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Yea I noticed the lack of tuning potential...however, I quite fancy making it into an F1 replica style engine making it quad downdraft FI or similar, plus the fact it's "only" 200bhp means I wont have to think about drivetrains straight off the bat - the Sprint axle will take 300lb/ft before it starts complaining!
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Aug 10, 2005 11:23:02 GMT
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Well you are in luck then because Jenvey sell a DCOE manifold for the Cossie V6 which you can mount either ITB's or carbs onto.
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Aug 10, 2005 15:54:30 GMT
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Aug 10, 2005 16:20:53 GMT
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Aug 10, 2005 17:03:54 GMT
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cossy v6 is a very over rated it only looks new infact its a boched up mongral of the very old colone V6 the 12valve 2.9version can be made to go much better with allot less money power perfomance is rated at around 200bhp at the flywheel has no power below 3000rpm them it comes in in one big lump and drops off at about 5000rpm
rovers are to expencive to tune and are old hat
go J 4 pot or small block chev/ford V8
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Aug 10, 2005 18:03:36 GMT
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Apparently you can buy brand new Ford 302's from the dealership for under 2k. Not that I have that kind of cash! ;D Nice to know I could though.... when that overdue lotto win comes my way... ;D
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Yeah Ford Motorsport USA sell a variety of different spec smallblock crate engines, Real Steal sell them ready imported too.
Not sure what you are on about really NightmaresRacing aren't most engines rehashed versions of old ones really? I mean look at some of the more popular engines like the Cosworth YB and Vauxhall/Opel XE both are just older block designs with more modern twin cam top ends.
In the XROC where the Cologne is probably the cologne probably appears the most there's just no way of competing with the Cosworth 24v if you are happy with 200bhp. You can get the same power if you are lucky enough to find a complete turbo kit for the 2.8 or 2.9 but that's becoming harder than you would think now. The engine in my XR4i is a blueprinted, stroked and ported SE conversion which brings it up to 3.1 litres and 200bhp and that's a £3K conversion!
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There’s no way I’d tolerate the old ford all-iron 12v V6 in any car I owned. It would have to be the 24v V6 Cosworth job.
Would Keith Duckworth still have been at Cosworth when that motor was being developed?
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Aug 11, 2005 11:50:03 GMT
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i'm going by results from racing a stock 2.9 in my old gxl mk3 tina engine was pulled from a granny scorpio fitted to a 4 speed manual box and converted to run a 38 dgas webber no other mods to the car it ran 14.45@102 mph the same has been done using the 24valve with its"200bhp" and fitted to other cortinas sierras ect the average time they run are around the 16 second mark i aso know alot of people that have had no end of trouble with them i'm not knocking the conversions done with them just pointing out they are not as robust or quick as they are made out to be
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