1976 Ford Fairlane.

[lincolntbird]

Here are a couple of pics of '76 ZH Ford Fairlane, 302cu Cleveland, C4 transmission, 9inch lsd diff, 4wheel disc brakes.







The car on the right is mine, the one on the left I rebuilt the diff for a client, it is a '77 model.

[justyfied]

Wow .. .. Twins! Cept for the visor and rear window louvers, the other is the same. Is there some kind of trim difference from one year to the next?
love to see under the bonnet at the V8.

[lincolntbird]

My car has the louvers & a drivers side weather shield. The clients car has the visor which I sold to him off my project car. My car had a visor on it when I bought, but I removed it because over here we reckon cars with visors on look like an old mans car ;-). There isn't a real lot of difference between the two years, if you have a look at the rear shot you will see the badges on the boot lid are the opposite way round. The wood grain trim on the instrument cluster is a little different & the '76 had a 2 barrell carby & the '77 had a 4 barrell spread bore carby. Both carbies had variable main jets. The '78 & '79 ZH Fairlanes also only had minor changes to trim.
Will try & get some under bonnet pics on the weekend.

[justyfied]

So, yours has the nicer - non faded paint no ding in the rear bumper and the front bumper isn't pushed upwards. Also along with the rear window louver you have the ever so cructicaly import "FORD" mudflaps ;D
A 9 inch rear with rear disc's is really cool, over here we had the Lincoln Versailles that had that. it was a tad smaller car than yours I beleive.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Versailles

www.hotrodders.com/forum/lincoln-versailles-rear-disc-brakes-126785.html

So are these disc brakes the same as what you have? I think I scooped a set of axles, backing plates and rotor/ calipers off of a Versailles once years ago, probaby still have em kicking around.

How do they get variable main jets?

[lincolntbird]

The Fairlane has a wheelbase of 116inches, front track 60.6inches, rear track 60.1inches, overall length 204.5inches, width 77inches. The 302 powered Fairlane has a kerb weight of 1687kg (3712lb.).
The '76 to '79 Ford LTD had an overall length of 211.2inches, there where only 5896 units of this model LTD built.
The Fairlane was built on the Falcon wagon floor pan, giving it an extra 3 or 4inches over the Falcon sedan.
The only panels the Fairlane shared with the Falcon where the doors.
I can't view that link off the hotrodders forum but I am guessing that they would be similar. As a general rule over here only the 351 powered cars received the 9inch diff, but a few of the '76 302 powered Fairlanes seem to have received the disc brake 9inch, the brakes where positioned differently between the pre'77 & post '77 cars.
The variable main jets is a main jet with a vacuum controlled jet needle to more accurately meter the fuel required for the engine load. Basically they where a good system until things started to ware .
The hotrodders forum looks interesting. .