NOS Ford 3.0L Essex engines

[LLantrisant]

you may have recognized, that here and there some NOS crate engines are popping-up for sale.e.g.:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113375702141?ul_noapp=t...

all with nice shiny Alloy rocker covers and electronic dizzy.

just a word of "warning": those engines are south-african engines...even they are exterrnaly (engine-mounts, bolt-pattern bellhousing) identical to the "real" UK essex...internally they are different, hence difficult to tune and refurbish with "european" material.

[GAjon]

I thought the South African engines were 3.3ltr?

[Terminator]

The one I had was a 3.4.

[Dollyman1850]

HOW MUCH !!!

N.

[the other tim]

Some of those South African "Essex" engines have rockers that look like Cologne v6 rockers. The one I saw was 3.0 although I've seen 3.4 units advertised in the past.

[kev b]

Looks like the intake manifold is made for a single choke carb.

Every Essex I can recall had a twin choke fitted, never saw one with electronic distributor either.

[LLantrisant]

south african engines came as 3l as well as 3.4l

e-dizzy was standard on later SA engines.

if i read correctly between the lines of below webpage, the guys from essexengines do not really recommend to buy those engines.:

https://my-tvr.com/diary/

[anonymous-user]

To be fair it’s the non interchangeability of part from the UK Essex that’s the issue, as an engine I believe they are fine. Didn’t someone like Ric Wood use these as the basis for massive power V6’s using Essex heads ?

[LLantrisant]

V6 Pushfit said:

To be fair it’s the non interchangeability of part from the UK Essex that’s the issue, as an engine I believe they are fine.

yep...but would you install an engine where you know that the parts available in your countiry would not fit?
sure, nobody expects an engine failure soon after installtion....but just in case.

[anonymous-user]

LLantrisant said:

V6 Pushfit said:

To be fair it’s the non interchangeability of part from the UK Essex that’s the issue, as an engine I believe they are fine.

yep...but would you install an engine where you know that the parts available in your countiry would not fit?

My point exactly