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Anyone ever seen a cosworth engine in the autocross area lately? I met this kid at school that wants me to help him rebuild a cosworth engine. His dad used to race one in the early 90's. I don't know if this would sound familiar to anyone on this board that may have been autoxing for that long. He's rebuilt a cosworth right now with a full rollcage, he hasn't pulled it out in 5 years, but he said I could run it until his son gets his license. I'll take some pics, and post them up next time I get over there sometime next week. Thought I would share..
lightningd
12-21-2002, 01:45 AM
what kind of cosworth motor? cosworth makes all sorts of good engines. the hella rally motor for the escort. now they have the V8's in the australia supercars. lol, when's the cosworth h22 coming out.
not sure what kind, all I know is it's a 4 cyl, 16 valve maybe a 2 something displacement.
turbochad
12-21-2002, 10:33 AM
Sounds like the Cosworth Zitech motor. They have a nice 4 cyl that's used in the Caterham 7's as well as a few other British "kit' style cars.
roadRacer
12-21-2002, 03:53 PM
Tell me what type of car it is in. Is it an open wheel Formula car, A sports racer, a Vega, ??? Cosworth used to make almost all of the engines used in Formula 1 in the late 60's up through the later 80's. During that time they were the engine of choice for most Indy cars. They have been an engine builder for NASCAR, many smaller single set Formula car series, many rallye cars. They built a special engine for the Chevy Vega (yeah really) and have much to do with Escort/ Focus engines. I am sure there are many projects of theirs that I don't even know about. Around autocrossing one of John Sheally's Morgans runs a Cosworth BDA (older Fromula Atlantic engine).
They are not engines that an average engine builder should rebuild.
solo2cvc
12-21-2002, 05:16 PM
When I started back in '95 there was a guy running a Cosworth Vega in DSP.
4BangerCivic
12-21-2002, 11:29 PM
was it black???
The guy we're talkin about..shit its a black ...i think its a vega..might be a dotson..i dunno but its got a cosworth 4cyl 16valve...craaazy compression...its nice, and in damn good shape..the dude (dad) has trophies layin around his garage like they're old newspapers...
We went out to the back shed and there were like a few blocks, some intake manifolds..tranny's..all just layin around like nothin special...damn i want that garage.
It's a vega...Probably the same dude you saw when you first started, it'll be out soon, I'll give it a shot at the good ole auto x. Peace
94b18c1
12-22-2002, 03:03 AM
isnt that a ford engine? or car?
roadRacer
12-22-2002, 12:54 PM
Cosworth is now mostly funded by Ford and most of their engines have been Ford derivitves, but not all. The Cosworth Vega engine took a basic Vega shortblock, destroked it to 2.0 liter I think and put a 2 cam 16 valve head, FI, etc on the thing back in the days when all of that stuff was very rare. In initial development they had streetable versions that supposedly were 250 or more HP, but by time it actually made it to the street it was about 110 hp. But you have to remember it was the era of stupid regulations, emissions, to where a V8 Mustang put out about 120 hp.
solo2cvc
12-22-2002, 06:14 PM
The Vega I remember was burgundy. I'll post a pic of it if I have one.
roadRacer
12-22-2002, 08:22 PM
The Cosworth Vegas were available in 3 different colors as I recall. They were dark green. black or bugandy, all with gold pin stripes and very subtle lettering saying "Cosworth Twin Cam" on the front fender.
What? No Bill Strong on this thread?
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