TrakStar Motorsport Sapphire Cosworths

[Roy 22]

Let me be clear, these are not my cars but the owner of them Carl has given me permission to post updates of his restoration work on these cars here for us RS500 lovers.

These are the cars that drove in the 1991 BTCC and in 1994 did the European Touring Car Championchip. Both cars were located in Portugal and had been converted from RHD to LHD. Shell no 1 will be restored back to the original BTCC spec with a 280 BHP na Wilcox engine. Shell no 2 will be as close as possible but that will be hard due to sourcing original parts.

First some pics of shell 1

Back in 1991

1994

2014

[Roy 22]

Shell no2

[Roy 22]

Looks like the original bumper ist still fitted to shell 2

[Roy 22]

Some original parts have been sourced allready

I will update this as Carl will progress.

[lee2cossies 0]

Great project these are and I'm sure Carl will do a cracking job restoring them. Did he get the Wilcox engines with them?

[Roy 22]

I believe so Lee

[RickoG66 0]

this is going to be a great thread that i will be looking at with owning a sapphire cosworth its great these have been saved to be re built

[Roy 22]

A little update from Carl:

Original alloys

Original seat

[PAUL S 11]

One of the original engines 

and the special rear bias mounted gearbox, that apparently was useless and they canned it mid season

[MT-Motorsport 15]

That's a good update I bet his chuffed with getting the original parts