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Here is what I have make room for in the dash. It's a double din stereo that uses your smartphone as a screen. This way I can use my nav and OBD2 apps.


Here is my new addition for under the bonnet. New pipes and clamps etc for a cold air intake. Alloy and silicone.


And a small statement for the tailgate:

In regards to them issues with your windsor....do you have a coolant port in the back of the inlet manifold? It relieves coolant from the water packets in the rear of the head and circulates the coolant correctly....makes a massive difference

Originally Posted by rovercare

In regards to them issues with your windsor....do you have a coolant port in the back of the inlet manifold? It relieves coolant from the water packets in the rear of the head and circulates the coolant correctly....makes a massive difference

You know what, you're the second person to bring that up. I know that Ford did it with the modular V8 for that very reason. I'd imagine it would be a straight forward job, tap some 3/4 into each water port with a crossover hose in between.

I filled up the tank and took the family up to my brother's farm at Gunnedah last weekend. Bad news was that I had a hard EAS fault near home on the way back. Bumpy ride on the bump stops along the Hunter Expressway. Fortunately not far from home.

Good news is I obtained a 100km gain in my range just by changing to my custom cold air intake. I ended up getting 560km on mostly highway which is great so far. Also gives a nice growl too compared to the stock airbox.



I installed the new stereo too but the interior heat combined with the bumpy ride has buggered up the work I did to relocate the HEVAC.

Originally Posted by banarcus

You know what, you're the second person to bring that up. I know that Ford did it with the modular V8 for that very reason. I'd imagine it would be a straight forward job, tap some 3/4 into each water port with a crossover hose in between.

Yea, later EFI windsors had the same port, its likely in your manifold, I did the mod, years back when I had a 302 windsor....come twin turboed....come 351.....then looked at the motor in my ED XR8 sprint at the time and went oh, look at that, haha

Made a huge difference to the cooling characteristics, you could watch on the temp gauge, I have a BB 460 here, I bought of the guy who told me about it near 15 years ago which it is done too....been doing it ever since

Glad to read you fitted a stroker kit....was thinking a stock 302 would be quite lacklustre, but 347 is a nice drivable thing....shame about the heads and piddly exhaust port size, but make nice torque

Nice job
where does the cold air feed from?

Originally Posted by rovercare

Glad to read you fitted a stroker kit....was thinking a stock 302 would be quite lacklustre, but 347 is a nice drivable thing....shame about the heads and piddly exhaust port size, but make nice torque

I couldn't stretch the budget for the 347 unfortunately. It was either the alloy dart heads or the 347. Hindsight says 347 and then heads but nevermind, I'll wait and see how I go. With the new heads it's a real healthy 302, much better than the stock irons.