Modular motor, my ass - A tale of two Fords

[Speedbag]

All that, and now throw in the production date changes in between.

There's a reason Ford parts guys drink.

Heh.

Just the other day I deciphered some casting numbers for a friend to determine what exactly was in a '67 Mustang he bought. He was sort of amazed. Funny how that stuff sticks in your head.

It's sort of like a curse...

[ducpainter]

Heh.

Just the other day I deciphered some casting numbers for a friend to determine what exactly was in a '67 Mustang he bought. He was sort of amazed. Funny how that stuff sticks in your head.

It's sort of like a curse...

It's finally been long enough that some of the basic numbers have left my brain.

Some are still stuck there, along with prefix and suffix.

A curse indeed.

[Duck-Stew]

The C4 transmissions alone are enough to make someone a life-long alcoholic.

Finding a 302 mated to a standard trans is easy.  Just be sure to get a 5.0 instead of a 302.  WAY more common.

BTW:  The 302 in the Falcoon is a rebuilt 1990's Truck 302 mated to a late 80's T5 5-speed stick with a stock flywheel.

[Popeye the Sailor]

They ain't the same thing?

[lethe]

I was looking for a 289 or a 302, ideally with a manual transmission already mated to it, just to make life easier.

the 302 I have was in an '85 Thunderbird originally and had an AOD behind it which is one of a couple sitting in some corner.

[ducpainter]

They ain't the same thing?

Nothing is the same with Ford.

You could take the parts out of the same model and year, and they still might be different.

[Popeye the Sailor]

I'm putting a 318 in this thing.

[Speedbag]

They ain't the same thing?

Only displacement. 

[Speedbag]

I'm putting a 318 in this thing.

Poly or LA?   

[ducpainter]

I'm putting a 318 in this thing.

That's just silly talk...

[lethe]

Poly or LA?   

or Magnum, I'm sure those have some worthwhile differences from the LA

[Duck-Stew]

I'm putting a 318 in this thing.

It runs.  It drives.  You're lying because Paula won't let you touch it and everyone knows it.   

[Dirty Duc]

So it turns out there was a running change on the connectors for the coils... new coils fit the older harness, not so the reverse.

Already can't find the later coils from the 4.6

[Popeye the Sailor]

It runs.  It drives.  You're lying because Paula won't let you touch it and everyone knows it.   

No, no, this is for the other car.

Building two is just...twice the work.

[Duck-Stew]

No, no, this is for the other car.

Building two is just...twice the work.

Why bother a 318? Just slop an LS3 into it & be done with it...