Any Australians here? Looking for parts...

wicked93gs said:

well, I prefer the BA/BF engines, it just makes things easier for me all around...as for VCT, i'll use it if it has it(I'm sure I can get MegaSquirt to run it(even if I have to write the code in myself) but its no big deal if it doesn't...I have read that NA engines when turbocharged have issues with valvesprings? having turboed more than a few different NA engines myself, I'm wondering why that would be? Valvesprings in my experience have nothing to do with boost, unless you are using big cams, and if you're using big cams, then most of the time they arent meant for forced induction...or maybe I should say in my experience I havent run into valvesprings as an issue(I suppose theoretically if the springs were weak enough the extra cylinder pressure might force the valves back open?)

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it's not a DOHC motor, but i was trying to save you some shipping. the SOHC motor is better than any regular old american inline 6

http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11195755

5k au for a turbo motor.

Good to see your interst in Aus Ford Muscle. The BA motor is definitely the one to go for if you can afford the $$. It's the most recent design and the 'Typhoon' motor is awesome. I think they all have ZF boxes in them now, at least the automatics are.

Ford sixes in Aus pretty much went like this: 170-250cui american motor up until the mid/late 70's. (we did get a factory 2V version that had bolt on inlet manifolds in the '70's). They then went to a cast iron x-flow head and then finally an alloy head which ran until '88 as a pushrod motor (mostly 4.1L, but a 3.3 was available too). Then came the EA in 1988, the first of the OHC engines. Big end and main bearings were the same as the old pushrod engine so I'm guessing the crank and bottom end were similar if not the same as the older motors, but the block was definitely different.

There was quite a few minor changes/improvements from then on until the BA which was the first twin cam.

Get em while you can, the engine is dead. Next models will have a V6.