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What do you guys think about these?? http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/381543129996?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Ethanol is awesome and I'd love to but it's just to out of reach at the moment. Its a good 30-40 minute drive to the nearest servo. One day though. Is there anyway to tell the difference between the NA head and the turbo head without pulling it apart?

Cheers for the sympathy guys. Bought it through a ford dealer here in Perth back in 2010. Car had 30000 on it when. The car started life somewhere over east so I can only assume it had the motor changed over there before making it's way over here for some unsuspecting person aka me! The dealer is no longer in business so I can't even go and speak to them. So now I'm looking at options. I don't really want to go a fully built motor, so it would be either a FG XR6 turbo long motor. Or if I could find one for decent price an FG F6, but I'd rather not spend a packet on an engine though. So I'll start doing some research and see what I can come across. If anyone knows of an engine either XR6T or F6 around let me know. Spewing though cos I see everyone else with similar mods with fantastic power and torque. I was hoping after spending all this cash I'd be in the same boat.

Cheers for your help Jeturbo. Still pretty p*&ssed off about the whole thing but it's something I'll have to look into I spose.

It's a shame there's dodgy people out there who sell you what you think is a true xr6 turbo but instead it's got an NA motor. Very disappointing, having spent all this money believing you could get to a certain point only to find out you can't. So next thing is what differences are their between the NA and Turbo engine internally? Pistons are a different shape to change compression? Head chamber different size? Different rods?

Thought so. And it's what I was afraid of.

Righto guys. So I've done some investigating and found that the engine number doesn't line up. So I've read that the engine number forms part of the VIN?? That's definitely no the case. When the car was serviced by Mcinerney Ford the engine number they've written on the service sheet is different. I've called them and double checked and this is the engine number they think is in the car. When I checked the rego papers the engine number is different again. The number on the papers forms part of the VIN. Now the actual number on the engine is different to both of those. Is there a combination difference between turbo and NA motors? I tried ringing Ford Australia to see if they could plug in the engine number and tell me what the engine was from but apparently they can't. I've also now completed a compression test. I got 195psi for nearly all 6 cylinders. 4 and 5 were both slightly lower. I thought XFT had said that 185-190psi was what it was supposed to be. With this in mind is it possible that with normal wear this was an NA engine and that they have about 200 psi per cylinder when new?? I'm not sure how much higher compression an NA engine is supposed to be over a turbo so if anyone knows the spec's please let me know.

I'd love to go E85 but availability is a big issue for me at the moment. The nearest servo's with it are a big distance away from where I live.

Cheers turbotrana, Simon mention all of that. I was planning on checking engine numbers and also compression. I'm very much hoping someone hasn't changed the engine before I got the car. But it would explain the broken rear manifold bolt. I'll investigate the engine numbers and compression. Then have to get someone to do the leak down test as I don't have the equipment for that. PTR they're genuine RZ-DF's yes. Cost a mint. Pity about the wife scratching the fork out of them!

G'day there, I have an 08 FG XR6 Turbo. Today it went into XFT for it's second tune. Around 12 months ago I took it in for a full stage 1. Was pretty happy as it came out 280kw on 13psi. Whilst there I the lads called me and asked if it had 98 in it as it was pinging it's head off on the pre tune dyno run, before they'd even touched it. Now I've never run any off my car's (even my lawn mower gets 98) on anything different. Simon managed to get the 280 with a safe tune. We put it down to a bad batch of juice. But the problem was always there, occasionally when I'd give it a boot full it would ping (I'd immediately back off). Since then I've put on a plaz 4 inch intake, process west stepped cooler and piping, xforce 4 inch dump & cat into 3.5 inch, and had the stock turbo done up with 64mm billet compressor wheel, ceramic ball bearings, wastegate ported, and 14lb actuator. Also walbro 460 in tank pump. Took the car back in today and had exactly the same issue. Doing a base run with just gate pressure and she's pinging her head off again. Managed to get another safe tune with 339kw at only 11psi. Less boost than the original tune!! Any more boost or timing and away she goes pinging like mad. Now 339 is pretty reasonable power, but I want to get rid of this bloody pinging. Speaking with Simon he checked the VCT and that's all good. A couple other things he mentioned which I'll be going over is to check the compression. As the car was purchased second hand something may have happened previously and the engine has been changed or head removed and worked on. This theory is possible as when I removed the heat shrouding before getting the turbo done I found one of the very rear top row exhaust manifold to head bolt had snapped off. Which definitely wasn't me, I put it down to when I had the clutch done but the more I think about it it seems less likely that they would've needed to do anything in that region. The only other thing is that the head gasket has a slight leak and coolant is weeping into a cylinder somewhere. So I'm wondering if anyone out there has had a similar issue with their car or knows of someone who has. I'd really like to get to the bottom of it so I can have the power, torque, and reliability that everyone else seems to have. I know people love pictures so here's a couple of my machine! Cheers All!!!

Ok cool. So what problems have people run into fitting 10's under the back? Where will they scrub or hit? How people have gotten around it? I was told that the spot that the 10's will hit is the clip that the rear bumper attaches to the body that's inside the rear of the wheel arch. Is that the case or is there anywhere else?

They do have a 9.5 in a +30 and +45. How would they go on the rear?

Yeah that's the only offsets they offer which is a real pain. But it's the same with all the wheels I've looked at.

Couple quick questions. FG XR6 turbo sedan. 19 x 9 +35 front 19 x 10 +35 rear. Running bilstien shocks and SSL king springs all round. Will I have to do any guard work? What size tyres can I run without scrubbing etc? I only ask as I was told that running 10s on the back of a sedan can cause problems with scrubbing etc. Cheers Lads.

I've got an 08 XR6T and was wondering do you have to remove the mesh insert in the bottom part of the spoiler to get the cooler in? That would hide the cooler a bit better I'd think.