http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ansco/Ford.jpg

So there i am happy with my falcon when i decided to change the little nut filter for supplying oil ro the turbo.

A little over tighten resulted in this mess.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...2112011326.jpg

Cracked block area in 3 places on the thread.

Tried to fix it with autoweld but never worked.

Decided it was too much hassle to weld so ordered a forged block from OZ.

Ready to strip

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...43963811_n.jpg

Heart out
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...44469761_n.jpg


Heavy Duty valve springs ready to go.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...92532802_n.jpg

A little head clean up
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...96328863_n.jpg

Block getting prepped.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...54668009_n.jpg

And thats s far as its got so far.

An expensive lesson on why not to over torque a simple fitting.

 

sorted the pics for you..

look great BTW...

 

It was intentional to just post links. Was unsue if i could stick the full pics up so just put up a link.

 

 

Looking good mate, what kind of power is she making ?

 

Nice work so far. Do you use it much when its running? I've never seen it about before.

 

Im aiming for 400+ at the wheels.

Its usually my daily drive between Aberdeen and Falkirk.

 

Cool car got one of those engines going in my 4wd

 

Cool, are these a 4 or 3.6 liter?

 

Its a 4.0 straight 6 turbo

 

Nice!

Always thought these where V6's ... So 400RWHP is about 500 crank HP ..

 

 

You drive this daily between Aberdeen and Falkirk?!

You've either got a company fuel card, are earning an extremely tidy salary or are insane...

Look forward to the progress/videos of it up and running.


Cheers,
Grant

 

Haha something like that.

I work in Aberdeen during the week and go to see my boy in falkirk at weekends. This is one of my daily drives and is always the first key to be picked up.

A mixture of fuel card and oil company

 

Who did the email tune? Do you have data-log back up fella?

 

Herrod motorsport in OZ supplied the xcal 3 and 3 tunes.

The garage is taking care of the rolling road set up for me.

 

Hello mightnightxr6 graham here with the au xr6 st can you get in touch mate will be working above Aberdeen end of month like to meet up cheers 07831611497

 

New intercooler shoved in the other week. Made 411HP and 501ft lbs in november @ 0.8bar. Found the actuator diaphram was knackered so ive just stuck in a new uprated one and its back in the garage getting a prop shaft rebalance.

 

How cool is this.Made a lot of power for little boost.

 

Ive wound it down to .8 bar as its an animal otherwise. No traction control makes every gear exciting.

 

As the saying goes Glen, there is no replacement for displacement!

I love these aussie Falcons, there is one around my way somewhere, sounds amazing.

 

V8 bonnet on now.

 

At idle

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/niss...cbeed.mp4.html

 

that's a massive chuck of torque for just 0.8 bar of boost

must be lively rwd

there is no replacement for displacement mate

is that wheel or flywheel dyno plot ?

 

Flywheel.

Its going to go back in for some re tuning by a different company from OZ.

Not happy with tis map and lack of communication.

Next tune should see aound 500hp and 600 odd ftlbs.

 

I had one of these (saloon) off Ford for a week... one of the best road cars I've ever driven and so much fun. Would much rather spend £20,000 on one of these as a quick useable road car than any Cossie / BMW etc you could mention.

Just mega!

Ben