I love my GRENADA!!!!

Hey everyone,


I am new to this site, I have been driving my '77 Grenada for about a year now. It has 80,000 miles on it and runs like a dream, it needs a tune up and a few minor rust spots cleaned up but other than that is in excelent shape. The 302 V-8 is a lot of fun. If anyone has some suggestions as to what I can do to soup up the engine, let me know. Thanks!!

Ford's Rock!!
Nate

You should donate that car to me so I can rob the drive train and front discs for 63 Comet S-22 convertible. :biggrin:

I too am quite a devotee of Granadas, although I much prefer the Fox chassis cars (1981-82) over the previous years.
In fact the 1981-82 Ford Granada/Mercury Cougar (NOT XR-7!) is my single favorite body style of all time!
If I were in your shoes, I would install a good cam and a decent set of heads. Rebuild it if you have to.

I once had a Granada I6 with 200000 miles on it. Ford built damn good sixes

What's sad is that the US never got the Granada they sold in the UK. The 2-door fastbacks from the mid-70's, with the Essex V-6, seemed to provide an interesting mix of compact (by our standards) size with luxury.

I recall an article in one of the mags where someone tried to "sportify" a US Grenada with I-6 and manual tranny, adding an aftermarket exhaust, shocks, etc. IIRC, they made significant strides in making it more of a driver's car.

Yes, I think that the UK Granadas were good cars, but NOTHING in my mind beats the Fox-bodied Granadas. It would have been interesting if the aforementioned UK Granada had been federalized and introduced into our market. But, I digress.......
I simply wished that Ford had the tamarity in 1982 to drop the (then) new 5.0L H.O. V-8 under the hood of the Granada GLX. They did something similiar to that in 1985 with the LTD LX, but it was too late. But at least Ford did something different then.
A Granada GLX with a 5.0L H.O. V-8 -- a sweet ride indeed!