I haven't really been active on here since I broke my Fiesta in 2008. Since then I spent a couple of years getting my head down in Uni before graduating and moving to Aberdeen for work in 2010. I bought my first place in 2011, and last year I finally had the time to have a project car again. I'll copy and paste my updates from the EsCos forum.
I’ve owned my Escort RS Cosworth since last September, but up until now I haven’t got round to writing out my project thread, so here goes. The car is now back on the road again, but I’ll start from the beginning and update this every couple of days.
As some of you will already know, I bought Si B’s 1993 Escort RS Cosworth big turbo model. I bought it because I had always wanted a big turbo version in red, and while some of the modifications weren’t to my taste, most of the expensive changes that I would have made (the AP’s, suspension and engine upgrades) had already been done.
After a few phone calls to Si the deal was done and a friend and I flew down to Bristol where we rendezvoused with Si who drove us back to Yeovil where his Escort was stored.
After a quick look around the car I took it out for a test drive, let the engine warm up and put my foot down to let it come on boost, then nothing but misfires! We limped back to Si’s house where it was clear that the car was massively over-fueling. We were all pretty surprised and didn’t have a clue what the problem was, especially Si who had used the car only the night before with no problems. After several hours of trying to source the problem, we still drew a blank. I called the deal off and went into the house to organise a hire car to drive home which Si had offered to pay for. We were literally 5 minutes from leaving when Si’s brother found a split air hose down the back of the engine which went into the inlet manifold. Once that was fixed, a quick test drive confirmed that all was well, so the deal was back on. Before setting on our way we did a quick oil & filter change as I was worried about all the unburnt fuel that was in the oil from the misfires, and I didn’t want to take the 600 mile drive home with it.
We set off from Yeovil at 17:00 on our way back to Aberdeen. We’d been up since half 5, and by half 1 the next morning we had got as far as Glasgow, so we stopped over at my parents’ place for an overnight kip before heading north the next morning.
Here’s a few pics from my folk’s driveway:
We got back to Aberdeen the next day. After a long few days I drew the conclusion that it must have been my initiation test for Cossie ownership.
