I remember as a twenty something year old, the advertising exec for a timber yard I was working at, drove in with a new 2006 F6 Typhoon. I asked him if he could take me for a spin in it, he chucked me the keys and said "go for it!" Did not need to be told twice! Even "stock" this thing blew my mind. Swapped it to sportshift, it hit the limiter before I could click gears! Mad cars, this must be a space x rocket!
Is a lovely car, and done properly. A proper, usable street machine. Was very pleased to see he put an XR rear bar on it for towing too, wouldn't be nice to chop up the F6 one ;)
Agreed. Ditching the 6 speed for half as many gears or less always sounded insane to me. Yeah it cost more, so what? Cams is either or IMHO. Stock cams work well in factory turbo cars. Going more aggressive impacts idle quality. Either way K.I.S.S always works.
God dam, why didn't Ford bring those things to the US. We were severely ripped off. Bring here to do drag challenge and show them LS boys a thing or three.
We were building better cars and the USA said hang on, no we're #1. GM did the same shit to Holden. They brought over the "SS" but didn't market it. Now it has a proper fan base but it's sadly long gone
Get your fullBOOST merch! 👉 shop.fullboost.com.au *If you’d like to be notified every time we upload a video, subscribe and then click the bell icon next to the subscription button.* A consistently quick later model street car of the past year is Doug Beaton's FPV F6 Typhoon. Having just recently completing Drag Challenge and running a series of trouble free low 9-second passes still with an OE style driveline, we caught up with Tony Marakis of Michael J's & Son Mechanical Repairs for a bit of a deep dive to see what makes this Aussie Ford Barra so fast and reliable.
I have a love hate relationship with my fg lol Just got it back on the road with a fresh engine after it blew up 8 weeks ago only 2 weeks into ownership 😔 Now has 30 over pistons (destroyed the ringlands on the factory pistons) Billet oil pump gears, arp head studs, valve springs ,rebuilt and hi flowed 3576, 4" exhaust, 1150cc injectors, 460lph pump, atomic timing chain kit, pw stage 1 intercooler. Currently has hp tuners and nguage 3 tune setup, 250,350 n 420kw tunes. Be changing to pcmtec soon and a single 350kw tune so it's nice n safe. Suspect the current tunes are garbage, we suspect it contributed to the engine failure. It's been 11.94 on the 250kw tune, hoping for low 11s on the 350kw tune, stick shift too 👌
I have a silver BF F6 Typhoon. I upgraded the brakes to 6 and 4 pot Brembo factory brakes, flitted factory dark argent wheels and installed an APS turbo upgrade kit. Lovely car. Now may need to sell if anyone is interested.
Don't kickdown the auto unless you get the input shafts upgraded. Otherwise manually shift if stomping it. Only have serviced it once so far with genuine zf fluid. No issues with mine after 10+yrs tuned. Upgraded to billet heat exchanger also.
@@sircefiro mine was $8.5k from monster torque, was a few years back now I believe they are even more expensive now, I don’t even like it I should have gone TH400 but at the time that was around 12.5k
"Why is E85 so expensive? At 8:49, you see the price of all the different fuels. So E10 is cheaper than normal unleaded because it has 10% ethanol in it (ethanol is meant to be cheaper to make, and that is why it is cheaper). So, for all the mathematicians out there, the more ethanol should mean that it should be cheaper. But if you want to buy E85, it's more expensive than E10 and normal unleaded. And before anyone says it... "Well, the service stations have to spend more to put in extra tanks for the E85." Well, that is actually bullshit because E85 used to be cheaper before, and now it is more expensive now that more people are using it! So they are making more back now that it is more widely used. And it is not cheaper at the service stations that already had the tanks for it. While they are trying to do an investigation into supermarkets' price gouging, they need to look into this. Ethanol is meant to be better for the planet, so why inflate the price? If the government really cared about emissions, they would subsidize ethanol, not let the fuel cartel sell it as a premium-priced product."
They sell very little E85, if it was more widly used, would it be cheaper? The demand is low. Also, when comparing the E85 price, multiple it by another 30% as you burn it a lot faster.
@@fullboost ohhhhhh don't take it personally 😂😂 idek if it's true, I'm just telling yall what I was told 😂😂it does make sense but don't ever think I'm calling this thing slow 😂
We've seen plenty of back to back testing, unless you're turbine housing/exhaust is extremely restrictive you're wasting you're time with one on a road car.
Luke is this a $2k Barra asking for a friend. You should have been chosen for TG instead of Moog who is still wearing his hat backwards at mid 40’s. A tough street car is peak. Keep your trailer queens in the shed!
The problem with barras is if have more then about 450hp then you have major traction issues. This is very dangerous. These cars were not designed for big power. Its scarey and not fun. Specially if you are driving your family.
Come on man thay handle really well for a big car and they slide very well and they have Good brakes/ Really good traction control System And a very high ANCAP/CRASH safety rating. I myself daily my F6 on 1 tune and thats 700rwhp and its great and very streetable with a built ZF transmission
U don't buy them for the interiors lol The fg interior is a bit better though, love my fg ,just got it back on the road with a fresh engine. Your missing out man 🤣👌
Remember the rule : the louder the pipes, the smaller the penis. My FG XR6T daily on 25psi & e85 & is nice and quiet. A screamer will not improve performance at this power level..
Obviously you own a commodore or never been in a tasteful f6,nothing else makes the same torque at the same power level as a Barra,I do like bmws though
@@chriseveringham5013 you are never going to see the bore splitting Barras playing on the freeway.with supras TT lambos Audi's Mercs.big list.alwsys the bogans talking shit.stick to talking shit about commodores.thats the mighty Falcons warrior 🤡
@@DailyBadDecisions 🤣 every single clown falcon Goose slings the same dribble.facts you clowns hate..JDM is king shit loads of stuff owns your taxis.the only clowns that dribble on buddy are you Barra dreamers king of motor sports JDM...Barra who.
when I was a kid, my father had a brand-new red BF F6, injectors/tune only. I'll never forget that first turbo experience, great memories!
I remember as a twenty something year old, the advertising exec for a timber yard I was working at, drove in with a new 2006 F6 Typhoon. I asked him if he could take me for a spin in it, he chucked me the keys and said "go for it!" Did not need to be told twice!
Even "stock" this thing blew my mind. Swapped it to sportshift, it hit the limiter before I could click gears!
Mad cars, this must be a space x rocket!
What timber yard was it
South aus, that's all I will say, lol
Barra the world.
100%!!!
Hats off for keeping the DNA of the car ;)
Is a lovely car, and done properly. A proper, usable street machine.
Was very pleased to see he put an XR rear bar on it for towing too, wouldn't be nice to chop up the F6 one ;)
Agreed. Ditching the 6 speed for half as many gears or less always sounded insane to me. Yeah it cost more, so what? Cams is either or IMHO. Stock cams work well in factory turbo cars. Going more aggressive impacts idle quality.
Either way K.I.S.S always works.
Big fan of this platform. I daily the ute with a tradies tray on the back. Best sleeper ever.
Awesome thanks for the BARRA content!
Hope mine runs a 9.1 ZF too
I thought you need a roll cage after you do 9.5sec how do they get away with that?
What a great looking car. It's a really good deep dive in too.
God dam, why didn't Ford bring those things to the US. We were severely ripped off. Bring here to do drag challenge and show them LS boys a thing or three.
Ford USA screwed over ford Australia time and time again. Ford aust asked for a six speed and got nothing from the us. We went our way. Go Aussie go.
We were building better cars and the USA said hang on, no we're #1. GM did the same shit to Holden. They brought over the "SS" but didn't market it. Now it has a proper fan base but it's sadly long gone
Don’t worry because of you yanks the prices of them have gone through the roof
😂😂😂 where is all thr American fords that we missed out on I live the fact we have cars that people in parts of thr world desire
Top blokes with a top build of a car. Well done fellows 👍
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A consistently quick later model street car of the past year is Doug Beaton's FPV F6 Typhoon. Having just recently completing Drag Challenge and running a series of trouble free low 9-second passes still with an OE style driveline, we caught up with Tony Marakis of Michael J's & Son Mechanical Repairs for a bit of a deep dive to see what makes this Aussie Ford Barra so fast and reliable.
I have a love hate relationship with my fg lol
Just got it back on the road with a fresh engine after it blew up 8 weeks ago only 2 weeks into ownership 😔
Now has 30 over pistons (destroyed the ringlands on the factory pistons)
Billet oil pump gears, arp head studs, valve springs ,rebuilt and hi flowed 3576, 4" exhaust, 1150cc injectors, 460lph pump, atomic timing chain kit, pw stage 1 intercooler.
Currently has hp tuners and nguage 3 tune setup, 250,350 n 420kw tunes.
Be changing to pcmtec soon and a single 350kw tune so it's nice n safe.
Suspect the current tunes are garbage, we suspect it contributed to the engine failure.
It's been 11.94 on the 250kw tune, hoping for low 11s on the 350kw tune, stick shift too 👌
Looks great , even better than mine 😂 nice work
Like the look of it how much of sleeper. Like how almost stock it is. Asking for mate. How you keep traction
Remember the days we could walk into a dealer and walk out with one of these for about $62k...
Can't even get a golf GTI for that anymore
Sad..@@supraJZA80s
Yeah it was a no brainer. My SPRINT T was 56 plus onroads. All the development from the previous FPvs went into it. Still love it!!!
Need these in the States.
Nice work boys.
Beautiful car. Bin the XR8 bonnet tho 😂
Really nice build
Great viewing! Top Stuff!👍👍👍
What a grouse combo 👍🇦🇺
great vid guys
Footscray Rd is a nightmare to drive atm
anyone know what catch can that is?
Screamer pipe gang!!!! 😎😎
What power is it putting out? I didn’t quite catch that in the video
The right way to prepare for DC. Not wiring/plumbing/tuning it in the tech line 😝
Very Cool❤, What Size/Spec Turbo is that?Must be properly matched to be so drivable and still be so Fast
76/75 gen 1 pte
@douglasbeaton6892 Cool, Thanks for the reply. Does the engine have a high compression ratio to spool up that big turbo for street?
I'm 61 yrs with cancer & am thinking of going turbo on my 04 Territory... I have a spare greentop block...only live once right. Am I dreaming?
Don't think about it, get into Michael J's and do it, can't take cash with you!
Take care of yourself mate, but yeah just turbo the N/A engine, don't be greedy and it'll be ok.
I have a silver BF F6 Typhoon. I upgraded the brakes to 6 and 4 pot Brembo factory brakes, flitted factory dark argent wheels and installed an APS turbo upgrade kit. Lovely car. Now may need to sell if anyone is interested.
You'll sell that thing in an instant!
They are but 4 piston front and APR rears 6 piston fronts were optional 7k option at that
Nice rig
I would love to have a Barra imported to the USA and install it in a fox body.
Getting quite a common conversion now actually
What power has it got? I think I missed it
Didn’t it used to run a dsr zf?
3:36 reason why I dont want a barra, too much fuel for 200kw, but in Australia a k24 rwd conversion is quite expensive to do even yourself
Tune at the end ❤
Could you guys build my green top na, into a turbo 1000 hp street n strip car and where your workshop Tony ?
Phat as. Take the xr8 bonnet off though, doesn't need it and looks sleeker
What does a zf need to live?
A rebuild after every couple of runs. 4L80e all the way!!!!
Don't kickdown the auto unless you get the input shafts upgraded. Otherwise manually shift if stomping it. Only have serviced it once so far with genuine zf fluid. No issues with mine after 10+yrs tuned. Upgraded to billet heat exchanger also.
You buy a built ZF !!
Standard ones are weak I blew mine at 366rwkw
@@Antonchigurh69344 what sort of money is a built 1?
@@sircefiro mine was $8.5k from monster torque, was a few years back now I believe they are even more expensive now, I don’t even like it I should have gone TH400 but at the time that was around 12.5k
Proper street car
If he ran 9.0 @ 150 mph running only 20 psi I'd be impressed.... The blokes driving a grenade on wheels! Katchaaaa! 💥
How much psi is it running
It's running 20.01 psi :P
Lol it makes 1000whp or so to run 9.1 at full weight, its not on only 20psi lol
"Why is E85 so expensive? At 8:49, you see the price of all the different fuels. So E10 is cheaper than normal unleaded because it has 10% ethanol in it (ethanol is meant to be cheaper to make, and that is why it is cheaper). So, for all the mathematicians out there, the more ethanol should mean that it should be cheaper. But if you want to buy E85, it's more expensive than E10 and normal unleaded. And before anyone says it... "Well, the service stations have to spend more to put in extra tanks for the E85." Well, that is actually bullshit because E85 used to be cheaper before, and now it is more expensive now that more people are using it! So they are making more back now that it is more widely used. And it is not cheaper at the service stations that already had the tanks for it. While they are trying to do an investigation into supermarkets' price gouging, they need to look into this. Ethanol is meant to be better for the planet, so why inflate the price? If the government really cared about emissions, they would subsidize ethanol, not let the fuel cartel sell it as a premium-priced product."
They sell very little E85, if it was more widly used, would it be cheaper? The demand is low. Also, when comparing the E85 price, multiple it by another 30% as you burn it a lot faster.
How much dose it cost to do drag challenge
His on the borderline of street ability. Next step cage, bigger turbo ect...
World the Barra
"Got awful screamer pipe"
I was told screamers allow a shit ton more power as its completely open and able to breathe
A shit ton is quite an overstatement. Have the right size exhaust and the gate plumbed properly and you're not really losing that much power.
Yep it's clearly slowing the car down. 😉👍
@@fullboost ohhhhhh don't take it personally 😂😂 idek if it's true, I'm just telling yall what I was told 😂😂it does make sense but don't ever think I'm calling this thing slow 😂
We've seen plenty of back to back testing, unless you're turbine housing/exhaust is extremely restrictive you're wasting you're time with one on a road car.
Got it in black?
nah toxic is the best bf colour
Luke is this a $2k Barra asking for a friend. You should have been chosen for TG instead of Moog who is still wearing his hat backwards at mid 40’s. A tough street car is peak. Keep your trailer queens in the shed!
Thanks for your kind words but I'm certainly not a TV presenter. I'm sure he'll do well. - Luke
@@fullboost you’d be great!
Plz make a FC3S rx7 and mk3 Supra I love 90s retro shirt!!! I’ll continue to post this same comment until my ridiculous demands are met.
👍
Thats tasteful as f.
When I was a kid... dad left mum... so fast... and he never came back... perhaps he left in a Ford
The problem with barras is if have more then about 450hp then you have major traction issues. This is very dangerous. These cars were not designed for big power. Its scarey and not fun. Specially if you are driving your family.
Who drives like a maniac with the family in the car?
@@dj4monielol maybe his dad
Come on man thay handle really well for a big car and they slide very well and they have Good brakes/ Really good traction control System And a very high ANCAP/CRASH safety rating. I myself daily my F6 on 1 tune and thats 700rwhp and its great and very streetable with a built ZF transmission
Sweeeeeeeet
I would sell my kidney for an F6 Typhoon
I love bf F6s *cries*
F*CK'N MINT 👌
Man the ford interior is arse. Glad I never brought one.
LOL thats not new news buddy 😂 theyre just all performance and comfortability...
Better than a VY/VZ Commodore
It was actually better then anything else in 2003, especially the VY/VZ commodores
U don't buy them for the interiors lol
The fg interior is a bit better though, love my fg ,just got it back on the road with a fresh engine.
Your missing out man 🤣👌
At least they stuck to their guns forever lol, never really changed much afterwards
Yep screamer pipes are gay
Or just wanted to get out of there....
god awful screamer pipe?
my 6boost manifold custom fabbed down pipe and screamer sounds better then that
LoL chill bud
Exhaust in general especially
Screamers sound crap on Video regardless
*than
You couldn't pay me to put one on a street car let alone a Barra.
@@fullboost u just said u liked dynomites cars sound on your next video haha. guess who built mine
@@mifo2000 Yes, its a destroker that revs to the moon :)
"god awful screamer pipes" we aren't friends anymore...
Remember the rule: the louder the pipe, the smaller the penis.
honesly... if you think screamer pipes are bad you shouldnt have that car
Remember the rule : the louder the pipes, the smaller the penis.
My FG XR6T daily on 25psi & e85 & is nice and quiet. A screamer will not improve performance at this power level..
It's such a shame that these cars are subject to the Drag brigade and are molested.
The v8 bonnet looks stupid.
Great potential 🤣 they sound shit are slow next to alot of stuff.jdm german.then there is you bogans and your Falcons 🤣
Obviously you own a commodore or never been in a tasteful f6,nothing else makes the same torque at the same power level as a Barra,I do like bmws though
Yeah, the jdm german stuff have potential, sound shit and are slow next to a lot of stuff. Couldn't agree more
@@chriseveringham5013 you are never going to see the bore splitting Barras playing on the freeway.with supras TT lambos Audi's Mercs.big list.alwsys the bogans talking shit.stick to talking shit about commodores.thats the mighty Falcons warrior 🤡
@@toughtimes721you should learn to structure a legible sentence before you comment on subjects you know nothing about.
@@DailyBadDecisions 🤣 every single clown falcon Goose slings the same dribble.facts you clowns hate..JDM is king shit loads of stuff owns your taxis.the only clowns that dribble on buddy are you Barra dreamers king of motor sports JDM...Barra who.
Luke stop saying Heathcote like that please I beg U .. typical melbourenian
That's how it's pronounced in Melbin.
@@fullboost LoL all good Lukey just f**king wit ya brother
It pretty much does what a stock xr6 does
But with 100times the power
You know what I mean
LMAO classic bruh