Ok, I made it about three weeks with the flathead before I broke out the wrenches. It runs really smooth and it's a nice looking setup but tooling down the interstate at 60 MPH while everything blows by like I'm standing still is just not for me. So the flathead went on Ebay and it's time for an upgrade before we put paint on the car. I've been planning a 360 with a 5 speed and an 8.8. But last weekeknd I took the car up to one of our local shows and the guy a few spaces down from me had a 46 Chevy street rod with a really cool looking drivetrain setup. He had a 3.2 Taurus SHO motor turned front ways with a Ranger 5 speed behind it. Very slick looking, sounded great, and the guy loved it. It got me thinking, I have the same motor sitting in my garage that I was going to use for another project. Why not try it in the 49? Lo and behold, there's another one in September's Street Rodder, this one in a 36 Ford. So here I've got the motor, wiring harness, computer, fuel tank, and basically everything to make the swap work except for the 8.8 and a Ranger 5 speed. What the heck, I'm going for it. I think this will make a pretty cool little highway cruiser. Here's a shot of one a guy is setting up in a 37 Ford on another site. Sorry for the Ford in a Mopar thing; I know that's not for everyone.
Get some old Golden Lion 361 decals for the valve covers and call it good. Using what you have is an old tradition.
Hah! actually I did plan on filling in the Ford engravings on the air intakes and putting on some type of Mopar emblems.
I was looking forward to ur v8 swap but that sounds cool and you will hsve 2 mopars with off the wall engine swaps! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using H.A.M.B. mobile app
Those Yamaha motors are a killer motor. I know some of the rock racers like to use them. I dig it, I think that thing will haul ass and get good mpg's on top of it.
My son and I got the motor pulled out of the Taurus today; what a PIA! It looked like a car bomb hit the garage by the time we got it out. Once this huge mess is cleaned up and the junk hauled off Ill pull the front clip and start sizing things up.
I think those wheels are the same bolt pattern as the Plymouth. May be ok for rolling it around the garage.
Nothing extra, if you look on ebay there was a company selling a package for the whole car for around $300. I have to do the same for my 48 coupe.
You're going to love the performance! The only problem those Ford engines had were wrappers..! Your car will have plenty of room for easy wrenching.
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