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Riiiight it's all coming back to me now. Sorry if I gave you a bum steer but it sounds like you had already sussed it all out anyway.

Just for my own curiosity, do you thing an FG engine would sit low enough that all the top end gubbins ie intake manifold etc wouldn't be too intrusive?
I realize the question is hard to answer seeing as you have not done it, but your impressions on the idea would still interest me.

Regards
Ben

Hey, I'm pretty new here and have mostly been lurking in the shadows, but thought I might have something to add to this discussion. You probably already know all this Shane but just in case

I've done a bit of research regarding fitting a later model falcon 6. To be honest you sound like you are much more knowledgeable than me but i'll throw this out anyway just in case. After reading around on various ford forums I think i remember discovering that the FG sump (which has a rear pan) and pickup should bolt onto earlier engines which i'm sure you know all have front pans, and therefore would allow you to mount the engine much lower.
I believe also territorys have the same rear pan sump.

It's been a while since I was looking into all this so I would definitely recommend that you look into it yourself, but this is the path I am probably going to pursue first when the time comes.
I've only some some rudimentary eye balling and tape measuring at this stage, but nothing led me to believe that it was going to be overly intrusive space wise.

If this information is any good to you and you do go ahead with a straight 6 install, I would very much love it if you took lots of pics and posted them up. And hey, if you felt like knocking up a second set of engine mounts, i'd be prepared to pay to not have to re-invent the wheel myself

Good luck which every way you go.

Ben