A very Cosworth Story
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- čas přidán 26. 11. 2020
- Introducing John who looks after my Cosworth. He has an interesting story to tell of his big Cosworth crash that almost cost him a leg
Please guys give John’s Facebook page a like, he’s always there to give advice and help car enthusiasts out, especially with old RS models :-)
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I just melted ..... many many years since I heard that gorgeous cold start sound of the 90s
Best noise ever! That and the old escort and fiesta RS turbos had a great burble on tickover
Glad you’re here to tell your story John ! These cars were animals especially when tuned and need to be respected! Youth and no fear make makes mistakes and these cars at speed are not forgiving! Main thing is you are here to tell your story so total respect to you
From 20.19 and the music starts and the camera slowly pans along the line of old skool metal....jeez im such a sap but actually got a bit emotional....thinking back to the younger days....great video. 👌
Great motors.
Johns a very lucky chap looking at the wreckage.
Cheers for this vid and sharing the info, I've not got a "COSSIE" myself however I do like them indeed the whole contribution that FORD have brought to performance motoring for common folk can't be overstated.
Love cossie content. I know john not seen him for a few years he used to work with my mate at a garsge in spennymoor very clued up fella and spot on as well. 👍👍
Top lad! He knows his way round an old ford that’s for sure!
thoroughly enjoying watching these videos and listening to the old stories. great channel. thanks.
Same
Another good video mate keep them coming ! Cossy is king !
Nice to have you back on the channel mate. Great video, very well made
Great vid! Amazing cars will always have a soft spot for the Cosworth! The working mans supercar! Nice to see you all keeping these awesome bits of kit on the road for everyone to enjoy👍. How John survived that crash is a miracle 🙏 wow man what a fkin mess🤯!
Nice collection. I miss driving mine. Love the exhaust note.
Excellent footage mate, much appreciated 😉👍
the blockyards in the 90s loved a cozzie
Great video really enjoyed watching keep up great work mate
Great video. Awesome cars. I’d love another.
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll never part with mine, only way that will go is if I crash the thing but hopefully I’ll keep it in one piece ha
What a lovely bunch of beautiful cars 😍
Best answer I have heard yet honest what ever anyone’s willing to pay for it
Brilliant Video. I thoroughly enjoyed it! 👍
Thanks door the positive feedback pal :-) hopefully more good ones to follow
Brilliant honest video...love the banter too...worth the sub mate
Thanks pal, more to come soon from both me and usher :-)
Love the cosworth content not long sold my s2 rs turbo and bought a 2wd sapphire cosworth sent it straight in for some dark greens bigger actuator intercooler and bigger rad with upgraded fans cant wait till she back, keep up the vids mate like I say great content
Wonderful video,wonderful story, wonderful times.....stay safe and well boys 👍🇬🇧
Thank you Phil, I’ve a list as long as my arm of folk wanting to tell their cosworth stories, think you guys will be sick of them by the end ha
That John seems like a real cool costumer.
Love the vids man🏴
Thanks fella :-) appreciate the positive feedback mate
Best Chanel aboot
Omg how stunning are these sierras. I am the proud owner of the 1:18 scale and even those are expensive to purchase, I’ll just admire my model and keep admiring the real thing from afar as I’ll never be able to afford to purchase 1. Cheers for the videos lads 👍👍
What a line up at the end 👌😎
Lots of hard work..lovely cars mate 👌
Hello great video keep up the top work john !
He’s some boy with a ford man.
Loved that dan great video,nice to see Cosworth’s getting looked after usher needs to get one now ha 👍
Thanks pal. I would love to see him get one but his money is locked in a vault near the earths core! Lol
Haha fucking class,dan I suggested to him get a project one next after the bmw would be great for the channel
Cracking video Dan m8!!
Thank you Colin, really appreciate the positive feedback mate :-)
Great video dan ,i got ito your channel when you got the red rs4 which i loved ,and was gutted when you chopped it in for the cossy ,im not a ford man ,but i have to admit i do like the cossys , they always seem to have a good story to go with um 👍👍
That’s what they’re all about mate, everyone always knows if a good cosworth story. I have so many friends with amazing stories to tell
Great stuff
Great video m8.thank u
Thank you very much for the fantastic memories you have shared
In this upload
Takes me back to a time when cars were cars not computers
And you had to Drive them !
All the best !
If you guys ever come across F500 RBP - a white Sapphire - , it was mine. Bought new, 10th January 1989. ‘Hendy Motorsport’ pack, a tweak of which was a 250hp Detection Techniques “chip” remap. I’ve forgotten the name of the former racing driver who ran Hendy Motorsport in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, but he was so comfortable with the robustness of the engine itself - as you state - that he was happy to back the normal Ford warranty with Hendy Lennox’s own 12-month backing, should anything have gone bang. 250 is nothing special, by your (outrageous!) horses, but I and my wife, loved it.
Love the stories! Keep up the good work and the attention to detail...
Great vid, that Moonstone blue one is absolutely stunning. I'm sure that white RS Turbo has its wheels on backwards though, I'm sure the spokes are supposed to go the other way - like blowing in the wind behind them rather than like ice picks digging into the tarmac as the car goes forward
all 4 wheels are the same so you can not fit them the wrong way 2 wheels face one way and 2 face the other. Always one of my pet hates
Yeah I see what u mean, I looked at photos of RS Turbos after writing that comment last night and figured it out, basically the wheels on the offside always look right, and always look wrong on the nearside 😂
my dad have two escort rs cosworths, one sierra rs cosworth frame and two rs2000 escorts. I love these cars
That was a good story so he was lucky to survive I would say he is a lot more careful with his driving
i was born in 75 i got force fed mechanics from a young age i was fixing engines by 11 left school in 1990 ..my dad wanted the best 4 me so most of my childhood was spent in the garrage he kept me away from idiots and i resented loosing time with my mates but i turned out a good mechanic ... back then %99 of my work was diagnosing n 1 year after leaving school OBD was released PMSL :) its good 2 see old school mechanics is making a come back so JOHN I SULUTE U SIR ...sub n like from me
This makes me really miss my 1990 4x4 cossie..
Love your channel mate
Thanks mate. We have a sponsor now; doing a feature tomorrow. Hopefully gets us off the ground properly
Best video. More Cossie content please
Got plenty more lined up. Everyone loves a Cossie story :-)
How’s dan the man?keep up the great work and keep the videos coming.best wishes to you and your.stay safe fella
Yes man that's right a legend
Yeah I know him and his lass. Sometimes meet up at the Nürburgring. Both them are lovely people.
Great vid I had a 4x4 with a msd 380 conversion, t34 with a 55 exhaust housing and 55lb Siemens, made 384 hp, but was so smooth and punchy too drive, great spec for the road
A sure that is exactly the same spec nathan’s is running (white one in vid) it drives lovely. Yours must have done the same, 30psi spike?
@@onthelimiter6529 yes mate about 30 psi👍
I would be a old school Toyota person but that Moonstone blue Sierra Cosworth is just unbelievable. If that Cosworth doesn't float your boat I dont know what would.
Great video 👍
I remember these when they were new and looking at the wreak he was lucky not to have died.
I'm an Audi guy myself, but I do like the stories every Cosworth owner has about all the work thats gone into them.
You cant beat the passion owners have for them. Nothing else like it!
I can’t believe it ! That’s my brother old RS Turbo he had back in 96!!! I need to buy this now !! 🤦
Great video. Love my cossie
What u got mate?
A sapphire 4x4 matey
Would give my right nut to have one . When I was a kid. Was a dream car to have one not going to happen 44 years old now and couldn’t afford one now . But what a car prober beast. 👍👍
amazing video
Got to respect the 2wd cossie its a animal when tuned.
Been there done that. And still have one👍
I have a 4x4 but I totally admit I prefer a 2wd and the only reason I have a 4x4 is because I can’t be sensible in a 2wd. I can potter along steady away in a 4x4, give me a 2wd drive and it’ll be number 11s off every set of lights for 100 yards down the road haha.
I always found with my 2wd ones when u really push them they have a tendency to understeer a bit first then the boost comes in and ya into over steer, very predictable tho if that makes sense. Would u agree or was that my driving lol
love mine, such a good car.
Driving style is a big thing in a cossie at anytime it will bite you. I found out with only 400bhp and 400lbft i was running 18"s at the time which don't do the handling any good.
Also as many people have changed the spherical trailing arm bushes for poly ones it makes them really dodgy. A Poly diff mount works well but tends to transmit noise into the car.
Always found the 2wd saff to be the best drivers car 3dr for me is like driving a boat and the 4x4 saff and escort is just heavy and for any good power increase a funky gearbox is required to handle the power.
@@retro80s80 "only 400bhp""... and it's light AF, I don't know if I'd say only....
Had my moonstone sapphire for 24 years....love it to bits..you are so right with the smelly rattly description it so is but don't care...she is totally standard and luckily after 124000 miles she not gone wrong once.my 21 year old lad loves it and when the time comes it will be his...like me he would sell my mk2 rs focus before he would get rid of the old girl.....enjoyed the vid....👍👍
Sounds like a lovely thing you have there mate, hope she stays reliable for you and your boy.
Now I want a Sierra sapphire cosworth 😂 Love a Sierra cosworth rs500, all the classic fast fords only going one way and that’s up in price, proud to own a classic Ford! Good content from Dan
Thanks for that Chris :-) appreciate it. The cosworths are a great investment but for me now mine is priceless, I just love giving the old girl a thrashing haha.
@@onthelimiter6529 Honestly no problem at all mate, ohh yeah I can see they are a great investment. I’ll definitely have get one and haha I knew you would say that😂 ohh yeah definitely that’s what they were meant for mate, can’t beat a good classic fast Ford.
John , you are a lucky man ..
love the rs cars
Who doesn’t love a Cossie.. Had most fast Fords, S2 RS Turbo, Mk1/2 XR2, Mk2 STs and current Mk2 Focus RS.. but never a Cosworth. Like you say, 3 door & EsCos’s are going for strong money these days.. Lovely Moonstone that 👌🏼
That's just heaven that ford man at heart myself more for the escort cosworth but Sierras are unreal aswell nice to theres still some were I live in the north east and seen little lupo at talents at aycliffe aswell wkd video hope to see more 👌
Aycliffe hi from Darlington
Beautiful cars
It was nice to see that you never left half the back tyres behind at the petrol station.
There's only one thing better than an 80s Ford. And that's an 80s Ford with a Cosworth badge on it's boot lid.
Can’t argue there pal! Legends in the car world
Love these, my Dad had one back in the day, he's from chester-le-street as well. Sold his house and moved back in with his parents to get it 😂.
That’s what’s amazing about these cars, a majority of car enthusiasts will have a memory or great story to tell about them. They’re legends
How many years ago would that be ive lived in chester le st all my life and always wanted a cossy from a very young age. It was actually a local car that made me want one.
@@harddrivenclassics9794 Would have been late 80s early 90s I think mate. Bought it new. It was in the moonstone blue colour I beleive. My Dad's called Peter, was the manager of The Jingling Gate at the time.
guy near me around 17 years ago ,got a semi rolled cossy and no engine and gearbox gone clean in side swapped lots of panels for fibre glass and aluminium stuck a supra twin turbo in it and dont now what gear box but not supra,last time i saw it had more work on it very fast and smooth ride even though its a mix and match frankinstien car ,i now it had audi 4 wheel drive bits on it as well
My dad was a car sprayer never forget this Reg EHF 5Y it was a XR3 Completely reshell full Respray For me My dad and Gary Carter spent hours on that car.it was a car what I will never forget It looked like new My dad sprayed the car in Sun Burst Red. Gary Carter loves his Escorts XR3 I Rs 1600 i the Cosworth memories never go away
I love a good cossie
How many people wish they still had their sporting Ford from the 80/90s , that said I miss my Pug 309 GTI's also
Brilliant video pal....Best car ever made imo..
Grew up with them with my uncle having a 2wd and a 4wd from New and my dad having a series 2 rs turbo at the time and my uncle leaving him for dust 😅😅 loved them so much I skinted myself in 2007 and bought my dads 2wd off him.. loved every minute of owning it but unfortunately had to sell it last year after a full resto and new engine built by nms to fund a house deposit
Gutted I don't own one anymore there are so much fun
Quick edit there's a video on my channel of the guy who bought it leaving sideways 😅
I’ll check that out mate. That’s what’s great about these cars, those that were brought up around them all have fond memories of them. Great times!
More than fond memories mate....nothing could touch my uncles stage 3 saff back in 91.... it wss a genuine porsche killer back then 😅
I thought he was going to bin it into the Audi when he pulled away!
Whenever i see a Cossie in a bad way i die a little inside.
God I miss my S2 😭 and my S1 tbh. Only had it on the road 6 hours after I bought it. Blew the gearbox up haha.
I used to have a Sapphire cosworth many years ago. Thing was always breaking down, it was a royal PITA. My best current classic car is my Saab 9000 Aero 2.3T. It has 360bhp, and i can hammer it every bloomin day and it never goes wrong. Did a fairly big trip last week of 260 miles and it averaged 39mpg. Just a brilliant all round old-school Turbo car. 70 to 100mph in 3.5 seconds is slightly faster than a R8 V10 !.
Saab’s had some great engines. Funny enough John was talking about one that he drove recently running in the high 300s and sang it’s praises. Cossies always break but I still can’t help but love mine, I dare say I would choose it over my Evo if ever I had to get rid of one
@@onthelimiter6529 Well Saab only had one great engine really. The B202/B204/B234. They are all the same. Just 2.0 or 2.3. Basically a different crank. Fully forged internally from the factory so they can be taken to 500bhp with zero engine mods. Just add bigger injectors or turbos.
@@dj_paultuk7052I love old saabs just been with a friend to buy a early 93 with a 9000 2.3 engine in and he had the ecu just done by noobtune the thing is a missile im on buying a 9000 engine to put in a rx8 I have and also got a old 900 turbo
Nice 👍🏁👍
I had the same rims as the crached Sierra. OZ Chrono Evolution at my RWD 1988..
Don't think I've seen old school muscle like that since the chippendales came out on vhs😂😂
Good to see a unicorn
Can remember that accident!! I lived 6 doors away from John.... best not mention when he put his R1 through the house at the bottom of the street.... hence the name R1 john.... haha.... good vid 👌
Yeah I remember he tried to head but a house down! Lol
Great bloke haven't seen him in 15+ years... great to see him doing well
Pmsl.. i remember that day 2 i think there is still blue paint on the wall off my crash helmet.. can still remember i was heading for the window and he was watching Jeremy kyle and i tryed to turn and hit the door but hit the wall in between...lol
From age 10-11 in "98-"99 my dad had lots of sierras. Always cortinas before "98. No licence not till i was around 17 did he get unbanned he served so many 6months they sentenced him to racing in 97 ish stock car at brum. But he had to drive even further more often to attend. Plus garage days in Leicester even further away. He donated his last cortina they painted it and he raced it. Slitherd like a fish i swear always top 3 when he took me. We had crazy fun with sierras. Bog std, og 4x4 lots and lots of saphs he always dressed them in cosworth trim with a straight six 2.3 i think N/A. It suck's he passed at just 47 i wish he finally got one. He drove them borrowed them never had one.
I miss him this pulls heart strings.
If you’re ever up in the north east and can show ya have some kind of insurance mate I’ll let ya drive mine with me in it. If it brings back memories I’m genuinely happy to help out there my mate. Sorry for ya dad, he clearly had a strong impact on your life. Rip to a top fella by the sounds of it.
Former cosworth Vega owner. Sure miss it howl.
i bought a classic mini off john three and a half years ago which i still have and he was showing me the picture of his cossie bent in half it looked mental lol
Is that the oil slick one btw I'm his son
@@kailawns8248 yes lol purple and blue
Man that exhaust note gives me the chills. I had a D plate whale tale for a few months which i sold to buy a G plate sapphire as it was just too feral to keep on the wet roads. The guy paid stupid money for it. Binned it on a remote Highland road... The engine departed the car. He sadly had several seconds to reflect before the impact... The deal fell through for the sapphire.. I ended up with a estate GL 2.3 diesel which i put a peugeot 505 2.5TD engine in. It was used as a tow car. My mate had a Granada 2.9 EFI and drivetrain in a swb transit looking standard. That was fun at the lights..
I've noticed recently that all the coossie's at the big top end sales, it's completely standard one's with none of the bolt on crap or Christmas tree coloured hose shite that allways make the top prices.
@On The Limiter Car Registration G314 WVM my mate got the car in 2002. he bought it from a guy in newton hall, county durham. the car had around about 40k miles on the clock. he paid £6500 for it, the the guy he bought it off had is own engineering company, my mate had the choice to buy a rs500 steering wheel, stainless steel polished rocker cover and a stainless steel polished turbo heat cover, full sound system with bass box but he didnt choice to buy them. the car was kept in a garage with a dehumidifier. the car was fitted with a garret t34 hybrid rally turbo with two settings low boost at 15psi and high boost around 30psi, the car use to rev up to 7500rpm-8000rpm, the car was fitted with AP Racing 6 piston calipers on the front with 360mm vented and drilled discs and 4 piston on the back. it had a 4" straight through stainless steel mongoose exhaust, it had a half roll cage, koni adjustables on all four corners, it had a one off hand made aluminium billet gear shifter, it had £13500 spent on the engine at castle performance, on the receipt it said credit to previse owners of the sierra sappire cosworth this is if not the cleanest example in the country. the car had receipts for all the work and parts on the car, totalling £17500. i have near heard a car do such loud bangs through the gear changes, the car was that fast it use to beat yamaha r1 and gsxr 1000, we raced a c32 amg supercharged merc which tops out at 190mph up the a690 dual carriage way carrville to sunderland, we were coming back down the dual carriage way as he was still heading up to sunderland. nothing could come close to how fast the car was. the car started to loose boost from the dash 33 waste gate, so i took it to a performance garage where i got a forge group a spec waste gate, he asked what psi the car ran at and he said 30psi, the new waste gate couldnt handle that much psi so he fitted a stronger spring in it, we took the car out with the new waste gate fitted for a test run down a duel carriage where a porcshe 911 turbo was right up our ass so my mate said to me watch this as he drop the cossy in to 3rd the boost hit the car squatted and we just took off. We took the car out for a cruise with a friend in a 4x4 cossy, we were racing each other and out of no where the temp gauge went to the top. we took the car home as it sat on the drive it was badly leaking oil and water so next day we took it to the performance garage and took the head off the engine and found out that it had melted number 3 piston. some personal stuff happened which then i sold it to my mate whitch i think he put a new engine in, then i hadnt seen the car for 17 year till i seen this video!
I'd let him repair mine but he ain't driving it ! Lol 😂
R1 John top man with a old ford
My pal Dave R from Aberdeen use to show his cossie at all the Ford events ,throughout the UK ,he still has the car ,but only drives it occasionally now 😎
that first cossie similar spec to mine, 55lbs Blacks, T35, MSD chip 380bhp ish peaks 32psi holds 28psi in a 2wd though. cool video.
That’s what this is. I had a 2wd one running just over 400bhp and it was my favourite one out them all as far as drivability went. It got so much abuse that thing! Haha. I also had a T4 powered one running mega power and I just didn’t like the drive, it was hopeless. I don’t remember having a play with anything where corners were involved as it was useless. Sometimes too much power ruins them. I had a 600bhp @ crank Evo 8 which I hated. Couldn’t use the power, my current evos running circa 380 and it’s amazing to drive
@@onthelimiter6529 Yea if i go for more power id change from the old skool T series turbos and go Borg Warner turbo for drivability.
20:54 add a blur to the plate on the 3door
Had one in the 90s never want to see one again. Had a 2.8 4x4 worked by turbo tecnics best car I ever owned.
There were a lot of bad ones out there. More bad than good. People bought them and cut corners on maintenance and repair work from day one
@@onthelimiter6529 I did all the work needed on the cosworth I have been a mechanic since 1977 and worked with all sorts but even after getting everything right I was not happy with the performance. I should have kept my 4x4 2.8
That 2.8 lump is a lovely engine. I work with a guy who has a stunning brooklands 280 Capri, lovely note to it, plenty torque still and very reliable
in my opinion those Sierra are the equivalent of the bimma M5 back then! But of course they are great bc of the AWD and well known on Rally championship
They have such a history, the fact the police had to buy cosworths just to catch them, uninsurable, most stolen, most crashed, they were just an asbo on 4 wheels. Performance wise yeah back in the day they were THE super saloon to have. I preferred my saffs over me 3 doors too. Believe it or not my old man was a cop and I remember as a kid watching him in the office at home reviewing cctv all the time, he was like an old school flying squad. And all the robberies he seemed to work on had a saph Cossie as the getaway car too. It’s amazing there’s any left lol
@@onthelimiter6529 oh wow that's quiet a story...only you guys in the Uk knows that! thanks for sharing that. So is it the same deal until today? you can't use them at all or it has to be registered as a collector or track car only?
I had a F reg 2wd only about 350 bhp loved it but you had to be on the maintenance all the time lots of fumes in the cabin all part of the experience
Loving the cosworths but i must admit saphs are the one's for me especially the 4x4s and hopefully this time next year I'll have my 4x4 takes a lot of saving as you probably know I just wished I bought mine before the prices went through the roof and I've just realised who you are your Dan Adam's friend I've seen you in one of his vids you's lot are lucky twats (no a fence) as everyone of you's have cossies except for one and that's the chunky lad that you work with any way I don't know how your friend survived that crash and even kept his legs I can't work out what position he has then in or are they just snapped and mangled up
That’s me :-) Adam’s a good friend, cracking lad. Looking forward to doing more with him in the future. Really need to convince him to drive his Cossie out with us for more than 5 miles haha
can't help but feel really bad for this guy
I got a Ford Sierra 4 speed 2L gear 1st generation 4 door and am doing a 2000hp sleeper build so I’m leaving it so it looks stock to the untrained eye any tips the car hasn’t been on the road since I was born 18 years ago it got parked after my father got a company car
Love a cosworth will have to make do with my st for now but one day 🤞🤞
Nothing wrong with an ST, av got a black stage 2 ST3 focus. The noise and power delivery is outstanding mate
@@onthelimiter6529 on my 3rd st now a fiesta mk8 got it from the garage where you work its a cracking car for the money
@@keithhedley1392 I’m sure I remember speaking with you outside when you came in. You part exchanged an Uber clean blue ST3 on a 17 plate from memory.
@@onthelimiter6529 haha that's a canny memory👍 that car was a better colour but the new one more fun to drive especially in sports mode
@@keithhedley1392 I had a mk8 ST myself, was so much fun to drive, sure yours has a performance pack too doesn’t it? That diffs a great addition
"Cossies. .. they rattle, squeak, smell of smoke and you never know when it's gonna break...because it will break" lol, so glad it's not just me
Cosworth life man, it’s exciting! Same reason most us blokes would choose a stripper over a librarian! We love the excitement lol
Did they ever put that front from the 3 door on the sapphire
Could never afford one in my 20s as insurance was v expensive now luv to drive one at least. Can i drive it
Theres not many decent mechanics about now as all new ones are mainly trained on computers,my trusted ford and cosworth mechanic up north near me would only be Paul linfoot tbh!!! Such sick cars dude !!👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😊
Good vid ever heard of a guy named jb fletch used to race on the a217 aka the mad mile he had a grey saph cossie 400+bhp featured in Ford mags
Don’t suppose he has a GTR now does he? Mrs is called kirsty?
That'll be me 😊 and yep, still about Albeit in a GTR now. Kirstie still putting up with me 😁 and got a v8 M3. The good old mad mile, the 400+hp Cossie was my first one, had another with just over 600hp after. These WERE the good old days 😎
@@jbfletch4018 we need a big meet up mate, a only ever see you and kirsty in Germany these days
Dan absolutely need to meet up!! Let's sort something in the new year 😎
How long is the gear shift, 1.5 m?