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i couldn't tell you about cam for lopey idle, but what i'd do is contact CROW CAMS and ask them if they have one or will make one that idles like a beast on a stock engine.. Marks XD ute idles awesome.. @XTREME KARTS XF its stuffed lol.. sounds like that because it's down on compression on a couple of cyls, blown head gaskets has twin exhausts no balance pipe.

personally, just drive it.. keep a look out for someone selling a 351 etc cheap second hand.. playing cars while an apprentice will just mean you'll be walking more.. keep it on the road

i'll bet the timing chain is worn.. to replace that, you're in the engine enough you could change the cam to a lumpier one(a lumpier idling cam will make a 302 even more gutless on take off) if it was Me, i'd probably change the timing chain and get a dyno tune.. and call it done. if you want it to idle lumpy it's going to be slower on take off with a bigger cam.., dyno tuner may be able to get the carby working(they are equivalently bigger than a 600 holley not a restriction) a 2.5" exhaust will make it sound nice with a straight through muffler. keep the manifolds, be cheaper and they will be fine. that will probably cost best part of $1000- $1500 alone

if you are making it go fast to race your mates, you'll need to spend money you don't need for cruising.. probably $6000+ if you want to race your mates, buy a fast car, but you can't race on the streets legally anyway.. or do a 13s for $1300 project Like Scotty from street machine did years ago

i've been in a manual HYPONL concord NL fairlane that was quick, that runs low 14 second quarters from memory.. (XY GT speed) My fresh reco stock 351 got chopped (car length to 100kmh) by an auto EL falcon that was near new back in the day .. flat 16 second 1/4 mile time.. keep it stock, "cruiser" buy a manual mitsubishi 380 and chop V8 commodores

what 4cyl cars do your mates have? some are damn quick just sayin

pretty much anyone that posts anything here know's what they are talking about.. sometimes there's a slip up of misinformation .. put that down to... i forget what i was going to say...

yeah one thing you'll learn by doing this conversion is EVERYTHING.. i've had heaps of falcons over the last 25yrs and everything i learned was by fixing them(same for the gemini pretty much) reco weber carby if staying petrol for $500 will probably never need touching ever again, i had dual fuel 99% of the time and no carby likes running on gas and ever working on petrol again properly. efi seems a bit more forgiving on dual fuel. biggest issue i have with the ohc engines in XG is not being able to fit your hands anywhere to undo anything.. (crossflow, starter removed in 3mins.. alternator 5mins. etc..) also not a fan of the smart lock shut down on these modern fords(XG is modern for Me)

what's wrong with the XF running gear, far more reliable and fixable in My opinion.. if you are up for a challenge then yes it is NEARLY the same shell(different lower radiator support panel) few brackets in the engine bay on XG for air filter box etc. if i HAD to do it(which if i did, i'd just buy a better XG if that's what i wanted) i'd swap everything including the wiring looms and fuel lines..

diesel 4FB1 ... turbo? if yes, i want it..(but cant afford it yet)

mint what? you need to buy a gemini maybe? @judgetread has a gemini, not sure what engine was going in that

revs at 100kmh would be about 2850 ish with 3.45 ratio.. so depends what sort of driving/cruising you do and whether you can live with the extra noise/fuel use

i don't think i'd fit a gemini engine to a gemini(1600) unless i had no other choice.. i'd at min fit the 2litre rodeo one. i'm still leaning towards the 2.6efi one for the diesel gemini.

i wonder if anyone has made an adaptor plate for the auto bell housing to be used with a T5/ single rail etc? (they've done ones for the lexus V8 to suit supra 5 speed)

You'd need to find a crossflow T5 bell housing to mount the gearbox, also will probably need a T5 XF gearbox cross member, (XG had different floor mountings for the gearbox) the rest would all bolt in. you'll need to by a spigot bearing, the auto engine won't have it. the brake line nut at the diff flexible hose may need an adapter, XG is metric, XF is imperial. ** assuming the engine is original, the flywheel bolts will fit from the XG manual engine, but if its' a leaded XF engine or older (84DA casting) it will have bigger bolts) brake master booster currently will be fine, but they should be a direct swap if the XG one isn't stuffed.

what do you intend to use the car for? i agree with gerg, and chestnut for that matter.. when i had a 302 clevo, i bought a 351 crank and rods, and the head joint did a trade on My 302 heads for 351 recos for bugger all extra, these days most head mobs can relieve the chambers of the 302 head easy for 351 conversion. if i was on a budget though i'd keep it a 302, and depending how worn, pretty much do what Chestnutxe does, new rings and bearings(getting crank and oil pump checked by reco machinist, could take block in just as easy also) new timing chain, cam and lifters, seals rings and bearings, reco the worn out dizzy, new leads(good ones) keep the thermoquad if it works(they are great when they work) 2.5" single exhaust from the manifolds back(cant see them being a restriction on a 302) you'll probably still see most of the $4000 gone especially if you paying mechanics for any of it.. get it dyno tuned by someone who knows what they are doing for $500 and you'll get more from that than most other mods. just get in your head that it's a dinosaur V8.. a V6 camry will be quicker if you are racing.. enjoy the V8 sound and cruise it in My opinion .. it will sound fast if you arn't next to anything new to visualise the slowness(like My gemini wagon, seems fast.. almost any new car will keep up with it if they wanted to)

this is why you keep the old parts. to compare with the new ones.. you'd remember if it had a lip or not? any photos of it dirty elsewhere

dizzy just pulls out and swaps for the crank angle sensor thing for coil packs.. depends what you are doing with it.. if you read Thoms ohc thread you'd be getting an AU bottom end with an EF XR6 head and running a bbm .. that carby look think will probably be on it's limit pretty much standard? but then again, look at Campo's barra NA conversion into XF and it's making decent power NA.. or look at blackxt's current thread with turbo Lpg 4.0 and you'll be thinking turbo... then think turbo and look at the turbo crossflow times .. that's what you have now, then think you want to keep your exhaust so follow slydogs blower setup .. hmm. then remember the sparkydave slogan.. keep it stock date code correct, genuine parts, don't drive it for 10yrs to keep the kms down, don't die before you get to drive it because whoever inherits it will take it to scrap because old car.. that got a bit out of hand..haha

also seen reference to people using them on escort etc.. probably wouldn't be that hard to stick even a couple of them in place of a 4 barrel carb..(you know you want to)

knew i'd seen that "carby type throttle body" used elsewhere..(post 13) i may read it for the gemini, but there is an EFi manifold that bolts on.. would be interesting running efi under the stock air cleaner too though http://www.performanceforums.com/forums/showthread.php?67260127-Blow-through-Weber-carb

the iron head is Bloody heavy! but they didn't seem to blow head gaskets back in the day? they'd need to have hardened valve seats or run a valve saver additive, they must be rare since they are 40yrs old also

will have a listen to that when i can make time.

that screen default can also mean a hose has come off down in the handbrake /firewall area also. on the heater box..(barely, but accessible from reaching near the brake pedal)

if its only on the screen, you could have the black vacuum hose disconnected. it comes out of the firewall opposite the glove box and goes to the inlet manifold, also behind the glovebox there is a multi hose plug, i have had the black hose pull out of it also. (superglue it in, without blocking it with glue)

if you have a mobile phone and can access ozfalcon.com.au on it, then if you get the tapatalk app you can upload directly with that program(i haven't tried it, i use imgur.com