street
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Apr 21, 2006 13:59:58 GMT
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Yeah i'd like to know what happened to it too   Heres a great tech site about the Sierra (aimed at the XR4ti but applies to most) www.merkurtech.com/merkurtech/techarticles/main.phpVery in-depth articles, and has useful stuff like building your own EEC-IV code scanner, building a hybrid engine using 2.3 sierra block and Volvo cylinder head and loads of other stuff. The guy also designed and built his own sierra suspension! All beautifully engineered ;D Well worth checking out  |
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Last Edit: Apr 21, 2006 16:13:55 GMT by street
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Apr 21, 2006 15:40:48 GMT
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If i can throw my tuppence worth into this thread, ive owned 3 Sierras, all series 1s and all "A" reg. 2 were 1.6 GLs and one
( the newest one i bought, when it was 5 years old) was a 2.0ltr Ghia. Probably, for its time, one of the best cars produced yet, i knew somebody at the time at Fords who was "in the know" who told me that the car nearly finished FoMoCo simply because the buying public, used to buying boxy Cortinas felt that the Sierra was too radical!!
It took all the might of Fords marketing dept and heavily discounted sales to fleet operators/hire companies to get Joe Public used to seeing them out and about.
The Billy Basic model was never popular then so finding one now would be a real catch. I think it was only the early Ghias didnt have slatted grills and the very early Ghias had what was called at the time "Chatsworth trim" with wooden inserts on the doors. My Ghia was post Chatsworth trim but it was luxurious, very comfortable, looked great with the pepperpot rims ( till some bastards nicked em and left it on bricks) and it would comfortably see 120mph 5 up.
I think that over the years just about everything that could be done to a Sierra has been and it would take some serious thought to do something that different without making it look Chavy.
With what i have seen on this site i reckon there is enough intelligence, good taste and style to create something different from what has been done over and over to them to the point of death.
Over to you chaps.........
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If Typhoo put the Tea in Britain who put the c**t in Scunthorpe?
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Apr 21, 2006 16:18:37 GMT
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Some good points there, I remember my old chap taking a dislike to the Sierra, before owning two and loving them both - a white 1985 2.0GL, then a burgundy 1989 2.0LX. Had no effect on me whatsoever...  He certainly doesn't like his Mondeo as much as the Sierras (my Mum made him get it!) With what i have seen on this site i reckon there is enough intelligence, good taste and style to create something different from what has been done over and over to them to the point of death. Over to you chaps......... Fear not, there are at least two Sierras in the Retro-Rides pipeline...  |
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My fleet:
Suzuki GSX-R600Y SRAD with bald, melted tyres
A borrowed Mondeo
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Aug 23, 2006 14:06:16 GMT
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Aug 23, 2006 14:18:41 GMT
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I'd heard rumours that you'd gone in a different direction with the build |
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Aug 23, 2006 14:39:48 GMT
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Great, you gotta have a play with it, looking like another one to look forward to. Must join passionford... ---- I know its ghey but i quite like this Joke 90's pink photoshop  |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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Aug 23, 2006 15:23:19 GMT
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slightly mate lol take a look its abit different and leading the crowd lol |
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Oct 19, 2006 12:40:38 GMT
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E36 328 Touring
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Sierra love!DarrenW
@darrenw
Club Retro Rides Member 74
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Oct 19, 2006 14:28:52 GMT
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I found this in an old Street Machine  |
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Oct 19, 2006 14:52:22 GMT
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Blimey that Was a MK1, we'd do the grafting the other way now - 9.5 years on *gulp*
Great find BTW.
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Oct 19, 2006 14:55:39 GMT
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I've seen that one in the flesh, at the NASC show a few years back. Only got this of it tho!  |
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Oct 19, 2006 16:45:58 GMT
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ha ;D that IS mint
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Oct 19, 2006 17:44:24 GMT
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woooooooo it has re-surfaced, and that is sweet saw a minter of a 500 at the pod they had the bonnet open .... pinto turbo and some guy goes "you thort it wer a 500 dintch ya " and it was for sale oooh just thought of a sierra stateside the guy was swapping the 2.3 turbo head for a volvo 16v head |
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Last Edit: Oct 19, 2006 17:46:44 GMT by samyboy
 once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears! |
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Sierra love!rustingdeathtrap
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Oct 19, 2006 17:50:49 GMT
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Thats danny spooners.
I used to do his tyres when i was 16.
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philly
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Oct 19, 2006 20:03:03 GMT
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if anyone is intresed thres a 3 door being broke in the local 'classic' yard. looks quite soild still.
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spaceframe mini project, bmw 635csi, mx5
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Sierra love!Robinxr4i
@robinxr4i
Club Retro Rides Member 143
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Oct 19, 2006 21:44:00 GMT
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Arrrr can't believe I have missed most of this tread!!!!!! I bloody love sierra they are one of my favorite motors, the last proper RWD ford to ever grace the UK  I know I have posted it before but I can't help myself heres my old one......  Why did I ever get rid of it  |
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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Oct 19, 2006 22:19:35 GMT
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What does "V6 boat anchor" mean? (first post) if it means v6s are heavy then please, do not be put off buying a 2.9 4x4 because of the weight. Yes they are heavy. No this will not matter. As long as you`ve got something else that can achieve double figure MPG. And you can get an estate version in close to povvo spec (outwardly) if thats what you want.
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Oct 19, 2006 22:33:55 GMT
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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MWF
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What does "V6 boat anchor" mean? I always call the V6 a boat anchor myself, quite a few of us XR4 owners do. |
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Sierra love!arthurbrown
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Oct 20, 2006 11:37:42 GMT
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What does "V6 boat anchor" mean? I always call the V6 a boat anchor myself, quite a few of us XR4 owners do. I assumed that it came from the comparitive merits of using the V6 as a 'performance engine'.... If compare physical dimensions, weights and power outputs to say a Rover V8, you can see why it could be classed a 'boat anchor'.... Although there are so many tuning goodies out there for it that it does make sense as a fast engine. And if you have a ford and the thought of a rover (buick) engine churns your stomach, and you can't stretch to a SBF, then it makes sense. Incidentally, a few months I looked at a V6-powered land-rover running range-rover diffs etc and with super-high ratio on-road gears. The chap reckoned it was good for 110++ (he got scared beyond that)... No seat belts, exposed metal everywhere, wobbly handling, pathetic drum brakes and a set-up like that - balls of steel required! If it hadn't have been as rotten as a pear it would have been a kool addition to the fleet. |
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He certainly doesn't like his Mondeo as much as the Sierras (my Mum made him get it!)
