Granada 24v Cosworth anyone owned one?

Sure you aren't just trying to fill that big Sierra shaped whole in your heart by something bigger and wallowier with a Ford badge?

type 9 wont last long in a granny, MT75 is what you want, but the 2wd V6 ones are are rarish over here (you cant swop the bellhousing) more commom in europe, out german friends on here may be able to source one for less than the cost of a hybrid box.

The autos are weak, right on the limit of what they can handle, i've had an MT75 converted granny, its what I stripped to use in my 24v Cortina, blinding car, lovely with the manual in it and very economical driven gently, when I snapped the clutch cable in titangel car park on a sunday afternoon I drove it 300 miles back to essex pretty much all the way in 5th gear, the engines are very flexible.

The Granny Cossie had the big 7.5 diff and LSD same as a 2wd Cossie Sierra, the later BOB powered Scorpios have better front suspesnion but no slipper, TC instead, better cars overall, but far less fun to drive, and harder work to strip out for transplant.

I would heartly reccomend a granny cossie, but they are cheap enough to hold out for a goof one with everything working and no rot, be aware though you HAVE to know the timing chain tensioners have been done on any car over about 80,000 or you'll need to check them yourself if your planning on keeping it.

check my Cortina thread for pics of what happens to them, other than the timing chain and auto box issues though granny cossies are almost bullet proof, they do go frilly round the edges, rear arches especially, but then they are opretty old these days.

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Very cool cars
Might know of one for sale, unfinnished project

compare them to similar sized/powered competitors and they are pretty good as it happens.

i had one, was comfy, fast and looked a little pimp
I was very tempted to 4x4 it with sierra stuff, its been done before and is not too big a job i would go for that
as for the type 9 being weak its a bit of a myth TBH, ys the mt75 is stronger, but the type 9 will handle the standard torque just fine, as long as you don't launch it hard on an hourly basis.

Ford actually made a 4x4 MK3 Granada

There was a discussion thread on the manual 4x4 mk3 granny on ovalchat the other week, matey who had one said he'd flog it for £150 complete, he was in the south west - bargain if anybody was after the bits for a 4x4 24v conversion? Not sure if it was a 2.8 or a 2.9 though...

With the manual conversion, am I right in thinking the MT75's have a hydraulic clutch? In which case you'd need a pedal box from a manual DOHC model, rather than an earlier Type 9 model?

On the handling front, I think the 24v bugeye cars have got thicker anti-roll bars than all the other scorpios (?28mm?), these may well just bolt up to the mk3? You can get uprated spring kits for about £200, the standard ones are fairly floppy.

I have been told a bog standard 24v bugeye is over 1 second faster to 60 if swapped onto the (4.27:1) 2 litre diff, so if you primarily want to shame up barry boys in the traffic light drags / track days, it would be worth seeing if you can rebuild the 3.64:1 LSD with a bigger CROWN wheel.

Anybody happen to know the gear ratios in the V6 MT75? I have the 4 pot ones but was not aware they are different?

I generally prefer fords, but nah, get a carlton GSI!

Which V6 type 9 box though? The 2.3 & 2.8 V6 5 speeds have different gear ratios & the 4 speed is different again?

I like to try to keep all the 2nd gear ratios memorised if I can for racing purposes as we are often buggering about dropping V6's in other makes of car.



Sorry, I'll get it right this time(!) - 1994 on Scorpios are hydraulic, Sierras & earlier scorpios/grannys are cable. Disgraceful to get that wrong when I owned a MT75 Sierra for 7 years and changed the clutch twice!!!