Mmmmm, cresta. I have no idea why, but i can't get enough of this thing. It's just so good and so abnormal. Even 2 years on, the story of this car makes me instantly pay attention to it.

@wobblysauce

5 жыл бұрын

Known history.

@q......

5 жыл бұрын

I saw one going down the highway (in the states) and had to take a photo or two, and double check it wasn't Benny.

@adamfrbs9259

5 жыл бұрын

I had a USA Cressida in high school in 95 lol...they were quick stock for what it was. My grandpa bought it new. Power everything on it.

@darrencolegold3642

5 жыл бұрын

I just came here to see what level of wear something like drag week has put on that tortured barra. The car has achieved a lot, it's solid.

Omar seems like a cool dude, great you got him involved in the video.

Absolutely love engine archaeology. Thanks for showing the whole breakdown. Fascinating to see the little things that affect the engine after all its been through.

Omar at Empire has been playing around with 6cylinder ford falcon engines since the 90s he really knows his way around them from the single cam to the Barra

Cleetus McFarland's wrecker engine builds: last 2-3 passes before losing oil pressure and eating their bearings. Benny's wrecker engine build: lasts countless passes and still isn't in bad shape. I rest my case.

@VA-ng2ve

5 жыл бұрын

Not really accurate comparisons. Cleetus pushed it beyond what you could reasonably expect, also a bit of inexperience there. Benny just didn't push it that hard.

Great tip for keeping the trans off the ground, thanks Benny 😁

@darrenobrien7667

5 жыл бұрын

Bonus for the autos, keeps the torque converter from falling out too.

Thanks Benny! Love you long time!

After watching this vid and seeing how that Barra held up, it makes you proud to be Australian. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 Barra The World.

@mikdonalds3956

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

@wobblysauce

5 жыл бұрын

"Intech the world" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Awesome stuff, thanks for the video Benny, keep the Barra stuff coming!

Love the Cresta. Another great video and great Guest Expert. Keep up the awesome job. Kudos to the editor with all the number plates fogging.

Love the story of the Cresta, keep it up mate!

Noting the Hughes Performance shirt and recalling how Alan mentioned an upcoming project involving them. Mechanical Stig + Turbo Yoda = Automotive Awesomeness.

thanks for the tip Benny ...simple but very effective 👍👏👏

Great video Benny, the Cresta is an epic journey and one that many of us watching have followed since the Mighty Car Mods build. The Cresta is becoming an iconic car that has many hours of work invested in it. It would be great to see Omar again, it would be great to hear his thoughts on the Barra engine in greater detail.

I love it when you take a moment to explain small tricks like the jackstand on the trans :D

That jackstand trick is awesome! Thank you for sharing!

Your content has really improved dude. That’s heaps

Love your work Benny,well done to all involved 👍

Luv automotive CSI Omar is a awesome bloke his knowledge of Barra engines must be helpful your channel is awesome Benny

Loving the videos Ben, keep it up

Loving the videos Benny!

Great vid. Back to the good stuff. 👌

Great video!

Now that was an enjoyable episode to watch.

for a wrecker engine benny looks like you and the guys workrd wonders with it, 9 sec car down the drag, be proud bud

Haven't watched the vid. But just wanted to say this man is a legend.

Excellent episode 👍🏻

Very nice tip on supporting the trans while the engine is out. I've never seen that before.

This was an awesome video 👌

Had no idea there were no exotic modifications done. That is really impressive.

@wobblysauce

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, basic stocker.

@SomervilleMetalWorks

5 жыл бұрын

@@wobblysauce yeah basically stock i mean it's only got rods, psitons, valve springs, head studs, main studs, girdle, hd timing chain and oil pump gears.... yeah so stock as a rock

@wobblysauce

5 жыл бұрын

Well, he didn't say he got it from a million km Taxi now.

@zyoungson215

5 жыл бұрын

@@SomervilleMetalWorks To be fair thats a pretty basic build, just improving some weak points of the factory engine, not like its an all out build with head work, different stroke etc

Benny is just a beast.

hoping you can show more info on the torrington bearing mod good episode, looking forward to the next one!

hi, while you don't need cams to make the power, once you have all the rest figured out as you have, it really gives a big raise in performance without changing any other hardware

Gotta love that censored handshake at the end 👌

11:20 *insert Marty "HEADGAAAAAAASKET" Sound effect*

Great Video Benny, I hope we see more of Omar in future vids

@tonyhitch5799

5 жыл бұрын

Although Omar wanted to say a few things and Benny kept going over the top... But the channel will get there!

@HHCHunterYTC

5 жыл бұрын

Omar is a straight G. wtf he ain't got his own youtube channel, I'd watch that hektic accent daily.

Nice one Benny!!

love the cresta keep it up benny were all hanging for updates lol

Great video 🙌

Line pressure to high on the trans pushes the converter out and overloads the thrust bearing. Is a known fault with a glide and the turbo boxes behind big power v8s

@scottorgan2255

5 жыл бұрын

Ttthhuuurrrrpp v8 2 cylinders to many i6 for ever

@mongreluc1588

5 жыл бұрын

Torque and rpm don’t care how many cylinders.

@peteanderson2533

5 жыл бұрын

@@mongreluc1588 I understood what you were talking about, sadly these days you need to talk slowly and explain everything in finite detail.

Great episode have loved this car for ages and love your knowledge on all this stuff, just that music is a little in the face I know you will never satisfy everyone but a suggestion is a website called artlist, I use it at uni for audio engineering it is subscription based but you get licences to use the music for what ever and it is cheap on there and it is top quality stuff.

Only 30 seconds in and I can already tell I'm going to enjoy this video :D

Nice work Benny - please give some more boosts!

Nothing evil about a barra powered drift wagon. Only awesomeness.

Draining coolant from the block. Get a old style radiator drain valve, the kind with a 1/4" pipe thread on one end and a wing on the other. Press in a short piece of 1/4" brake tubing to the wing side. This way a piece of vacuum hose can be slipped over the tubing and the other end into a pan. For blocking radiator hoses, use what we call a " Fernco " rubber plumbing cap.

Lube yer alternator with coolant for extra amps.

@chipollinovafunculo8578

5 жыл бұрын

Yea she'll be rooted in a yr

@hydrocarbon8272

5 жыл бұрын

Does nobody else use a shop vac to remove rogue coolant from hoses & blocks? Takes far less time than getting a bucket of oil dry & mop. Best part is no slick shit on your hands that never dries.

Great to see how the Barra has held up after all that punishment. Best Ford Motor ever .

Love this car, love these engines. I wasn't aware that the Turbo cars (from factory) had a different cam spec.

Something about the Ford Australia long stroke 6's, even the earlier crossflow examples could be made to scream way harder than factory especially adding Fuel injection and later parts. Seems the Barra got it all the way home.

Did someone say IS 200 with a Barra swap?

@morgantim13

5 жыл бұрын

Now that's a great idea

Btw should let you know all Barras from the BF onward (turbo and n/a) have the same cams, they never had to change them!

A great combination of car and motor. I';d love to go for a ride with you Ben.

Great vid, but the wobbly music drove me nuts. The BARRA is awesome, thinking about putting one in my AU Fairmont (yeah I know , but I like it) because the rear welch plug let go.

was among the first 20 or so to subMCM now subbed here too, g'day benny you evil genius

@FilthTrackz

5 жыл бұрын

You account was made in 2013, why lie

@FilthTrackz

5 жыл бұрын

You account was made in 2013, why lie

Benny, i know some of its straight forward, but you should have mentioned about draining all fluids, mentioned about the clamp style used and how it made it easy to remove stuff, and why you used a paint marker

Benny can we see the torrington bearing installed. Does it replace the 360 thrust bearing mod?

No idea why. Cant get enough of the Cresta.

Ow my ears 😖 love the cresta tho 👌

That engine was so clean!

Great series Benny! Moog's playing around with some Vaporwave then? cool vibe, goes well with the video.

Usto work for Duncan and foster on deadmans road. Omars shop was next to ours. Dude knows his stuff always had cool cars at his shop

We sometimes complain why other countries have the awesome products and we don't. Glad we have the barra and the rest of the world doesn't.

@MillerCorner

5 жыл бұрын

Nihal Shroff what does the UK have, though?! America has the LS, Aus has the Barra, what cheap, tough, big power engine does the UK get?! 😩

@alexveldhuis6004

5 жыл бұрын

@@MillerCorner Rolls Royce Merlin, though admittedly a packaging challenge....and erm... well, not that cheap.

@Looptydude

5 жыл бұрын

Probably the old rover v8 was something used quite a lot, now I don't have much of an idea.

@alexveldhuis6004

5 жыл бұрын

@@Looptydude Yep, indeed quite popular and cheap, but originally a Buick block, so erm...

@craigdavies69

5 жыл бұрын

Jaguar XK6, DOHC I6, 2.4 to 4.2 litre had a 43 year run.Produced some really impressive power figures for its time, 250 hp in 1948.

I actually one day randomly saw the cresty that the MCM put a barra into, followed it and took some pictures :D

I'm on the wagon... Great videos to watch but the music is off putting... But Omars shop looks amazing with all the fords... But what was the blown beast in the background

Love the vapourwave vibes

Lookin good.

Good Barra tear down vid. Not many indepth on the old tube.

Barra Power... Love it!!!...

I was under the impression that the single cam engines got a 360 deg thrust bearing from the factory but the aftermarket stuff like ACL only comes with 180 deg. Guess I will find out when I tear mine down

damn what a workhorse. great mechanic and tuner ;D

Omar goes alright. He be the Barra YoDA

I wish we got the Barra instead of the 4.6 mod here in the States. People will defend those boat anchors till they're blue in the face. Straight 6 4valves are less complicated and they can make way more power.

Has that converter been ballooning.?

If a goobered up thrust bearing is the most damage you found after that absolutely horrifying abuse you put that poor engine through, that is a win and another win! Good job, boys!

Cresta time!

Man this is so sick. Epic to see other aussies holding our own in the car scene. Yewwww

Needy, love the video! Just a bit of advise from a fellow wench, get a small set if shelves for the shop for teardown parts! You already k NJ ow this.

You have got to love a removable radiator support panel

@BennysCustomWorks

5 жыл бұрын

Adam O'Connor yeah we made that during the OG build with Mighty Car Mods .

Love it. Needs voice over to make it better. IMO.

Hope Benny rides the Cresta wave into the 7's 🎯

while you are down there can you make a quick video on that Ford Territory

@Mantenner

5 жыл бұрын

Keen to see more on territory's

Didn't even know you had a channel lol subbed without even watching the video yet.

Humble mechanics are the best !

12:00 that is some wonky ass music. Love it!

Hey what's happening with the VH41 Stagea ?

@chrisparish9145

5 жыл бұрын

Ian Swinkels got a reply via FB messenger to this very question a week or two ago. YT won’t let me upload a screen shot but there’s a video shot, just needs uploading. Epic build eh?

@iswinkels

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisparish9145 Yeah I want to see more. Hopefully he has rods, pistons and a decent head gasket setup in that engine soon.

The half thrust bearings started at AU intech.

I don’t know what it is but I need more of your show’s !!!!

@trentadams4679

5 жыл бұрын

Lolz dcs

@dodgehemi44

5 жыл бұрын

trent adams Haa if you didn’t say anything I meant shows haaaaa

@trentadams4679

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha i thought i found another sneaker head.. thats gold

Someone needs to start a business exporting the Barra to the States. We need this engine and I wish Ford would give it to us as a crate motor here.

Not bad, 2 seconds in not bad, good size

Good shit

Wish we had barra engines in Canada!

Just wondering Benny why you wouldn't change came at this stage? Not questioning just would like to know your thoughts please

If it was Giraffe tuned, you'd have been on your 5th engine already...

@penrithnsw

5 жыл бұрын

🤣

@euroker05

5 жыл бұрын

No bald eagles here. 😂

@tballz1988

5 жыл бұрын

Turning giraffe wishes he had a barra for the vic

@1993kawasaki

5 жыл бұрын

thankfully its not an LS!!

@1993kawasaki

5 жыл бұрын

@@tballz1988 i still think that GT500 engine in the Vic is solid as with the amount of abuse it gets handed

I keep coming back for the song

im no mechanic, but i do have a bit ocd, my question is y would u take off the oil pan while the engineis up side down, so if their was any materials, that they might land in the engine, possibly all the way down to the bottum of the pistons?

What is with the oil in the bell housing?? Well I was still watching when you answered the question. (rear main seal)

When you were working for that taxi company did you guys rebuild motors?

Not gonna go with bigger cams at all? Get it breathing a little better. Will you restall the converter a little higher?

Are you going to put some big cams in it?

Dammit Jim, I'm a mechanic, not a tuner!

@ozzieceejay668

5 жыл бұрын

Live long and prosper