What are you on about. The internals are more than good enough for this level of power and the stem seals are a 30min job with a stem seal tool if they need doing. I only ever saw failed seals on cars running on old spec or cheap oils. They gone on for ever on modern oils at this power and if you want to run more boost than this uprated seals are available.
@@warwickstingray nope the cvh was a horrible piece of dung. We used to dyno and build them for racing and fast road use. If you didnt upgrade their internals they destroyed themselves very quickly. The old valencia motor in fiestas was stronger.
Love an old skool Ford, grew up around them and that sound is gorgeous! Great video and yes get it back in the garage before it dissolves! 🤣 I love that, old Ford's do that 😏😆
See 204hp in mine which consisted of bigger intercooler, ported polished big valve head done at Burton performance, standard turbo given to turbo Technics for a hybrid build bigger housing bigger impeller's, uprated actuator can't remember -55 -35 something like that, fast road bajoo Kent cam, next size injector (can't remember what they was they where supplied by the builder only thing I didn't buy), fuel king big fuel pressure regulator, full mongoose exhaust, 210mm flywheel from the S2 and uprated clutch, Drivability was still v good the fast road cam wasn't too aggressive but when stamped on would spin through 3rd gear in the dry and loved to kick out flames if it hit the limiter. I'd still have it if it wasn't for rust 😔
Need to consider he's knocking it out of gear and blipping the throttle not letting it run down the rollers in gear. That's more likely to show smoke if it's a bit loose.
Beautiful car mate. In the day I had mk3 with a janspeed exhaust, cone filter and a racing actuator. Got 209 bhp, all set up by power engineering in Uxbridge👍🏼. 90's had great cars...
Nice to see a vid of yours pop up on suggestions. You were the 1st car channel I watched...trying to revive that rusty max power fiesta...and that fugly x5 lol. Hope your good mate
I had a turbo’d cabbie back years ago. Solid standard engine, piper 282t2 cam, bayjoo chip & modified fuel ecu, full magnex with 3” tailpipe, pro alloy front mount cooler, std air box with front cut off, hollowed out front bumper, -31 actuator then Ava’s metering head mod (dubious) used to go off the clock & hit the limiter in 5th. Last time ava ran it on their dyno 194 bhp at the flywheel. Hit the limited in 5th at 128 mph. I felt robbed after seeing all those 230 bhp escorts in fast Ford that had a chip & exhaust 😂😂
Back in the day I can remember my s2 rs turbo which was a really quick car back then made 162bhp@wheels on 1 bar of boost, mongoose system and large grs cooler and a chip.
My mates rs turbo was the first car to have the grs fitted. graham used his for measurements he was working out of his garage then and it smashed the other brands in a fast ford test fair play to him. I remember when we took it out it was far more aggressive.
My R5 GTT did 148bhp at a bar boost but the torque was great at 178ftlb. Didn't need massive numbers back then to have something special. I maintain the Escort RS Turbo with any aftermarket pipe is one of the best sounding turbo 4cyl from the 80's. So unique
Exhaust gasses look super clean. Good sign. The peak torque is at a much higher rpm than expected. Probably the short duration of the dyno pull. Is the steering wheel straight when driving in a straight line? Pet peeve of mine that makes an otherwise glorious looking S1 seem tatty. Maybe it was just on the dyno. Great car. I had a S2 but always had a soft spot for a S1
Haven't seen one like that in a long while. In the US it was the Escort GT but I don't think it was turbo. May be wrong. Pretty sure very few survived in the states.
S1 was a better drive than the S2, the S2 seems to have all the rough edges smooth off, which made it feel more like a refined fast XR3i but the S1 felt like a motorsport product. Only my opinion.
My friend had two of those in the eighties and had them 0-60 just over 5 secs awesome at the time and to me the custom was the best looking. How much are they going for now?
If this is a stock engine for this car then you are putting too much power through it. Trust me , 200 ish bhp is a smart place to stop tuning with these old 1.6 EFi's. I'm not saying it wont work for a while. I have no doubt it will.. It won't be reliable though. PS: I know all this from my experience and some of my friends experiences back in the day. One of them had a XR2i with a Cosworth Turbo kit on it. It had a similar amount of power to your Escort on a stock 1.6EFi 230ish, It lasted about 5000 miles before it died from compression loss.
5000 miles im amazed it lasted that long, we used to dyno these things on a engine dyno not a chassis dyno. If internals were not replaced and block 'o' ringed it would be a 1-2 thousand mile life if you were lucky. They would blow gaskets burn top of piston out or piston and or rod would exit the show. They were wretched engines in n/a form made worse by putting turbo on them.
Nice but dynos always make me wince since a good pal of mine had his mr2 superchared import toyota dynoed.The cambelt failed at full power and destroyed the engine.He still had to pay for the session aswell.Ouch.
Looks like you have a cracking old series 1 there …. I had one years ago ( should’ve kept it ) and I remember being passenger in a couple of different ones that felt quick back in the day .. we’ll done
Very good, and in three years it should be tax exempt. One can never really be certain about this. The greater the increase of tax exempt cars on the road, the more shit the government seems to dream up. My old '97 Peugeot TD is £280 a year. Turned the fuelling up and decatted it, for spite. Fuck to them ! Still waltzes through the smoke test easily though.
Did have some add ons like a cam? no way a standardn RST even with a big intercooler won't do that. I had an S2 with cam/filter/intercooler and that made 153 hp
Shame it's not got the original wheels on it ,I had a S1 tuned and set up by a place near me in North London called Technical Tuning ended up making 200bhp.
@@LeeM74 The wheels on the car in the video are not the factory originals they are later model Ford alloys fitted on it, it actually should be the softIine style I know I've owned 2 S1 and I use to work in Ford R.S dealership in the parts department plus I was in the R.S O.C for 15 years so I know what I'm talking about.
You have to remember that the 132bhp was with leaded 4 star even super unleaded still isn't as good as old school 4 star. We just can't push super unleaded like we could with leaded for keeping the temps down. You could get 380 from a stage 3 cossie now it's 330 on a good day.
Like the car drove one of these back in the day, just one question why has the mileage gone from 99,475miles in March 2015 to 2133 miles in Dec 2015, and the latest MOT recorded mileage of 11,737 in May of last year??? has the car had a complete rebuild...
the mileage goes back to zero at 100,000 miles. MOT only shows the indicated mileage on the speedo, hence why its gone to such low miles now. also, even with a complete rebuild in the UK, the mileage is what the mileage is. unless its rebuilt to current regs for safety, emissions, lights etc and re registered as a brand new car, which in itself is almost impossible, then no matter how many times you rebuild the car, it will always be a car with 1, 2, even 300,000 miles or more on them. if the family still own it, i know where theres an early Orion 1.6i Ghia with over 300,000 miles on it, thats been parked up for at least 20 years now!
@@petelattimer6808- you must have one of those special speedo's that resets at 100,000 miles because every other car that has a click over speedo resets at 999,999 miles
Can we get a ST170 review, good one where you drive it.. I don't think you can get more power to weight for the money £1000. Please correct me if am wrong.?!!?
it could well be, but i think the 1.7 Puma was a more fun car to drive. the rod linkage on the 5 speed box was a more precise thing than the 6 speed cable jobby (i STILL hate cable gear linkages that all cars have compared to the old rod system). if i had the money id have a Puma, fully restored, rebuild the 5 speed with an LSD and better final drive ratio to suit the ST170 engine and drop the ST170 engine into the Puma shell. yes i know you can get loads more power from an ST170 engine than stock, but i dont think the puma really NEEDS more than the ST170 power levels
@@kevinparker461 why of course? Am I supposed to know this? Have I offended you or something? Because you’ve kind of offended me, I’m here to find stuff out, I’m not an expert, the cars look the same to me, you’re telling me that they are different cars ok my mistake, I thought they were all the same car just different specs. Please tell me more grass hopper!!!
@@petelattimer6808 I thought they were the same thing. Just different names and spec’s, same platform. Is the Escort not an Sierra with different panels etc.
yes they do. all mk3 escorts in higher specs (Ghia, XR and RS) had front and rear overriders. the rear ones are too close together on that car though. they should line up roughly with the reversing lights, from memory
you need to put your overiders in the correct place... underneath the reverse lights
No smoke that’s bloody amazing
Video hits UA-cam with CLICKBAIT CAPITAL LETTER TITLES
Wicked mate. Nice torque 👌🏼
tidy result, 160hp minimum, no smoke, no leaks and no knocks, you cant ask for much more than that from a barely modded s1.
I love the car perfect runs. 👌great performance of the engine after this time
Outstanding!
Happy for you brother!
What a beautiful car, you can she's purring wheh you see it boost from the in car footage that's running sweetly and loving the cold air too
so glad we got here early finally , love dyno videos
Me too
That’s great that pal, very strong S1 👊🏻👊🏻
The only amazing thing about this is the fact the engine didnt smoke with bad stem seals and drop all its internals on the floor
What are you on about. The internals are more than good enough for this level of power and the stem seals are a 30min job with a stem seal tool if they need doing. I only ever saw failed seals on cars running on old spec or cheap oils. They gone on for ever on modern oils at this power and if you want to run more boost than this uprated seals are available.
@@warwickstingray nope the cvh was a horrible piece of dung. We used to dyno and build them for racing and fast road use. If you didnt upgrade their internals they destroyed themselves very quickly. The old valencia motor in fiestas was stronger.
Love an old skool Ford, grew up around them and that sound is gorgeous! Great video and yes get it back in the garage before it dissolves! 🤣 I love that, old Ford's do that 😏😆
See 204hp in mine which consisted of bigger intercooler, ported polished big valve head done at Burton performance, standard turbo given to turbo Technics for a hybrid build bigger housing bigger impeller's, uprated actuator can't remember -55 -35 something like that, fast road bajoo Kent cam, next size injector (can't remember what they was they where supplied by the builder only thing I didn't buy), fuel king big fuel pressure regulator, full mongoose exhaust, 210mm flywheel from the S2 and uprated clutch, Drivability was still v good the fast road cam wasn't too aggressive but when stamped on would spin through 3rd gear in the dry and loved to kick out flames if it hit the limiter. I'd still have it if it wasn't for rust 😔
Mk3 rs turbo supposed to be 132bhp from factory.
Around 0-60 8.1 & top speed 128mph standard.
That is great power from a R/S, must feel pretty strong on the road. Runs so sweet too, no drama.
Runs well, doesn’t kick any shit out under boost or on the over run.
Yeah surprised me, not even any fuel smoke its running absolutely bob on and the tappets are strangely silent too 👍
Need to consider he's knocking it out of gear and blipping the throttle not letting it run down the rollers in gear. That's more likely to show smoke if it's a bit loose.
Nice figures, what bar of boost was it running at those figures?
Lovely looking car - bought a brand new one back in 1985 - C474 JLG - SORN somewhere. Wish I still had it, better than money in the bank, for sure!
Lovely motor, I know it’s sad but I just love the rear Escort RS Turbo sticker on these Mk1s … I do fancy one now
Happy with that 👌🏻 leave it be no chasing the figures 🙏
Beautiful car mate. In the day I had mk3 with a janspeed exhaust, cone filter and a racing actuator. Got 209 bhp, all set up by power engineering in Uxbridge👍🏼. 90's had great cars...
What year was your mk3 bud?
@@martytdd1606 it was G reg. What ever year that was..
@@garyhutson6361 1990 I think
@@garyhutson6361 1990 Would be a MK4
@@Ridcully72 ok cool. So many different mk. It was the one with the better looking rear spoiler.
That is a really good bit of power I'm pushing 127BHP from an NA 1.6CVH
Yes Jamie that's what I call a reliable 167 hp too. The car doesn't sound like it's balls out neither. Good work
Nice to see a vid of yours pop up on suggestions. You were the 1st car channel I watched...trying to revive that rusty max power fiesta...and that fugly x5 lol. Hope your good mate
I had a turbo’d cabbie back years ago.
Solid standard engine, piper 282t2 cam, bayjoo chip & modified fuel ecu, full magnex with 3” tailpipe, pro alloy front mount cooler, std air box with front cut off, hollowed out front bumper, -31 actuator then Ava’s metering head mod (dubious) used to go off the clock & hit the limiter in 5th.
Last time ava ran it on their dyno
194 bhp at the flywheel.
Hit the limited in 5th at 128 mph.
I felt robbed after seeing all those 230 bhp escorts in fast Ford that had a chip & exhaust 😂😂
Hi Lee - we talking Alan at AVA behind Glasgow Airport ? Knew all the guys there well, and was a regular customer for years with our car
Had one of these 15 yrs ago with 210hp. Great car and rapid back then.
Littraly just racing one in my outlander they still got some good guts for such old motor
Congratulations Jamie strong engine there bud 👍😎
That car is so cool!
Back in the day I can remember my s2 rs turbo which was a really quick car back then made 162bhp@wheels on 1 bar of boost, mongoose system and large grs cooler and a chip.
My mates rs turbo was the first car to have the grs fitted. graham used his for measurements he was working out of his garage then and it smashed the other brands in a fast ford test fair play to him. I remember when we took it out it was far more aggressive.
My R5 GTT did 148bhp at a bar boost but the torque was great at 178ftlb. Didn't need massive numbers back then to have something special.
I maintain the Escort RS Turbo with any aftermarket pipe is one of the best sounding turbo 4cyl from the 80's. So unique
@@exgtt2061 would have loved a r5 turbo I ended up buying the escort instead but both with aftermarket exhaust have an unreal burble 😎
Harrow from Vietnam, me hove you channel Hong thyme. Me hove your car too. Happy hew year Jamie x
Runs nice by looks of that 👍
Exhaust gasses look super clean. Good sign. The peak torque is at a much higher rpm than expected. Probably the short duration of the dyno pull. Is the steering wheel straight when driving in a straight line? Pet peeve of mine that makes an otherwise glorious looking S1 seem tatty. Maybe it was just on the dyno. Great car. I had a S2 but always had a soft spot for a S1
Haven't seen one like that in a long while. In the US it was the Escort GT but I don't think it was turbo. May be wrong. Pretty sure very few survived in the states.
Sweet as a nut. No smoke & consistant runs
Love it 👌
S1 was a better drive than the S2, the S2 seems to have all the rough edges smooth off, which made it feel more like a refined fast XR3i but the S1 felt like a motorsport product. Only my opinion.
your bang on S1 was a proper RS, mk2 was a turbo xr3 my S2 was 160bhp on dyno back in the day
@@JakeM240 I never owned either but have driven both on occasions, totally agree with both of you
My friend had two of those in the eighties and had them 0-60 just over 5 secs awesome at the time and to me the custom was the best looking. How much are they going for now?
That's a quick car
Stage 1 tune. Cannot believe anyone would run a car on a dyno without checking AFR....
If this is a stock engine for this car then you are putting too much power through it.
Trust me , 200 ish bhp is a smart place to stop tuning with these old 1.6 EFi's.
I'm not saying it wont work for a while. I have no doubt it will.. It won't be reliable though.
PS: I know all this from my experience and some of my friends experiences back in the day.
One of them had a XR2i with a Cosworth Turbo kit on it. It had a similar amount of power to
your Escort on a stock 1.6EFi 230ish, It lasted about 5000 miles before it died from compression loss.
5000 miles im amazed it lasted that long, we used to dyno these things on a engine dyno not a chassis dyno. If internals were not replaced and block 'o' ringed it would be a 1-2 thousand mile life if you were lucky. They would blow gaskets burn top of piston out or piston and or rod would exit the show. They were wretched engines in n/a form made worse by putting turbo on them.
Nice but dynos always make me wince since a good pal of mine had his mr2 superchared import toyota dynoed.The cambelt failed at full power and destroyed the engine.He still had to pay for the session aswell.Ouch.
Dyno runs are always exciting times
Hahah you know it
Unless he keeps your locking wheel nut which happened with my first Remap I ever got 😂
Great car Bro !
Cracking little car rock solid runs as well very impressed.
I remember back in the day being a Brummie castle engineering!!!
Looks like you have a cracking old series 1 there …. I had one years ago ( should’ve kept it ) and I remember being passenger in a couple of different ones that felt quick back in the day .. we’ll done
Very good, and in three years it should be tax exempt. One can never really be certain about this. The greater the increase of tax exempt cars on the road, the more shit the government seems to dream up. My old '97 Peugeot TD is £280 a year. Turned the fuelling up and decatted it, for spite. Fuck to them ! Still waltzes through the smoke test easily though.
What exactly is a soft run and why would it make less power? If your testing for max power it's full throttle in all gears.
10hp more! Holy fuck! That’s almost a whole riding mower’s worth!
Do I remember correctly that the car originally had Bosch K-Jetronic injection? Does it still have that or does it have a modern ECU?
I don’t think mine had the same but I loved it
Beautiful car. The car I always wanted as a kid.
I saw a S1 rs turbo with the reg C27 NYJ and I thought it was the one you had because it looks very very similar lovely s1 though matey 👍
Good numbers
I think those numbers are fantastic for the car and the age.
Did have some add ons like a cam? no way a standardn RST even with a big intercooler won't do that.
I had an S2 with cam/filter/intercooler and that made 153 hp
Shame it's not got the original wheels on it ,I had a S1 tuned and set up by a place near me in North London called Technical Tuning ended up making 200bhp.
I thought the RS7's were the correct wheels for that S1. Best looking wheels ever made by Ford IMHO. The softlines come a close second.
@@LeeM74 The wheels on the car in the video are not the factory originals they are later model Ford alloys fitted on it, it actually should be the softIine style I know I've owned 2 S1 and I use to work in Ford R.S dealership in the parts department plus I was in the R.S O.C for 15 years so I know what I'm talking about.
You have to remember that the 132bhp was with leaded 4 star even super unleaded still isn't as good as old school 4 star. We just can't push super unleaded like we could with leaded for keeping the temps down. You could get 380 from a stage 3 cossie now it's 330 on a good day.
Blend your own by adding toluene to super, we found about 10% would almost match old 4/5 star.
Tesco 99 is decent fuel 👍
@@bonkers1212 110 avgas that will make a motor sing.
Like the car drove one of these back in the day, just one question why has the mileage gone from 99,475miles in March 2015 to 2133 miles in Dec 2015, and the latest MOT recorded mileage of 11,737 in May of last year??? has the car had a complete rebuild...
the mileage goes back to zero at 100,000 miles. MOT only shows the indicated mileage on the speedo, hence why its gone to such low miles now. also, even with a complete rebuild in the UK, the mileage is what the mileage is. unless its rebuilt to current regs for safety, emissions, lights etc and re registered as a brand new car, which in itself is almost impossible, then no matter how many times you rebuild the car, it will always be a car with 1, 2, even 300,000 miles or more on them. if the family still own it, i know where theres an early Orion 1.6i Ghia with over 300,000 miles on it, thats been parked up for at least 20 years now!
@@petelattimer6808- you must have one of those special speedo's that resets at 100,000 miles because every other car that has a click over speedo resets at 999,999 miles
Nice figures Jamie , would be nice to see Lambda and boost logged on the dyno though
Sort the spot light please 😉
Can we get a ST170 review, good one where you drive it.. I don't think you can get more power to weight for the money £1000. Please correct me if am wrong.?!!?
it could well be, but i think the 1.7 Puma was a more fun car to drive. the rod linkage on the 5 speed box was a more precise thing than the 6 speed cable jobby (i STILL hate cable gear linkages that all cars have compared to the old rod system). if i had the money id have a Puma, fully restored, rebuild the 5 speed with an LSD and better final drive ratio to suit the ST170 engine and drop the ST170 engine into the Puma shell. yes i know you can get loads more power from an ST170 engine than stock, but i dont think the puma really NEEDS more than the ST170 power levels
Put the 2.5 5pot conversion in it that be epic
not worth it. they are going up in value for all original. ten years ago it would be worth it before the value went up.
can you just reverse the amal valve on these as you did on the S2? I remember that and a fuel tweak being an easy way to get to 170ish.
Nice car shame dunno operator not monitoring the lambda on these power runs. Very risking not watching the fuelling that’s how pistons melt
Lambda? Sure the s1 from 1985 was never fitted with one neither were many cars back then.
Nice power mate
Nice. Despite what’s been said I do think this will make its way to Havant this year. Looks great.
Looks lovely, keep it that way, no more runs please... :)
Is it true that Princess Diana had the only black series 1 rs turbo??
Nice one on the mk3 🏎💥💨
Nice bhp 💯👍💪
Loved it well done 👏 ✔
Nice vid.
How long have you had this?
Class
Move your overrides out
I swear I went to buy this car many years ago in Birmingham who had this and C###KOB he was a proper sound lad who was mad on RS’s
i think i know who u mean hes my mate craig and hes got focus rs in white now
these were fast cars im shocked how down on power they were
Stunning car but who ever fitted the rear bumper over riders needs to go to specsavers
Should that not be lbft not nm!?
It would be nice to tweek it up to 200 🙂
That's the sweet spot for me, say 210nhp and leave it at that they absolutely purr and come on boost amazingly, I'd leave it CVH though
I think you need to get your steering wheel alighned
Lovely looking car, very nice. Keep it, bag it, put it in a garage. Preserve a piece of history
02:51. What is a 'soft run'?
What boost is it running
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In 2015 the car was clocked. It lost 97,342 miles.
Are you aware the clocks go up to 99,999 on these then start back to 00000..? 😂🤣
😂
I didn’t realise these were FWD. I’m pretty sure the RS500 raced in Australia was RWD.
What? Two different cars!. Of course the RS 500 was rear wheel drive. And the RS Escort Cosworth was 4 wheel drive!! but again, different cars
@@kevinparker461 why of course? Am I supposed to know this? Have I offended you or something? Because you’ve kind of offended me, I’m here to find stuff out, I’m not an expert, the cars look the same to me, you’re telling me that they are different cars ok my mistake, I thought they were all the same car just different specs. Please tell me more grass hopper!!!
RS500 was a sierra. this is an escort
@@petelattimer6808 I thought they were the same thing. Just different names and spec’s, same platform. Is the Escort not an Sierra with different panels etc.
Stick the fiesta st on next just to compare ☺️
Its a bit like watching a old lady run for the bus
Mg maestro turbo running a carb used to smoke these. And handles better to
Just started watching but I’m guessing 135 bhp
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this white car is a great car mixed with bmw and capri
Series 1 left the factory with 132bhp. Not 120-125!!
Didn't realize they were front wheel drive. Shouldn't be called an escort. Beautiful car though.
Only car I regret selling
The Americans can make good cars . They just never sell them in the states😂😂😂
Came with 132bhp from factory.
🔥🔥🔥
S1 rst does not have rear overiders
yes they do. all mk3 escorts in higher specs (Ghia, XR and RS) had front and rear overriders. the rear ones are too close together on that car though. they should line up roughly with the reversing lights, from memory