Don't blindly buy a 5.0 engine from an 85 Mustang thinking it will have the roller cam - only 4V five speed cars did (and not 100% of those either). The CFI/automatic cars did not get the roller block, and some five speed cars used leftover 84 parts.
No. The last carbed Mustangs were the 85s with a manual transmission. The 87-93 cars are virtually identical with the exception of the switch from speed density to mass air in the 88 California/89 50 states cars. All had 225 horsepower except for the 93 Cobra, which was also fuel injected.
One more question, what is the best thing to do for a PCV valve when converting it to a carb intake, as the FI engine had it on the rear of the intake. Thanks
also.. don't forget the 302 was banished from the mustang in 96 but lived on as the v8 powerplant for the explorer, untill 2001 i think.. so there are plenty of them out there...
That depends....we ran a stock bore roller 302, stock crank with balanced factory rods, kb pistons (balanced with the rods), a "Z" cam, mildly ported 1970 351 Windsor heads with an edelbrock F4B, comp cams roller tipped rockers, hardened pushrods, a spacer and a Holley 4412 2 bbl and turned 8 grand all night long for a complete season in our asphalt street stock. At year end teardown it still looked brand new inside...we had less than $700 in the motor! That was only 10 yrs ago.
How can you tell if it has a reverse rotation water pump? I put a 302 in my 56 but know nothing about the motor. It is a rebuilt motor I swapped for and will be starting before long.
You should be able to remove the water pump and look at the impeller, you should see wich direction it needs to rotate to "fling" the water from the center of the impeller to the outside...
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