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Well its been a while guys, but I'll try to update you with a million pics. Hope most pics speak for themselves. But ignore any quotes that come with them, just copying them off other forums....

old Focus Turbo that ended up in flames...

http://passionford.com/forum/picture.php?a...7&pictureid=855

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Then bought and played with an RS before selling it

RWD Focus Cosworth

Some random pics of the engine I built recently and others. Sorry for poor quality, but normally I'm pretty good with the old camera. Ignore the time frame of the descriptions, I just copy pasted from another forum from when I did the updates of the build ;)

Had the MOT, passing with flying colours. And just about made it to the DVLA 5 minutes before they shut so I could pick up my tax. All well so far!



But afterwards, I took a drive up to see Cossie guru John Coles and she developed a bit of a knock on cylinder 1 and the oil pressure was way below par. So popped over to John's next day and we got to work. This is how she looked by the afternoon...



Taking the engine appart, the oil pump was obviously well shagged judging by the scoring inside....



But looks like it was caught just in time, not much wear or damage or anything else. So all in all I feel alright about having the engine come out. It can now be rebuilt to a better spec using new components all over.

Spend this morning painting and rebuilding the inlet manifold, cleaning the sump and giving it a lick of paint and a few other little bits n' bobs.



Freshly honed and painted block, polished crank and skimmed head. As John Coles tells me, I've come off as a bit jammy with the oil pump failure, because the majority of the engine was not damaged...woop woop! :) So replacing near enough every part anyway as a matter of course, can't wait!

Probably a gearbox rebuild very soon, whine's like a bitch in 4th :(



John and I did a bit more work on the engine and car today. After stripping the entire head and leaving to soak in a bath of petrol, she was cleaned up and air lined dry before having new seals fitted and the valves lapped. The block had a few bits fitted, but majority of the work will happen mid this week when one or two parts arrive to finish the whole engine off

Also fitted the bush to the bottom of the steering column, since the steering was a "little" shakey :cry: but there's still another part to fit to the column before we're happy.

Crap pics, but you get the jist. Empty engine bay...


Block with alternator drop bracket added...

New engine mounts...


Bottom end all torqued up and ready for the head. But thanks to f*cking Royal Snail, we're missing an oil pump gasket and collets to finish the head. Otherwise it would all be built and ready to fit into the car on Monday :(

Never mind, still enough excitement left, but deffo this week she'll be up and running....hopefully :cry:









A lot of work last night to finish the engine off, then "slotted" it into the car at around 12:30am :cry: Spent today fitting everything up, so tomorrow she'll hopefully be fired up and the long 1k running in miles begin :)

Sorry for pic quality, crap phone :(

Proper oil breather setup





















Diffy ;)





Original filler cap been blanked off and smoothed, few dents and scratches rectified. Ready for a repaint, everything but the roof :)





Finally some crappy pics after a quick wash, really not much time to spare today. Just need to powdercoat the 2 front wheels, get a wing mirror, swap over to the orange side repeaters and pop the reverse lamp back in place and I'm well happy and ready for shows :)

So once again, cheers to everyone who helped me out over the last 2 months :)





Close up of flushed filler area...

Oh wow mate, you don't f$% around! :o

You could say that :lol:

HOLY S**T

dude, you are my hero...

what i would do to take a ride in one of your cars

How's the handeling on the Cosworth RWD Focus?
Does it get tail happy too easy? I wouldn't know what to expect from a car like that....

That it is, with this power anyway :lol: But you get used to it and want to drift it more and more :lol:

Best thread ever!
Saw a bunch of these pics on focaljet and drooled

Those are killer rims on the blue RS .

Well done indeed :)

NefCanuck

I think I just creamed my pants. :rolleyes: Those are some sick ride dude. Nice work.

Hmmm I wonder id the RWD Cossie Can be imported into canada as a regular focus. Great job bud I saw your threads over on focal and was woundering if you would ever come back to fc.net

ZX3_2NV,Feb 12 2010, 12:58 PM Wrote:Hmmm I wonder id the RWD Cossie Can be imported into canada as a regular focus. Great job bud I saw your threads over on focal and was woundering if you would ever come back to fc.net
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I think we talked about it in this thread (sorry that it got locked)
http://www.focuscanada.net/forum/index.php...opic=26900&st=0

Yaa but its a Focus it won't give as much trouble to import cause we have them here.

I've heard of a few Escort Cossie's in Canada, there was also a thread either on here, Focaljet or in a magazine over here in the U.K. that said Ford Canada had aquired a few genuine Cosworth's shells and could build a select few your own personal Escort Cosworth....for a small fee of course :lol:

But yeah, I dunno if my FoCos would be elligable to pass your laws, it's basically half and half. Car is 1999 and the engine, box, diff, tunnel etc. is 24 years old :lol:

Sick rides dude I like them all :) What ever happened to your first one? That car was amazing! Did she spring a gas leak and catch fire or something?