Javascript Disabled Detected

You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.

Ford Motor into a Torana

Started by _JBird_ , Apr 29 2006 05:03 PM

Next

Please log in to reply

70 replies to this topic

#1 _JBird_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 05:03 PM

I was stuffing around on google and this came up. Dont know if its someone on this forum or not but i think its pretty cool, very original. well ill let u guys be the judge

Ford Motor into Torana

-james

Back to top

#2 _user asked to be removed_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 05:28 PM

Dear Lord... :shoot:

Ford and Torana dont mix...
Although I could live with it, except the wing...

Back to top

#3 _tj81_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 05:40 PM

hmmmm 4.0 alloy headed OHC in an LJ, that thing would boogie !!

Back to top

#4 _JBird_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 05:45 PM

agree ^^^^ couldnt live with the paint job either

Back to top

#5 _hg premier_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 05:49 PM

sorry but a torana i not a torana with a ford in it... if he was my mate i would dis-own him :lol:

there are much more things you could do with a LJ.. that just makes me sad :huh:

:(

Back to top

#6 davelh

Forum Fixture

Members
814 posts

Location:Adelaide
Car:74 LH SL
Joined: 10-November 05

Posted 29 April 2006 - 06:05 PM

Mate of mine had a HB with a 250 cross flow in it, (cut and shut firewall) perspex windows, cage, holley hanging out the bonnet, street driven that did 11s and would pop the front wheel off the ground
Gay Motor but fuggin cool car
cheers
dave

Back to top

#7 _Torana482HP_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 06:10 PM

The only Ford item that should ever be in a torana is a 9in diff

Back to top

#8 _draglc_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 06:15 PM

this car has been posted on here before, for sale if im not mistaken, and i seem to remember it is an lc xu1, with a race history...

A1

Back to top

#9 _TORANR AMORE_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 07:17 PM

The only Ford item that should ever be in a torana is a 9in diff

...and a 4speed toploader if necessary

Back to top

#10 _SSkid_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 08:17 PM

that makes me sick :furious:

Back to top

#11 _JBM_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 09:28 PM

What about the Ford stroker cranks for 202s that stretch it to 292?

James

Back to top

#12 kudu

Forum Fixture

Members
1,443 posts

Location:Wanganui - New Zealand
Car:LH SL/R 5000
Joined: 08-November 05

Posted 29 April 2006 - 10:12 PM

Well its different..................

Back to top

#13 lakeside

Lotsa Posts!

Members
2,703 posts

Name:Col
Location:melb
Car:LC SBC
Joined: 07-November 05

Posted 29 April 2006 - 10:46 PM

Some of you are very narrow minded people. Is this going to be like the, Mazda 20B in a torana thread? Read the Ford forum, everybody was pleased and very helpful. I wonder why he never told you bloke about it, i know why. You all should be pleased someone has gone to the effort and use a torana, and not shit can them. Why do you all do it.

Back to top

#14 _high_rpm_

Guests

Posted 29 April 2006 - 11:49 PM

people need to stop being so sterio typical and try something differnt everyone always say "get a v8" why? well maybe everyone should because every time someone does something stupid they get shit for it

4L six from another australian car is allright IMO

Back to top

#15 _SiC_

Guests

Posted 30 April 2006 - 12:44 AM

looks like fun very old skool looking with the flares n wing

Back to top

#16 rodomo

To advertise here, call 13TORANA

Members
17,999 posts

Name:R - O - B Dammit!
Location:Way out west of Melbourne Awstraylya
Joined: 10-December 05

Posted 30 April 2006 - 01:07 AM

Ford 9"? 250 cranks? I go to lots of Fords that the coil or module or fuel pump have failed on and ask the member "do you want to know what's wrong with your car?" when they answer yes I point to the badge on the bonnet. I'd rather blow up 10 banjo's than fit a 9 inch. But that's just my opinion. :tease:

(No correspondance will be entered into)

Back to top

#17 _devilsadvocate_

Guests

Posted 30 April 2006 - 01:46 AM

Fords are necessary, to come second.................or improve the standard of what GM is offering here.
Correct if wrong.......but isnt the Ford OHC 6cyl an all Aussie development, unlike the Nissan 6cyl and the Buick derived v6 which are in the beloved "Aussie" Commodore?

Back to top

#18 rodomo

To advertise here, call 13TORANA

Members
17,999 posts

Name:R - O - B Dammit!
Location:Way out west of Melbourne Awstraylya
Joined: 10-December 05

Posted 30 April 2006 - 01:58 AM

(No correspondance will be entered into)
Did you sort out your hand brake?

Edited by rodomo, 30 April 2006 - 02:01 AM.

Back to top

#19 _high_rpm_

Guests

Posted 30 April 2006 - 02:02 AM

Fords are necessary, to come second.................or improve the standard of what GM is offering here.
Correct if wrong.......but isnt the Ford OHC 6cyl an all Aussie development, unlike the Nissan 6cyl and the Buick derived v6 which are in the beloved "Aussie" Commodore?

and chev being american?

i know i will make people hate me for this but holden cant make cars for shit anymore lol

its the truth tho they dont make there own engines except maybe the alloytech? but if they did make that they did a shit job as ive heard of crank bolts snaping

Back to top

#20 rodomo

To advertise here, call 13TORANA

Members
17,999 posts

Name:R - O - B Dammit!
Location:Way out west of Melbourne Awstraylya
Joined: 10-December 05

Posted 30 April 2006 - 02:06 AM

Fords are necessary, to come second.................or improve the standard of what GM is offering here.
Correct if wrong.......but isnt the Ford OHC 6cyl an all Aussie development, unlike the Nissan 6cyl and the Buick derived v6 which are in the beloved "Aussie" Commodore?
and chev being american?

i know i will make people hate me for this but holden cant make cars for shit anymore lol its the truth tho they dont make there own engines except maybe the alloytech? but if they did make that they did a shit job as ive heard of crank bolts snaping

30 break downs per day. Never been to a VX or VY for any more than battery issue, flat tyre, lock out or out of fuel. All of these I can get going on the road side, out of spark on a Ford is tow truck.

Edited by rodomo, 30 April 2006 - 02:09 AM.

Back to top

#21 _devilsadvocate_

Guests

Posted 30 April 2006 - 02:14 AM

(No correspondance will be entered into)
Did you sort out your hand brake?

No luck with the handbrake, no obvious problems with cable - same tension both sides etc.

Back to top

#22 rodomo

To advertise here, call 13TORANA

Members
17,999 posts

Name:R - O - B Dammit!
Location:Way out west of Melbourne Awstraylya
Joined: 10-December 05

Posted 30 April 2006 - 02:14 AM

Oh yeah! Don't back your BA out of the garage on Sunday, wash it, and put it back in the garage and expect it to start on Monday.

Back to top

#23 Litre8

Thrillseeker

Administrators
2,399 posts

Name:Howard
Location:Melbourne, Victoria
Car:1976 LX SLR8000
Joined: 05-February 07

Posted 30 April 2006 - 11:44 AM

The original post did ask 'you be the judge'. Obviously people have very differing opinions about the merits of such a transplant. Bottom line is if you arent prepared to receive negative and positive responses then dont solicit them.

Personally I would rather stick a red hot needle into my eye.

Back to top

#24 _Loki_

Guests

Posted 30 April 2006 - 12:24 PM

I dunno, if I was going to bother to engineer this 4.0L ford motor into an LC/J I'd just go for the big guns and whack in a 265 Hemi.
Would sound a billion times tougher, haul ass and be different.

In saying that, I dont really care that it's a ford motor, more that it's not tough enough

i know i will make people hate me for this but holden cant make cars for shit anymore lol

Are you kidding?! Are you trying to say that ford can?

Holden and Ford are both completely shit. Zero respect for either of their modern cars.

Edited by Loki, 30 April 2006 - 12:25 PM.

Back to top

#25 _73LJWhiteSL_

Guests

Posted 30 April 2006 - 03:10 PM

i know i will make people hate me for this but holden cant make cars for shit anymore lol its the truth tho they dont make there own engines except maybe the alloytech?

How about all the export motors that Holden (or HEC build)?

Steve