sawpping 4cyl to 302

Stang951 · 06-10-2001, 05:37 PM

I hate to say this again and I know that noone wants to believe it but the crossmemebers are different. My friend works at Ford and the part numbers are different! His brother did the swap in a 93 vert and we aLL believed the same thing. When we got the motor in, the driveshaft pinion angles were wrong and the motor sat wrong in the engine bay. And no the car was never wrecked. The control arms for different years are also different. The later the year, the beefier the control arm and the more outward they are placed for better handling.

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1988 Mustang LX w5.8/ 1993 Thunderbird LX 5.0 / 1990 5.8 block/ Edelbrock Perfromer Intake/ Edelbrock Performer RPM cam and lifters/ Edelbrock Performer street pump/ Edelbrock timing gears/ Ronald Boudreaux custom headers and exhaust/ Flowmaster 2 chamber mufflers/ March Performance billet aluminum underdrive pulleys/ MSD billet distributor/ MSD 6AL ignition box/ MSD Superconductor wires/ Energy SUspension polyurethane engine and transmission mounts/ Omega adjustable Roller rocker arms / Ford M

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06-10-2001, 05:37 PM	#5
Stang951 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Metairie, La. USA Posts: 132	I hate to say this again and I know that noone wants to believe it but the crossmemebers are different. My friend works at Ford and the part numbers are different! His brother did the swap in a 93 vert and we aLL believed the same thing. When we got the motor in, the driveshaft pinion angles were wrong and the motor sat wrong in the engine bay. And no the car was never wrecked. The control arms for different years are also different. The later the year, the beefier the control arm and the more outward they are placed for better handling. ------------------ 1988 Mustang LX w5.8/ 1993 Thunderbird LX 5.0 / 1990 5.8 block/ Edelbrock Perfromer Intake/ Edelbrock Performer RPM cam and lifters/ Edelbrock Performer street pump/ Edelbrock timing gears/ Ronald Boudreaux custom headers and exhaust/ Flowmaster 2 chamber mufflers/ March Performance billet aluminum underdrive pulleys/ MSD billet distributor/ MSD 6AL ignition box/ MSD Superconductor wires/ Energy SUspension polyurethane engine and transmission mounts/ Omega adjustable Roller rocker arms / Ford M