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Sept 20, 2016 8:09:09 GMT
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Long time reader of this forum just signed up , was a member of a popular ford rs forum but the ford rs scene isn't really my thing anymore so this thread is basically me trying to finish this car so I can sell it on once I've had some fun out of it . I bought this car from piston heads as a present to my self once I finished serving my time as an apprentice way back before the prices went mental , paid a little over £6k for a low miles , stage 3 never welded 3 door cosworth , unheard of these days , it's had an interesting past as it was a cat d but never found out why , last owner said it was stolen and recovered but another lad off passionford said it was in a front end low speed collision but wouldn't elaborate so I guess I'll never know , anywho , its minted , have been rebuilding it for the last 5 years , "oh 5 years you say , wow must be mint by now " ... nope , 2 kids , marriage , house purchase and working offshore has meant that I get very little time to spend on it but she is almost ready for her maiden voyage , engine all rebuilt , underside tidied up , new fuel system , all new bearings and brakes , diff and gearbox rebuilt , abs delete and lots in between . Now , some pics
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Sept 20, 2016 8:12:54 GMT
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Sept 20, 2016 8:16:10 GMT
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Last pic is how she sits this now , daily focus estate needed a hefty welding sesh so now that's out of the way I can crack on with the sierra , want it back on the road for early next year so I can use it before I sell it and can continue on my retro car path , had this car too long and now just want something less expensive to play with
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Sept 20, 2016 19:17:52 GMT
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Welcome. You should change the title of your thread, its a bit low key for such a great car. I was watching a repeat of Car SOS last night where they restored a D-plate 3-door Cosworth. One of the cars on my fantasy list, ready for when I win the lottery!
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Sept 20, 2016 19:47:02 GMT
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Also thought this was going to be a Base spec project lol. One of my mates uncle has a rs 500 awesome cars this looks like it's well on its way to being done. Great work and is that a GTE astra? I had one of them 10 or so years ago great cars to
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Sept 20, 2016 19:56:39 GMT
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Lovely car , with the dubious history i thought it was going to be the 3 door 'E500 FLY' [ google that ] which has had a interesting life - regulary used to see it being spanked around my way .
And the one from car SOS is from around near me , the bloke who owned it lived next door to my brothers girlfriend so i got a spin in that as a kid , gave me brown trousers and a immense grin !
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Sept 20, 2016 20:02:02 GMT
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sometime you don't have to shout ! thats a credit to you the common man who looks at a cossie as just an "86 sierra"
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Sept 20, 2016 20:09:17 GMT
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Nice cosier mate,had a moonstone blue one about 15 years ago great car, just try not to hit a lamppost like I did 😞.
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Sept 21, 2016 7:39:22 GMT
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Welcome. You should change the title of your thread, its a bit low key for such a great car. I was watching a repeat of Car SOS last night where they restored a D-plate 3-door Cosworth. One of the cars on my fantasy list, ready for when I win the lottery!
Thanks, yeah I think I might have watched that episode of car sos a few thousand times now, I think I play down what the car is as its been the bain of my life for the last few years, haven't really enjoyed working on it at all, I'm lucky I bought this when I did as id need a lottery win to afford one these days !
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Sept 21, 2016 7:44:02 GMT
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Also thought this was going to be a Base spec project lol. One of my mates uncle has a rs 500 awesome cars this looks like it's well on its way to being done. Great work and is that a GTE astra? I had one of them 10 or so years ago great cars to
When I bought this I had the chance to buy an rs500 for £14k but didn't see the point in paying double for almost the same car, wish I had now it would be worth more than my house ! The astra belongs to a friend and is actually a base spec shell but with a carb fed xe , cage , buckets , plastic windows ect, me and my brother have both had 16v gte's in the past and loved them
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Sept 21, 2016 7:47:16 GMT
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Lovely car , with the dubious history i thought it was going to be the 3 door 'E500 FLY' [ google that ] which has had a interesting life - regulary used to see it being spanked around my way . And the one from car SOS is from around near me , the bloke who owned it lived next door to my brothers girlfriend so i got a spin in that as a kid , gave me brown trousers and a immense grin !
I remember a thread on passionford about E500 FLY , the only evidence of any damage to mines is the passangers wing isn't date stamped but is a genuine ford wing so its been replaced at some point , again, no idea when or why, not that I'm too bothered tbh as the rest of the car is mint and its never been welded
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Sept 21, 2016 7:48:22 GMT
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sometime you don't have to shout ! thats a credit to you the common man who looks at a cossie as just an "86 sierra" Yeah it is at the end of the day a 1986 ford sierra, just happens to have a 16v pinto engine !! |
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Sept 21, 2016 7:50:55 GMT
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Awesome, was brought up with these in the 90's, dropped at school in a Sapphire Cossie, picked up in an RS500. Awesome cars and always hoped to own a 3dr one day but like you say they're lottery win territory now  |
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Sept 21, 2016 7:51:25 GMT
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Nice cosier mate,had a moonstone blue one about 15 years ago great car, just try not to hit a lamppost like I did 😞.
Not gonna lie , ive been close to doing that a few times when I first got it, letting 20 year olds buy 350 brake rwd cars can end in disaster !!
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Sept 21, 2016 7:54:34 GMT
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Awesome, was brought up with these in the 90's, dropped at school in a Sapphire Cossie, picked up in an RS500. Awesome cars and always hoped to own a 3dr one day but like you say they're lottery win territory now
Thanks man .My dads mate had a white 3 door cossie rep when I was young and even tho it looked a bit rubbish it left an impression on me hence buying this as soon as I had the chance , id never be able to afford this car today but ive owned it the best part of 12 years now , can barely buy and engine and box these days for what I paid for the whole car back then !!
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gazz81
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Sept 21, 2016 10:57:34 GMT
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Lovely looking car, looking forward to seeing some updates.
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Sept 21, 2016 12:01:00 GMT
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how much are 500's worth nowadays ? there was a white one in a car lot opposite my nans in the very early 1990s for £19,999. which at the time was still a fair whack, when a brand new astra gte 16v was about 14 fully loaded, but by todays standards a fooken bargain !
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Sept 21, 2016 19:41:21 GMT
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how much are 500's worth nowadays ? there was a white one in a car lot opposite my nans in the very early 1990s for £19,999. which at the time was still a fair whack, when a brand new astra gte 16v was about 14 fully loaded, but by todays standards a fooken bargain ! A nice rs500 is a good 50-60k and a low miles minter is £100k , bad thing about that is my car shares a lot of parts with the rs500 so little things like the locking part of the Centre caps cost £400 for just the locks and I've seen header tanks go for £500 !!! |
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Sept 21, 2016 19:43:41 GMT
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 Group A coil to fit , car runs but very badly , my mate is coming round soon with a new ecru and sensors and a loom so we can swap parts until she's running sweet , he had a lot of left overs from his cosworth powered corsair project he's doing , he thinks the ecru is at fault as his done a similar thing to what mines is doing |
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Sept 21, 2016 19:47:23 GMT
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 Going to remove the inlet again and tidy up the wiring , the abs is being removed and I've found a guy who makes abs delete looms as the servo needs power as its electric and his loom does all that and keeps the abs light off , reason is the abs doesn't work and I've spent money already on new sensors and a block , before it came off the road I had a brown trouser moment when the abs kicked in at double the national speed limit just as I started to brake , didn't think it was going to stop so I'll just remove it , lots of cossie boys do this these days as these systems are outdated and hard to get parts for |
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