Works Cologne Ford Capri at Goodwood 2003

Ford Capri RS at the Festival of Speed, Goodwood 2003. Driven by Jochen Mass

[@QuadCamCapri]

It's the Ford Cosworth GAA 3.4 V6, the block was from a special run of the Essex V6. The heads etc. were designed by Cosworth. Made about 450bhp in the works Capri's of 1974-75.

[@inquisitor229]

This Capri is 'Maus nummer fünf', the fifth of the 1974 factory built cars, mostly kept as a spare. To this day I believe it is still part of the Cologne historic collection. Most of the cars racing these days are reproductions, the originals are now very valuable.

[@QuadCamCapri]

Hi tpvalley went to reply to your 2nd post and clicked remove by mistake, sorry. Anyway to answer the question, no the Lucas Mfi wasn't slide throttle, and it has 4 over head cams. Cheers Simon

[@QuadCamCapri]

Ford never did anything with Cosworth V8's but there was a Super Saloon Capri raced by Colin Hawker with a Cosworth DFV in.

[@tpvalley]

On videos I've seen the look like the understeer massively then oversteer!! But I guess they set it up to understeer to balance the oversteer? When u say axle location, do u mean the axle was only located by the leaf springs and that was the problem?

[@artofwheels]

classic masterpiece! 5 stars

[@stuartfields1]

Having read some of the comments on here, I now believe the saying 'Ignorance is bliss'.....Cosworth are gods!

[@QuadCamCapri]

It retains the same type as in McPherson struts & live rear axle but obviously heavily modified eg. the axle was 4-linked plus a Watts linkage, the leafs were just fibreglass dummies to comply with the regs. The tricky handling was down to a poorly located axle, easily sorted.

[@tpvalley]

Daft question (?) but what similarities does it have to the cosworth fiddled v6 used in scorpio's? or was that cologne based? Did cosworth just pay attention to the heads or all the engine?

[@justforever96]

A 5.0L V6? Or do you mean it was a 5.0L V8 originally, chopped down to a 3.4L V6? Nasty car in any case...for some illogical reason, I never liked V6's much, but when they're built right and put in the right car, they make some awesome engines. I love the way this one sounds, and the individual throttle bodies are just cool. I always wondered about how the lack of filtering affected open-intake cars. Doesn't grit get inside the engine? I sure wouldn't want to daily-drive like that! Maybe 1 race.

[@tpvalley]

Interesting, was a v8 capri racer made by ford? with a race v8 cosworth thingy whatsit?

[@justforever96]

So it ONLY had leaf springs to locate the axle? What about axlewrap and all that? That's insane...why didn't they use traction bars or a 4-link or something? Was it against regs, or what?

[@tpvalley]

It is a v6- the noise gives it away and the 6 throttle bodies.

[@tpvalley]

What remains "capri" on the chassis? anything? I know capris had "tricky" handling!

[@wellys]

anybody know where to get this bodykit any help much appreciated, Thanks

[@RaceNfunTv]

"world wide web point capri-wst point de" there you can find it

[@stevenking500]

cologne capri cosworth rs 3400

[@QuadCamCapri]

£50 wow!

[@3kneeboi]

This is the stuff wet dreams are made of....

[@lesteranddonna]

Sorry to say the German V6s are way better than the Essex motor !

[@QuadCamCapri]

The block was still a cast iron Essex one, just a special run of about 100, it also used titanium conrods. Pity the fuel crisis put an end to the Capri v CSL battle :(

[@QuadCamCapri]

None other than it was also developed by Cosworth, as you guessed the Scorpio 24 valve was based on the Cologne. The GAA was developed as a whole by Cosworth.

[@mainman2999]

The Cologne bit was the name of the bodykit, cologne arches etc, after the german capris from germany, also the 2.8 and 2.9 Crap v6s compared to the proper ESSEX 3.0 v6

[@Ambie1234Jade]

Its not a Cologne Block its an Essex. 440 bhp std output.

[@QuadCamCapri]

No, don't think the Gp2 rules allowed it, would have been nice though.

[@tpvalley]

thats a cosworth engine not a cologne...I think.

[@QuadCamCapri]

Even on a properly set up car you'll get a certain amount of turn in understeer and power out oversteer, especially on tight bends due to a heavy V6 & RWD. Yes thats about it leafs with rubber bushes, plus the anti-roll bar which did very little.

[@tpvalley]

cologne engines include the 2.8 v6, made in cologne at first, the cosworth engine is made in england and is a race engine, not at all like the cologne.

[@natjzam]

this just shares a block with the cologne.. the engine is a 24valve 3.4 litre. on throttle bodies it ran 370bhp standard, and well over 400 with slide throttles...

[@maffre]

Nice !

[@Frittrich]

what a beauty