Abacus

I pick up my "new" 11/2000 Fairmont Ghia V8 tomorrow. Engine is is bog standard 175kw V8. There's 54,000km on the clock.

The car has Ford's three year extended warranty. The car will be used as my work car every day, and will rack up around 120,000km over the next four years. It **has** to be reliable. I can't afford the thing to be tied up in the workshop.

I want to give the thing a bit of a tickle, but the parts will have to come from Ford's parts bins and be fitted by a Ford dealer to safeguard the warranty. I don't want to over-capitalise the car, and have in mind a $2,000 - $2,500 budget for the engine.

I'm thinking along the lines of adding what I can from the 185kw or 200kw XR8 parts, starting with exhaust manifolds. Any thoughts on the biggest bang for the buck, within warranty constraints ?

TIA

Abacus

Abacus

Oops. My bad. The car is, of course, an AUII.

Abacus

Noboss

Full Liverpool exhaust,$1600+K&N,$120+1.72 roller rockers,$700 = 25KWs simple>>>

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Gambit

You have pretty much nailed it for the money he wants to spend.

Abacus

Thanks guys,

Can you recommend a source for the roller rockers?

Abacus

Noboss

I would use SVO ones, but the yella terra rockers are cheaper.....

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TS50 no-125
TE50 no-94
"The TE50 is the best high performance sedan Australia has ever produced"
Street machine Feb 2002
TE50T3 Remember the GTHO? well your getting close.
Motor mag Jan 2002
Wouldn't you love to say that about your car?You loosers

Gambit

Try Vpw or High performance world or somewhere like that.

JC-XR8

I got my RRs from Repco for $510.

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EDXR8

VPW has the YT 1.72 rockers for $436.95 which is about the best price you will find.

ebxr8240

The Y.T shaft / pedestal are much stronger & better....
The adjusable's are even better...

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