Anyone interested in seeing project 351 swap in teh mustang?

[boostedzx3]

5/10/08

Maybe? First I has way to many projects going here. In any case we're gonna try and have her road ready by the ford nats for June 6th. The motor blew about a month ago going down the carlisle pike for those of you who are familiar with the carlisle shows. So now I gotta put a motor in and I have a donor truck coming home next week so I figure I midas well start a thread.


BTW this is a 302...... A very dirty one thats not as dirty now, but very blown up. It kinda sounded like nuts and bolts in a blender.

The original motor ended up in a 67 fastback after it made 500whp in this car

So the correct motor will be put in a 351 4 barrel with 1000 miles on it and is still under warranty. It's currently in a POS truck. I'll update as we go along....

5/17: OMG what an ugly POS

Well brought her home and she ran great. Beleive it or not the motor only has 1000 miles on it and you can tell the gaskets are new, it is still warrantied. However all the hoses, aircleaner and all that are original so it really looks like **** under the hood. The motor appears to have been painted black, i'll be painting it blue once it's out. I'm also going to be swapping valve covers as all of that is original on there too. Well here it is....,.

This thing is huge, here is a comparison. Project s10 vs. Monster truck

XLT Lariat, and at that fully loaded with every option but the diesel. (note the lights on the roof for the full tractor trailer effect)

You can tell in it's day it was one hell of a nice truck

Like I said ugly, but beauty is hiding underneath. The engine sounds great even with all the restrictions and emissions equipment. I cant wait to hear it unrestricted hooked up to my headers and sidepipes with the 650 holley!
The reason I have it. This is the correct motor! I beleive the High output would mean there are forged internals as well being that the 5.0 HO meant the same thing.


OMG IT'S SO FREEKING UGLY LOOKING!

I'm probably going to be swapping intake manifolds if I can from the 302.

5/19--I managed in a few hours to disconnect the tranny from the motor and push the torque converter back so it stays with the tranny. I have everything disconnected but the exhaust and motor mounts and hopefully on Thursday she'll be outa there.

We'll be tearing the motor out of the stang on Sunday and getting the new 351 looking pretty. The block and heads are new and they bolted all this old **** on there as you can tell it looks like hell, however the block and heads are black. I'll keep it updated.

5/24--Got alot of work done today with some help which made things go much much quicker
The motor is out and all the needless stuff is torn off for the most part here

I have all my seals and gaskets ordered and it will all be in on Tuesday, here you can see the freeze plugs are new

what 302?


so of course we had to see what happened to the 302 that it let go, here are pictures of the carnage

the piston is in 5 peices here if you cant tell

cracked the cylinder wall

some of the valve....


It was a great motor and I ****ed up, hell of a loss.

5/25 Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning. The original intake manifold had some copious amounts of oil on it so it took me the better part of 4 hours to clean the whole motor to get it ready for paint. Here is the progress





^thats better

^this isn't anything yet, parts are coming in as we speak.

5/30 Look at the abundance of fun things here!!!!! Made a run to CJ pony parts and picked up some reproductiong parts.

and an original resto-mod air cleaner FTW

New oil pump pickup for front sump

Clean fresh internals


One valve cover polished and the other is not here, what a difference. I used Eagle one never dull and the mothers power ball to buff it.






I guess I didn't take any with the new chrome oil pan

5/31 I got piston #5 out today so shown below are remanants of whats left of it. Also the motor is in the car and there are a few things to button up but it wont be ready for the ford nats, sorry.



6/15 Pretty much done


Done done and done except a few little finishing touches.

[slverfocus13]

cant wait to see the updates

[CheckMyVitals]

subscribed. looking forward to this.

[zetecgt]

Can't wait!

I personally would stay with the 302, but the 351 should make good power also....

dave.

[FORDSVTPARTS]

If it were me I'd be looking for something much bigger but then my last toy car was a '69 Skylark with a built 455 in it.

You can't go wrong with a big block muscle car.

[01focuszx3]

Looks interesting, can't wait to see the progress

[ridindirtyzx3]

it looks really good, but im sure will be much better when its back on the road with the 351

[Fathed1]

glad to see that you are getting it put together. and with the correct engine. good luck with everything.

[boostedzx3]

Originally Posted by FORDSVTPARTS

If it were me I'd be looking for something much bigger but then my last toy car was a '69 Skylark with a built 455 in it.

You can't go wrong with a big block muscle car.

That would be fun no doubt but I wanted originality to stick a bit here. I would love to do that to a foxbody no doubt though

[FORDSVTPARTS]

Originally Posted by boostedzx3

That would be fun no doubt but I wanted originality to stick a bit here. I would love to do that to a foxbody no doubt though

I can understand that as well, old cars are just plain fun to work on.

[biscuitninja]

two words...
Turbo-mustang!



:Screwy:

-bix

[carlingskie]

keep us updated with this! more power bro!

[boostedzx3]

Drove the giant turd home tonight, just got her in the driveway a bit ago. By far the biggest and heaviest thing i've ever driven, you should need a CDL to operate it. It's a XLT Lariat crew cab extended bed 4x4 and it is giant. It was a bit of a turd but with all the weight still managed to spin tires in the wet. The engine is dirty but only has 1000 miles on the clock. So we'll be pulling it shortly and cleaning it up properly. I'll put pictures up tomorow.

[SVTADAM]

That sounds like a fun swap. Got to love the versatility of the Windsor blocks.

I had an F-150 with a 300 six that shredded the timing gears. I threw in a 351 from a police bronco and had a fun truck. I miss that beast.

[Jlongoria9]

got any pics of the donor truck... or your buddy's gf?

[biscuitninja]

Realistially, i'd throw in a 351 stroked to 427. Power? Why yes, thank you. Looks original, runs like all get out. Throw a 100-150 shot and you'll have 10s car with "maybe" 9s capacity....

-bix

[boostedzx3]

^that'll probably be coming one day, maybe. We have a baby on the way in December so it's kinda gonna put a hold on stuff. Right now we just wanna get it looking good and running again.

[belacyrf]

THe ford dealership across from me has a very similar model mustang for sale. They are asking 23 or 28K I dont remember, either way, it seems majorly over-priced to me (yours even looks nicer than the one they are selling) but i guess those things are valuable... I wouldn't know.

Yours is very nice!

[boostedzx3]

Originally Posted by belacyrf

THe ford dealership across from me has a very similar model mustang for sale. They are asking 23 or 28K I dont remember, either way, it seems majorly over-priced to me (yours even looks nicer than the one they are selling) but i guess those things are valuable... I wouldn't know.

Yours is very nice!

That thing had better be low miles and matching #s for that price.

[boostedzx3]

Ok update pics to post#1 as I will continue to do. I warned you, it's ugly but yet is a thing of beauty.

[Jlongoria9]

its a funny thing them ford trucks dont like staying clean after rebuilds. my uncle's old ford looks like hell yet the engine has about 600-800 miles on it, i guess it's their nature

[Bud8765]

Ya, Keep us updated! BTW screw turbo idea put a 427 Cobra Jet. Trust me.

[boostedzx3]

Well I got the truck up on ramps today so I could easily slide under it. The block looks much better then I could see from the top which is great news. You can tell it only has a few miles on it, the block itself is actually black.