1987 Ford Falcon Reviews - Page 3 of 8

The lifters are shot, about to be replaced.

My car has been lowered 3 inches at the front and 2 1/2 at the back, and sits on 15x10 inch CSA mags.

It has a 350 Holley on a redline manifold. It has a set of Lukey extractors going into a fake resonator, then into 2 1/2 inch exhaust, into a hotdog before the diff, then it dumps over the diff. The diff is the whole 9 inch assembly from a Fairlane.

The interior of the car is immaculate and very comfortable, and it has a digital dash.

Throttle return spring keeps coming off because I am using the wrong type.

Radiator sometimes leaks water due to hairline crack.

The worked 4.1 with the 5 speed behind it gets up and moves along pretty well. It is enough to beat 253 V8 Commodores and Nissan Pulsar SSS's. It handles pretty well due to lowered suspension, but I think the afore mentioned Nissan Pulsar would out handle it. I am very happy with my car as a first car.

I had to do a Clutch once, but only because I thrashed it the previous day! twas fun.

I've had this car for about 10 mouths now and I've had the head ported and polished 1.88" oversize valves with double valve springs street terra roller rockers crow cams timing gear an pistons rod from an AU series 1 falcon and it does a decent 13.2sec 1/4 mile and a mad 3 gear line lock.

Warped the Alloy head from overheating it at high speeds.

Had to rebuild the motor, due to worn Compression Rings.

Lobes on the camshaft wore, replaced with a Stage II high performance camshaft.

Automatic Transmission became clunky, replaced with a 4 speed Manual.

This car now flies with the 4 speed manual transmission and Stage II Camshaft.

I also set up Cold Air Induction which makes the car even quicker.

Also Extractors and 2 and a half inch exhaust let this car do 220 km/h.

It is also lowered with Super-Low king springs and Koni shocks.

Well for a 15 year old car that has been around the whole of Australia it hasn't been too bad. Only a New gearbox and new radiator has been replaces since I have had it. But bad fuel has totally wrecked my lifters.

As for door handles.. "Don't and I mean don't! pull up door handles as the door closes it wrecks and puts strain on the handles".

Air conditioner had a slight leak and got that fixed, surface rust started forming in some areas. (Get it early and you won't see it for another 10 years).

Dif leaks oil from the Filler cap.. don't know why tried to fix it 20 times and no luck.

Car radio only played AM when I got it, but bahh I wanted a better one anyways.

I love this car, nice to cruise in, beautiful acceleration and gear changes and quiet all you hear is exhaust, easy to find parts, and fairly cheap to run doing a minimum of 500km in the city, The engines are have rock solid bottom ends and a cooling system even with a major leak still doesn't overheat.

The car has serious power and for a heavy huge big old car I can clock 0 - 100km/h in 10.3 seconds.

It gives a fairly comfortable ride and with a little bit of lowering of the suspension, the control and body roll is nearly eliminated.

LSD is gr8, grips on a dry road like you won't believe, but tho can be very dangerous doing power slides in the wet.

Some things can be changed though. The Diff is one, it needs a much shorter diff to have more acceleration and get EXTRACTORS!, the performance goes up by about 20k/w. Also run the carbie version on Premium Unleaded and watch that tacho and Speedo go up and up.

All up it's a great car, to do up and to have as a good tow car, look after them and they will serve you till the engine falls out. Good for towing and better than any commodore!

PS. Don't use additives in your radiator such as radiator stop leak.. It stuffs up your thermostat and clogs the heater.

XF's RULE.. Peace out.

Matty_2003_ford@yahoo.com.au.