Ford Escort RS Cosworth - car classics

Ford Escort RS Cosworth

The company Ford is planned, that the Escort will replace Sierra in the rally already in 1988, since for the victory in the world Championship on rally company needed a car of the smaller sizes. Ford entrusted with development of model companies SVE (dealing with the development and design of special vehicles) and Cosworth. They cut the bottom of the all-wheel drive Sierra Cosworth with a body of type В«sedanВ», it was set up under the body of the Escort and the increased wheel arches, with consideration of standard width of a track. The power distribution between the front and rear parts was carried out in the ratio 34:66 using viskomufty, with more emphasis on rear-wheel drive which turned out to be very effective. In the model established four-cylinder engine Cosworth with a hybrid turbo Garrett tor/T04V and two-stage interkulerom, and for deliverance from turboyamy used multi-point electronic fuel injection Weber-Marelli and turbocharger confgured in such a way as to slightly speed up the engine. The model has been successful in various races, but only in the last season of the model, 1997, the Spanish rider Carlos Sainz brought Ford to win the world rally Championship.