Ford 250 Crossflow gets a boost upgrade | fullBOOST
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- There's no doubt the Ford Barra six cylinder has been a popular engine conversion choice for older Fords. It's refreshing to see Dave's modified turbocharged Fairmont Ghia ESP still retains the factory 250 Crossflow engine. We got a closer look at it whilst it was being dyno tuned by Ford specialist Tunnel Vision.
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There's no doubt the Ford Barra six cylinder has been a popular engine conversion choice for older Fords. It's refreshing to see Dave's modified turbocharged Fairmont Ghia ESP still retains the factory 250 Crossflow engine. We got a closer look at it whilst it was being dyno tuned by Ford specialist Tunnel Vision.
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Man, this looks like Andrew from Preston Auto's factory turbo ESP... It had a lot of work done by Tunnel Vision as well, I kinda suspect it's the same car
@@danielbrealey2924 Yeah very similar but different car.
I've never seen a car that Tunnel Vision have worked on that I didn't love! I need to book my car in for the full SOHC turbo package! 🔥😍👌
Back in the 90s, there was a guy in Adelaide that had a red TD XLE Cortina with a 250 crossflow, 4 barrel from memory, and a big NOS kit, with a 2.75 9", he use to pull the front right wheel to almost 1/2 track, and ran constant mid to high 10s. Yes it was a street car.....No bad for the old days. Don't know what ever happened to them, but with all the dramas of AIR etc, I haven't been out there for 20 years myself.
@@kramrollin69 Mark Williams ran a green/blue cortina with a 900hp turbo crossflow ten year ago from qld.
I’ve been waiting so long for a quality video of someone who has given the 250 a chance, no better way to showcase it then on full boost 🤙🏽
How good is it!!! 😍
Look up mr250
@@scootbmx01 cheers
Blokes have been running them in speedway for decades
@@unklekurlu yes, although no one has done a quality showcase of a 250 cross flow on TH-cam and especially not on a platform as good as full boost
What a great build. I remember when I was at tradeschool we dynoed a 4.1 carby XF on LPG and it made 45hp at the wheels. 😂
Which trade school bro? I did an LPG Roadworthy coarse and the instalation course at Box Hill TAFE- they had a dyno there. I swap some pitiful numbers from an LPG equipped AU while there... That's funny though, 45hp! 😂 God, that's so bad... 😂😂😂
@@danielbrealey2924 Richmond TAFE. Don't think it's there anymore. It was one of those horrible spud type gas systems.
Well a D6 dozer has 100 HP and so does a 1991 Kawasaki ZZR 600 bike, HP does not tell the full story .
Finally!
Giving the engine that made the Barra famous some love.
Such a nice change to see, Thanks guys!
Well done guys. I fully appreciate the door handle check 😂
As a kid in the early 90s, I knew my uncle had arrived as I heard the loud power steering pump coming from his gold/brown XE Fairmont ghia parking outside.
Thats killer.
I remember joe gauci in his blue td cortina from nsw back in the day had a de stroked 250 with a turbo and it used to run like 8.7 in early 2000s and i remember thinking how sick that was.
Wasn't destroked it was a 200 cube xflow.
Great to see a nice street falcon that hasnt had a barra or ls swap
#xflowtheworld
Falcon with an LS swap?
Why would anyone want to do that?
@@petezappa8748 people do it
@@dalebourke2591 what people? I've been running in the modified falcon World for 25 years and I've never seen it. If anyone's done it they are a minority.
@@Flying_GC there is quite a few
Street,drift,burnout falcons with ls motors in them
Great video , awesome car .
I bet the door handle broke before it left the dyno.
This thing looks amazing! Tunnel Vision do such an amazing job! 😍
I LOVE this, so refreshing and different. Going against the grain in the right direction, the mighty 250 showing it’s more than a reliable daily, hopefully this encourages other builds, it sure will with my XD!
Absolutely stunning XE and I'm so glad to see the crossflow getting some respect
Wow this thing sounds beautiful, I had an XE & an XF back in the 90s early naughties as a kid.
Love it!!
good to see something thats not a barra , cant beat the torque of the old crossflow
Absolutely beautiful, I love the 250-xflow
the ol xflow does love a turbo strapped to the side of it, and a diet of e85, haltech and tunnel vision make for a awesome combo, great work Dave, let’s see that 9sec pass
Oh Hell Yeah. Go the Crossy. Thats fantastic power for just 15psi. The counterweighted EF crank would do wonders for revability.
Immaculate looking car and build, well done 👍
Jason does great work, wealth of knowledge
Looks amazing my first car was a XE Fairmont Ghia with EFI Xflow. I like that this is not a million HP build something more humble somewhat.
Nice to see a neat one with the old crossflow 250 in it.
That's the perfect ESP. A really great build.
Now this is a dam cool car!
that's so clean
Ah yes, brings me back to the days before the Barra and see awesome 250 crossflows at the strip and in zoom magazine.
Oh shoot, I got a nostalgic tear just come to my eye. Miss my old XF suddenly
Great to see something different
Love the Xflow and the AIT bonnet vents
Much love full boost . 250 ftw
Beautiful car bro well done.
That engine bay is nice.
If you can find SLY250 its off its chops..xe front on xf ute with wild crossflow.. also Tony's Metal and Speed builds some epic crossflows you'll probably see in cortinas
looking forward to it!
Beautiful car mate with a shit hot honest engine. Well done
VERY fucking cool car and engine combo! Me and my mates used to fuck around with 250s back in the day!
Give a nice barra a big run for its money torque monster!
Bloody beautiful
YOOOO THATS SO SICK!!!! I’m building one at the monent
Always refreshing to see a non Barra ford.
Very nostalgic, my early childhood memories of them door handles 😂
Great to see an old 250 xflow .
Remember hand filling the crank on one to get it to spin as long as I could in the engine block upside down on the bench in half bearing shells with a dash of oil on crank.
Spent day's doing it, and it was worth it.
Just wish it was a billet steel crank for longevity.
Ahh memorys😉🙂👍👍
That is a beautiful example.
Still running a crossflow in my ftruck, with decent intake and exhaust they're a good all rounder
We used to have a family XF in the early 2000s. I remember the packs of 10 door hands purchased regularly. They broke off all the time. I was an absolute nugget that car.
Last time I worked on one of these engines was in 2011 when I helped to replace one in my old boss's transit van. It blew the head gasket and cracked the head in about 9 spots iirc.
I think the plenum is bigger than the head!
Love it!
80s cars with original 80s engines making 2010s type of power - love it.. would love to see a feature video of liams WTF202 turbo 6 VK commodore, turbo black 6, last time I checked I think he put sequential EFI on it and was working on a twin scroll turbo setup, that would be an awsome car to see in a feature video
Fullboost should feature more holden 202's. I am planning on getting a black efi motor that I'll be swapping in a ke70 corolla
Wow near 500 rahp on a cross flow on 14 psi ! Very nice street car !
Dream car 🤤
Love this thing I had a zf falcon alloy head cross flow,bigger injectors and headers it went well,wanted to turbo it and that 20 years ago,didn’t turbo though ,no money,but I do have a 400 kw bf F6 now
A great engine just got overshadowed by the later versions . They love the rpms if you can keep the v belt on I spin mine to 7200 . Intake manifold is the biggest letdown except for the efi versions . Nice build man cleen as
I've never known a crossflow to "Love the RPMs" ;)
@@GarethDavidWebb your right not in standard form cam intake are not up to it but the bottom end will and head flows well for a 2 valve , I have been trying to killem for years im at 275 rwhp na at 6300 na holds it well out to 7000 want to have a Play with some boost some day
@@laytr1 That's impressive NA!!
@@efxr6538 thanks yeah it took a bit to get there but 200 plus is pretty easy I do have a run up on hear if you are interested sounds sweet
@@laytr1 Just had a look, good stuff mate!
Love the 250 xflow use to have a turbo one on gas there a strong motor
very cool car
That's cool👍
So good to see a 250 crossflow worked instead of a Barra. These engines are so ridiculously cheap to buy it's worth slapping the custom parts on and you'd still come out cheaper than a full Barra build. I currently have a 200 crossflow or the 3.3l engine in my xe sedan, I can't wait to start getting some good performance out of it.
i used to start mine with the dipstick..👍
I've got one of these bad boys in my old g60 patrol
250 cross flow can't go wrong
Nice 👌
Nice car
Beautiful example of an xe esp, 83/84 model❤
I just dragged my Turbocharged xf Fairmont Ghia back home from storage on Friday. It's a cool thing but I'd prefer the XE front.
They don't look to bad at all with the xr6/8 twin headlights mate, I miss my old xf ;)
@@petezappa8748 yeah, that is a nice touch. An xf with an xf front won street machine not all that long ago.
Oh hell yesss
Those who know about those door handles would have had a good laugh when mentioned. TE-TF Cortina's had the exact same handles, but Ford would charge double for them, so I always ordered the XD Falcon handles to save money.
mint 👌
Identical to the xe fairmont I owned 20years ago. Big comfy car.
Nice build. The ford Intec is another forgotten gem for turbocharging aswell.
My brothers NA cross flow revs to 6500+ all day long. Makes over 300hp at the rears. They easily rev 6000+ reliably. Don’t know what he is worried about. They are very underrated.
Bulletproof motor, super reliable. I got a XD with a 250 cross flow
Howwwwww, my corty doesnt go past 4500, i want it to rev higher, whats the trick
Like it cheers.
Door handles and hinges .Had injected one went pretty hard beat a lot of crossflow cortinas.
Mike Vine turbochargers in Qld built hundreds of these turbo manifolds in the early 90s
Well Done....Way Better to Go Original than a OP Barra for the Drag Street Like Everyone Else.
"Do these door handles work?"
I once rage traded in my 87 LTD because the bloody door handle broke agaim, 4th time in like 9 months. Problem was I was mostly broke so I got a 323 Astina.
Those cars are normally solid but I think I got one that came off the factory after the team had a bender because the damn thing honestly spent longer in the garage than on the road
4:46 - lol. I was wondering if the catch can would move when the motor's under load. Turns out yes it does.
Ive got a bf wagon. Apart from intake anything csn help get it goin bit more responsive. On lpg. Stupid question but why not?
I could çhange a front door handle in about 5 mins on my ZJ I did it so often!! The rear handles were a different story. Ford must have sold tens of thousands of them probably more than all the parts combined!
I need one of these motors for my Maverick
Update: with more boost it's now making 440kw.
facebook.com/TunnelVisionTurbocharging/videos/1081998972351126/
My first day I got my xe crossflow was the same day I got busted for ripping burnouts at my high school with my mates back in 2001
Owned cars with that engine (TE Cortina, XD Fairmont Ghia, XF Falcon) for 24 years until 8 years ago. Supposedly the main cause of low redline is a bad rod length to stroke ratio, someone was "working" on a solution but don't know if anything was ever released (I guess it might have been a destroker kit?). Improvement could be had with roller-rockers.
That door handle - when you have 3/4 movement with nothing then that sort of noise right at the end - generally means it's not long until it's going to go. Internals on the latch were another failure point, from memory you could have just the spring go and be up for $25+ for an entire new mechanism and 90 minutes to put a new one in.
You can get them to rev to 8500rpm
I do like a xe. Thats a very nice car. You can see the love. Yes the door handles were bad. But really it was a worn door hinge that was the problem. You would pick the door up by the handle to open it. No wonder the handle broke. But yes they were bad handles also.
Are there any door handles left for these things,I fitted my share.
Wish all this stuff was available before i tossed out all my XFLOW running gear for a Cleveland
Can you do this with the non cross flow engine?
I need Jason to make me an intake manifold plenum like that for my one. Have a turbo 250 xf in nz and tunnel vision supplied me with SPS pistons and spool h beam Barra rods to suit same as this XE.
Mint 🇦🇺👍
Does anyone if there are more photos online of the bay on this. Just put a plenum like this on my turbo 250 XF from custom alloy welding and would like to see how his throttle cable is routed so I can get one made.
Did this car used to be owned by Andrew at Preston Auto's??? Looks just like his old factory turbo ESP
Don't forget that djr made a limited roof turbo xe falcons with the same cross flo supposedly they made around 240kw
What is considered the crossflow? Is it the 4.1 that came in the XE/XF, the 3.9 that came in the EA or the 4.0 that came in the EB/ED? I keep on getting confused
4.1
Get's a like , because of door handle/ comment...fark nice xe
Dick Johnson XE Falcons were turbo charged ,they were street registered and by memory there were less than 50 built ,blew the doors off any the v8 Falcons in the early 80s
Rare Spares sell new XD-XE-XF door handles!
Not only the same big end size pretty much the same con rod with the same tiny 5/16 bolts. Many years ago I fitted small end bushes to 30 + sets of proto type BA turbo rods for Ford to test. As far as I know that was the only change they made from n a to turbo rods.
Never seen this engine and car before. Cool build tho 🤙👍
????????? Where do you live? Iran? 🙄
@@lachlanwoods3940 usa 🙂🤙
XD XE XF Falcon basically look like a 4 door sedan version of the Foxbody mustang
@@matt47569 oh ok 👌
Is this thing at all related to the old 300 inline 6 Ford used in the states back in the day before the Windsor V8 or is it an Australian only thing?
I maybe wrong in saying this but i think there based along the old pre crossflow 2v similar to what they ran in the early mustangs
Love the xe,s these cars converted the whole of Australia's taxi owners to reliability
Yeah you're right the XDs and XEs had dodgy door handles lol but I liked them anyway I used to own a XD ute with a 351 auto on gas/petrol good car too bad Ford never boosted the old sixes after they dropped the V8 in 1982.
Would like to get the engine specs for this please.
Sounds better than a barra too
Were not all 3.3 and 4.1s crossflow from 1976 on and the previous 200/225 and 250's non crossflow???
The Falcon 6 has been a constant development, basically the Barra is linked to the very first 170ci 6 in the XK, so if you wanted to find when the 4.1 started, that would be it.. having said that, the Falcon 6 didn’t become a 4.1 till the XY, it didn’t get a cross flow head till XC and it didn’t get the Yamaha developed alloy cross flow head till XE. Then you had the alloy head II (2) in the XF..
Close but nope. The first was the 144ci Thriftpower Six in the 1960 XK, then the 170ci Firepower Six was a year later. 👍 I put the hierachy under low760's comment. 😎 Also, we had an XD with the Alloy Head II, it was done in 1980, I distinctly remember that badge as a kid growing up like wtf is that? 😂
Ahh well, I was close!
Yeah the 144 ci was the first .