What Makes The Ford Barra So Good?

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  @madmick3794 · 4 years ago

  My dad pulled 1,430,000km out of his Barra before the piston rings started to leak. A hone, some new rings and bearings and some basic maintenance has now made it my little brothers car. Now it spends its days travelling farm to farm so my brother can sheer sheep all over the outback.

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• MA

  @Mannyxz · 4 years ago (edited)

  Legendary 6 cylinder engines: the German N/S54/55, the Japanese JZ, RB and finally the Australian Barra

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• JA

  @jarrynsmith · 4 years ago (edited)

  Barras are awesome, with a tune it will make close too 500hp with stock parts and the LPG block shares the same internal parts as the XR6T making it very cost effective here (valve springs and head studs and oiling gear mods as you said will get 700hp without pushing it to hard and will last years like that with the right tune )

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• AU

  @aussiebloke609 · 4 years ago

  Great synopsis!  They're a sweet engine straight from the factory, but little appreciated (and little understood) elsewhere in the world.  Historically, Europe liked their small cars with 4-cylinder engines for their narrow, twisty roads and high fuel prices..Americans preferred their V8s because of their cheap fuel prices and long, straight highways...and Australians had long distances to cover on poor roads, so needed something more efficient than a V8, but more robust and torquey than a 4-pot.   And so we stuck with the venerable inline 6 as the best compromise.

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• HU

  @hugejohnson5011 · 4 years ago

  More crankshaft bearing area, and a natural balance are attributes of a straight six. Hence the use of the configuration for heavy duty Diesel engines. I've always liked my straight sixes.

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• EL

  @elliotcutliff7779 · 4 years ago

  The first time I found out about this engine was in Gran Turismo 4, because I loved the FPV F6 Typhoon. That car was brilliant.

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• VI

  @visekual6248 · 4 years ago

  Buy, buy, buy, before it gets too expensive, as soon as the 2JZ hype starts to dissipate, the price of these engines will skyrocket

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• MR

  @MRDOOMBOY12345 · 4 years ago

  I have a 195kw (260hp) NA Barra in my car and they just dont die, such a good engine for power and reliability.

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• RO

  @rodneymcgiveron · 4 years ago

  A little known fact for non Australians ...The previous Aussie inline six to the Barra was the Intech/VCT  SOHC  also 3984 cc ...Bottom end nearly exactly the same hence the inherent and legendary strength and reliability ..The Intech is a sweet engine also and was sorted out pretty well by the time the EB Falcon appeared in the early 1990's .. Same bullet proof life expectancy and done right has been known to be capable of well in excess of 1000 hp ..Lots of them around in N/A form . They were mot available from the factory as a turbo..Check them out too ..They'll surprise you also .

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• BL

  @Blake-de2nf · 4 years ago

  I was always a Holden man growing up but I can appreciate the barra so much so that I am on my second falcon now, an FG-X XR6 which is by far the best car I’ve ever owned!

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• NI

  @nismo2070 · 4 years ago

  Great video!  I have only seen a Barra once in my life. Installed in a Ford F100 pickup at a show in Missouri seven or eight years ago. It was a drift monster! Dude was going around a little oval that was there and it sounded soooo good as he drove it sideways around the track a few times.

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• HA

  @HazeyAuto · 4 years ago

  Now do a video on the legendary AU Falcon, with the lesser known but more infamous INTECH SOHC 4.0.

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