it obviously wan't being driven anywhere near its potential. Still would have been cool to e on the track with it.

If you remember when cams banned turbos running in the supercar series tony longhurst & paul morris still ran non turbo sieras.
So was that car one of his turbo cars or a N/A.
But it still should be a quick car even if it dosnt have the origanal engine.
Great shot by the way.

a close friend of mine owns an RS500 sierra cosworth turbo...

its been modified a fair amount..

and to this day its the most exciting car ive ever driven..

Haha, obviously the car can go quicker! I haven't spoken to the new owner myself but apparently the tyres were very old...something like 5 to 10 years old. They could even be old unused group A tyres from yesteryear.

The new owner should be very proud of his new car and its completely understandable if he never pushes the car to his or its limit ever again - its a piece of australian motoring history.

...but its sure nice to have a photo like this and a timesheet to make interesting convo's.

Does anyone know what times these sierras were doing at Eastern Creek in their heyday ?? 1:40 to 1:45 sounds about right to me.

He also told Michael that he had just installed an ex-Moffat turbo, so it could have been a late model NA version.

It would be great if a modern "back to the future" Bathurst race was run yearly.
The old cars could run anything to 6 litres in NA or Turbo with multiplication
of 3 X so 2 litre engined cars would be same as 6 litre NA.
Allowances for turbo technology, suspension, gearbox and brake upgrades.
Tunnel and wheel arch mods allowed but must retain same type of engine not original
but same coding and type eg. 4age can use 7age block, a10 can use any A series etc.
Then you would have a racing class that would save alot of old cars and be more
affordable. However no 4wd or vehicles that didnt compete in at Bathurt 1000/500.

Thats not an off topic its appreciation for an inferior and overly expensive car!

imagine the 1k with powerteks new v8 2.6 ltr engine. 372hp and about 95kgs (a15 weight)

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/02/09/hayabusa-v8-engine/

http://www.powertecracing.com/v8_index.php

at 32000 au it will still eat the sierra.

IMO there is nothing inferior about the Sierra Cosworths. they are / were a highly sucessful racing machine around the world. I'm not particuarly a FORD fan, but I would gladly own / drive one of these babies. The sound at full noise across the top of the mountain [Mt Panorama, Bathurst] was just awsome.
I remenber way back when they first hit the scene in australian racing. They certainly upset the V8 camp.
I do recall the sierra's being a real handful in the wet as boost would come rather violently, and they just loved to step out.

great shot BTW.

Benny