30 Jul
2001
30 Jul
'01
10:39 a.m.
The only Cosworth I ever saw was just a
"built" engine sitting in a speed
shop when I lived in Illinois back in the mid 80's. They eventually put the
engine into a Pinto body (fiberglass, not really a Pinto) and it really
hauled ass. Made a lot of 8 cylinder cars look bad.
If I remember correctly, in race ready trim, the Cosworth
engine based on the aluminum Vega engine was good for roughly 300hp.
I forget what the civilized production version in the Cosworth Vega
put out. Around 1980 or so I had one of the automotive magazines
with a big write up on what Cosworth did to it. Pretty interesting
stuff. Based on the Vega's tendancy to self destruct, I'd saw few
were manufctured and far fewer actually remain.
Jeff
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