trevorcossie

hi say you have a 450bhp to 500bhp cossie how often is regarded best to rebuild them regards matt

cossyking

depends on what its used for and what miles you do

trevorcossie

weekend use just a little blast about

saph4be

not sure 15 k maybe

trevorcossie

bump

Harris.

I know someone who built there 450bhp 8 years ago and its still going strong .And its dont alot more than 15k

KSA-Cossie

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Build it right 1st time and it'll last.

cossieprob

My old 3door had done over 6k on its 500+ engine with given it a good old blasting alot , & the engine is still sweet as fuck & very quiet!! no tapping just purring away.

As said above,, if built right first it will last longer, mine was built by cossedave from bristol.

Chip

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Doug Stirling got 28K out of his SCS T4 500bhp or so engine IIRC

That was road use only, lots of "fairly hard" journeys with the occasional absolutely flat out blast.

Obviously on track you wouldnt expect anything like that.

Chip

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Do you mean Dave Pritchard?

If so that who built Doug Stirlings latest engine, and thats going very well with no problems at all.

cossieprob

I think so dave with the 500bhp green Escos,,, top builder!!

Chip

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Yeah thats the fella, that car was in fast ford recently.

timrud

Rebuild it when its broke!

TurboShed

It's a Cossie YB, the engine is a consumable.

AJC

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agreed

timrud

Or it smokes too much

TimC

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How many miles did Mike Rainbirds old engine do before he went to his latest spec? Im sure I read something like 25-30k in one of his FF features or something similar??

trevorcossie

cheers fellers

PT

Didn't Rod do loads of miles (30k+?)in his last engine

105epwr

i suppose on who built it in the first place!

Alg1k

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I built my gt35 engine I used the car for work ,Santa pod,quite alot of track days .I ran mostly 2.5bar boost and 100+shot of NOS and the only reason I have had to rebuild it is I buzzed the engine on track I had done 31k on this engine the only problems I had were an oil pump drive fail at 10 k but I caught it straight away and an alternator fail.I put the engine logevety down to a 7.5ltr sump and oil changes at 3k religiously.I am currently building a bigger power engine as I was so impressed with my last one.I can say I was a bit anal whilst building my first engine so that may have helped

Glenn_

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Like people have said if its built properly and its been mapped right it will last for a long time.

cossieprob

Thats the one.. I do like his Escos alot

olek

build it and map it right, and look after oil pressure and temps, and it will last incredibly long!

Alg1k

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Oh and no boost till it's hot

Staffi

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Daz,

A BIGGER powered engine???

You,re nuts....

650+ not enough last time a mate???

GT40 atleast this time then pal??

See you on the A45 when it,s complete Daz..

mechanic28

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Good to hear my cossie engine was built well then