Merkur Cosworth-ish

[JST]

Pulling this out of the EV thread, because...holy thread drift, Batman:

Originally Posted by JST View Post
I respect the hell out of that. If I had the talent and space I would, too.

My latest fixation on that front, which you will absolutely laugh at, is the idea of a turbo Duratec or Ecoboost in an old Merkur, to make a cut rate Cosworth Sierra.

I'm in. When do we start?

Not kidding. We can put 350hp to the wheels without ever opening up the engine and it'll run on 93 octane.

Used Merkurs are...not widely available. But I have my eye out now, because honest to god I think this would be a neat thing to have.

There are some people that have apparently done it. This guy made...some choices, aesthetically:

https://fordauthority.com/2019/10/19...oboost-engine/

But overall it's nowhere near as popular a thing as I might have expected.