Dansedgli wrote:I know Ive asked this before but what parts of the dellow kit werent you happy with?
My Mav killed an alternator on the weekend and as always it gets me thinking about taking the motor out and putting something better in.
Now that I have half of a turbo conversion and an ECU for an EF I reckon an EF motor would be good idea
Is the falcon power steering pump happy with the bigger tyres? What do you do about the clutch setup? Is it a GQ one or Falcon one?
Have you been on any decent angles in it yet? Does the motor complain about oil pressure when its on an angle?
Where did you cross your exhaust over?
Did you end up getting yours tuned? How does it go?
Cheers,
Dan
Hey Dan,
The only parts i got from Dellow were the bellhousing and clutch plate. Had to re-drill the slave cylinder mounting, as it was a country mile out. Used the original nissan fork etc'. Ford fly' and pressure plate. I have to get a GU patrol master soon, to replace the one i got now, as it's got a bigger bore which will give more travel on the clutch, relieving some pressure off the bearing.
I have only got 31 X 15 X10.5R's, but the motor doesnt stall at low speed, if anything the ford pump is better than the Nissan one as the steering is a bit lighter. Was going to get fancy and use one of the outputs from the ecu to control a solenoid to bypass some of the pressure to make the steering a bit heavier at speed, so you can get a bit more feel, but not really that important ATM.....
Engine oil pressure has dropped to an alarming(literally) point, as my driveway is above 45 degrees, and i had the car idling waiting for the kids to come out of the house, frightened the crap out of me.....suffice to you would have to modify the sump to look like a nissan one, which is ok when going up hills, but so so good going down. Might get inspired to do a dry sump set-up, which would be perfect, but have to decide where to put the reservoir. Could easily piss the A/C pump off and mount the scavenge pump in that position.
Exhaust is crossed over under the motor. At the moment the dump pipe is "just" scraping the exhaust wrap of the pipe, so i will make a rectangular box to keep the flow, and give another half inch clearance, which is all it needs.
Dump pipe has changed since this pic was taken, but you get the idea......
That pretty much sums up the conversion, as you can tell it's not a backyard job, so if you dont have access to some decent machinery,it will be time consuming, to say the least.
I had it tuned 2 weeks ago. How does it go??? like a freight train. I think if this motor was in a Cortina or even a Falcon for that matter, you would have to be very impressed. I got 227.5 rwkw @ 14 pound boost. I have low boost set now at 9 psi, and high is 13ish. Guy that helped tune it said it's fecking scary on the road.
Pity you're so far away, i would love to take you for a spin.............
ed40 wrote:awesome conversion!!! I bet there are alot of fellow 4wd haters though...
Thanks man....fellow 4wd haters????....you lost me with that one.
Cheers
Daz
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 8:09 pm
some monaro scoops 
or back to the original idea, some XA GT scoops (a lot less work )
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