Intro-USDM Sierra (Merkur)

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I finally found a forum that has drifters and people that know about this car, nobody in the US knows about Sierra and as a result XR4Ti although uncommon can be picked up for next to nothing, and with the 2.3 sohc turbo motor they come with power can be had fairly easily.

My name is Morgan and I drift an XR4Ti. A few mods:) including a mk3 supra LSD with some custom bracketry because cossie/4x4 lsd are hard to come by and viscous lsd usually suck after they get warmed up.
Some pics and video from past drift events. -

YouTube - Drift Fury 2

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Cool car though, it'll be popular here. Try trampdrift.com too - they love Sierras n ting.
 
Jord said:
Your Sierra has a little french inspector moustache!
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Bwaahahahhahhhhaaaa...

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nice Sierra. Loving the lock of those pics. I thought xr4i's were na :wack:
 
steerfromtherear said:
That's cool, why didn't we get xr4ti's? I want one.
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Wierdly enough tho, before the Cossies came out, they used to race XR4Ti's in the BTCC, even though we never got em in Europe.

All we got was the shite 2.8 V6:smash:
 
Spoonman said:
Might have needed the turbo because american fuel is normally a much lower octane than the normal stuff here.
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Or maybe just because they got a much better and faster car than we did...
 
the xr4ti,s are quite...or should i say were quite common in germany aswell, i know of 2 peeps who used to own them in 1 small town , but this is going back to the early 1990s

i know of 1 in switzerland aswell

im wondering if some made there way of the production line after they stopped selling in the USA

" For the American market, Ford takes the basic Sierra off the Ghent, Belgium, assembly line and then the Karmann works in Germany makes over 700
minor changes and installs the same 175-hp Brazilian-built 2.3 liter, turbocharged Four that's in the Turbo Thunderbird. According to Ford's engineers, the
turbocharged, fuel- injected, computer controlled Turbo 2.3 actually outperforms the European V6 right up to 130 mph. The Merkur's engine is not something you'd
want to work on yourself, "

couple of pics on here, Rouse and Grohs
 
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Or a 2.3 engine to get 170+ bhp?

Remember ford is international, they don't just make dumb engines for the US market and cool engines for us. The americans like big engines with fat wads of torque to heave their preferred massive cars around. I think you'll find that a tuned chevy engine can produce well over 100bhp/litre NA too, it's just that for the cost of it all, why not just lump big engines into them in low, reliable states of tune?
 
jap-si said:
big yank low tuned engines can go for mega mileage before service.
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Not many miles before a petrol station though :P

The highly tuned engines I like, you get what you expect there. My dad had a normal volvo that produced 180bhp from a 2L, and you can get 220 just by chipping it, thats how Id expect an engine to be tuned from the factory. I think you would spend more on petrol on an american engine than you'd get back from good reliability.

Dont get me wrong I love Mustangs and Chargers, but if I had the money Id probably quickly slot in an M5's engine into them. Reminds me of Top Gear reviewing the Shelby Mustang GT-500, claimed 500bhp, actually did something like 440.
 
Spoonman said:
Faster... in a straight line yes, but they need a 6 litre engine to just get 400bhp.
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What you on about? Im comparing thier XR4 to ours, as i thought you was, and theirs handle better than ours due to not having a big gay v6 and faster too due to the 2.3turbo...

Speaking of cars not getting the power they claim, XR4is were claimed to have 160bhp from the factory, but even mint ones rarely get over 125bhp.

Fantastic for a 2.8litre engine...


Regarding "needing" whatever size engine to get the power, thats totally retarded. They got low power from the factory for the size partly as they have silly emissions laws, and partly cause they CAN.

If the fuel was as cheap here as it is there we'd all be able to buy mega engined cars that last a million miles, never need servicing, has power at all revs, and can be tuned to 1000bhp+ with ease.

You say like americans cant build good engines or summat. They fucking worlds ahead of the UK and europe in tuning in general...
 
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