A new ride for Aussie Mike

[Aussie Mike]

I've been mumbling about buying an XR8 ute to replace the ageing F100 for a while. Well I finally took the plunge and bought one. I was originally going to get BA XR8 much like AC Andys beast but I found a 2002 AUIII Pursuit for the right price and the more I looked at it the more I liked it.

It's the last of the Windsors and interesting since Ford Performance Vehicles (Tickford) went all out on the little 5.0 windsor to make it keep up with the LS1 powered Holdens. They stroked it to 347 added higher comp pistons, special rods, bigger cam, a Tickford designed intake manifold with 84mm throttle body and a bunch of other mods. It's all old school hot rod stuff compared to the next years BA model with it's twin cam head 5.4 Boss motor. It makes some pretty respectable numbers for an iron pushrod motor with 250KW and 500NM and all pretty low down in the rev range.

Here's a pic: Pursuit 250

Can't wait to pick it up!

Cheers