Oh that V4 dog, yep
It was a 2/3rds version of the 3l V6 which many also thought were a puss bucket but they went good with the std twin throat Webber and the 3l Capri is still a sought after model as they were quite a rocket ship in their day.
Pop had a Mk4 Zepher with the 3l innit and probably the first set of wheels I did the ton in way the fuck back in the 70’s. ![Shocked :o](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)
From what you're saying, you guys got the Essex V4s and V6s. They're a bit different in design from the Taunus/Cologne units, not just in displacement, mostly in the timing gear and some other ancillaries (literally a gear on the Essex).
AFAIK the V4's we got in NZ were 2 and 3L and same bore/stoke etc.
Early Mk4 Zephers had a 2.5L V6 and the Zodiac version the 3L and twin throat Weber but the last of them were all 3L and twin throats like the one Pop had.
The V4's were in the Mk1 Transhit vans too but they were dumped when the Mk2 was released and the little better 2L OHC fitted but with a single throat carbie. ![Flogging A Dead Horse :horse:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/DeadHorse.gif)
A buddy after suffering 100k miles with the 2L OHC in his Transhit Mk2 hauled it and all its running gear out and fitted a new 302W crate motor and IIRC C4 BW auto and customed Ford 9" running on LPG and the darn thing lasted him another 20 yrs with the 302W just ticking away with no idea it was ever working.
Although he never flogged it, it earned its keep and pulled like a 4th former....I know as I did several 6hr each way trips away with him on hunting and fishing trips.
IIRC he sold it soon after it's only major repair....a steering box at half a million KM. ![Shocked :o](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)
Funny as hell actually, a Transit was his first work hack and now some 40 yrs on a modern TD Transit is his new work hack with only Hiace vans of one model or another filling the in between years.
You guys are talking some cars, (well engines) at least, that I enjoyed as a teenager and a gave some fond memories of as well. When I first passed my driving test, I couldn't afford a car of my own and I was still living at home with my parents and my neighbour had this lovely Ford Zephyr Mk3 V4 that I used to do the servicing on, and so he added me to his insurance and let me burrow it in the evenings when he wasn't using it, that car was a real babe magnet I recall
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. This was while I was doing my apprenticeship on Eastern National Busses and the chairman of London Transport used to drive his Ford Mk4 Executive to our bus station in Chelmsford, (sometimes it would be his Rover P4) and park them inside the garage and catch a train into London from the station next door. Every Thursday morning the entire garage would have the floor washed down to remove all signs of engine oil drips etc, and that every bus, coach, breakdown truck and cars would have to be moved in order to scrub the floors. I used to get the job of moving his cars and I loved that, both of them were very upmarket luxury cars, the Rover was known as the poor man's Rolls-Royce.
Then a few years later, I got married and moved to Haverhill and was employed there by Haliiburtons and the company car that was used by the engineers to pop out and source tools and other bits and bobs was a Mk4 Ford Zodiac V6 2.5L estate car. Once again it fell to me to service this car as part of my job and I used to love driving that around, bags of punch from the engine, I never got tired of seeing that huge flat and wide bonnet stretching out in front of me, it was a tennis court, or so it seemed compared to other cars of the times.
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Edit: After a few years, I went to work at another company in Haverhill and the owner of the company knew that I dabbled in Audio electronics and asked me to repair his rather posh radiogram and by the time I had completed the repairs, he had a massive cash flow problem. He couldn't at the time pay me for the parts etc, so I rather cheekily suggested that I'd take their Transit van (V4 2L) as settlement (it had been standing doing nothing with a duff clutch) and to my surprise he agreed and so that became my daily driver and I had that van for about 12 years before selling it on and it went like stink, no wonder it was at the time the vehicle of choice by bank robbers
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