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FORD POWERED TORANA

Started by _scottya!_ , Jan 26 2010 05:45 PM

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#101 _scottya!_

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 10:30 AM

great news, was worried you may have given up on it.

Yep! Gave up on it a few times. A Mate talked me into keeping , finishing ,and using for powercruise and drag racing.

They say there is light at the end of the tunnel, but sometimes the closer you get to the light, the light moves further away. But i eventually got to the end of the tunnel :-)).

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#102 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 04:03 PM

Woot!!

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#103 _scottya!_

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 05:03 PM

Tried to take a quick video in between rain today, sound is abit distorted.

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#104 _AD_75_

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 06:00 PM

Nice to see you stuck with it, is it going to be club rego'd? or strip use only?

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#105 _scottya!_

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 06:07 PM

would like to eventually do the club rego thing. I suppose i would have to find a friendly engineer to sus it all out.

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#106 _hutch_

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 06:37 PM

Shite mate that is one mean soundin sonamabitch,dont think you could really call it a sleeper though............. lol
Keep up the good work

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#107 _scottya!_

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 10:48 AM

Haven't been on here for awhile,

managed to take torana out for a test and tune wednesday just to check all the usual things.

All in all was very pleased with how it went.

With 40 litres of fuel and running full exhaust, set the shift light @ 6000 rpm

i was only testing for driveline vibrations and noises, not worrying about 60 foot times, launching and et's.

Loaded car on a mates truck and off to willowbank we went

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the only phone video of the first burnout.

Only 2 minor problems were 2 little oil leaks, 1 from transmission breather on top of box and the other from where dipstick goes into block.

All in all car feels good and pulls reaaly hard

plenty of pedal left for WOT runs

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#108 bullitA9X

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 11:29 AM

Tried to take a quick video in between rain today, sound is abit distorted.

hey scottya thats how ford engines sound m8 they always sound distorted lol.... seriously though great job you have done good to see something being done thats different what 1/4 mile times do ya think you can achieve with the setup you have???

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#109 _scottya!_

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 11:45 AM

with a cage in it,providing car is set up properly should easily run low 10's on pump

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#110 bullitA9X

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 11:51 AM

with a cage in it,providing car is set up properly should easily run low 10's on pump

sweet m8 you must get some very strange looks when you pop the bonnet lol....

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#111 _scottya!_

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 12:10 PM

with a cage in it,providing car is set up properly should easily run low 10's on pump

sweet m8 you must get some very strange looks when you pop the bonnet lol....

Only had the bonnet up the other night at willowbank looking for where the engine oil was coming from.
One bloke noticed it was a clevo, he had a chuckle and gave me 2 thumbs up.

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#112 Collo

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 12:21 PM

Nice mate, the origin of the motor doesn't change the fact you've put 393 cubes into a Torana.

Edited by slr_v8, 09 August 2011 - 12:21 PM.

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#113 _scottya!_

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 02:38 PM

Nice mate, the origin of the motor doesn't change the fact you've put 393 cubes into a Torana.

393 cubes will be scary enough when i give it a fair dinkum WOT squirt down the 1/4 . cheers

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#114 _scottya!_

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Posted 02 January 2012 - 09:11 PM

Hi Torana folks, Havent been on here for ages, so i thought i would pop me head in give an update.

Had the car @ powercruise sept, what an awesome scary thing to drive :-) , supprised quite a few.

Got some video footage i can post.

Had car at willowbank the other night, brakes will only hold car @ about 3000 rpm to launch.

Car should be launching @ 5500 rpm but not to concerned.

Managed to run a 10.70 sec @ 128 mph with a 60 ft time of 1.571, 60 ft time sort of indicates launch problems.( still no cage)

But running car full trim and full pipes with 60 litres of pump fuel in the cell.

Can post videos..

cheers..

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#115 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 02 January 2012 - 09:44 PM

frOck yeah, vid the shit out of us.

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#116 GML-31

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Posted 02 January 2012 - 11:59 PM

saw it there... shit it went well, scared a mate of mine in a purple VY SS Ute

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#117 GML-31

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Posted 03 January 2012 - 09:35 AM

from Daves site http://www.dragphoto...00616/e2a5c3370

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#118 _scottya!_

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Posted 03 January 2012 - 08:01 PM

saw it there... shit it went well, scared a mate of mine in a purple VY SS Ute

Is this the one Kev ?

that was 10.801 @ 127.87 mph (205.79 kph)

10.735 @ 128.30 mph ( 206.48)

Photobucket having dramas uploading others.

cheers

Edited by scottya!, 03 January 2012 - 08:01 PM.

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#119 _Squarepants_

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Posted 03 January 2012 - 09:04 PM

Well done mate! That is a farken tough car you have there! It sounds like a car should and goes just as well.

I'm glad you have stuck with this project as it was a great idea to begin with (original, feasable and awesome), it shut down a lot of nay sayers and it has offended a lot of purists. That's 3 out of 3 in my books!

As your first post said, no one blinks an eye at a 9" and top loader in a Holden, so why not go the whole hog???

I would never do this as I'm not really a Ford lover but no one can argue with the results you have achieved with this car. It is cool in every way! You are a f#cken legend for pulling it off!

Congratulations!

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#120 mitchg

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Posted 03 January 2012 - 10:52 PM

Awesome result and that sound is amazing! Top job and well done on such an amazing combo.

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#121 _AD_75_

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Posted 03 January 2012 - 10:57 PM

Congrats on the 10sec pass! some powercruise footage would be awesome if ya have some.

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#122 _scottya!_

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 08:15 PM

Couple more from the other night( photobucket dramas)

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couple of powercruise #31

The corty belongs to a mate, simular spec engine . Best it has run is about 9.32 on NOS a couple of years ago

Tuff little capri this thing

some more footage on the powercruise DVD

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#123 _mick74lh_

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 08:46 PM

Nice footage. Congrats on getting this machine all going. Its pretty sweet

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#124 Shtstr

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Posted 05 January 2012 - 09:22 PM

Dam it someone beat me to it.
After doing my lc gtr with the r34 neo turbo 6 i was going to do the hatch i have sitting on the rotissery with a ford engine
for shits and giggles.
Well done man,it has turned out really well and who cares where an engine comes from, cause at the end of the day, there aint to manny toranas left that don't have a part from some other manufacture.

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#125 _scottya!_

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Posted 07 January 2012 - 10:02 PM

Dam it someone beat me to it.
After doing my lc gtr with the r34 neo turbo 6 i was going to do the hatch i have sitting on the rotissery with a ford engine
for shits and giggles.
Well done man,it has turned out really well and who cares where an engine comes from, cause at the end of the day, there aint to manny toranas left that don't have a part from some other manufacture.

LOL !

Just do it...........