Buying an Escort Cosworth
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This months edition of Fast Ford (labelled November 2009) has a complete Escos Cosworth special in it including history/spec & differences between the 2 models, which would probably be what info you're after.
Might also be worth checking the RS Owners Club forum as i'm sure there is a Buyers Guide on there prepared by either the current or previous Registrar :thumbsup:
Might also be worth checking the RS Owners Club forum as i'm sure there is a Buyers Guide on there prepared by either the current or previous Registrar :thumbsup:
Hiya
for the best resource go to http://www.escortrscosworth.com a great bunch on there and what they don't know isn't worth knowing, the RSOC registrar frequents that site cossiecrazy is his username.
The large turbo model was built for homologation purposes to qualify the car for rallying once this number of units was built around 1995 they switched from the Webber based management to the Ford EECIV management which was a management designed to act as the brain for all Ford cars, along with this they put the smaller T25 turbo in place to make the car less laggy and generally more responsive during normal driving.
The vast majority of cars were LUX spec this includes air conditioning, sunroof, leather and variations there of depending on peoples options list. There was a motorsport edition which was like a base spec. which had no luxuries aimed at people who wanted to buy a car for motorsport I guess.
Depending on what you want the car for if you go small turbo then your pretty much limited to 300hp/300lbs without doing a large turbo conversion, although there was a lot of talk that MSD in blackpool had cracked the tuning issues around the EECIV management what state that is in now I don't know. The large turbo is much more tuneable and can produce just short of around 400hp/400lbs with stock internals so just an exhaust, fuel pump, injectors, intercooler and map. However beware you need to be sympathetic with the standard MT75 gearbox 370hp/370lbs is usually quoted as the limit for this hardware although I ran mine with 370hp/420lbs on a standard clutch and gearbox with no problems.
Finally before you say you want a standard car test drive one, they are woefully slow in standard 227hp form and don't quite live up to their reputation or looks, depends on what you want the car for.
I think for a decent car with the right bits and right history you will be looking at £14K + depending on your look however a top spec. car in concourse condition can easily cost £20K - £30K.
Hope that helps a little, like said www.escortrscosworth.com is the best place to go, and I'm sure there will be quite a few for sale over there that are known cars with people to vouch for them.
Regards
Andy
for the best resource go to http://www.escortrscosworth.com a great bunch on there and what they don't know isn't worth knowing, the RSOC registrar frequents that site cossiecrazy is his username.
The large turbo model was built for homologation purposes to qualify the car for rallying once this number of units was built around 1995 they switched from the Webber based management to the Ford EECIV management which was a management designed to act as the brain for all Ford cars, along with this they put the smaller T25 turbo in place to make the car less laggy and generally more responsive during normal driving.
The vast majority of cars were LUX spec this includes air conditioning, sunroof, leather and variations there of depending on peoples options list. There was a motorsport edition which was like a base spec. which had no luxuries aimed at people who wanted to buy a car for motorsport I guess.
Depending on what you want the car for if you go small turbo then your pretty much limited to 300hp/300lbs without doing a large turbo conversion, although there was a lot of talk that MSD in blackpool had cracked the tuning issues around the EECIV management what state that is in now I don't know. The large turbo is much more tuneable and can produce just short of around 400hp/400lbs with stock internals so just an exhaust, fuel pump, injectors, intercooler and map. However beware you need to be sympathetic with the standard MT75 gearbox 370hp/370lbs is usually quoted as the limit for this hardware although I ran mine with 370hp/420lbs on a standard clutch and gearbox with no problems.
Finally before you say you want a standard car test drive one, they are woefully slow in standard 227hp form and don't quite live up to their reputation or looks, depends on what you want the car for.
I think for a decent car with the right bits and right history you will be looking at £14K + depending on your look however a top spec. car in concourse condition can easily cost £20K - £30K.
Hope that helps a little, like said www.escortrscosworth.com is the best place to go, and I'm sure there will be quite a few for sale over there that are known cars with people to vouch for them.
Regards
Andy
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