matt, ive begun stripping my F6 motor of s**t i dont need

- coolant hoses with the oil filter sandwich (cools oil by running coolant through sandwich plate)
(the lines that wrap around motor etc)
will do for CHEAP AS f**k for ya matty

- butterflyless BBM (minus TB, and im still unsure about Map Sensor, will let you know)



and matt, turbo return oil line is cheap
the 3/4" telfon stainless braided line is like $80 for a metre of it, then you need the barb fitting for sump and the turbo drain fitting




ill have more parts off my phoon motor... will keep you in form matt

Schweet as bro! So which metal lines have you got? The turbo coolant feed and return? If they're the ones i'll nab them for sure! As for the turbo oil drain, i'm going to stick with the stock line, i'm just being fussy now haha.

I've managed to score a butterflied lower manifold, i've already gutted it and just need to dab a bit of weld in the hole at the front of it.

wow ive just read all 42 pages and this has got to me my favorite el fairmont on fordmods
cant wait to see/hear this boosted one day soon

Awesome, thankyou very much for the kind comments. Not too far away from being boosted now, just a few bits to go...

just wondering is there any interoir pics or full car pics ?

I have a few shots of my car in my gallery over there <------ but now that i think of it, i don't really have any good interior pictures. I'll have to fix that one day

I went and purchased some exhaust studs and nuts today, just another thing to tick off the list. Had a bit of fun bolting a few things together, should be sweet.

Getting ever closer to getting this turbo stuff on the road. These are all the bits i have stashed away:

Stock exhaust manifold
Stock dump pipe
Oil supply line
Oil return line
Coolant supply line
3x Banjo bolts
Turbo oil filter and adapter
Banjo sealing washers
Intake/plenum and exhaust manifold gaskets
Exhaust studs and nuts
Stock turbo
600x300x75 intercooler
Lower intake runners
Exhaust manifold heat shielding
XR6T fuel pressure regulator
Walbro GSS341 in-tank fuel pump
Modified heater pipes
Cheapo stepper motor boost gauge
XR6T MAP sensor
MAP sensor socket

I still need to do up an exhaust, intercooler piping, turbo gaskets, boost controller, relocate the battery to the boot and get a tune done, but that's about it.

Finally getting that bumper damage repaired on Wednesday, will be two days untill i get the car back, but should be as good as new.

Also, has anyone got any advice on what to do with shuddering brakes? I had new rotors, pads and bearings fitted around 3000km's ago and already i'm starting to feel a shudder, urgh! I hate Ford brakes

Fordman, what brand are the rotors? Just contact the manufacturer if you fitted them yourself, or the fitter if you didn't. I had a brand new pair of RDA (329mm) rotors with similar k's. They warped, I had them machined, and they warped again. Fitter contacted RDA, and they came in and replaced them.

Good luck, and looking forward to seeing more of this project!

Joe

Hey,

Looks like you been busy man....

Do you really have to move the battery?? Using alot of factory parts, so should all fit, even though it's a different model falcon, they are essentially the same. I saw an under battery tray intake pipe, looked ok. Surely you could do the same, and save a bit of work with the battery, unless you want to to tidy the bay up??

Keep up the good work....

Cheers

Daz

This is a awsome build thread with plenty of info

Make sure u do a separate thread about using pre BA/BF BTR gearbox on BA/BF engines as this would be great for anyone who wants to do the conversion without using BA/BF gearbox.

I wonder what sort of HP numbers if you kept this NA and used a E-GAS engine instead???

Thanks Joe, yeah my rotors are made by RDA too, i'll see how they go, if they get any worse i'll get onto them and find out what they will do.


Yeah, i'd like to move the battery anyway just to make the engine bay a bit tidier, plus it will give the air filter somewhere to live. I have seen the under battery intercooler pipes from BA's, although it's a great design it won't fit in EL's unfortunately


I've put the transmission build on the backburner for now, we'll see how the BA 93LE holds up with minor abuse haha.

I'd like to know how an E-Gas engine would hold up with boost, even though it has the F6 internals the compression ratio compared to the NA engines is even higher still!! Wouldn't take much to get it boosting!



Well, a bit more news. I had a crack at getting the heaters going and what a botch-up of a job that was. What was meant to be a couple of hor job (like we all know) turned into a complete day job. Nothing went right, the metal heater pipes i had made just dont 'work' and looks very half-a***.

I'm going to get another cheap work bunkie to get around in and to do all this turbo stuff right, i might pull the whole engine out so i can get into everything a bit easier.

Thought you would've painted the block before fitting the engine?????

Yeah, i'm on the hunt for another work bunky to get around in. When i do get another car, the engine in the Fairmont is coming out to get a spruce up and to have all the turbo stuff strapped to it. I might also get the engine bay painted too. All things i wanted to do before, it's just that i didn't have the time, patience or money to do it haha.

Fear not, drastic plans in the near future.

Found a half decent manual VL commodore to get around in now, so as soon as i pick it up, turbo work commences on the Fairmont (yay)

Should of kept skyline lol

Least VL is powered by Nissan so i'll let ya off for buyin a Ho...HOL...Hden - i can't say it

Nah seriously i don't mind VL's
Look forward to finally seeing this beast boosted

Holden! There ya go haha. It's manual, very fun to drive, it's just something i don't have to worry about if i want down a gravel road or leave in the rain, it's my b**ch.

Yeah i'm kinda looking forward to it finally being finished, i've had enough of it sitting around doing nothing, ahh well, one day. By the way PM replied.

Hmm i haven't received PM yet, might not of sent

It's all finally happening now. Engine bay is being stripped in preparation for the bay to be painted. The battery tray is going and battery is being relocated to the bootspace, AU coolant bottle is being installed, engine block is going to be scrubbed and painted then have the sump tapped for the turbo oil return and a hybrid set of EL and BA heater pipes fabbed.

Progress so far: