My new EURO ford ;)

[IdealSociety]

Picked up this gem, a rust-free 87 Merkur XR4Ti for $1100 a week ago.






Anyone else play with these at all? For the price i couldnt pass it up!

[91blufestiva]

congrats Sebastian! I know there were a couple guys in florida that had these as well, don't remember there names though

[sketchman]

A US branded turbo Sierra! :shock: Nice score.

[Flw Sock]

Judging by the snow, it's not going to stay rust-free for long is it? Lol.

[TorqueEffect]

Lucky, I would kill to have one of those. It is in such nice shape as well.

I actually saw a lower end Merkur driving around a week or two back, first time I had seen one in person, I always loved European Fords.

I am glad people here in the states have been warming up to european cars, Fiesta, Fiat 500, and allot of Chryslers now are rebadged Alfa Romeos with different styling.

Let's be honest here, Americans haven't designed any truely great cars in a very very long while. This damn country is fixated on designing flashy SUVs and pickups, no car anymore is 100% American except for Mustangs and Corvettes, hell the new Challengers have an australian chassis. My parent's Fusion is pretty much a Mazda. Toyotas and Hondas are more american than any domestic make.

Wow I got way off track...... Woops....

We need the Focus RS here in the states.

[IdealSociety]

it's staying parked and well washed for now

Gonna try and get the lower cladding reinstalled today and then start in on the mods. Right now it's got a 3" full exhaust so it's got full spool around 2300rpm as well as an aftermarket rapido intercooler (factory they have none!) but the stock boost control solenoid is acting up and limiting it to 10psi through the full rpm range. Normally at 4k rpm it opens up and lets 15psi push through.

I'd probably sell every car i owned if i could have a Focus RS.

Still boggles me they ran 15psi non-intercooled on these stock!

[Flw Sock]

I keep looking at the pictures in admiration. It looks so cool!

[DriverOne]

Re: My new EURO ford

That's an excellent example of a cool car! Most of the XR4Ti's that I've seen are so ragged out it's not funny.

[navdoc101]

Beautiful car, I want 1!!!!!!

[defprun]

I used to have one...the odo stopped working at 400000kms. Most fun car I've owned so far! It took a crap-kicking and than blew up.

[FB71]

Let's be honest here, Americans haven't designed any truely great cars in a very very long while. This damn country is fixated on designing flashy SUVs and pickups, no car anymore is 100% American except for Mustangs and Corvettes, hell the new Challengers have an australian chassis. My parent's Fusion is pretty much a Mazda. Toyotas and Hondas are more american than any domestic make.

Just FYI; the (2005 and up) Mustang is loosley based on the Jag/Ford DEW98 platform that was the basis for the Lincoln LS and Jag S-Type. So it's not all American either. The Fusion/Mazda 6 was jointly developed by Ford and Mazda, under Ford's direction and ownership. So really, the Mazda 6 is more Ford than Mazda.

With that said; nice score!!!! I always liked the looks of the Scorpio better, though.

[bhazard]

Re: My new EURO ford

I believe 10 psi is stock for that car, along with the other non intercooled 2.3's.

Bypass the boost control solenoid with a cheap mbc.

[IdealSociety]

the automatics are 10psi, manual is 10psi and then 15 via rpm control. at least thats what i've learned from the merkur encyclopedia lol

http://www.dj-sures.com/GraphicFiles/Merkur%20Xr4ti%20Documentation/docs/merkur.pdf

got my boost controller and new HD guibo in the mail today. time for some fun

[PhoenixSHO]

Its missing a cosworth engine nice score man.

[M3NTAL]

Nice score man, Takeone51 has a few of these in West Palm, his wife's car was black with pink accents.