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Ok silly question time... My brother has just bought a '94 (EB?) XR6 for 8k.
It looks to be in good cond, 162.000kms & fitted with tickford wheels. However I have a problem with the engine, whilst it has an air filter cover that says XR6 or tickford or summink the rocker cover is RED!. My problem is that I have a '93 Sportsman and was given to believe that Tickford engines had green rocker covers with the logo, as has mine. What gives here? Is there a way to check a genuine XR6 on the compliance plate. Roger.
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considering the fairlanes/fairmont ghia's never got the tickford engine untill the EFII, i'd say someone has put a later model rocker cover on your sportsman
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8k for an eb; thats the 1st problem.
In all seriousness, grab the vin n call ford or jump on myford.com.au
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you'll find all XR6 engines have red rocker covers.
look for the tickford wings logo on the front of the head. get ford to check the VIN number if you are really worried. does it have all the XR6 bits like lights wheels seats XR6 badging. if it does it's most likly real or its that good of a mock up it prolly doesn't mater |
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Posts: 7 Joined: 13th Nov 2004 Ride: XG Ute --- CLK240--- 230E Location: Sunny Downtown Wagga Wagga! |
{USERNAME} wrote: considering the fairlanes/fairmont ghia's never got the tickford engine untill the EFII, i'd say someone has put a later model rocker cover on your sportsman
Er, are you saying that Ford made an NA Sportsman without a Tickford tweaked engine and suspension.
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Sportsman had the normal engine didnt it? As per old fairlanes and NFII.
Au's got the vct engine, so it was an upgrade...
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Posts: 7 Joined: 13th Nov 2004 Ride: XG Ute --- CLK240--- 230E Location: Sunny Downtown Wagga Wagga! |
tickford_6. I can see trhis is going to get confusin' but what the hell...
Little bruvvers XR6 really is one, I just checked 'myford.com.au' (thanks Daniel) Now interceptor has me thinking about my Sportsman, so I'm going to have to go out and check... as soon as I can find my torch... not that many street lights here in the bush 
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{USERNAME} wrote: {USERNAME} wrote: considering the fairlanes/fairmont ghia's never got the tickford engine untill the EFII, i'd say someone has put a later model rocker cover on your sportsman Er, are you saying that Ford made an NA Sportsman without a Tickford tweaked engine and suspension. your fairlane may have the sports suspension as (i believe) it was an option across the range, but wether it has the hi-po engine is another matter...... the red rocker cover isnt anything to go by...... it's not like they're that hard to change
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Posts: 7 Joined: 13th Nov 2004 Ride: XG Ute --- CLK240--- 230E Location: Sunny Downtown Wagga Wagga! |
Well after checking the ford site & braving the cold (19c) dark carport I'm getting to the bottom of it.
Ford tells me that I have an NCIII manufactured Sept '93. I have a Green rocker cover with the Tickford 'wings' logo which is sitting on top of a head that has the 'T' logo. So thanks guys, all I started out to do was check out little bruvvers new(?) car and you lot gave me more grey hairs...Bastards
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{USERNAME} wrote: Well after checking the ford site & braving the cold (19c) dark carport I'm getting to the bottom of it.
Ford tells me that I have an NCIII manufactured Sept '93. I have a Green rocker cover with the Tickford 'wings' logo which is sitting on top of a head that has the 'T' logo. So thanks guys, all I started out to do was check out little bruvvers new(?) car and you lot gave me more grey hairs...Bastards Does it really matter either way; was there much difference in the engines?
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Dunno, but you sods had me thinking (bugger old age and Alzheimer's) about my Sportsman. At least now I can sleep in peace tonight.
Thanks for you help guys. Roger.
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Green cover, i thought green was gas, red was ticky???
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{USERNAME} wrote: {USERNAME} wrote: Well after checking the ford site & braving the cold (19c) dark carport I'm getting to the bottom of it. Ford tells me that I have an NCIII manufactured Sept '93. I have a Green rocker cover with the Tickford 'wings' logo which is sitting on top of a head that has the 'T' logo. So thanks guys, all I started out to do was check out little bruvvers new(?) car and you lot gave me more grey hairs...Bastards Does it really matter either way; was there much difference in the engines? in the eb to ed tickfords the engine has 14kw more or close to 20hp in the old money. but it's the more usable torque every where in the ver range that make them faster. some people will say that it's not worth the extra for the tickford stuff because of the small power gap, but these people IMO really have no idea |
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green is factory gas on AU/BA
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im sure ford made a nc sportsman with the xr6 motor at the time.
it was either nc or nc2 cheers
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