sam.us Member 3 Member For: 15y 6m 1d Gender: Male Location: Los Angeles, California Posted 21/04/09 08:09 PM Share Posted 21/04/09 08:09 PM First post on forum. Looking to update my 200 Inline 6 in Los Angeles to the F6 310 with automatic. Have been reading several posts about the power upgrade potential of this engine, quite impressive.Lived in Australia as DOD dependent at RAAF Williamtown and went to school at Stockton Elementary and Raymond Terrace High School. Good memories and especially remember the great fish and chips wrapped in newspaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVT Formerly EGOBFXR6 Donating Members 1,111 Member For: 16y 8m 17d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 22/04/09 11:49 AM Share Posted 22/04/09 11:49 AM Hey mate,Welcome to the forums :headbang2:The FG F6 are really something else! You're planning to transplant the engine into your Fairlane? Sounds like it could be really cool Are you planning on using the 6 speed ZF box? They are awesome! And are you planning on modding the engine here in Aus, or will you upgrade when you get it in LA?Keep us updated mate,Cheers,Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.us Member 3 Member For: 15y 6m 1d Gender: Male Location: Los Angeles, California Posted 22/04/09 05:15 PM Author Share Posted 22/04/09 05:15 PM (edited) Will be F6 310 with automatic. The fairlane currently has 200 6 inline with 2 speed automatic and trying to keep the same configuration. Purchased 250 inline six with C4 automatic to upgrade the existing factory engine/trans package. This started the search for 250 parts and upgrades, that led to finding that Ford of Australia had continued development of this engine. Found that iron and aluminum cross-flow cylinder heads where available.Would like to have more power from engine and have been reading several of the posts about upgrades. Seems like you can do reflash, engine internals, turbo, etc to gain more power. Thinking should use vendors who have already have experience with these upgrades from Australia, do not want to reinvent the wheel again.Lots of questions still need to be answered. See mention of 3 salvage yards for FPV parts, one being Ferntree Gully Auto Salvage. Who are the other two? Can this engine run on E85 as our fuel is limited to 91 octane? Edited 22/04/09 05:16 PM by sam.us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t6xr Member 826 Member For: 16y 11m 28d Gender: Male Location: MELB STH EAST Posted 22/04/09 05:21 PM Share Posted 22/04/09 05:21 PM G'day mate, Sounds like a interesting project!!, give us a update on how it all goes.And yeah Cheers,Rob-T6XR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace blind leading the blind Member 3,657 Member For: 16y 1m 11d Gender: Male Location: Mt Alford, Queensland Posted 22/04/09 08:44 PM Share Posted 22/04/09 08:44 PM hey mate there is a thread somewhere on the site about running our cars on e85 so if ya do a search will probably give ya some results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ_AK cj_ak Donating Members 5,077 Member For: 17y 3m 21d Gender: Male Location: Ropes Crossing Posted 22/04/09 09:20 PM Share Posted 22/04/09 09:20 PM Sounds like an interesting project. Talk about old school meets cutting edge tech!!Got any pics of your beast so we can all have a perve??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 21y 11m 8d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 23/04/09 01:17 AM Share Posted 23/04/09 01:17 AM Sam not sure if he's in your area (Ohio's a long way from LA.... )but chase down Steve at RDP Motorsport he's over there in Ohio he would be able to help you out no end, originally a Queenslander and just opened up over there last year he had a lot to do with the XR6T's when he was here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETA-60L Member 28 Member For: 18y 3m Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 23/04/09 01:20 AM Share Posted 23/04/09 01:20 AM This will be very interesting, look foward to seeing what you can do with this, Iv never really seen it retro-fitted to a much older car.Would make a great sleeper too.With the ability to falsh tune the ecu, it will make life much easier, espicially being overseas.The two main late model Fords guys iv had experience with and would reccomend are;FTG Auto Salvage in FernTree Gully, Victoria (03) 9758 6900Macathur Parts Plus, Smeaton Grange, Sydney (02) 4646 1288You could also try; FordPro, Smithfiled, Sydney (02) 9757 1811 Im sure there are many more, a search of the forums will give you a vast wealth of knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVT Formerly EGOBFXR6 Donating Members 1,111 Member For: 16y 8m 17d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 23/04/09 01:39 AM Share Posted 23/04/09 01:39 AM An 11 seocnd Jeep?!?!! Holy hell!! That thing has got balls!Oh yeah, and keep us updated mate Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trbo 6 Member 230 Member For: 20y 7m 20d Gender: Male Posted 23/04/09 05:55 AM Share Posted 23/04/09 05:55 AM Can this engine run on E85 as our fuel is limited to 91 octane?I'm pretty sure the 91 octane in the states is the equivilant of our 98 octane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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