Glenelg15

Walbro 255 it is then. If its loud while it primes that tells you its working haha

What sort of exhaust systems are you guys running? That'd help mask a lot of noise depending on the system. I think you've got me convinced just to go with the walbro. Fortunately these things are cheap and easy to change so if it drives me up the wall I'll swap it out with something else

that's good to hear regarding the walbro. Currently with the car in its NA form with a stock exhaust and factory fuel pump you hear a faint hum when it primes and then when its running and the fuel tank is low you can just very faintly hear a slight low hum but when driving you can't hear it at all. Noise when priming doesn't bother when but I don't want to be sitting at a set of lights and be able to hear what sounds like a blender full of rocks under the back seat. Initially I had planned just to buy one of the premade units on ebay with a walbro gss341 fitted but then I heard a mates car the other day with one and you could hear buzzing away it standing 10m away from the car. That said it wasn't in a modern plastic fuel pump under a seat but a steel tank under the boot.

In the process of doing a NA to turbo conversion (full engine swap) on my ba xr6 and I need to do the fuel pump while I'm at it. I have 3 options at this point, walbro 255, A factory xr6 turbo pump, or something like a deatschwerks dw200 which is similar to the walbro 255. I've never heard a walbro 255 in a falcon before but I have in other cars and they are annoyingly loud so for that it's my least preferred option. The dw200 is nice and quiet like the oem pump but I have heard reliability problems with them and I havn't heard of anyone fitting one to a xr6 so I don't know if they would even fit yet without doing more research. Any other options? I would just drop in a walbro and be done with it but I don't want to hear the fuel pump at all if I can help it. Power wise I don't plan to push this thing very far due to reliability concerns of the na m78 lsd, maybe 250 odd rwkw max however an upgrade in the near future is on the cards however id still keep it under 300kw. What do the stock pumps usually top out at?

In the process of gathering up the last few parts needed to drop the turbo motor in the na xr6. I need some photos of how the heater hoses hook up to the metal coolant lines on the engine. On the na motor there is a small hose that links both the metal pipes together. The turbo engine doesn't have the spot for that little hose to hook up. I know the turbo heater hoses have a T piece in them that the same little hose hooks up to but I don't know where the other end of it is supposed to go?

I wish the wreckers in Tassie were like that. Down here they seem to hardly have any falcon parts and what they do have they want stupid prices for. A 300,000k barra with oil leaks and all the accessories stripped they would probably ask $700 for. If I end up needing to buy a motor for cams I'll probably ring a few wreckers around Sydney/Melbourne and see if one will sell me an engine and remove the cams and send them to me.

that's good news to me that na and turbo run the same cams. That gives me the worst case option of just buying a whole na motor if I need to for the cams without having to spend a bucket load. Id take the ones out of the motor currently in the car but I want to be able to have the turbo motor ready to just drop in and go since I am doing the job in my mates shop which makes for a time limit. As for stripping down the motor I don't plan on giving it a full rebuild, just taking off the sump, timing and rocker cover. Doing all the gaskets, mains seals, welsch plugs, water pump, thermostat gaskets, a timing chain if the guides are badly worn etc. Just an overall freshen up. Its never going to be a high hp build this one, probably no more then some minor mods and a tune around 230-250rwkw. I have to keep in mind the driveline is still NA spec with an m78 lsd which will be a major power limiting factor although a m86 rear end from a xr8/turbo is on the cards for the future if I find one nearby.

I bought a ebay wrecker motor and bolt ons for a na to turbo conversion on my xr6. Ill start off saying I don't want this thread to turn into to going into the cost etc involved with such a conversion. I know what I'm up for, I can do all the work myself and the car is something I have owned for a long time and taken very good care of so its worth it to me. I took a gamble on this engine as for the price I paid I've already done well just for the turbo and the ecu alone so if the engine is good then I've walked away with a bargain. I've never heard it run and I only have the sellers word that it was a good runner so I will find out how true this is in time. The engine is filthy, oil leaks and silicone everywhere, ill be stripping it down and giving it new gaskets, water pump etc. I dumped the oil last night and took the rocker cover off to have a bit of a look. Everything is about how I'd expect except the cams are trashed, there is tons of deep pitting all over the lobes on cylinders 5&6. Some of the pitting is on the nose of lobes, some of the lobes its only the heel. The rollers on the lifters appear undamaged so I don't know really whats going on here. Perhaps the hardness issue that some people are reporting on the fg's applies to the ba as well? Engines allegedly done 190,000, service history, probably occasionally? lived its life being thrashed? probably. Either way I'm going to have to factor in a set of cams now while I've got it all apart. Are the na 6 cams the same? I'm hoping they are because I can buy a whole damn na engine for $200 if I can't find any cams. Other then that the oil had nothing weird in it, feels to have plenty of compression turning it over with a breaker bar. Plugs all came out the same, no excessive oil residue in the intake indicating excessive blowby. I've yet to take the sump off to check out the bottom end. Photos will come soon.