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sierra 2.0 twincam.
skinned knuckles - 21/3/10 at 03:42 PM

i have just been offered for not much money, a sierra 2.0 twincam as a donor. i don't know this engine at all. what are your opinions? i know pinto's well enough, and if it was a pinto, i'd have ripped the guys hand off. seem to remember hearing that the twin cam isn't much cop?

[Edited on 21/3/10 by skinned knuckles]

bob - 21/3/10 at 03:47 PM

Hi

Its an 8v engine with one cam operating the inlet and the other cam operating the outlet valves, as far as i know there are little or no tuning oportunities with this engine.

MakeEverything - 21/3/10 at 03:48 PM

"The Ford I4 DOHC engine was a 4-cylinder inline internal combustion engine with twin overhead camshafts, produced by the Ford Motor Company. First with 2.0 litre 8-valve version, in later models with 2.0/2.3 litre 16-valve version from 1989 to the end of production of the MK2 Ford Galaxy in 2006. It powered various Ford models during this time, but was most well known in the rear wheel drive "Twin Cam" variants of the Ford Sierra, and Ford Scorpio. Despite being built for the company's larger RWD models, Ford unusually employed the engine in the front wheel drive Galaxy and sport version of Escort named RS 2000 16v."


Any engine fitted to the RS2000 has credibility?

skinned knuckles - 21/3/10 at 03:51 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bob
Hi

Its an 8v engine with one cam operating the inlet and the other cam operating the outlet valves, as far as i know there are little or no tuning oportunities with this engine.


so the engine is a bit of a lump then, but is everything else on the car standard sierra? (type 9, diff etc?)

if it is normal sierra drivetrain then i might just go for it to get the build through the IVA then swapm for something a bit more exciting. what do you think?

mcerd1 - 21/3/10 at 04:03 PM

It'll have an MT75 box and it might have a 7.5" diff instead of a 7"

but other than that the running gear is just the same as any sierra

jacko - 21/3/10 at 04:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
It'll have an MT75 box and it might have a 7.5" diff instead of a 7"

but other than that the running gear is just the same as any sierra

Mine had a 7in diff 3.62
I did not use the twin cam engine

bob - 21/3/10 at 05:24 PM

Some of the late sierras were a real mix and match,i had a DOHC with MT75 to a 7" open diff 3.62/1 bolt on shafts and rear discs.

tomprescott - 21/3/10 at 05:49 PM

Its not that the dohc is a bad engine, just that there aren't any off-the-shelf tuning parts for it like there are for the pinto, you can tune it but it won't be cheap because everything will be custom.

hillbillyracer - 21/3/10 at 07:53 PM

I'm using a twincam donor, a carb one. It'll do to get things going, help with age related plate etc & I'll likely fit something else at a later date, mabye the engine my project came with when I bought it unfinished.
If you just want to build a fun car to blast about in on a weekend then there's nothing wrong with it, & you can swap easily to the other varients of the same as mentioned from the RS2000 & the Galaxy or to other Ford engines such as the Zetec or earlier stuff.

t.j. - 21/3/10 at 08:21 PM

I'm using the DOHC.

Because there where for free.
A friend of mine can weld Alumium.

You have to shorten the sump and I made my own intake, to keep everything below the bonnet.

BTW. Better a fine standard tuned injection engine, then a bad carburated or trottle body one....

big_wasa - 4/4/10 at 08:56 AM

2.3 scorpio engine with rs2000 cams and inlet manifold is giving somthing like 190bhp.

have a butchers on the ford sierra owners club site.