The mighty Barra six was produced by Ford Australia for its Falcon product from 2002 through to 2016.
Street Machine has featured scores of Barra-powered creations over the years, covered many cool Barra conversions and played with our own Barra-powered project cars including Turbo Taxi and our Lightning McBarra MX-5.
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Frequently Asked Questions
BA XR6 Turbo was rated at 240kW and 450Nm
BF XR6 Turbo was rated at 245kW and 480Nm
FG XR6 Turbo was rated at 270kW and 533Nm
FGX XR6 Sprint was rated at 325kW and 576Nm
On E85, a well-tuned Barra can make in the 500 to 550kW at the wheels.
The main advantage of BF-FG LPG-spec Barra motors are their stronger conrods. These are similar BF-FG conrods, but use a press-fit gudgen, rather than the turbo’s full-floating gudgen. The LPG rods are superior to BA and early BF items.
BF-FG LPG engine has a 10.3:1 compression ratio and a thinner piston skirt.
BF-FG Turbo engine has a 8.7:1 -8.8:1 compression ratio and the pistons are much thicker through the piston skirt.
The quickest Barra-powered Ford Falcon is KNGFGX, built by Empire Mechanical & Racing in Sydney, with a best of 7.279-secondsa at 192mph
