Thread: 351W EFI into Classic Rangie

Originally Posted by mrapocalypse

What's it go like????

X2. Must go like the clappers now! Great job, fantastic engineering. Wish I had a tenth of your talent...

Cheers - Gav

Thanks Lads,

I got some more exhaust done today but I ran out of bends....




So I just ran it with the first muffler. Sounds good and beefy, like a tow truck and it goes good too. Took a turbo Audi by surprise on the way home and surprised myself when it chirped all four tyres in 2nd gear!? I think it scared the guy because he backed right off after that. Better not do that too much or I'll be buying axles without having gone off road yet Got home and discovered the transfer has sprung a leak. I think it maybe a dodgy thread in the bottom bolt hole of the case that holds the adapter plate on which, of course, goes into oil.
I already fixed an oil leak in the pwr steer pump today..the O-rings in the pressure fitting were hard as rock.
Otherwise I'm happy with how it goes. I still haven't actually tuned it either, the EEC still thinks it's a 302 and I'm running the stock 55mm MAF. I've only burned a chip to switch off smartlock at this stage.
There are no vibrations and it still handles good although I have fitted the Steins of Bil which of course would help.



Someone mentioned to me something about how to tell what spline axles you have by the shape of the wheel hub? Do these pics tell a story?



The front hub.



Still got to sort the transfer shifter/s. So I'm still running the stock auto shifter with a reverse pattern...it's a good thing the Optishift shows what gear it's in and whether the converter is locked or not.
Then there's Air conditioning plumbing to be done and I haven't got a power steer cooler yet either. Was going to use a trans cooler off the LTD but it might actually make it run too cold.
Here's how the bay looks now and I reckon it looks like it's meant to be there.

You've done a great job Pete. Doesn't matter what engine you stick into what car, you always prove the naysayers wrong time and time again. Well done mate.

Found the leak, silly me had left a stud out of the transfer box
I remember thinking it was dowel hole...obviously not!

Sure am glad I put nutserts in here.. plenty of room for getting at stuff on top of the trans like the stud I missed.


I used M5 stainless button head screws.

Ok I've been running it to work for a little bit now as is, ie; no tuning and open loop and no trans tuning. So far it's been about as bad on fuel as the 3.9 was but of course I've been getting up it more too
Just today I fitted the O2's and straight away it's better. It changes into 4th a bit early too so there's some gains to be had there.
After cruising on the freeway I think it could benefit from a taller transfer box. I think mine is a 1.222 but I'm unsure at this point? It's got 28E on the case. Maybe a 1.192 would do the trick, a 1.003 is probably a bit much.
On the BF shifter front, I've been trying the BW transfer shifter but, It would still need to be moved forward to work so I'm going to make my own transfer shifter out of stainless.

Finally got some done on the BF shifter. AFter trying a couple of long cables I discovered I couldn't use them because I couldn't turn the shift lever upsidedown because it would hit the header. So I had to make this rather elaborate bracket/bellcrank assembly and use a short cable...
Good thing I had a spare gearbox, there's no way I'd have been able to do this on the car..









Tried it out last night with a temporary plate to mostly cover the hole. Will make a full length box that drops right down inside the floor opening so all the shifters will not be exposed to the elements. It works nice and smooth. Have to get used shifting it the right way again

Impressive Pete.