i am going to look at a damaged el fairmont ghia with tickford engine apparently,lsd and very cheap,if as said i would be considering dropping the motor and trans into my ef and i am just wondering exactly the differences in tickford running gear as apposed to standard,all i know is the cam is better,are the valves bigger? i know i would have to swap my cam angle sensor with the distributor,and keep my inlet manifold,is it true the el and ef computers cannot be interchanged because of plug?what other surprises can people tell me about this,

XR motors i believe just had a different head and cam...the XR ECU also has a better fuel map to suit the head so better off running the ECU with it.

By the way if you plan on dropping the XR motor into your EF...you would need to change the dizzy to a coil pack...though if you do that the standard ECU may not allow the engine to perform at its best.

The only difference I have heard between the EF and EL looms is that the engine loom are split at the engine bay whereas the EL one is one whole piece.

The ECU's are not interchangeable between the EF and EL because the EF runs a coil pack and the EL runs a dizzy.

hope that helped.

phong =P~

i pretty much figured most of that but ok so i would be better off buying an ef xr ecu to compliment the engine,im gonna have heaps of parts to get rid of IF i did get this car,lookin at it thursday night,thanks for your comments

ive checked this car out guys, its done a few kms 270,000 cant be driven but is apparently a1 mechanically,bonnet,front guards,and some suspension damage on rhf dont know to what extent,about negative 6 degrees,as i said,damaged written off just looking for a good donor car,interiors good exept for the colour cappuchino,im really only after mechanicals and some spare parts, is it worth paying $1000 for,id like to sell some of the salvagable s**t off of it if i did buy

1000 aint bad wreck it and sell the parts on here between engine for your car ya make the money back on acc conversion power window conversion , interior , diff ect if i was down there i would grab it lol