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He used to have a dark bluey purple tc/td cortina many years ago, nice guy, always up for a chat.

Agreed!

Yes good job indeed.  To be that far ahead out of the box and with gearbox issues is truly impressive, especially in an xe. Well done to all involved.

Oh and it's a 4 barrel car!!!!

Hahaha that's awesome mate very very Tuff!! Hopefully bump into the car at the creek one day


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ASL Automedia in Victoria, are the ones to speak to.
They made/imported/service/repair all the stereo systems for Ford Australia, since the 1990's.
 
 

Yeah it is Tony's done a great job with it tuff as,   was having gearbox issues yesterday, ya will see it out there mate 👍🏻

Hahaha it's a mates car, it's a N/a 250 with a single 4 barrel Holley, C4 and 9in 

It's not Steve's car.  It's a mate of his.  Looks like the bar has been reset. 

He used to have a dark bluey purple tc/td cortina many years ago, nice guy, always up for a chat.

Molasses 1 part to 9 parts water will do the same thing but takes about a week

Molasses 1 part to 9 parts water will do the same thing but takes about a week

I remember that!

I've actually got the video saved on my laptop of him racing at eastern creek down the straight


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I remember it had a top loader with triple webers on the crossflow. He was telling us he would shift at 6,500rpm. This is in the very late 1990s.

Yeh pretty sure he's the DOG302 bloke that ran the aspo 250 thru a toploader back in the day


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I see only one way around this. Build an angry as hell clevo. 850dp on a single plane high rise, chi heads, crane f260/f246 solid cam, good set of forged pistons, 10.5-11:1 comp, 6 inch rods, fully balanced with pacemakers 4 into 1 with dual 3 inch collectors twin pipes with 1 magnaflow muffler in each dumped at the diff. 3500 stall c4, 3.89:1 diff. Spray fish oil on the body. Done

Rods are similar length to 302Cs, maybe a tad shorter.

Blocks are big but assembled engines are still lighter than a Clevo by 20 kg and heavier than a 302W by the same amount

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Yeah, do it if you can afford to. Always nice to start with straight, flat, bearing surfaces. Although it looks pretty good from the pic, cant just emery tape the journals.? and give 'em the old fingernail test.

When it comes to this I think there are 2 types of people, the ones who want to learn and have a go and others that are smart enough to realise when to leave it to someone else. I say secondhand because a Cleveland block can easily gobble up a couple of grand in machining and even more of the bores need sleeving. If a seller is legit they will have a receipt for the build and the engine builder should be open to talking to you about it and a quick refresh of rings and bearings and maybe revise the cam to suit you. Honestly, a cam, rebuild carb and exhaust will wake it up a tad but it still will have its doors blown off by a stock fg n/a falcon.

I see only one way around this. Build an angry as hell clevo. 850dp on a single plane high rise, chi heads, crane f260/f246 solid cam, good set of forged pistons, 10.5-11:1 comp, 6 inch rods, fully balanced with pacemakers 4 into 1 with dual 3 inch collectors twin pipes with 1 magnaflow muffler in each dumped at the diff. 3500 stall c4, 3.89:1 diff. Spray fish oil on the body. Done

All good mate, they are pretty abundant and cheap.
 
I reckon Dan may have one or two.
 
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Will also let you drop your diff ratios giving better acceleration and keep your rpm low at highway speeds.

Fair enough. This can be an expensive hobby!

Wanting to get a 2500 hi stall, xg diff gearing and a shift kit also. 
but yea your right a N/A bf will chop it. It's just to pick up and go a bit better nothing special.
 
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When it comes to this I think there are 2 types of people, the ones who want to learn and have a go and others that are smart enough to realise when to leave it to someone else. I say secondhand because a Cleveland block can easily gobble up a couple of grand in machining and even more of the bores need sleeving. If a seller is legit they will have a receipt for the build and the engine builder should be open to talking to you about it and a quick refresh of rings and bearings and maybe revise the cam to suit you. Honestly, a cam, rebuild carb and exhaust will wake it up a tad but it still will have its doors blown off by a stock fg n/a falcon.