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 Post subject: ED XR6 engine fitted in EA with twin thermo cooling mod
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:19 pm 
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Thanks for the replies to all the people who have offered advice during the planning, installation and wiring of an awsome mod.

Originally, this EA series II (8 seater family wagon) was fitted with the stock 3.9ltr. After a serious overheating (and I mean serious!!!!!) I decided to drop in an XR6 motor, aluminium radiator and twin thermo's.

The result is incredible!! Overall, I think the power has been boosted at least 20%.

I have performed all the work and completed the job fairly cheap (around $1500).

I haven't had the chance to wash up under the hood, so don't be too critical!!

Have a look!

 

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:21 pm 
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shoulda converted it to multipoint while you were there.. CPI.. *shudder*

but yeah the thermoconversion goes off.. i upgraded from clapped out ebII 4ltr to el tickford motor with bbm (and ecu..) and meh.. at the start it felt good now its meh
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:38 pm 
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fancy putting CPI on a tickford motor!! Shame On You!!

LOL just joking :)

 

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 Post subject: Reason for CPI
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:57 pm 
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I hear what your saying!!

I was interested in Multi inj, only I was talked out of it by the wreckers because of the ECU and loom conversions needed to run it.

I've heard you can get mod chips (in line installations) for manipulating the ECU into tring a little harder.

Has anyone had any experience with these?

 

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 Post subject: Re: Reason for CPI
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:24 pm 
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Cruzr wrote:
I hear what your saying!!

I was interested in Multi inj, only I was talked out of it by the wreckers because of the ECU and loom conversions needed to run it.

I've heard you can get mod chips (in line installations) for manipulating the ECU into tring a little harder.

Has anyone had any experience with these?


an MPI ECU and loom would cost bugger all. Parts for EAs are pretty damn cheap.

And no i haven't heard of that ECU mod

 

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 Post subject: Re: Reason for CPI
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:30 pm 
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Cruzr wrote:
I hear what your saying!!

I was interested in Multi inj, only I was talked out of it by the wreckers because of the ECU and loom conversions needed to run it.

I've heard you can get mod chips (in line installations) for manipulating the ECU into tring a little harder.

Has anyone had any experience with these?


They are mentioned in the FAQ sticky - dont waste any time with them

your next mod has got to be the MPEFI conversion ;). That xr6 engine which is normally rated at over 160kw is going to be suffocated by that cfi setup (CFI's were only rated at 120kw's).

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:13 pm 
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Yes turf the cpi, but anyway great start!

 

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 Post subject: Multi EFI
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:29 pm 
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Has anyone had any experiences with this mod?

Buying another EA for harvesting the MPI would work well cos I need a 5spd for my other project (XF Fairmont Ghia)!

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:08 pm 
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Half way through EL motor and trans into an ED, took the day off work to do some research and found out some cool stuff on the bbm and thermo conversion. will let everyone know when it fires up in a couple of days.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:08 pm 
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mpfi you dont need the loom, just the manifold (oh the loom attatched to that but that's part of it anyway) with injectors and sensors etc attached, the ecu, and the fuel pump.

as per fordtech.com (if it is still there) you only need to change one wire in the CFI engine loom for idle control to do the multipoint conversion.

you most likely will be able to get it to work with the CFI distributor also (the engine probably has a multipoint one unless you changed it anyway) and you will get an even bigger power kick
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:49 am 
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Yep... one wire needs to be changed, and the ECu needs to be changed and that is all. I did the MPFI conversion on my old EA which after the conversion pulled out 111rwkw, pretty awesome if you ask me.

 

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