MK6 SWB Cosworth YB Conversion!

[Luke]

About time i started a progress report for this

The plan is a swb rwd cosworth YB powered mk6 transit, so far we have bought a donor sierra cosworth and this van



it's a rwd petrol powered 330, plus points its a pritty strait van with electric windows and air con also it has LPG, the plan is to keep the air con but not the LPG
bad points - it runs rough as a bears arse (electrical prob) but that shouldn't be a problem once the engines out

I'm building the van with my cousin Stuart - he is SJB80 on here but doesnt like to post hopefully he will post some updates as we go on i'll be doing the mechanical work and he'll be sorting the rest

other plans include a full respray, lowered, alloys, rear seats, nice sterio, fully carpeted etc. we are thinking mabe a WRT replica but thats not 100% sure yet

1st thing is to MOT the van as it is and give it a good clean

[Luke]

here's the donor cosworth



and it's engine



and what it's replacing

[MrMPuk]

What gearbox are you going to use then?

[madmark]

well if that cossy is a nice as the photo i would not do that to that car!

[Gavin]

:shock: well if that cossy is a nice as the photo i would not do that to that car!

have to agree, that looks far too nice!

[Luke]

What gearbox are you going to use then?

standard MT75 for the time being looks the same as mine but i haven't had a close look

[Luke]

the cossy is pritty tidy - and it's almost too good to break but it wouldn't get scrapped as we'd sell the shell on with all the docs, if we find another in the mean time cheeper we'd buy it and just flog that one on complete

[transitgeoff]

nah the cos has been a boy racers car, bone it i see samcos and dump valve

[transitgeoff]

transit looks like it was owned by william shatner

[the gardener]

:shock: well if that cossy is a nice as the photo i would not do that to that car!

my thoughts exactly, you can't butcher that...

[ghost]

It's only a Sierra at the end of the day so off with its head and bring on the Transit

[bigmastif]

It's only a Sierra at the end of the day so off with its head and bring on the Transit

maybe sacrilege to some but then again this aint the sierra sapphire cosworth forum so bring on the cossie conversion

[Luke]

Stu's cleaned off all the glue from the signs and it's come up well - we've removed the bulkhead for sale here! also ive found a bare pinto block in the garden from a previous project - should be usefull for jigging the engine mounts

other than that 1 brake lamp and 1 headlight lamp and it's now in the que for a MOT

[rover]

Put a coil pack on it, they're only about £20 for a cheap n cheerfull, if that cures it you know you have a good 16v engine to sell

Rover.

[Luke]

just been informed it's passed it's MOT so let the work commence

Put a coil pack on it, they're only about £20 for a cheap n cheerfull, if that cures it you know you have a good 16v engine to sell

i think what i'll do before i pull the engine is do a compression test - if thats crap skip it, if it's good then mabe pop a coil pack on

btw if anyones interested in the full LPG system PM me