Ford Straight Six

[michael]

I saw this on Gumtree, Australia:-

www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/narre-warren/cars-vans-utes/1958-ford-zephyr/1115036487

Although it is a Mk II it shows that our cars are suitable for the US/Oz big six of either 3.3 or 4.1 litres. When I was in Oz in late 2002 I drove a friend's slightly modified 4.1 litre. Felt really torquey at over 250 ft-lbs and went well with over 200bhp.

[Joe]

That's cool, I believe that the early striaght six Mustang with four speed geabox used the Dagnham box (same as MK3) so in theory it should mate up to any MK3 box .
The Ausies do quite a lot of tune up stuff for them.

[michael]

One of the neatest straight six conversions I saw was many years ago. Someone had fitted a Mk II Jaguar engine into a bright red Mk III Zodiac. What puzzled me was that it was a 2.4 so performance was unchanged. Now a 3.4 or 3.8 would have been fun...