Those of you with F0rd tasts

[HK1837]

Here is the only F0rd I have ever liked. An XA. Not a GT but still looks good.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ford-xa-f...94647866333319

The first and only of the coupes I liked. Best nose, best rear. Best dash. Shame it is only a POS 302 Cleveland, and not an XA GT RPO83 with US block.

[trash]

Here is the only F0rd I have ever liked. An XA. Not a GT but still looks good.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ford-xa-f...94647866333319

The first and only of the coupes I liked. Best nose, best rear. Best dash. Shame it is only a POS 302 Cleveland, and not an XA GT RPO83 with US block.

each to their own i sometimes wish my sandman had pos 302 instead of pos 308 pos toploader instead of no 4 pos aussie 4spd pos 9 inch instead pos sailsbury but thats just me i suppose

[HK1837]

302 should only have a single rail and Borg Warner, not that much different to Aussie 4spd and 10-bolt? Equivalent of an XA GT with toploader and 9" would be a HQ with Muncie and 10-bolt. Ford might have been in front with the 9" over a 10-bolt but lose every time against a Muncie!

PS, I don't think there is too many of us that would choose (as an engine) a 308 over an XA GT 351. But I'd have one any day over an Aussie built 302 Cleveland! I'm talking pre ADR27A versions of both. HJ spec 308 are a very good engine.

[Gee]

Ford might have been in front with the 9" over a 10-bolt but lose every time against a Muncie!

It's great people love their cars, but c'mon, credit where it's due and just call it a tie :smile-new: Other than the rest of the long list of desirable Fords to have a top loader as OE, big block Cobras both AC and Shelby, Boss 302 and for a bit of Australian flag waving the GTHO are good enough for me.

[V6HQUTE]

i reckon the 12 slots kind of suit it from the photos, normally they look rubbish even on fords but worse when people put them on holdens

[playwme]

Interesting bit of information I picked up elsewhere on the net recently. Apparently once the Phase 4 idea was canned a lot of the spare JG33 blocks they already had got put into Fairlanes and F350's. Might be worth checking the numbers if you come across either of those models rusting away in a paddock somewhere.

[Taily]

Interesting bit of information I picked up elsewhere on the net recently. Apparently once the Phase 4 idea was canned a lot of the spare JG33 blocks they already had got put into Fairlanes and F350's. Might be worth checking the numbers if you come across either of those models rusting away in a paddock somewhere.

Seem to remember reading somewhere (twenty+ years ago, so may have it wrong) that some of the F-series ambulances and either LTD's or Fairlanes as you say got some of them too, along with the odd set of 4V (can't remember open or closed chamber) heads.

I think I'd be wary of the coupe in the link. If they couldn't be bothered removing the top shock mounts/rubbers etc to paint it, what else have they rushed on during the rebuild? The donk would be a bit whiffy without its PCV fitted if it is a bit long in the tooth too.

[trash]

Interesting bit of information I picked up elsewhere on the net recently. Apparently once the Phase 4 idea was canned a lot of the spare JG33 blocks they already had got put into Fairlanes and F350's. Might be worth checking the numbers if you come across either of those models rusting away in a paddock somewhere.

i havnt heard that one before 33= gt 4 dr sedan 66= gt2dr coupe so if they were put into fairlanes or f100 they would not suit body as the engine and body numbers are the same in the older fords i always believed that the phase 4 goodies got put randomly into the xa gt witch became option rpo 83

[mckackie]

I spoke to a bloke at the Sydney Motor Show years ago named Eric Banes......a feller who looked to be in his early 70'S.....about the Ph 4 concept in the XA's . he said it was canned 'coz a motoring writer (can't remember where he worked, Syd herald or Wheels mag but his name was Evans) had a major dummy spit about young people killin themselves in super cars, and after some kind of government knee-jerk legislation, planned models with go fast packs were canned, so, according to Eric, the Ph 4 bits did go into LTD's Fairlanes, F100's etc, with most of the top loader gearboxes being re-geared for commercial vehicles, and most of the 9-inch diffs going to anything from special orders to commercials, and the GT sedans in the XA's were to be very limited, sort of co-inciding with Ford Australia's withdrawal from motor racing in Australia, and sort of with the last of the Monaro go-fast packs decline too. (but the rise of the Sandmans & Sundowners?)

[HK1837]

A lot of ZD Fairlanes got 4V engines with 2V intakes.