Doing the unthinkable
 

Oh boy, where to start? Well, I drive a p.o.s. 4 banger and it just passed 200,000 and its starting to show it, so I purchased a 5.0 from a guy I work with. I'm familiar with having to replace the rear axle, front suspension, radiator, speedo gear, engine mounts, and all the other simple stuff. But I face a huge problem. The four cylinder in the car now has EFI. The 5.0 I just got is carburated. The 5.0 is not computer controlled either. Will this swap work?Also will I run into a problem with the length of the drive shaft? Both engines have auto trannies in them.

Just a little side question: has anyone ever thought of, or attempted to fabricate side exhausts like a shelby cobra on a FOX mustang? I know of a place that does custom exhausts. I will probably give them a call and ask if they would or could do that.

The drive shaft will be the least of your problems you will need a lot of stuff like motor mounts,tranny mount,etc and a lot of time

Should have looked for a front clip of a 5.0 efi motor....you have a lot a work to do

http://www.mustangforums.com/m_9236/tm.htm


Just read a little of this will answer alot of ?'s

Read as much as you can first. Then pray.

lol, yeah its a lot of work, depends on how serious you wanna be about it. it depends on your budget, and it sounds like your on a rather tight one. you can get the swap done, with pretty much just pulling parts from a few junk yard cars, or cheap autozone parts, and get a running 5.0, or you could get the right kmember, brakes, and all that other fun happy stuff. its a good bit of work, youll break a lot of stuff, and itll take awhile, but im sorry, its not that bad of a swap to do. you may be better off to just put a cluster in the 4cyl, sell it, and buy a v8 car ready to go.

I gave it a whole lot of thought about selling this car and just buying a gt, but I haven't found a gt around here that is in as good shape as the one I have. The exterior looks like poop because the paint has faded, but the interior has been kept immaculate.

after thanksgiving i should have V8 spindles/brakes for sale, and hopefully in a few months ill have a factory v8 k member adn motor mounts for sale as well if your interested...

thanks for you help guys. I'm just going to take it one step at a time. I believe everything should be piece of cake except my fuel delivery. Does anyone know if I can still suck fuel out of the gas tank with the fuel pump still in the tank? I was thinking that I could just connect the manual fuel pump to the existing line and that it would hopefully suck fuel throught the old pump. I could then pull the fuse to the old pump and just leave it in the tank until I figure out how to replace the entire computer and get an efi setup.