Not bad for a bloke who says he isn't A MECHANIC? I can tell you that you leave about 85% of them behind. So many mechs won't clean things and their jobs end up not working well. I spent 45 years in the motor trade and I have seen things mechs have done that would leave MOST people shaking their heads. Kudos to you mate :)

Nice work. If you want to be extra vigilant a couple of tips for harmonic balancer install. One is leave them in a bucket of hot water / just boiled or carefully warm up with a heat gun. Two use longer bolt sourced from a bolt shop to draw in the balancer. This eliminates the risk of only grabbing a few threads at the start with factory bolt. Once the balancer is pulled in sufficiently back out the longer bolt and install the factory harmonic balancer bolt.

For self taught you do absolutely brilliantly

Great videos mate. You do a great job explaining what needs to be done for guys like myself wanting to learn more about these engines.

Great video mate. Really informative and appreciate you taking the time putting it together. Seeing this and some others has helped me make the decision to rebuild my FG F6 motor at home when it becomes necessary to upgrade the internals to safely accommodate high power (currently @ 350rwkw)...

Very nicely assembled. Liked the way you checked your clearances. I worked in a engine reconditioning shop for several years. Hope it is running well for you.

Tidy job mate .Enjoyed watching . Cheers

Nice and easy to follow instructional vid....cheers

That's why they did go for the LPG motors, the BA LPG compression was approx 10.7:1 which gave them con-rods which are a beam shape. The BA LPG motors are 20 yrs old today and more likely to have 4-600,000 km on them , which is risky without a compression test and start up check. You have done v well, an excellent result.

Cheers for informative direct instructions. Knowledge is power !!👍

Great video your really good at doing all the rebuilding man !

Watched a bunch of barra stuff from 2013 and have no idea why your stuff missed the bus. Probably u t algorithms not hooking me up. Nice work ans explanations. Will sub after i post

Cleaned it up well 👍

Well done mate really enjoyed ya vid from nz.... spot on

Great work Sol, thanks for posting up these videos and the tips as well. I'm looking at doing a NA to T conversion later on down the track and these videos show how simple the barra is. Cheers for the content, I've liked and subscribed.

Great job mate 👍👍👍

Great stuff mate

Great job mate ....awesome video.....I liked it very much ...👍

Thumbs up mate, well done

Great stuff man!

Thanks again mate

Great video thanks!

A trubosmart XR6T wastegate with the installed 12psi spring totally transformed my fg xr6t. Spool response is dramatically transformed. I use a turbosmart eboost street to control the boost.

Nice Video Mate I am jsut about to start on my stock ba system

Excellent!

Nice mate you make that look easy, I’m no mechanic either and never pulled out a engine or ever rebuilt one but I’m thinking about doing a DIY build too

Great video, I find that as much as a Engine stand might be able to take the weight i like to put something at the end to help steady the engine and take some of the strain off by raising it a bit and having something balance it :)

oil pump gears are $600 bucks, would have been worth putting in. anyway, love the series. thank you

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When I built my turbo Barra , I had troubles with the oil control rings hanging up between the bore and piston and then scoring the bore when turned over . This was because of the Square edge of the deck on the block . Best way to make sure that doesn’t happen! Was to get a plumbers debur tool and chamfer top of the bore . This aided in piston assembly, sliding into the bore with no problems !

Would love to see it running mate.

What's the tune playing at about the 9:50 mark?

i found a ford barra cylinder head n billet n i wanto rebuild it so this is handy as

Hey mate what rod and piston combo did you go for with the rebuild? Looking to do a rebuild on my motor and don't wanna have to spend 2k on internals haha

Tightening up the harmonic balancer had me stumped. Wouldn't the engine internals rotate? I had to remove mine on a Volvo 240 for a timing belt change, without the specific tool to stop the engine rotating I just used a rattle gun.... Both to undo and to do up. Done a few thousand KLM and all seems okay.

Its best to give it a blow out without the gallery plugs in it , the atf is a good idea on the bores .

Heard your in Tassie, which machine shop would you recommend in the Hobart area

Did you put sealant on the rear main cap. Easy one to be caught out by.

hi mate great vid just wanted to ask wat size bolts did you use to mount the barra engine to the stand and where can they be purchased cheers

Keep up the Good videos brother, are you using i camrods or H camrods?

FG Intake pipes on a BA/BF setup?

How did you know what sizes bore piston to get? And bearing/rings?

Awesome videos mate, about to do similar but going stronger rods etc. Do you mind me asking total cost to have block and head sent to shop for works?

Excuse my ignorance as I know little about the Barra Turbos, I do have a late 07 BF2 Fairmont Ghia Barra-190 (Love the ZF! best auto i've ever driven) in silhouette with 120,000km but I've done nothing to it, it's 100% factory std as I've got my late 07 BF2 XR8 (Love the T56!) in ego with 80,00km also 100% factory std but parts are accumulating for this. I've never had the Barra Turbo. Anyway back to my question.... I believe you said you installed BF NA cams? Is there some reason for this? as I said I know nothing about the Turbo Barras so I might be missing something obvious.

Hey mate. Love the content. Can you tell me where you got the bolts for the block to the engine stand and what size they were? Cheers mate

Hey mate are you using n/a cams?

What about the fuel pump,computer. etc?

Hey mate what’s the torque spec for the rod bolts?

i’ve got an engine that needs rebuilding if your keen