Original 3 Door Sierra Cosworths....
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D1on said:
yeah true 
Sapphire Cosworths have rocketed in price lately though...
Have a look at them... your looking £6'000 at least for a decent one...
Yeah i remember watching an old Wheeler Dealers, where they had one on. bought for about 3k sold for about 4.5 from memory. Sapphire Cosworths have rocketed in price lately though...
Have a look at them... your looking £6'000 at least for a decent one...
so yeah they have gone up quite a bit.
I have had two, both ex demos with little mileage on, whilst my dad also had one.
I,m sure they had more than the advertised 200 bhp though. My original, early one used to puff steam through the n/s bonnet vent after a what could be termed a 'high boost' run. The ford dealers swore blind everything was fine.
I used to get newsletters from the author James Robson and it was he that used to provide all sorts of little updates. I was able to inform the dealers that ford had quietly sent out a mod kit of better head gasket and stronger head bolts.
They were a hoot to drive but I found the rear suspension very soft, so soft in fact that it was very easy to found out the diff casing on bumpy roads.
Party trick, bearing in mind the rarity of turbo's in those days was parking up at night and opening the bonnet to ogle at the cherry red turbo as it ticked and creaked its way to relative coolness.
I also had a sapphire cossie which was also a hoot, but in a more controlled way.
A mate of mine cloned the 'chip' from a rally version. He worked for BT and realised the chip was the same as used in some phone systems and used bt's equipment to to the business. I think a chip was a couple of quid from Maplins!
Think I have an original brochure somewhere.
I,m sure they had more than the advertised 200 bhp though. My original, early one used to puff steam through the n/s bonnet vent after a what could be termed a 'high boost' run. The ford dealers swore blind everything was fine.
I used to get newsletters from the author James Robson and it was he that used to provide all sorts of little updates. I was able to inform the dealers that ford had quietly sent out a mod kit of better head gasket and stronger head bolts.
They were a hoot to drive but I found the rear suspension very soft, so soft in fact that it was very easy to found out the diff casing on bumpy roads.
Party trick, bearing in mind the rarity of turbo's in those days was parking up at night and opening the bonnet to ogle at the cherry red turbo as it ticked and creaked its way to relative coolness.
I also had a sapphire cossie which was also a hoot, but in a more controlled way.
A mate of mine cloned the 'chip' from a rally version. He worked for BT and realised the chip was the same as used in some phone systems and used bt's equipment to to the business. I think a chip was a couple of quid from Maplins!
Think I have an original brochure somewhere.
I had one when the insurance costs were horrific due to all the thefts (around 20yrs ago) I picked it up for £3500 needing a bit of paintwork. E--- UNT I only remember because a mate joked that should have been a C plate.
It drove very well and had far less lag than the older Jap turbos I'd owned before.
Had a play with a Lotus Carlton on a twisty A road - one of my most memorable drives.
All the cheap and nasty Sierra bits let it down and these days there are a lot of better cars far cheaper - Ford fans always keep the prices high.
Personally I'd rather have an RX7, R32 Skyline GTR, Supra Turbo...
It drove very well and had far less lag than the older Jap turbos I'd owned before.
Had a play with a Lotus Carlton on a twisty A road - one of my most memorable drives.
All the cheap and nasty Sierra bits let it down and these days there are a lot of better cars far cheaper - Ford fans always keep the prices high.
Personally I'd rather have an RX7, R32 Skyline GTR, Supra Turbo...
Hungrymc said:
Skyline better? Yes probably, but its a different generation of car. Cosworths changed the motoring scene in the mid 80s
A real icon, a true classic....
Different generation yeah, but pretty impressive that the difference in tech between the Skyline and the RS500 was what was required to start taking wins from Ford!A real icon, a true classic....
The R32 GT-R is no less an icon or classic though, just don't have as much 'scene tax' yet.
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