The REAL reason I will NOT buy another Cosworth!
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- So in todays Monday video we manage to get some parts together for the A-series mini engine builds and some machining done on the milling machine. But this is long overdue and due to embarrassment but I explain the real reason I don’t buy a Cosworth!
Can't wait for the A series rebuild Its been a long time since I've done one and a refresh would be great All the end floats in particular Keep up the good work Loving it!
Check David Vizard tuning the A series. The combustion chamber is the cork in it's Ass. Refer to his porting. He wrote a best selling book on tuning the A Series engines 25 years ago. Do not know if it is still available new, but probably used.
Me too, please do it in detail Lee
I like your honesty, a rare commodity these days 😊
Lee,
Good story about my Mom and Dad. Back in 1968, my Dad wanted to buy a Chevy Stingray. My Mother, was absolutely dead set against the idea from the day my father mentioned it. It was a car firmly above Dad's pay grade. A nice everyday car cost as much as $2000-$3000 then. A new Stingray Started at $6000+, twice what mom and Dad were used to paying for a car. When they bought my brother a new Toyota Celica, in 1972, for college, it was $1750.
Well, long story short, Dad got his Stingray. Eight months later, after a night of poker at a friends house, Dad went to back out of his best friends driveway, which sat at the crest of a very steep neighborhood hill, a guy in a dark colored Malibu crested the hill at over 100 mph and hit the rear end of this Stingray. My father said he saw the headlights for just a split second and heard a horrific crashing sound and then silence. After my Dad got is head screwed back on, he turned around to look in the back of the ray, and there was nothing there but AIR. The Malibu had completely sheered away everything just behind the front seats. The entire rear end of the Stingray was 150ft. down the road, welded to the front end of the Malibu. My father didn't have scratch on him, but the Vette was a total loss. The guys insurance bought Dad a new Stingray off the lot.
Dad told me years later that was the last year the Corvettes were any good. The next one he got in 1972. He said it was in the shop more that out on the road. His bought his last Vette in 1975. He said it was even worse than the 72'. In 1976, he traded it for the New Chevy Blazer. It was a tank. He drove Blazers for the next 10 years. The put 100K miles on each one before he got the next newer model. I have a a ton of stories about those too.
So, there it is. I hope you enjoyed it.
Alan from NC, USA
I had an RS500 28 year ago.. loved it... then went working in the states for 2 years and fell in love with the 300zx, bought one when i got back then had an engine built in the states by Stillen and shipped over.. just over 650hp 25 year ago.. absolute beast
I dare say you could have an immaculate top specced 300ZX with some really high end Japanese parts, a detailed engine bay, stunning interior and ICE, and a reliable 500bhp for a fraction of the £ of an old Sierra Cosworth restoration. Ok so the value isn't in the car, but it's so much car compared to many other cars, as would be something like a tuned Jaguar XKR etc. Both are better looking than an old 80's Ford with 80's build quality too.
Hello Lee,
You are right to put a limit on what you buy. Once you have a family, they come first, and our desires have to take a back seat because the family are far more valuable than posessions.
I always wanted a 1000cc Vincent motrbike, but I have had to content myself that I had the privilage to ride on belonging to a friend. Kind regards,
Tony Marsh.
He has a Lamborghini. 😆
Had loads of Cosworths inc a mint RS500 from 1990 through to 2014. Love them, but they have not suddenly got better in recent years, most were shagged by the early 2000's. The nostalgia prices these dates are way OTT, you can get far more for your money elsewhere now.
What who be nice is to build a cosworth engine stand to run the engines after a build, great for your website and for customers to see their engines run before delivery. Just a thought over my morning coffee 🇦🇺
Lee, you make perfect sense and many of us will agree.
Put a Cosworth badge on your van. That will make it go faster.
i had my rocker cover chromed --made a hell of a difference
As a compromise why don't you build a YB engine with dead parts that looks good on the outside to have on a stand.
Lee, I am the process of rebuilding my Mariner 60hp two engine.
Please, please I know John is camera shy but can you convince him to show the average mechanic how to polish a crank!! Regards Dave in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
I think you just need to send him a few beers - steady his nerves
What year is your Mainer 60? and is it Red or Blue or Gold band? and if it's a 2st it will have needle roller bearings. and I'm not that far from you in Dartmouth, (70 miles)
In the US, most shops will mark up the price of any parts they buy for you. If the part costs them 30 dollars they will charge you 35-40 for it.
I know someone who had a 1.6 Sierra who planted 400bhp of Cosworth in it left it looking like a standard sierra some nights after a good "run" the turbo would glow under the bonnet in the dark, The looks he got when it took off from the lights was hillarious
Have a curious question, when you bore the cosworth engines, why don't you use a torque plate to help correct cylinder distortion while you're boring the block? It's been proving that after the cylinder head is torqued to the block, the cylinder are slightly distort on a lot of engines. And using the torque plate in place of the cylinder head while boring the block helps correct that issue keeping the cylinders nearly perfect round after the cylinder head is torqued to the block.
Have been wondering the same thing myself..
Too much spending on lambos and racecars to get the good stuff
@@fatasdatdon't forget the UA-cam display room.
I Lee ,Watched your video on cutting channels out of the bottom of bores of the ugen engine .I noticed the mounting surface of the main bearings looks rough,are the caps the same.Ive come across this on the big end caps on VW engines.Have you ever come across this,I had a customer who went to the local VW garage,who wanted to buy a new one.They new nothing about the design at the time.I told they were made like that .regards retired Mechanic Barry.keep up the great videos 👍
100% with you on the Cossies - in reality, they're too expensive to use properly, and they're too hot to keep. That's why I run around in an old R53 Cooper S rather than a Ferrari or Porsche... honestly! 😊
Kit car with a Cosworth and sequential gearbox 😊. Pretty cool thought 🤔
Family and age no excuse , explain the Lamborghini
why should anyone justify something like that? its personal preference.
You clearly didn't understand what he was saying. He mentioned for the PURPOSE of what he would want the car for it doesn't make sense. The Lambo isn't exactly getting thrown around on the track....
With you on what you say about owning a cosworth 100% 👍
I’ve always been a Ford man ever since my XR3i (DBA 123Y) been moved to Audi me and the Mrs had 12 between us. But I’m loving my E61 touring M sport. LCI, the older I’ve got the more I’m heading towards BMW.
Cheers Lee.
Mate you gota sight the job a bit better I'm getting a sour neck looking over the side the block😂😅 love the Escorts ,used to have a panel van, 10 sec of air over the rail road crossing, 😂 thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones 😊
Mk1 with a cossie lump ....mk2 at a push 💪 🙌
The hours talking Cossies and fast Ford all those years ago in Sunny Nunny!! they are 100% in your blood!
E30 is an awesome car too.. preferred the BTCC to DTM myself 😂
I would have an E30 with an S50 motor any day, Classic 80's looks and a high revving, Great sounding straight six ❤👌
I still don't know how I can be welcomed back to the episode when it's the first time I've seen it.
another brilliant episode 😎
Hi mate have the best of both worlds put a cossie in the E30 now that's a plan
Was a guy around Heathrow (west London) that had a grey 325i touring with a YB in many years ago cool car
Priorities. Family first. Toys second. Sounds like you got it figured out mate.
2:01 The problem is it depends on your subsequent markup - it might then exceed the retail. I doubt it would because you do seem to be pretty genuine, but this seems to be the way that the common consumer thinks.
Why is there no coswoth in the kit car instead of the honda 90.
Picked it at the start
Ya just too tight 😂
I like how Lee just moves from Imperial to Metric and back again, as we are both the same age and both engineers and live in Devon, it must be growing up in the 80-90s thing lol.
School in the 1970s, we were taught both pretty much at the same time. Hence I will swap between them pretty much at any time (and probably will depend on which measure is closest to the size of the item)
@@katywalker8322 Yes, even in the 80s we were still taught both, but mostly metric by then, but then all our seniors would of passed it down, and it's amazing how many machinists that still mainly use imperial today, and look how many people still weigh themselves using stones and ounces.
@@hardergamer , not sure if just my school, or just me, but I don't really remember them being taught as different systems. Just 2 measures (not sure if I am explaining that well - mm, cm, inch, yard, metre sort of mixed up into one!)
never mind about being in your mid-40's & sat in your 'bath-chair'. Dare I admit, at 65 & still 'tear-arse' about on my motorcycles! 😜😜😜 😆🤣🤣
The fresh oval cylinders: could it be the block is actually used, someone had it cleaned, used dingleberries to hone it without checking the ovality and now it is with you? What is the surface roughness? Decent chance that the ra/rv numbers will reveal the honing process.
Do you think the bores were machined with a torque plate and Lee is measuring the bores without one ?
how about a westfield with a yb in it?
Do you radius the corners in the liner cut-outs?
Even for a s1, s2 escort rs turbo is just mind blowing for 130 bhp in 2024
Ultimately cars are about compromise as to what they do and how they do it....
As for the least compromised, only one option Lancer GSR Evo 6 or 6.5!!!
Do you guys do any Goodwood motors ??
So a Lamborghini is a cheap family car that you just poodle around in!!!!
why havent you thought about a Mitisi Evo ??
E30 Cozzi ??? 🤔
A road car is a road car and a track car is a track car.....I do not want to know what you are trying to prove to yourself or what you are trying to achieve with this project, Lee, but you may want to rethink your goals. If you are to look at it from an advertising viewpoint, maybe you should use it strictly as a track car, there is no such thing as being the best in both worlds, you have to decide what is best for you and the business.
I consider what Lee refers to is a road car that can be driven to the race car circuit (track) - do some hot laps and drive it home again - i.e. no trailer required.
I do the same with my 'road-track' car - drive it sensibly on the road and unleash it on the track and have some fun in a relatively controlled and safe environment.
Notably, a so called 'road-track' car is not a race car. I have driven race prepared cars - and if they could be registered for the road (certainly cannot in Australia) - they are near on impossible to drive 'conservatively' on road (actually the ones that I have driven are a pig to drive 'slowly') - and need to be trailered to the race circuit with a suitable tow vehicle - which greatly adds complexity and expense to the 'fun equation'.
Do you use 0.001 or 0.002 bearings
Buy a decent useable 2wd Sapphire . Cloth trim. On the standard wheels fresh box n diff , 280/280 engine strong. Sell Lambo.
I’ve always wanted a cosworth but I bought my skyline instead of a sapp . I couldn’t justify spending 25k on a Sierra .
The only e30 worth getting is a redux built by retropower😅
Now there's a channel that deserves a million subs 👍
You can’t really use them now especially a good one they are mainly kept in collections
It's because you dont wear your baseball hat on sideways and shell suits anymore.
More jerky camera work please, I like to feel like I'm at the fair. Bumper cars, Tilt a whirl then finish off with a Roller coaster.
The escprts amd sierras are expensive, but how about the granada scorpios? Swap out the autobox and youll be laughing
On a,similar tangent, Ford Taurus SHO!!!
Saw one yesterday!!!
As you say 180bhp was big league 30 years ago -- now its a run around LOL
Just go and buy Yaris GR😊
Cosworth cost to much to run and keep running
oh noo if he gets back in the game he needs a 190e cosworth just to be different 😂
Rs tax is a joke. I would rather own a cav gsi 4x4
Over priced lots of other cars out there for less money
Buy a 140M BMW . Better than any cosworth . Civilised raw speed .
Buy a GR Yaris , better than any 4x4 cosworth.
Explain why a crap cheap ford rust bucket car with some tuning parts on it is so brilliant .
Yes & 40 years ago was better in Devon
TVR OR COSSWORTH I DON'T WANT
Lee 🥱 , I’ve nearly always had quick cars , used to do a little racing , hill climbing , sprints etc . I’m 80 now and drive trick / hot mk 7 beautiful golf , and regularly nip up to 150 + , you’re to young to say you’re getting older 🤔🥱