5.8 swap
 

Hi, I have a 95 V6 Auto. The car has 50K miles on it, and I also have a 94 F250 XLT Manual. The F250 is gettin pretty beat up (tipped over once, drove over a boulder, and much more abuse), but the engine seems to be in good shape still, it has 140K miles on it. I want to swap the engine from it, into my Mustang whenever the truck goes to hell, or if I just decide its time.

Aside of a bell houseing, and springs. What else would really be required to put the engine in my car? Would I have to knock back the firewall? Isnt this the same engine as the 95 cobra?

Thanks for any help, when I bought the V6 it was all I could afford to get a loan for, but after reading about the small ammount of preformance I can get from modding it heavly. I feel my money would be better spent on putting in a big V8.

The 95 Cobra used the 5.0L just like the GT did (with some changes of course). The 1995 Cobra R did use a 351. A 351 will fit in your car.

It will be more work than if you were changing from a 302, but you should still be OK. I would suspect that if you used the trucks long block, you'd need to look at the following:

Larger Air filter housing (?)
New MAF
ThrottleBody
Upper intake
Accessories and brackets
Radiator (?)
A new computer and wiring harnesses.
Oil Pan
Headers
flywheel, and othe drive train items ?
I would also upgrade your rear axle to an 8.8" (V6 is 7.5")

I am probably missing a bunch of stuff. With out the 302 to rob of parts you may need more stuff.

Check out this months 5.0 Mustang Mag, it has the swap in it.

here is a webpage I found a while back, I dont know if all the parts would be identical but its a good start.

http://www.primenet.com/~lsh/351swap/

J