IN THE BUILD
EF FAIRMONT MATT NAGLE
white “MY EF Fairmont started out as a plain about car. My spray-painter mate and I spent the
150 hours on body prep before applying is a SOHC three-layer Ford Fantasy paint. Engine head, DEV 6 4.0-litre with a Jim Mock Motorsport twinscroll cam and supporting mods. It has a 6boost with billet T4 turbo manifold, GT42 turbo a 50mm core, four-inch dump and exhaust, and from Pro Gate with screamer pipe. Fuel comes FPR2000 2000cc E85 injectors, a Turbosmart
525 Walbro regulator and a surge tank with twin on E85. We’ve pumps. It makes 580rwhp at 20psi three-quarter now started to build a bottom end: nitrided grout-filled block, shot-peened and with valve crank, Spool rods, custom CP pistons and reliefs, moly rings, ARP studs throughout, on with a mains girdle. The JMM head will go springs and new stainless Ferrea valves, double titanium retainers. There’s also a custom-made fuel rail and forward-facing plenum, with a billet running 2000cc injectors. I’ll use a Wolf ECU is a sequentially with LS coils. Transmission Powerglide with transbrake and a 5000rpm stall built to handle 1300hp by Welshpool diff will get a Transmissions. The stock EF Falcon Truetrac centre, billet axles and a strengthened all housing. Underneath, it runs AFCO coil-overs features ’round with strengthened arms. Other and Race include a Cams-approved half-rollcage it up to Brakes 330mm kit. The plan is to run 900rwhp. 35psi to start with, aiming for around quarter in I will be chasing a high nine-second street-driven trim.”