Phase 7

[Phase7]

Hey.. prob completely left field but i have a limited E series.
1989 EA HO Phase7
Only one of the six cyl versions from Phase Automotive VIC, based on the fairmont ghia, five speed manual, factory recaro's, sunroof, momo wheel, and does high 14sec 1/4.
Unfortunately isn't real straight, bloke before me used it as a daily and it had nearly 300,000 on the clock when i rescued it.
Has all the authentic papers with it which match the car vin and engine no's.
Just thought someone might be interested.

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by Phase7

Hey.. prob completely left field but i have a limited E series.
1989 EA HO Phase7
Only one of the six cyl versions from Phase Automotive VIC, based on the fairmont ghia, five speed manual, factory recaro's, sunroof, momo wheel, and does high 14sec 1/4.
Unfortunately isn't real straight, bloke before me used it as a daily and it had nearly 300,000 on the clock when i rescued it.
Has all the authentic papers with it which match the car vin and engine no's.
Just thought someone might be interested.

Nice! Do you have any pics?

[Phase7]

Yeah i do.. how do i post em... only joined up today.

[Phase7]

Ah here we go... figerd it out all by myself.
This was when i got it.
Not great photo's but you get the idea.

[Rob]

That looks COOL!

I likey! I direct you to the OzECruisers Workshop builds...

http://www.fordforums.com.au/forumdisplay.php?f=160

More info please!!!

[Phase7]

Um well ok...
In 1989 Phase Automotive consisted only of a few ford employees, that were buying new cars at cost price, and then modifying them in there own workshop, in an attempt to produce cars aimed at the more "Involved" driver. (Some one who would have bought the GT in days gone past.) The idea was to complete prototypes in order to have working examples to show, and hopefully sell back to ford, who would in turn sell the design as a production car.
The Phase Automotive resume' shows previous prototypes of the Phase 5 (XD) and the Phase 6 (XE) in years before the EA was released.
As far as i know from what i read in the papers with the car that i bought there were only four Phase 7 prototypes completed, - S Pack six cyl
- Fairmont ghia six cyl
- S Pack eight cyl
- Fairmont ghia eight cyl

Mine is build no 002, as specified on a decal under the bonnet (and backed up in the papers), and was the only one out of the four to have the factory sunroof, and one of the two with the Recaro's. (Both the Ghia's)
I believe that all of the prototypes were manual, and all came with an LSD.
All but one of them came with the bonnet vents (to premote cooling/colder intake) which look to me to be the Cosworth vents.

The Phase 7 project went under due to no approval for from ford (who were short of funds at the time... hence no new ute model with the introduction of the EA) and so the prototypes were sold off as second hand cars.
Phase Auto only produced one more attempt at the Phase, which was the one prototype of the Phase 8 (EB).
They have since had a hand in the modifying of several hotter falcons, (eg. the Allan Moffit supercharged V8 ED) but as of today are re-named, and simply a body kit manifacturer.

The papers indicate that my car was used as the pace car for the 1992 indy.
I tried to track down the other Phase sevens a couple of years ago, I found that the S Pack V8 was cruizin the streets of sydney, the other six (S Pack) stayed in Melbourne, but was written off in roughly 1995. I could find no trace of the remaining car, though a wisper on ebay led me to believe that the car was sold to a collector and exported to the big U.S of A.

One of only two articles that i found written on these cars indicated that if the Phase 7 was released the bulk of the modifications would be to steering/suspension, and asthetics.. I believe however when the whole show went under, the boys played a little on the performance side. (As you do!)
My Falcon has modifications to the intake for instance that take advantage of the bonnet vents... and i am yet to find a standard EA that pulls 14's so your guess is as good as mine to the rest.

This is about the extent of what i have been able to drag up.
Hope it's interesting

[Dezza]

That looks great! Do you have any better pics of the bootlip spoiler? It looks quite unusual.

I've seen a picture with a Phase 7 and Phase 8 in a car yard. I'll try to dig it up in a couple of days.

[Phase7]

I could go and take some.. it's like the eb spack spoiler just three times as long and with ribs for strength. Its made completly of fibreglass too.... i think.

[Rob]

14 sec you say... thats a fair effort. What mods were done to it?

[Rob]

Look what I found..

http://www.gruppea.com.au/GA/GA-about.htm

Check down the bottom of the page, they mention the TX-7 Falcon....


Wayne Draper was featured in an AMC mag recently.

[Phase7]

Well as i say, i can't vouch for what internals were played with by PA, but the air box has been chopped and tubed, a pair of 6-3-2-1 extractors are fitted, and it has a full 2 1/2" system with a high flow cat. (all were on the car when i bought it.)
It has a 3.23:1 LSD and a five speed manual.
As i said... i guess Phase Auto's have some answering to do cause i haven't found one with standard int that runs 14's.

[ORSMEB]

Originally Posted by Phase7

...post 22...

Very interesting read!

Originally Posted by BLC

...Check down the bottom of the page, they mention the TX-7 Falcon....

An EA ay? The badges that I have are in the EA type style now that I think of it. (If anyone wants pics of the badges, I'll take some)

As for the 14sec pass...find out Phase7! I would like to know.

[ORSMEB]

This is getting interesting..I want to know everything about anything phase autos related.

If you assume there was a phase for every number, there would be..
Phase 1 -
Phase 2 -
Phase 3 -
Phase 4 -
Phase 5 - XD HO
Phase 6 - XE HO
Phase 7 - EA HO (4 made - 1 x I6 S Pack, 1 x I6 Ghia, 1 x V8 S Pack, 1 x V8 Ghia)
Phase 8 - EA GTHO

To my knowledge there was no Phase 9. The number plate is still available at vplates.com.au aswell.

[ORSMEB]

Phase 1 - Possibly XB HO
Phase 2 - Possibly XW GTHO
Phase 3 - XYGTHO
Phase 4 -
Phase 5 - XD HO
Phase 6 - XE HO
Phase 7 - EA HO (4 made - 1 x I6 S Pack, 1 x I6 Ghia, 1 x V8 S Pack, 1 x V8 Ghia)
(under Phase 7)
- EB HO
- ED Allan Moffet HO
Phase 8 - EA GTHO
Phase 9 - EF HO
Un-named - AU HO
Un-named - BA HO

[MotherNatureVer2]

I have split this thread as I believe this deserves its own little home

[wulos]

Phase Auto's were one of the few companies to pick up on FoA's success with the phase GT's
They were, from all the information I have available to me at least a 'bodykit' company.
Through Ford the "Phase's" were always handling optioned (HO) GT's which received little in the way of bodykitting (well apart from the bib front end, and droopy tail on the XY models) The kitting was added only as a necessity, rather then cosmetic. The offset scoop on the XW's were added as a cooler for the brake booster.
The PHASE phenomenom with FoA died a quiet death with the cancelation of the Phase 4's following the 'supercar scare. There were always some that wanted this to continue onwards, and some sought to improve their companies bottom line courtesy of Ford's original hardwork.
This is not putting phase auto's contribution down - to the contrary - I find them quite an interesting addition to the Ford landscape. Indeed, I am most certainly interested in extending my knowledge of them further - have done a fair amount of research into car companies looking to establish themselves by offering aftermarket upgrades on FoA products.
AWD Turbo'd XF, BMC, John Goss special XD (yes - XD. FoA did the XB's), SVO, AEC etc etc

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by ORSMEB

Phase 1 - Possibly XB HO
Phase 2 - Possibly XW GTHO
Phase 3 - XYGTHO
Phase 4 -
Phase 5 - XD HO
Phase 6 - XE HO
Phase 7 - EA HO (4 made - 1 x I6 S Pack, 1 x I6 Ghia, 1 x V8 S Pack, 1 x V8 Ghia)
(under Phase 7)
- EB HO
- ED Allan Moffet HO
Phase 8 - EA GTHO
Phase 9 - EF HO
Un-named - AU HO
Un-named - BA HO

Phase 1 was an XW HO, which featured the 351 Windsor V8. It also had 12 slotters. Phase 2 upgraded to the 351 Cleveland and featured the 5 slotter wheels. One thing interesting, there was also a Phase 1.5, which featured the Clevo V8 but the 12 slotter wheels.

[DEVL-XR]

Originally Posted by ORSMEB

Phase 1 - Possibly XB HO
Phase 2 - Possibly XW GTHO
Phase 3 - XYGTHO
Phase 4 -
Phase 5 - XD HO
Phase 6 - XE HO
Phase 7 - EA HO (4 made - 1 x I6 S Pack, 1 x I6 Ghia, 1 x V8 S Pack, 1 x V8 Ghia)
(under Phase 7)
- EB HO
- ED Allan Moffet HO
Phase 8 - EA GTHO
Phase 9 - EF HO
Un-named - AU HO
Un-named - BA HO

Phase 1 - Possibly XW HO ??
Phase 2 - Possibly XW GTHO
Phase 3 - XYGTHO
Phase 4 - XA or XB GTHO
Phase 5 - XD HO
Phase 6 - XE HO
Phase 7 - EA HO (4 made - 1 x I6 S Pack, 1 x I6 Ghia, 1 x V8 S Pack, 1 x V8 Ghia)
(under Phase 7)
- EB HO
- ED Allan Moffet HO
Phase 8 - EA GTHO
Phase 9 - EF HO
Un-named - AU HO
Un-named - BA HO

Pretty sure the Phase 4 was either the XA or XB GTHO, Phase 1 pretty sure is an XW.

[JD86]

very interesting, i had only heard up to phase 5, never heard of anything higher

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by BradensEBxr6

Phase 1 - Possibly XW HO ??
Phase 2 - Possibly XW GTHO
Phase 3 - XYGTHO
Phase 4 - XA or XB GTHO
Phase 5 - XD HO
Phase 6 - XE HO
Phase 7 - EA HO (4 made - 1 x I6 S Pack, 1 x I6 Ghia, 1 x V8 S Pack, 1 x V8 Ghia)
(under Phase 7)
- EB HO
- ED Allan Moffet HO
Phase 8 - EA GTHO
Phase 9 - EF HO
Un-named - AU HO
Un-named - BA HO

Pretty sure the Phase 4 was either the XA or XB GTHO, Phase 1 pretty sure is an XW.

Phase 4 was an XA. It was dropped due to the "Supercar scare", which was created when a newspaper wrote an artice on "150mph supercars on our roads soon". There were only ever 4 built, 3 red ones and a green one. 1 of the red ones was written off though.

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by wulos

Phase Auto's were one of the few companies to pick up on FoA's success with the phase GT's
They were, from all the information I have available to me at least a 'bodykit' company.
Through Ford the "Phase's" were always handling optioned (HO) GT's which received little in the way of bodykitting (well apart from the bib front end, and droopy tail on the XY models) The kitting was added only as a necessity, rather then cosmetic. The offset scoop on the XW's were added as a cooler for the brake booster.
The PHASE phenomenom with FoA died a quiet death with the cancelation of the Phase 4's following the 'supercar scare. There were always some that wanted this to continue onwards, and some sought to improve their companies bottom line courtesy of Ford's original hardwork.
This is not putting phase auto's contribution down - to the contrary - I find them quite an interesting addition to the Ford landscape. Indeed, I am most certainly interested in extending my knowledge of them further - have done a fair amount of research into car companies looking to establish themselves by offering aftermarket upgrades on FoA products.
AWD Turbo'd XF, BMC, John Goss special XD (yes - XD. FoA did the XB's), SVO, AEC etc etc

Did everyone miss this post, as its spot on. Nice car, but its no HO..LOL

And I cant believe people dont know the previous HO's either..WTF?

[Windsor220]

What v8 was used in the Phase 7 EA? 5.0l wasnt even out yet

[Langas351]

Originally Posted by KJLynx

What v8 was used in the Phase 7 EA? 5.0l wasnt even out yet

The 302 Windsor was around long before the EA

[XCSEDAN]

FORD
Phase 1 - 1969 XW GTHO (windsor)
Phase 1.5 - pretty sure 1969 XW GTHO (cleveland)
Phase 2 - 1970 XW GTHO (cleveland)
Phase 3 - 1971 XY GTHO
Phase 4 - 1972 XA GTHO (4 made, 3 red pepper??? (i know they were red just can't remember which damn red it was!), 1 calypso green) red cars were destined for the track, calypso green was the ONLY one sold as a street car.

PHASE AUTOS
Phase 5 - XD HO
Phase 6 - XE HO
Phase 7 - EA HO (4 made - 1 x I6 S Pack, 1 x I6 Ghia, 1 x V8 S Pack, 1 x V8 Ghia)
(under Phase 7)
- EB HO
- ED Allan Moffet HO
Phase 8 - EA GTHO
Phase 9 - EF HO
Un-named - AU HO
Un-named - BA HO

if anyone has pics of the Phase Auto "HO"s please post em up! i've only ever seen XD and E in the flesh...

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by XCSEDAN

Phase 4 - 1972 XA GTHO (4 made, 3 red pepper??? (i know they were red just can't remember which damn red it was!),

Wasn't it Brambles Red?

[XCSEDAN]

possibly, i cant remember which red though... not at the moment anyways, once the grog wears off it'll hit me like a mack truck ;)

[Windsor220]

Originally Posted by 1800R

The 302 Windsor was around long before the EA

But it wasn't released in EFI form in Aus until EB. What chances were there of Ford Oz selling it as a production car if Ford Oz themself hadn't released this engine yet.

[ORSMEB]

Originally Posted by XCSEDAN

If anyone has pics of the Phase Auto "HO"s please post em up! i've only ever seen XD and E in the flesh...

Thanks for the info!

Here are some pics of the other phase's..

http://www.gruppea.com.au/HO/HOtoyshop.htm

[ORSMEB]

Check this out for info..

http://groups.msn.com/falconGT/hophase7.msnw

[Dezza]

Here's the pic I promised