can somone please shed some light on this. i am wanting to repower a ford EA with a 302 v8 was going to use a 302w old school engine with carb.What is a roller cam engine .any help please .will a 3o2 w rollercam eng and C4 fit the EA any help please.
90,s Fairlanes and later are roller cam engines , all are injected as standard, easy to convert to carbbut watch length of oil pump drive! as distributor lengths are different!
elect70,
Feb 24, 7:38pm
roller rockers& roller lifters just cut down parasitic losses, realy onlyfor highly modified enginesotherwise notworth the expense ( they arent cheap & requireother valvetrain work .Justget port job donemild camgood dual plane manifold &vacumm secondary4bbblholley &set headers . Assuming its just for streetuse .
trader_84,
Feb 24, 8:01pm
Ka ching ching chinggggggggg!
pfemstn,
Feb 24, 10:09pm
the last of the falcon 5 litre engines are the ones to get AU falcon havegt40p heads roller rockers 200kw std- early one are around 185 kw
quickstitch,
Feb 24, 10:16pm
if you want to use a late model roller motor and convert it to a carby motor you will need to fit an older style timing cover if you want to run a mechanical fuel pump, and a fuel pump drive on the cam. then you will need a standard rotation waterpump, the serpentine belt driven ones rotate the oopposite way, and a set of pulleys. And probably a standard sump and pick-up. Then manifold carb and dizzy
dan.kev,
Mar 1, 12:47am
will a351 CLEVELAND fit into an EA! anyone know!
pierced1,
Mar 1, 3:30am
Yep had one, didnt do the work myself though. 2 main changes were modification to headers on drivers side to clear PS box, and also the starter motor was moved to passenger side of bell housing - for clearance issues as far as i know.
Dont have the car anymore - but do still have the motor and c4.
paul271,
Mar 2, 7:07pm
Windsor is much easier, clevo can be done but its a headache whereas the windsor is pretty much a bolt in if you change to a V8 K frame.
quickstitch,
Mar 2, 7:40pm
yip, had a cleveland powered ea. used a small hi torque super starter in the original position, had to massage the firewall just behind the passengers cylinder head for clearance, and customised the right side header to fit around steering. if you can use an eb v8 front subframe with a v8 power steering rack (better clearance than the six cylinder rack) and then you can use the original windsor eb v8 mounts on the cleveland
dan.kev,
Mar 3, 1:48am
thanks for all your help
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