Yeah me too

Price tag would be .... how much 😮 . The lucky ones were the people when it first came out

No you don't. 😂😂 it was pure junk!! I

Sadly Ford no longer make cars people want to buy.

today's version would be 600kg heavier, 1 meter longer and it would be 4 door suv.

Got to agree with you! Love it

Noticed them sapphire rears straight away but can't believe how good they look what a build amazing fit and finish. I'll have a right hand drive with RS-500evo badges plz 😅 👍🇬🇧

The dark sapphire lights are very cool, have the same one.

They won’t be Sapphire lights, they don’t fit. Well they do but the lenses sit at a funny angle if you fit them to a hatchback (Cosworth or not) I have both mk1 & mk2 3-doors and know what’s what. The lights this bloke will have used is just standard mk2 Sierra 5-door hatchback lights, you know G’dads 1.8 lx. Anyway, awesome build 👌🏻

@@jeffheineken6709 They could actually be the same part# knowing ford😂 I see what you mean, but the rear lights between all these models look almost identical.. .. Then when you add in Ford of South Africa's version of the 3 Door Sierra, which came with MK2 Saff lights all round, front and rear.. it becomes harder to tell what-fits-what or where the parts actually came from. "Motor Addicts - Crazy LS400 Powered MK2 Sierra" Is a cool yt vid on an S.A spec car for anyone interested

I'm European and my uncle had a Sierra Cosworth moonstone blue, back in the old days he crush it really badly he manage to escape with few bruises but the car end up to the point it could not be saved, so anyway when i saw this poping on the youtube i instantly click to see it because before the accident uncle going to work in nearest town about 45 miles was taking me to school and that Sierra Cosworth was a blast.. this is just a cooler thing on every aspect taken to next level, very cool resto.. !

This thing looks great!

But this is a Merker not a Cosworth. Aloud be mental to do this to a Sierra Cosworth.

Yeah I agree. Good luck finding one over here for a £1000 too 😂

Makes me miss my first set of wheels I ever had

Merkur x4ti*

the xr4ti is a sierra cosworth...@@twfgaming3391

you cannot compare a cossie with this . This is just mixed up version of it. It has the looks but no soul of a cossie

@@twfgaming3391 *Ford Sierra. I'm European. We never had Merkur here and the car was originally developed here.

This isn’t a cosworth

@@craigconey9971 sorry xr4ti. Wouldn't want to be wrong for you.

​@@craigconey9971well the car itself says RS4ti, but the argument stands. It's an xr4ti built to look like this. Either way it's a nice car. Call it what you want.

@@s2e130 well it sure isn’t a 500 cosworth that’s for sure

@@craigconey9971 your right there 😅🤣 it's no rs500.

Its the best car of the show, Take note Adam

Was just gonna tag you in this 😂😂😂 It's absolutely beautiful ay.

The reason for the 2 piece glass in the US market was because the single glass did not meet the requirements for rollover protection. I owned many of these back in the day.

In Argentina we had the Sierra XR4 coupe with the split rear window like the Merkur, but with the rear spoiler like the cossie. And with the 2.0 carbureted lima engine. it was very popular with the touring car racing against Renault Fuegos, Peugeout 505, VW Fox. even now is still sought after for rally and drifting because its rwd

The Sierra XR4i came out about 3 years before the Sierra Cosworth, they thought it would be good styling & make the car look different on the performance model, Cosworth then used the base model 3dr shells with the one piece window, hence why cossies have those windows

​@@bassntruckWe had that with the non Cossie Sierra 3 door. Split rear quarter glass. But the Cossie had the single piece .

@@Sharpey187, my Dad owned an 86 XR4i... Awesome car to drive and looked way different to anything else on the UK market at the time... Oh and not forgetting, it was a superior handling car compared to any offering from the German brands...

You sound like a wonderful child.

How old was the car when your dad sold it? That guy has had it since it was 16 years old, 30 years+ ago,

Im not sure about the US cars but the 2 door shell without the 2 part rear window wa only available as 1.3L Sierra and the 3 door cosworth . I think the SA cars and US cars were all the same as the UK XR4i cars so they either cut the metal out or they got a three door shell from Europe. And no, the Cosworth engine was not designed to go racing. The 2.0 Cosworth engine only special because of the head and turbo. The rest is just a plain Ford 2 litre Pinto which was available in the Cortina and Granada. That is not to say that it didnt do well when it was sent racing though.

Yeah you’re right about the pinto block. When the Sierra sales were in the doldrums, Ford sent that block to Cosworth. The engine was built from day one with a minimum target of 500 bhp with 8 injectors and a garret Turbo. The road going cars would all retain the the 8 fuel injectors but only 4 were active: An Intercooler was also added to drop inlet temperatures. That pinto block was a beast, but no Ford head could be mated to make the power for the World touring Cars, to beat the Nissan Skyline, the BMW M3 and the Mercedes 2.3-16 Cosworth.. Cosworth built that head specifically with the pinto block as it’s foundation. Amazing really. As for the rear 3/4 windows, all 3 door Sierras had the one piece, except the XR4i, and that was adopted on the XR4ti when Ford tried to make the Sierra a world car. The US DOT rules, mandated the US style bumpers, the rear fog lights deleted, the headlights and front foglights changed. The 2.3 liter in this car is the XR4ti block that came from the 4 cylinder Mustang. I never liked that engine but it could meet US emissions, and it fit mod free, so the XR4ti got that 170+hp, which was better than the Cologne 2.8 V6 in the XR4i. Unfortunately in a culture where V8’s were the norm, and 6 cylinder engines were considered basic, the XR4ti was always doomed to me with a 4 cylinder engine. Even Sierra Cosworths sounded like diesel fiestas at idle. All of this makes me think that 3.5 twin turbo ecoboost would be a perfect engine for this project car.

The 3.5 ecoboost engine is really heavy and sits up high the 2.3 ecoboost is a good swap to replace the 2.0 it has more torque and they have forged internals from the factory the only weak point of the engine is the turbo and engine block other than that put some performance spark plugs in it, a better head gasket, aftermarket intercooler and e85 you have 360-400whp and 400+ wtq.

There is like millon of those at least this one is more original

This fits more with the original car which had a 2.3 turbo Lima

Nah yall don’t know , BARA IS KING

I do remember back in the day people replacing the stock Merkur motors with motors from the 5.0 fox body Mustang GTs

Yeah but V8 swaps aren’t unique anymore.

You should look up RS500

It's not a cossie... its a xr4ti

I know

You could and can - ford sierra sapphire cosworth 4x4

That’s so cool to hear, in the uk the ford scorpio also got the cosworth engine aswel.

We might have owned some of the same cars at some point. I owned the largest collection that I knew of in KS back in the day.

@@bassntruck are you left with any of the cars now???

@@robocop3961No, I sold my last one about 8 years ago. And then the massive lot of parts shortly after.

@@bassntruck damn they are worth loads now but at least you owned them cars 👍🏻😁 not a lot of people have!!!

I saw a new old stock header tank go for £400 ($550) last year 😳😳

@@realMaverickBuckley I can imagine something like those prices especially for the rare RS500 stuff like inlet manifolds . Even E36/46 M3 stuff is becoming more expensive and there are certain ‘hard to get ‘ items. Pays to save everything

I did as well. I was 18.

2.0 cosworth race bred motor all the way!! 👍🏻

Yup

Guilty 😅

You need to brush up on your car knowledge. This car doesn’t have a solid rear axle. You’ve taken a step backwards yourself.

@@kaijumoto Look at the pictures! the guy even said they fitted a 8 inch Mustang rear axle,so try selecting your brain before engaging your mouth. I have probably forgotten more about cars than you will ever learn.

@@kaijumoto He is right,in the video you can see the `cart` axle. You have shot yourself in the foot there and notpoliticallycorrect has shot you down in flames.😂😂😂

@@notpoliticallycorrect1303 maybe have a look here and tell me that this is a solid rear axle. See how it is the car we are talking about? Look at the back bumper. Yeah, thought so. lol drive.google.com/file/d/1I2jDue4ANxFAGrjp3TrjryuvUN_DUTwS/view?usp=sharing

Picked up a 89 running and driving for $800 3 days ago guess its pure luck