Al Loveday XW Project

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Yep....we know Al is not really a computer guy. And not really mechanicly minded.....but has a great passion for Fords, suppose that all that matters. Al purchased a XW Futura with a 221 ci 6 cylinder last year, by what i heard he stole it off her, but its been sitting around not doing much, but during the last month or so we have started to attack the old girl and try and bring her back to life. So here is some pics on what we have done so far.


THE BEAST





THE ENGINE BAY

Plenum in great condition

THE INTERIOR



THE ENGINE
Al wants to keep the girl in pretty much original condition with not to many changes. The motor has only done 46,000klms, but very glad that i talked him into fully stripping the engine down as it was only going to do about another 10klms if he was lucky. The engine had been sitting that long that the timming chain had siezed up and was rusted to the cam gear, the crank had rust marks on all the crank pins, and the gudgens had locked up. So it was a total strip down and send all the parts over to John at Engine World, and once again done a great job !!! He replaced all the valves in the head with stainless jobs and also replaced the guides so Al can run on unleaded. John then linished the crank, decked the block, and honed out the bores. He gave the block, head, sump, pistons and rods a chemical bath overnight and while he was at it, John spray painted the block, head, and sump, and then knocked in new welsh plugs. Then the rest is up to us. Heres som pics.













We decided to put in a stage 1 camshaft to add a little spice, as we will be also running extractors, but besides that, the rest of the engine and components are compleatly stock.