Rolling Road Day - Report and Pics

broos3 wrote: My cosworth has just ticked over 51k and been garaged most of its life apart from the first 2/3 years.

it's a beautiful beast Craig, cossies will always have a special place in my affections, if i could afford a really pristine unmodified 3-door or RS500 i'd buy it in a heartbeat

broos3 wrote: Was your dad the original owner? Good idea fitting the cosworth wheel in my opinion its a realy nice wheel to drive with.

No, he bought it in 1989 when it was six years old.  A mate of his at the time had a white one and when he had a drive he was smitten and thus started the hunt for one.  It was a daily driver up until he stored it in 1993 so I could learn to drive (never afford the insurance on it at the time and he was niggly about an inexperienced 17-year old behind the wheel, no idea why )  Since then it comes out of the garage during the summer months maybe once every few years?  It doesn't get used like it probably should but he loves the car so much I don't think he'll never sell it, we've got filing cabinets full of period promotional material, magazine reviews, XR4i model cars, the garage is stacked with spare parts "just in case", it's mental!  Got to have a hobby I suppose.... I keep on at him about taking it to car shows but that's not his thing, he likes going to shows to see other cars but not interested in showing it, shame really

jimmy136 wrote: dear knows where it is now though, them pics are about 20 years old

looks like it was scrapped or SORNed in 1997

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broos3 wrote: I realy like the XR4i's, red with the grey bumpers looked great. Get some pics up of the old girl.

My dad has owned it for 20 years (so far!) of its 26 year life, 86,000 miles from new and all original including paint and bodywork (apart from the cosworth steering wheel which i bought brand new as a birthday present but the original two-spoke wheel with twin-button horn push is in storage)

broos3 wrote: There are some pictures of the Sierra for you Andrew and others who are interested. I might get some better pics of it put together later and put a proper post up. The pics are abit old and the sh*te strut brace has been removed and the car is back to completly original. The car its just a summer car and hardly gets used. Sits in the garage all the time and gets cleaned more than it gets driven as you can see haha. Craig

Good to see another sierra owner (i have an original 1983 XR4i), they're getting thin on the ground these days 

Oh yeah she looks the part, RS cossie or XR4x4, i wanted one of those. But if i could have any Ford right now, i'd Take the Capri any day. My childhood dream car. 2.8 injection in black oh yes.

Thanks to Duncan and everyone who organised the day.

Was good to get my car on the rollers and get a base figure to work on.  The figure I got was slightly disappointing until you look at the other figures produced.

Anyone will tell you that most M3 Evo's will not produce the advertised 321 PS (316bhp) so if you take the 50bhp "missing" from the M3 GT, E46 M3 and CSL, I should be looking at an actual 321bhp which is a fantsatic output for a midly tuned Evo (Simota CAI, superchip). I will be putting it on another dyno (probably Star) to find out. 

Here's my graph