Originally Posted by
mick88
The 250 Falcon donk is a good puller and performs well in a Landy, they have a stroke of just under four inches.
To complete the conversion I think a diff upgrade to 3.54's would be necessary.
There were a couple of Series 109's at Cooma that had the Ford 250 ci in them, one was fitted with a 2V head.
The later cross flow motor engine would be a good choice and they were a very good engine conversion in the early Land Cruisers too.
There are adaptor plate kits about for them, just a bit harder to find than the more common Holden conversions.
My neighbor has a Series 2A 109 with a Ford engine, it's either a 200 or 250.
One thing with the Ford/Falcon six cylinder engine conversion is that the oil filter fouls on the chassis, so you either need to modify the chassis
to allow room for the Z9 oil filter, or use the short oil filter which I think was used on the early Fairlane's (? Z516).
I am not familiar with the Falcon flywheel dimensions, but I imagine they would be large enough to accept a Land Rover 9.5" Series 3 clutch assembly.
Cheers, Mick.
IIRC, a Z89A is the short version of a Z9. These are fitted to Rover V8s
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