Ford Sierra (The European One)

[XR4i-Stuart]

Hi Scooby,
Checked out your site, Nice cars .
Are all your cars black ?

[Jimmy]

Here's a picture of the Sohc 2,074L engine. Hope it will fit under the hood, had to move the brake cylinder 3cm, and that's all it could be moved. The trumpets on the carbs had under 1 cm of clearance to the brakelines, so it's about 3-4 cm clearance after moving the cylinder. the filters do add some space tho.

[xrscooby]

XR4i Stuart,

I have one Red one!but thats being sprayed soon as the Shell for the Janspeed Turbo is beyond saving. :-(
Still not sure on colour though,plenty of metallic blue/purple ones I've seen at shows.I'm contemplating a deep metallic Red..not sure though.

Jimmy

Nice looking engine!.Something about Carb's that looks really nice...
I think you can cram most things into a Sierra engine bay!.
Popular conversion here is the 24V 2.9 Scorpio Cosworth lump...

From this:

http://www.xrsouthern.co.uk/images/DSC00018.jpg

to this

http://www.xrsouthern.co.uk/gallerie...tday2/HQ18.JPG

Nice!

[Jimmy]

Mine is a Rhd car, so the brake cylinder an steering pin is allways in the way....lol
but it gives a lot of room for the manifold, and that's why i bought the 2,5" race mainfold. 4-1 type. the only thing that could get in the way is the starter and the dynomo.
But I guess i will find my way around that as well.

[XR4i-Stuart]

Hi Scooby,
I can understand your problem about choosing a colour. A friend of mine just done his XR Cabrio in a copper colour. I think its a peugeot colour. At first I thought he was mad, but now that it's done, it looks great. Really nice colour, don't know if it would suit the sierra though. Hope you come up with something, can't say that I am a lover of red though. I try to avoid buying red cars.

See Ya.

[mentalmickey]

nothing wrong with red cars!

red represents the devil!

it certainly brings out the devil in me behind the wheel of my 4b!

[Jimmy]

I think red cars are cool, I'm thinking of painting my car red. I'm not sure yet tho. I was wondering about black metallic or moonstone blue, but there is something about Porche red.
The wheels on your car are not of the sort "cool" in any way. Antera wheels must be some of the ugliest wheels out there, but then again that's my opinion.

I have MOMO Arrrow's 16"x7,5" and Saphire Cosworth 15" wheels for my sierra. And I think the MOMO's are quite cool.

[mgstu]

reds ok, as long as it stays red, but often given a few years they turn pink.!

[mentalmickey]

hopefully i'll get round to spraying my car, eventually!

can't decide on rosso red or radient red.

at the moment its about 5 different shades of red where i've done bodywork, filling in all the useless holes behind the side mouldings, and the bonnet and front bumper.

i'm fed up with that front bumper now, its a grp one and the brakets keep breaking, i'm forever repairing it. just doing my head in now. a genuine cossie one go for £250. i ain't got that kind of money!

[Jimmy]

:frog: Damn that engine was heavy to lift, since i had to lift it by hand. A friend of mine helped me to lift it inn, but it was still heavy! when the engine was in I thought the rest must be a breeze to put in. 1st problem was the race manifold would not fit, it was 2 big. so i had to get under the car and use a sledgehammer to widen the space between the gearbox and the torpedo wall. 2nd problem was the hoses for the oil cooler. the hydrolic steelarmed hoses were so hard to get on the fittings, took about 2hrs of heating and lubing to get them on! The rest of the exhaust was easy to fit tho. 2,5" system all the way, it looked so huge compared to the original system. When i reached the rear end of the car I saw a dent in my cosworth alloy, I wonder how much that will cost me? The new electric fuel pump does make a cool buzzing sound, so I guess it's not long untill I can fire up the engine. just have to fit the throtle cable, and choke cable. and some other stuff as well.
Just saw an unbelivable movie that I downloaded from the net. If you've seen the movie "The fast and the furious" then you have to see the real thing. "Getaway in stockholm 2" it's a toyota supra and a Escort cosworth tuned to about 450hp and they reach over 300 km/h in Stockholm city. The cops have no chance to catch them.

[Jimmy]

:bandit: Got the engine started, damn that little engine is angry.

The exhaust pipes does make a sweet sound, and the engine runns like it's been feed on high octane..

[xrscooby]

What does she idle at?

[PERRY]

this engine is the dogs bollosks just have ablook on the www.topbossperformance.co.uk site Fitzys blue steel sierra kicks out a smooth 48obhp and their still tweeking.
wheres a forum site for the car of which this engine came the SCORPIO.:finger:

[Jimmy]

Hi again, it's been a while since my last post. Right before Xmas someone broke into my car, they busted my window, glovebox. they did not steel anything. but I had to replace the broken window, since the doors had some rust on them I got hold on 2 nice original cossie doors with power window, power mirrors and central locks. I don't have the door panel with the switches for the mirror or window. so I wonder if anyone could help me out on how to connect all of the 13 cables that come out of each door? the she connector that comes out right above where the manual window winder sits has a 6 cable she conector. I guess this would be where a "joystick" control should be fitted? or does this 6 wire loom control the windows as well?
does anyone have the wireing diagram on how to connect everything? and what kind of releys I need? Thanx for any help! cuz I no nothing about car electronics.

I have run in the pinto engine now. And adjusted the main jet's on the carbs. I wonder if it is normal that the car backfires when not putting the pedal to the metal. when I drive downhill and not giving gas it backfires, does this mean it's not getting enough on the idle jets? it does pull great when I go abowe 5000 rpm.

Hope that anyone can help me with the wiering and what sierra models that has the wires and buttons I need. cuz I think I have to take a trip to the scrap jard and pull out some wires.

[primera]

i meen the american one is junk but the euro cosworth is cool but hard 2 find and very expensive for its age this is 1 what was for sale http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo....8?aucview=0x10