not sure, i though they were about 195bhp standard, but unfortunately my engine has seen better days, its off the road at the minute for winter. got another 24v engine in my shed that i'm cleaning up, it had the timing chain done 11,000 mile ago at a cost of over a grand. found the reciept in the car i took it out of. sweet that engine. some people on here have been saying if you put the cams out of the scorpio BOB 24v engine an put vectra v6 injectors on it then it gets rid of the flat spot between 1 and 3,000 revs, I want to do a manual gearbox conversion on mine..
when cosworth originally came up with the 24v engine based on the old 2.9. they went to ford with a figure of 300bhp, but ford didn't have a traction control device for the granada, so they knocked it down to 200 ish, they wanted it to still be a luxury brand not a high performance brand. but 300 is easily done apparently.

cozzfather

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i know that car and have been in it and under it,it was or could still be if eric didn't sell it in ellesmere port,my mate put the kit on it for him and it was a right twat to go on,it was a bit hard to fit as the kit wasn't genuine iirc,the front bumper needed gallons of fibreglass to get it into shape,the car has been to top boss in derby and had allsorts done to it although not twin turboing.the wheels are amg merc cos if you look close they are much wider than normal cozzie granny.
cruises quite well at 130 mph

andym209

yer i wonder wot you have to do before igot my chevy block i had a stage 2 race engine in my scorpio done by hi tec performance cradley heath good bloke named mick it cost 2000 but it would keep up with the cozzies had a racing cam on it and it would do 110 in first gear only had the 150 clocks in the scorpio but the needle went past that i reckon 160

kris-rs

someone from a local club has one for a run around while his escort mk2 is restored
its got 64k and 1 owner he paid £600 of a friend of the family
not really a fan but would have one for that price

dojj

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it would have made more power with a different designed inlet manifold, but ford wanted to keep the standard look so they went with the flat inlet system

you can get 300 with some throttle bodies

atomodam

Ive never seen a bodykit for a granny like that before, its not a bad looking kit and looks even nicer with the amg rims. How do you granny guys get on with the automatic gearboxes these days, i had two 2.9i ghias with low miles and both had gearbox issues eg, losing fluid or exploding or eventually both. If only they did a cossie 24v manual

andym209

what throttle body is it and what manifold tubular

dojj

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you'd need to redesign the whole package as cosworth were told by ford to mate the engine to an auto box seeing as it was going to be an executive express
and yes, the boxes are specific to the cossie motor but there are still at least 3 different versions on the boa and more for the bob

not sure, but there was a racing series that had them all pegged at about 300 horses, with tb's and the like, there was a mag feture way back when as well which may shed more light on teh matter

cozzfather

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they being ford yeah i'm with you,ford should of done the 24 valver granny with 4wd too,i have seen the cozzie big lads with manual trannys so its not unheard of

dojj

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they were going to stick in the xr4x4 but then you'd have a natural competitor for your top dog cossie motor

Ade

Not a pretty kit that one, never liked it.

Mk3 Granadas look great simply slammed on AMG rims.
No need for either the fussy RS kit or blobby Scorpio style one...

24vcossiemat

nice looking car that, not keen on the colour though

andym209

you should join our club next year granada classics at lot of guys with a lot of knowledge plus its a good day out