Boomy Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 AUTO TRADER MOTOR Mind you, wasn't the "proper" version like 500 BHP or something?. Also, check out the photo sets here if you like shiny American things with a bit of grunt CLICK ME Quote
S8ight Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 pretty certain they came with 200bhp as standard ?? would rather have this though....... Quote
scruffythefirst Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 Standard sierra cosworth engine IIRC. So 500bhp is certainly possible. Pat dorans old rallycross car was quick - 60 in 1.8 seconds or something really silly. Quote
Blatman Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 Advert says it's a 1.8 RS200's were all 2.0l or so I thought, so something smells IMHO... Quote
scruffythefirst Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 RS200's were all 2.0l or so I thought, so something smells IMHO... Lot of replicas out there too.... Quote
Blatman Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 Replica was my second thought... Then there's The Only One Of It's Kind, No: 184/200 The only one of it's kind, but number 184 out of 200? Hello, is that trading standards? Quote
a4gom Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 Advert says it's a 1.8 RS200's were all 2.0l or so I thought, so something smells IMHO... ? I did a search and turned this up, says they were all 1.8 Quote
Blatman Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 IIRC, the road versions had a developement of the BDT engine which was originally a 1.7 morphed in to a 1.8. I have a feeling that there may have been an upgrade to make it a 2.0l. The works cars were all 2.1's. I doubt it's a one off though as there were definitely 200 road versions made, and there were a couple of dozen "works" cars too. Of the 200 made, approximately 50 were robbed for spares, meaning only around 150 ever made it to the open market. Quote
a4drk Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 Advert says it's a 1.8 RS200's were all 2.0l or so I thought, so something smells IMHO... The RS200 was a 1.8 Turbo. So was the Peugeot T16 - it was a 1.8 turbo too. Most people thought that it was the 1.9 GTi engine..... wrong - totally different. David Quote
Mark B Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 You're both right- The RS200 was sold in 2 guises The "road"cars were all equipped with the BDT engines which were all the engines left over from the abandoned RS1700T project (rear drive MK3 escort turbo) & were bored out to near 1800cc. The Evolution cars (nearly all were rally cars) had a 2.1 engine capable of upto 850 BHP, the most powerful one I know of is the Pikes peak special which Stig Blomquist tested a few years back. There's an evolution a few miles from here, hardly gets used, last time it was at santa pod as a bit of fun & did a 9 second quarter mile. The same owner bought 6 standard RS200's when they were available but sold them all bar 1 a few years ago. Awesome car but a pig to get going, if you let the revs drop below 3500rpm when starting off it just stalls & you have to sit with it for 15 mins to warm it up first! Cheers, Mark. Quote
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