So was it worth it? Keen to hear your thoughts based on the final figures and dyno graph?

Good to see NA falcon content.

Can i just say, this is my first Brownies Video and you seem like such a genuine legend! A car guy that just wants to learn and is living his dream and taking us along with you. I hope this brings you huge success champion! Keep at it

your doing great my bro, you never skip out on the small but important details we're all keen to know about and you make it easy enough to understand for new comers too keen to see whats to come in the future

Was itching to watch this as soon as I saw it posted! Great series mate, love it

Watched it all again , and here's a big thankyou. It's a great video , and you're a great guy for doing it 👍💯😜

I just picked up my first xr6 a few days ago and thanks to you mate I'm going to be able to watch every video and do all these mods plus more with ease! Thankyou!

Great vid Browney 👍 been waiting for this one. We’ve got the manual and done all these mods with you so better go get the tune now and should be seeing 190 odd fingers crossed!! Thanks again keep it up now you’re out of lockdown. Our quarter mile guess for your next strip day - 14.42. Good luck

Great to see this result!

Well done mate, that's some good gains!

Nice work there Browney, nicely put together.

Excellent episode! The cost was about what I would've thought but you got more power than I expected. Nice run down on what was done too. I always look forward to what you have next. Bring on Heathcote! I'm not going to have a guess at the 1/4 mile time as I don't know your original time. I would expect a mid 14 but, again, no idea what you were doing before.

Congrats on the 5k subs man. Keep it up 👍

Absolutely amazing video mate! Turned off my ad blocker for this

Great work, I have been enjoying watching your videos

This video was so worth the wait, good stuff mate!!! Big love to NA falcons, very juicy torque figures from the tune

Such a clean car, you've looked after her mate! 😂

Bloody good gains. I bet if feels a lot more sharp now.

i tuned a f6 g6e on our mainline hub dyno at work last week. With a cold air intake and a new dump pipe/de-cat made 487.7hp at the wheels could have made 500 but it would have required tuning past the point of diminishing returns.

Nicely done car is looking great and performing well:)

Keep up the videos mate. Doing awesome 👌

Ah, had the same coloured XR6, unfortunately the car copped a bit accident, now I'm onto my next one.👌👌

Looking mint browney looks nice and polished in that first clip 👌

Half of the reason its worthwhile is the fun you have working with your precious car.

Geez mate you're not wrong about the BTR stealing power. Your 0-100 run didn't look dissimilar to mine in my bone stock BF Fairlane with the ZF transmission. I do run it on 98 as well, but I'm keen to do some of the mods you've done (as well as maybe a cheeky 3:45 LSD which will be a nice upgrade from the 2:23 it's currently got). Keep up the awesome content mate, love your stuff

Mean looking XR6! Its reassuring to see a na getting some decent gains, I'm thinking of going with a mild cam and tune after the basic stuff on my 03, already feels pretty fast after driving a na diesel

Getting mine tuned on Monday from tune house in Sydney thanks for the video at least I know what to expect thanks love all the videos

I've got a 2004 model with low k's too. Thanks for the ideas mate.

same as an intech, yes, u can make good power from an N/A 4 litre i6, the challenge is making it rev harder

Looks like it's worth it to me, simple easy to bolt on mods yourself and getting a tune to increase it's torque and horsepower, imagine if a stall converter was added, bigger cams, valve spring upgrade and get higher compression out of the engine, good things will happen. Would love to see this happen in a Barra.

Another great video mate 👍. Looks like the tune was definetly worth it to support the mods.

A good series of video's mate. I've got three NA Barra Cars. A 2006 BFll Futura Wagon with the BTR 4 speed auto, a 2003 BA XR6 Ute with the T5 manual and a 2013 FG XR6 sedan with the ZF 6 speed auto. All 3 have the same mods, Underdrives, airbox mods (k&n filters, secondary air feeds, territory intake pipe on the first two and intake muffler delete and restrictor ring removal in the airbox on the FG). Pacemaker 4490 extractors and 3" piping down to the muffler before the axle, and 2.5" piping from there back on the BA & BF, 4495 Comp extractors and full 3" system on the FG. All of them have an 82C thermostat in place of the factory 92C unit and are all run on 98 Ultimate fuel. The BF and FG are just Family Cars used for carting kids to School, shopping and everyday stuff, predominantly by my wife, the Ute is my Work ute that has been carting things to job sites for 17 of it's 17 years. The FG would literally eat them both, even when it was stock it would have matched the modified BF and cleaned up the modified BA! The BF is noticeably gruntier than the BA, even with the Btr/ 3.27 diff combo V the 5 speed/3.45 of the BA. A lot of people don't realise that the BF-FG series Barra engines whilst having higher compression ratios, also have true variable cam timing. BA's advance and retard the intake and exhaust Cams the same way, sure it works ok, a bit like the SOHC VCT engine in the AU, but doesn't change your valve overlap at all. Ultimately you want an advanced intake lobe down low and a retarded intake lobe up high for power and a retarded exhaust lobe down low and advanced exhaust lobe up high for power. The BF & FG engines do this and also have slightly larger camshafts for more power and the ability to idle smoother with them! I reckon I'll throw a turbo on the Ute sometime, just a low boost set up for a bit more pulling power. I'm a bit like you, can't keep anything stock! Keep up the good work.👍

This is exactly the video I was looking for. Next step put a ZF 6spd in it 👌

Another great video definitely something I'm going to look into im thinking of doing cams first though trying to get as much power as possible while keeping it na

14.9 great video mate. 👍🏻🤙🏻😁

Can't turbo my Barra 180sx unless I use a loophole, so I'm thinking of a built na for it, this has helped 🙏🙏

Definitely worth it, I got my fg xr6 tuned and got 248 rwhp and with the zf trans tune it really did improve performance and fuel efficiency, great vid mate!!!

I actually leant a lot about basic dynontuning in this vid 😊. How much extra power and 0-100 for a fg xr6 auto?

how can I get my xr6 ba na to hit limiter? do I need a tune? If so where should I go to get it and how much if you know. Cheers love the videos man❤️

Top work Browney!!! Should have gone and give scotty the shits a couple of doors up could have gone for a fang in the trolvo!! Love the time lapse from Broadford to Dandy do that trip only from Epping most days in the carpet truck!!

Fantastic video. I'm looking into getting my FG G6E NA tuned, and was wondering how you're finding the fuel economy? Lowering it from 11-12L/100km is honestly my priority at this point as I use it a lot for work and you definitely notice how thirsty they can be when you're in urban traffic.

Nice. I had a BA XR6 in the same colour. I'm now in an FG.

Finally the video is out hehe now i know the number i gotta beat on my vx v6 commy xD i'll let you know my dyno numbers when i get them. It gets dyno on 15th December and my tune is gonna cost me $1500 from Chip Torque... but gotta pay it cause only people who will touch my v6 commy, everyone els i called up wont do the dyno :/ Ps, 20rwkw gain? I say it's worth it for the parts u done to your car, considering you did not do bigger throttle body, bigger cam kit or force induction... so good gains for little mods you did bro :) plus as u said, next time you dyno your car the cost will be cheaper so u don't gotta worry about big dyno cost later on. Keep up the good work bro!

Damn this was 2 years ago. Time flys, this just popped up in my recommended aha

Awesome man need more vids

I'm tempted to purchase a NA Barra Falcon, be that an XT, XR6, G6, G6E from FG onwards. Great solid highway cruisers.

Great video mate. Might be a silly question but do they make a throttle controller for these falcons?

Nice one cheers for the vid

Good stuff, should do a 14.8

Hi Browney I hear you are assembling parts to turbo the Barra I mentioned before the benefits of running Sniper coil packs in NA Barras but you may want to include them on your shopping parts list (around $220) when you step up to a turbo the first trip to the dyno turbo'ed you will see the need when the standard coil packs wont cut the mustard, flame out and misfire anything over 4500 rpm. Good inspirational KZfaq series for the everyday petrol head and nice clean car mate - Good luck

Gday mate,any idea on a aftermarket coil plug cover,for 182 barra that dosent letbwater through if hose engine? Thanks

Hey mate just wondering have you thought about upgrading valve springs and cams aswel?

Amazing thanks

I did an off the shelf crow cam into a built head in my old AU with the same bolt ons you've done here and it made a touch under 180rwkw through the t5. Well worth it even NA, it was great fun to drive and being a couple of hundred kilos lighter than the BA it was very quick for what it was. Never should've sold it, bloke who bought it put her into a pole a few months later....

Moves pretty well for a 4 speed 👍 is the turbo diff a shorter ratio than the n/a?

Boys will be Boys ... ;) Well done once again !! :)

Envy Green , funny how so many XR8 and XR6 were made in that popular colour , but only 2 GT or GTP made that colour.

How big was the drive there?

With a ZF or manual do you think you could get 200rwkw???

Is it worth doing this on a gas motor wagon xt? It already has pacemaker extractors. But it feels like a slug compared to my completely stock na sedan.

yes good work ,,, the lsd,, there was a option with xr's ,, the sv6 no option to tick

Very decent result compared to my BA. My wagon was tuned before I bought it, while running only the headers and full exhaust. It (apparently) picked up 9.8 NM and 4.1 KW. But the graph says that the baseline was 155.5 KW. It was a Mainline dyno which may explain the high reading. Should not have made more power than yours with way less mods. My torque reading baseline was 674.9 NM. Seems way off from yours and admittedly the whole NM vs lb/ft thing always confused me, so I don't know what that is all about except to say it's probably a meters / pounds mixup of some kind. Did you get a quote on a gearbox conversion?? : P

Awesome vid :) Loving the series. I'd predict a 14.8 quarter mile :) Keep up the good work :)

Nice looking XR6,👍

Those were awesome results! Such great engines! I wish there was support for these engines where i live (South Africa) as maintaining the Barra engine (let alone trying to modify it) is near IMPOSSIBLE! Cant even get engine mountings, Let alone extractors/headers or pulley kits or anything really!? But non the less Browney, your content is inspirational! Keep up the great work!

another great video Browney. my guess 14.5 qtr mile. racing my turbo BA in a few weeks with my own backyard mods will let you know what worked as maybe good data for you when you Turbo the slime wagon

do you know what the biggest limit on the car was while it was being tuned, except the transmission?

you guys are hugely underrated, also i live near you.

Nice job on this NA project mate. I’ve been following this build for quiet sometime and you have gotten me very interested in the shifter tune for my BA Futura. But I do wonder. How do you find the fuel economy after this tune?

great work brownie. I love it. I had a bf1 Fairmont 4 speed auto I did 3.73 lsd from manual gt powerbond underdrives full exhaust k&n filter, f6 snorkel, turbo upper cooler thermostat sct x4 from intune motorsports it used to go great for a non turbo. it really wanted a stall to get off the line better though. great channel. I've subscribed. cheers.

Hi Browney. Was there any merit tuning the ecu to 95 rather than 98? Cheers.

Upgrade your oilpump and gear, and put turbo valves in it... They usually fail at high rpm.

Cams cams cams cams! Surely you can make it as quick as a stock turbo BA!

Wondering what the rwhp difference is between the 4 speed and zf6

Would you be able to let me know if an 04 ba xr6 has an lsd? Planning on getting one in the next month haha

oh ye here we go!!

4.11 diff gears next? Followed a shot of funny gas?

my 2004 BA falcon XT has exact same mileage as yours.

I like the videos but personally i think the ba falcon is not worth doing anything to unless its a barra turbo, where as the 195 barras might be worth, i dont know what power you could pull out but im sure it would be above 300hp

Good stuff browney,i just looked up in my factory FG XR6 handbook under output and it says my 2010 fg xr6 came out from the factory with 195kw,so having the zf 5 speed and better intake and higher compression in a later model xr6 they certainly improved on the output. I have a growler cold air intake fitted,and a xforce 3 inch high flow catback exhaust system that has the biggest steel cat ive ever seen on any car,it sounds better than my neighbours gt mustang lol. Id love to put my fg on the dyno,i reckon shes putting out over 200kw currently. A set of extractors coming this financial year and some nice rims for her. Keep up the good work 👍👌

Is a very clean example

Isn't a fg 190kw from factory? Did they say what you would expect tuning one? Cheers

Pretty decent gain. Great video. Maintenance then, ECU/tune should generally be the first power mod IMHO. Apparently these na barra are quite under tuned stock.

Good stuff Browney, well worth it. How does the trans feel after its tune?

It’s always worth it to modify a car you mentioned the younger models with better intake manifolds, transmission & higher compression can you pick them up at a breaker? I would try doing that & look at a performance cam to get a stronger rev range.....just a thought.

Cool car great colour if only we could have these in the uk🇬🇧

It seems alot but, 2wd Dynos cost 20k plus to buy, add tuning software licenses, knowledge and a commercial lease(which run ab out 800 a week in NZ)

Barra's are worth every cent of it

Yup. did all those mods to an atmo FG with zf 6 speed quite a few years ago and got a 14.4 second pass without a tune and once I got a mail order tune from BP racing I managed a 13.6 down the quarter. Am guessing your time to be low 15s and possibly even high 14s.

I need help with BA ford falcon XR6 2004, want to go for mods and what parts and where to get them cheap and such guidance will be much more appreciated. Thanks

When's ya merch comming out

I've been waiting for this video

Your power curve ran out quick at the top as if you don't have enough injector in it. What was the a/f ratio 500 rpm beyond peak power , standard injectors only support approx 200kw at the engine

Dumb question but is that an actual green top long motor or he's just painted the rocker cover green?!

Have you corrected the Speedo to 100% accurate ? , if so she'll do 13.9- 14.15 1/4 based of your 0/60 and 0/100

Have to ask, after 3mths have you had any negative issues with the tune? I have had my xr8 back from tuning for a week now, and have several tune issues

Nice. Yeah the BA gear boxes are shit and break easy I heard. I have an 07 BF, heard the transmissions are pretty strong, what are your thoughts on the BF transmission, are they actually alot better/stronger?

1/4 - low 14s, 14.3s

Dyno action: 8:50

How did you get that high of a torque reading