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Old 29-09-2006, 01:48 PM   #31
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Whats doin' with the ute 10 feet in the air, with a spoiler on the front?????????
I'm glad they didn't do the whole GT/ Shaker/ HO thing on it!
I think there were Ford photos from the era with the spoilers fitted, it would have hidden the leaf spring mounts etc.

They did use Jeep transfer case, diff etc. The main reason they didn't continue with it from what I have read is that the leaf spring mounts fed loads into areas of the body shell that were not designed to take them, basically it was too expensive to design the body intended for coils to take leaf front suspension for the number of sales. Goldie is right too, they used the 6cyl tilted to make room for the front diff, together with the 3 speed manual.
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Old 29-09-2006, 03:24 PM   #32
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They had to send the ugly pieces of crap somewhere!!
Better than storing them at Fowels Auctions!

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Yeah coleman milne import Fairlanes into the UK for the funeral service, as their is no real suitable european Ford.
Coleman Mine are still buying from FOA, they sent a whole heap of "pimped" up wagons over. Funny I looked at it and they looked like they might sell here.
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Old 29-09-2006, 08:28 PM   #33
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I didn't know about the AU's going to Hong Kong
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Old 30-09-2006, 03:59 PM   #34
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Apparently there were a few (6 I think) that came with a factory fitted 429...

Bigblock + 4wd = Fun

They were also considering building XA versions aswell, but the demand for XY 4X4 wasn't great, so they scrapped the idea...

No V8 4x4 ute built period!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 30-09-2006, 04:02 PM   #35
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My fading memory tells me that there were Jeep bits in there (transfer case at least) and maybe the engine.

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http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/4/Ford/XY/

Diffs & transfer cases are cj5? jeep
All part no's in Ford book are jeep with 4x4 at the start
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Old 30-09-2006, 04:05 PM   #36
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XYGT went to south Africa/England
XAGT went to Papua Newguinea/Fiji ?
XBGT went to England
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Old 30-09-2006, 04:53 PM   #37
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Now back to the AU.
Man, that is a handsome car - NOT!!!!

http://marks.4t.com/cgi-bin/i/AU/au1forte.jpg

As they say, "You can't polish a ****" ing_sm
i find everyone who doesnt own an AU doesnt like it, and they ALWAYS use the AUI as the example. sorry im not having a go its just...well more AU for me out:
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Old 01-10-2006, 08:32 AM   #38
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They had to send the ugly pieces of crap somewhere!!
Thats the pot calling the kettle black ****er
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Old 01-10-2006, 08:38 AM   #39
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Also motor or wheels took an EL GT to germany aswell a guy in the E series forums actually owns it http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...=EL+GT+Germany
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Old 01-10-2006, 09:48 AM   #40
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Some interesting stuff never knew they sent the au to asia and el to South Africa i did know about the fairlane in England and i think they got a few fpv's there as well and they sent the gtho to south africa too.
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Old 01-10-2006, 12:06 PM   #41
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Back to the XY 4x4 - If it used a Ford I6 tilted slightly on it's side:
- Did that mean that it used different engine mounts?
- Did it use a slightly different inlet manifold so that the carbs would sit "flat"?
- How much was the tilt (like a Chrysler Slant) and how did that affect oil flow?
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Old 01-10-2006, 01:22 PM   #42
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All the engine bay pics I have seen show the engine laying over, will try and find some and scan them. Meanwhile, look here
http://www.4wdonline.com/Ford/Falcon.html
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Old 01-10-2006, 01:32 PM   #43
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From what I can see it appears that the engine is mounted further over to the left and tilted to the right. The scan is a bit hard to make out.
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