Would Santa clause please drop a nice small block Chevrolet off here so I could fix this stupid Mustang I am working on.LOL
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hubeerjw
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Are you cross-breeding cars again?
I would sure like to ! I have never been a Mustang fan I just opened my mouth & inserted foot when I told my girlfriend I would restore this one for her. I am gonna have to get a car I like if I ever finish this one.
No I need an LT 1 or something along that line. I want chevrolet or Mopar power.:biglaugh:
twistedmax
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Kyle, you just gave me another reason to get to fla. I have to party with you, anyone that knows the best way to make a ford run well ,is to put a SBC is my kinda guy.
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one2dmax
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Seems the 5.3's (LSx) engines are the hot ticket anymore.
Sean
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If I was back in Texas with my Brother & stash of parts it would have already been a done deal. I probably opened up a can of worms with this post.:rofl_200::rofl_200::rofl_200:
AArrrghh!!!!!!!!!
Well it is your g.f.'s car & I suppose you have 'permission' to do whatever it takes to fix it, but I am more in-favor of FORDs being FORDs. Having had two 5.0 GT's, they are about as trouble-free an engine as there is. No experience w/the SOHC or the DOHC newer motors. Are you planning to use GM engine accessories like p.s., alternator, a-c, or are you going to adapt the FORD accessories to fit the front of the GM engine? Sounds like a pain in the butt either way.
So what do you want, an LS-series engine & a 700R4? This is for a '66? Did you lower the upper control arms yet like Carrol Shelby did for a noticeable improvement in handling? Four drilled holes & transfer the control arm bolts/arms and you're done.
Well it is your g.f.'s car & I suppose you have 'permission' to do whatever it takes to fix it, but I am more in-favor of FORDs being FORDs. Having had two 5.0 GT's, they are about as trouble-free an engine as there is. No experience w/the SOHC or the DOHC newer motors. Are you planning to use GM engine accessories like p.s., alternator, a-c, or are you going to adapt the FORD accessories to fit the front of the GM engine? Sounds like a pain in the butt either way.
So what do you want, an LS-series engine & a 700R4? This is for a '66? Did you lower the upper control arms yet like Carrol Shelby did for a noticeable improvement in handling? Four drilled holes & transfer the control arm bolts/arms and you're done.
Unfortuanatley I am not gonna change the engine right now. I am just fixing the blown head gasket. I will build another car for me one day.
260/289 or an inline 250-6? Didja haveta plane the head?
Carrol Shelby used the 260 c.i. engine in the first series AC Cobras. My friends in MI have a wood-hull Century runabout twin-cockpit w/an inboard Marine FORD 260 c.i., sounds great, runs great!
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Its a 200 inline 6 & no one around here has a gasket in stock unless I go to the other side of Tampa think I am just gonna wait & finish it Monday.
I had a couple of 1st gen. FORD Econoline Cab-Overs & they had the smaller version of that, the 170 c.i. engine (105 bhp). A good amount of torque but probably ~90 h.p. to the axle. I think the 200 c.i. was rated at 120 h.p. for the Mustang. The Cab-Over design is just right for transporting a motorcycle. Kinda vulnerable in a front-end crash though. I kept one for 17 years and sold it for twice what I paid for it. People were always asking questions about it. This pic is not mine, but this style:
I went to the Detroit Public Library and got copies of GM documents sent to dealers, who were told to have the salesmen point-out the extreme nose-heavy weight distribution of the Cab-Over. There was a winter shot of four guys picking up the rear of an Econoline Cab-Over by the bumper! It was hard to tell because of their winter coats, but it appears they enlisted the front defensive line of the Detroit Lions to make that shot-they are big-boys! FORD countered by installing a several-hundred pound slab of iron between the gas tank and the body to change the weight distribution more-favorably. Mine had the single rear window like this one, but you could get a three-rear-window design w/wrap-around quarter rear windows.
FORD Australia made aluminum head SOHC & DOHC derivatives of the inline-6, wouldn't that be cool to pop the hood at a car show and have that in there? They factory turbocharged them too. Maybe you should ask one of your AUS customers about them. The deck height is taller on the AUS engines compared to the domestic 200 c.i. but they use cross-flow cyl. heads w/bolt-on intakes instead of the domestic same side intake/exhaust manifolds where the intake is integral to the head. As mentioned above they went to E.F.I. & aluminum for the head but all that allowed them to put out in ~250 c.i./4 liter a rated 416 h.p.!(the current FPV-FG series) Of course that doesn't have much in-common w/your 200 c.i engine.
Why don't you just put in a mouse motor? :rofl_200:
If I was in Texas I might go look at this stuff for another project. I have had the itch for another small block Chevy Luv. I might build another one of them when her stang is done.
You can get the 355-series 2004-2012 GM pickup which has come the last few years w/an LS-series V-8 and that makes for an easy conversion. If I am not mistaken, the stock LS is an aluminum block & heads 5.3 liter which you can get to an honest 300 rwhp pretty easily.
